How to prune pleione formosana

After spring flowering; clean up old pseudobulbs when repotting in late winter. Snip or pull off the spent flower stem once petals drop. At annual repotting, gently remove spent pseudobulbs that have shriveled completely and peel dry sheaths. Retain any still-firm pseudobulbs as they may resprout.

Annually, at the end of each flowering and dormancy cycle. Pleione formosana is a deciduous terrestrial orchid that dies back naturally each autumn. Pruning is minimal: remove old flower spikes after blooming in spring, and peel away dried papery sheaths from old pseudobulbs at repotting time. Dead foliage will detach on its own as the plant goes dormant.

Snip or pull off the spent flower stem once petals drop. At annual repotting, gently remove spent pseudobulbs that have shriveled completely and peel dry sheaths. Retain any still-firm pseudobulbs as they may resprout.