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Cool evenings and shorter days are signs of the change of season. Many of the hybrid vandas will be at their blooming peak in September. The cooler nights are beneficial for initiating or setting flower buds for the fall-blooming cattleyas, oncidiums, dendrobiums, angraecums, and moth orchids and slipper orchids. Here are a few fall tasks:

 If you’re in a cold climate, bring indoors any plants that have been summering outside. Before doing so, check them closely for pests. If spraying is called for, doing so is much easier and safer to do while the plants are outdoors.

 Start cutting back on the frequency of watering deciduous orchids like catasetums (which will have yellowing foliage at this time of year).

 Remove shade on the greenhouse in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

 Move orchids that require a lot of light from the east window back to the southern exposure.