Where i live, fall means it’s finally getting cool enough for things to grow. Usually everything is paused in summer from heat shock and only grow in spring and fall.
I have plans to put my phalaenopsis orchids outside when it gets cooler to trigger a dormancy to get them back into condition to bloom again. I am also reducing the water and have moved my Witchcraft over to a 15-30-15 for its feeding. I hope it spikes soon but I have heard they can be as late as October.
Orchidelirium sufferer here, your Orchid is a Phalaenopsis is my bet as they are the most popular and common across the US and other places (also the leaves and lack of pseudobulbs). Here is the care information provided by the American Orchid Society. You already are on the right track with repotting it out of the moss it came in and into bark. I place my Phals in my kitchen with a southern facing window but I have them back from the window itself as they like indirect or filtered light. For watering advice follow the care sheet I put my Phals into moss balls so my watering routine is weird compared to a pot.
Why moss balls? I presume you have to mist it often then?
Purely for aesthetics but yeah I have to mist them at least once a day in the mornings but the orchids are epiphytic and are able to draw moisture in from the moss ball so I only mist them directly when I wanna feed with the time release fertilizer I have inside the moss balls. The Japanese call it Kokedama which I consider a separate but complimentary art to that of Bonsai.
This one was with the more sensible 50MP camera. I will be triggering a dormancy in the violet orchid in the next couple weeks and hopefully it will spike shortly after.
Honestly I just cut them off. They're just underwhelming and boring to me. They just look like daisies but even less impressive. I tried pollinating some but it didn't work for whatever reason. Sarracenia flowers are the only ones I would let grow. I'd agree that it looks like it's about to flower though.
I think it's worth flowering once so you see what it looks like, then you can take photos and save it, and cut the others in the future.
Some die after flowering, some don't. I like them so I leave them. They're cute.
I did the same thing one year. The greenhouse self seeded a forest of tomatoes for years afterwards.
black walnuts are just as good as regular walnuts but they're so difficult to get inside of that it's almost not even worth it
Plus it seems like they indelibly stain anything that has the slightest contact with them.
That's good if you want to make natural dye!
