Simple Houseplant Humidity Tray

Let me just start by saying that even though I love plants, including orchids, I am by no stretch of the imagination, any sort of a plant expert. I just know what has worked for me.

Here’s a bit of simple cleverness I read somewhere years ago that has helped my orchids be happy…create a simple houseplant humidity tray for them.

This variety of orchid is the easy one to grow. I have a few of them and they really are easy to grow as long as they have the right light, and humidity, and you don’t overwater them. Easy, right? LOL I bought blooming 3 or 4 years ago and they haven’t stopped blooming! HERE is a great place I’ve ordered orchids from and they’ve been super healthy!

In the sunroom where I have the orchids at our house there are both north and east facing windows, and this room is a bit cooler in the winter than the rest of the house, so I’m thinking that helps.

To create a personal humid ‘micro-climate’ for this pair of orchids was a simple design. I used a low flat pottery bowl, but you could use any type of water tight tray or platter you had around the house. I lined the bottom with some white marble rocks, like these polished ones you can order HERE. I then set the orchids on top of the layer of rocks and added a few more rocks around the planters to help hold them in place.

So now when I water the orchids, the water flows over the planting material and through the holes in the bottom of the planters and sits in the bottom layer of rocks. (I make sure that the water doesn’t come up so far as to touch the bottom of the planters, or the planting material will wick up the water, get soggy and rot the orchid roots.)

That’s it, a simple houseplant humidity tray for these two happy orchids.

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