Watering orchids is a crucial item when it comes to orchid care...
If you are and orchid lover and long for growing your orchids at home properly, you should know that to be deprived of the right amount of water is, for an orchid, as bad as being over watered.
Again, and like many other requirements like light, fertilizer, heat and so on, it is necessary to know which orchid species are we going to grow in order to have an exact idea of what our orchid really needs and what does not.
In spite of that, as we study about orchid and our knowledge grows, we will be more and more capable of having a "good eye" to know how to care our orchid plants.
Imagine your orchid in his natural environment with tropical rain and a high humidity level.
This will already give you a good idea of your plant's needs.
Then, you must choose whether growing your orchid outdoors or indoors.
If you wish to grow your orchids in your garden, you should know that watering your orchid once a week is a good rule.
However, if you live in a dry place, you may want to water twice or even three times a week, but sparingly...
Or you may choose to grow your orchids indoors...
Growing orchids indoors is also a very good choice, since they will decorate our homes very nicely.
In that case, water your orchid once or twice a week and make sure that the plant always enjoys good humidity conditions.
To do that you have two possibilities: The first one is to put your orchid plant into a big recipient where the bark or plant media sits on some pebbles.
Then, pour some water on the recipient so that the pebbles get soaked.
The bark or orchid media must not get wet.
That way, the orchid will enjoy an artificial humid climate that permits it to grow healthy.
The second possibility is by using a water spray to humidify your orchid plant on a daily basis (or every two days depending on the orchid species you have).
At any rate, the aspect your orchid shows will be telling you if your plant needs more or less watering and humidity.