Need help with my indoor plants!

[JoshuaFeenay]

Hello everyone! I need some help with a couple of my indoor plants such as how often to water them and how much sun should they need.

The first one being an orchid, my orchid lost it's stem about 6 months ago and up until recently I repotted it into a larger pot with better soil and it's now growing roots like crazy, how do I know if a new stem or stems are growing?

The second being a lemon seed that I planted about 8 months ago and hasn't grown but maybe 5 or 6 inches and seems to have stopped growing. Is that normal?

The third is my small azalea bush, it hasn't bloomed in quite a long time. When it tries to bloom the flowers end up going brown and die and the process keeps repeating. How can I help it along to where it blooms.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance my fellow gardeners!

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Hello, welcome to the forum.
Let me start by being up front and saying What follows is based on guesswork rather than knowledge, none of them are things I have experience with. It's partly selfish, I want to get notified when someone who does know answers your questions, but it will also bump the thread so that might happen sooner

The orchid I really don't know, but what most plants need is time, my guess is keep treating it well and when it is ready it will reward you, of course there are things that flower more when treated badly, "I'm dying, make seed", so I could be completely wrong.
The lemon is a tree, and trees are not quick, but the other thing that strikes me is that looking at threads on here I see they often are grafted. That would mean something that grows good commercial fruit , but has poor roots, is put on something that has lousy fruit, but great roots. The seed, of course, will carry the genes of the top part where the flower is, so it might have trouble developing a good root system.
There are an awful lot of azalea cultivars, which like very varied conditions. You don't actually say, but I am guessing an indoor one. If that is so I think the most probable cause is nutrition or watering, if not it might be temperature or wind.

 

[cpp gardener]

Your orchid is planted in the wrong kind of mix. It should be MUCH MORE porous, think bark chunks and perlite. There is, however, a new stem sprouting on the left side just above the bottom leaf.
The lemon just needs time. In another month you can lift it out of that pot and put fresh mix under the rootball to bring the top of the soil to the top of the pot. It should be moist but not soggy and can dry down about 1" before you water it again.
Azaleas make terrible houseplants. They need very bright light and even some sun to bloom well. They need to stay moister than the lemon.

 

[oneeye]

Azalea bushes have to be replanted after five years because they are planted in a peat and pine bark mixed with a time-release fertilizer. Just remove the old Azalea mix and replace it with the new and the plant will bloom again. I've seen this hundreds of times.

 

[cpp gardener]

Or you can shift it into a larger pot. It works as well as changing the soil and doesn't stress the plant nearly as much.

 

[JoeSWFC]

Larger pots? Maybe the wrong kind of compost mixture for the orchid?