# How to Care for an Orchid

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To do best care for your orchids, you must know what are you feeding them and how.

## **How you feed an orchids?**

### 1. **Fertilizer feeding**

- If you using a liquid fertilizers, make sure it was not touches the leaves, it will burn them.
- Use a slim headed bottle and just pour it into the soil by moving away the leaves.
- After feeding the fertilizer, there is no need to water them.
- Wash out remaining fertilizer when you water next time.

### 2. **Ice cube feeding**

- Mix up you fertilizer with water and freeze it, like ice cubes.
- It allow the food to be absorb by the orchid more effectively and efficiently. And prevent from burning down the leaves.
- It is the easiest way to feed plant but make sure to place it separately in the freezer.

## Tips of feeding Orchids:

- Make sure you are not increasing the amount of fertilizer. Dark green leaves that are dropped is the signature of too much fertilizer.
- If you missed a feed so more frequently give weaker dose to the orchid, nt give too much dose.
- When you see that orchid go poor and poor day by day, than stop fertilizing.

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