Any tips how to look after an Orchid plant????

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as my Dp bought it for me for Valentines and now its seems to be droopy!

i watered the soil on the 15th but possibly the soil is not a proper good soil as it was dry this morning!

they don't really need soil as such, mine is in bark chips, I water once a week at most (just run water through it and make sure it is fully drained - not sitting in water at the bottom).
Is it in too sunny a spot? Too cold? Sitting in water at the bottom?

can you see the roots ? is it in a clear pot? Some of these plants like to have daylight to their roots. If its in a clear pot and you have that covered the pot up then maybe uncover the pot for some of the day!

hope this makes sense I saw a gardening programme the other day and that stuck, not that I will ever own one I can kill spider plants with my TLC

When its finished flowering, you can cut it back to just above the third or fourth eye (reading from plant label), then leave it somewhere out of the way for ages, watering every now and then (but drain, like someone else has says), then it might re-flower. I forgot about mine for months, then suddenly noticed it was budding again - its lasted 3-4 years like this.

I only water mine about once a month (bark kind of soil, clearish container), remove flowers when they're all limp, then cut it right back - and it's been going strong for 3 yrs.

thanks everyone

the flowers startin to drop off quick so ive decided to have it in my bedroom as its always warm and bright guaranteed as in my living room it gets very cold overnight.

i o make sure the water is drained. The plant csme with a decorative plant pot so ive taken it out in the day time so the roots can see the daylight and yes i realised it is bark and not soil

If you can stand it on a saucer of gravel and put a bit of water in the saucer as it likes a low level humidity (not bathroom tho') and keep it somewhere that is a fairly constant temperature,but not too warm. I had mine in a north facing loo where it gots loads of light but never too hot.

You can get special orchid fertiliser which you dissolve in water and use to feed once a week during the growing season. My mum would only ever use collected rainwater, never tap water.