The method of Cuttage Propagation of Cymbidium how to prune branches and leaves

Ball orchid is a common climbing vine plant, its flowering shape is very unique, the flower is spherical, umbrella-shaped, very strange and elegant, with high ornamental value. Ball orchid is one of the plants that many people choose to decorate their home environment. This plant propagates in the same way as other plants, usually by cutting.

Cutting Propagation method of Cymbidium

1. Prepare materials

Fresh healthy bulb branches, small pots (5cm), water, bark, blue stone, perlite (3:1:1), moisturizing box, rooting water.

2. Select branches

Choose the right insert. The mother plant of strips should have the conditions of good quality, robust growth and free from diseases and insect pests. On the same plant, the sunny branches in the middle and upper parts of the year should be selected, with shorter internodes, stout branches and leaves and full bud tips. It is not suitable to choose the branches that are about to bloom and the branches that are about to grow.

3. Hydroponic rooting

Soak the dried branches in water, add rooting water, soak and rooting and plant in pots. Many small buds will grow soon, and 3-4 days will be enough if the weather is warm.

4. Cutting method

The hydroponic branches that have taken root are inserted directly into the soil, watered thoroughly and then placed in a cool place. Observe regularly whether the water is dry or not. You can spray the water at night, and the soil will be watered when it is dry. Anyway, the coarse plant material leaks quickly, so you don't have to worry about waterlogging.

5. Points for attention

The method of cutting after hydroponic rooting is suitable for the leaves with withered branches or no branches at the top, but for the branches that are strong and fresh, they can be cut directly. Although hydroponic culture is more troublesome, the success rate will be greatly improved.

How to prune branches and leaves of ball orchid

1. Coring: get rid of the apical dominance, promote the germination of its lower axillary buds, or inhibit the excessive growth of branches to promote plant branches to form a beautiful plant type. The method used is to pick the heart. When the plant shape is intact and the branches are dense, it is necessary to remove the extra axillary buds to ensure that the plant is beautiful and the flowers are large and colorful.

2. Pruning: withered branches, inferior branches, unnecessary branches that hinder plant type, including young branches. In order to facilitate the thinning of branches and leaves, improve ventilation, prevent diseases and insect pests, and make the plant type compact and three-dimensional.

3. Pruning: in order to prevent the branches and leaves of the plant from being too dense, the adventitious buds germinated on the branches can be purposefully removed in time to avoid wasting nutrients; when the plant grows too vigorously, when the branches and leaves are too dense, part of the branches should be thinned properly, or the leaves that are too dense should be removed to improve the ventilation and light transmission conditions, so that the plant growth is more robust and more conducive to flowering.

Maintenance method of ball orchid in four seasons

1. Spring

In spring, the ball orchid can be placed outside on the south windowsill or in a place with bright light, which can keep the leaf color green and shiny, which is conducive to its flowering. Watering to see dry and wet, pay attention to prevent stagnant water in the basin. In addition, young plants can generally change pots every spring, and part of the old roots should be cut off when changing pots. Young plants should be heart-picked early in order to promote branching and set up scaffolds in time to make them climb and grow upward.

2. Summer

Ball orchid likes astigmatism, semi-overcast growth environment. To do a good job of shading in summer, move the ball orchid to a cool place to avoid exposure or strong light, otherwise the leaves are easy to yellowing and atrophy, while maintaining 2-3 hours of astigmatism to provide ball orchid. In addition, adequate watering in summer can often spray the leaves to maintain higher air humidity and promote better growth of orchids.

3. Autumn

If you apply more phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, you can generally apply some liquid fertilizer with slightly more phosphorus before the pregnant buds blossom. For example, 0.1% solution of potassium dihydrogen phosphate can promote the blooming of autumn flowers. In addition, ensure that the ball orchid has sufficient light for 3-4 hours a day to promote its flowering. Attention should be paid to keeping the basin soil moist during flowering. If the ball orchid has grown buds or is blooming, the flowerpot can not be moved at will, because this behavior can easily cause the ball orchid to drop buds and flowers.

4. Winter

Cymbidium is not cold-resistant, and the suitable temperature for growth is about 15 ℃-25 ℃. The room temperature in winter should be kept above 10 ℃. Once the temperature is less than 5 ℃, the orchid is vulnerable to cold injury, and then the leaves fall off, and in serious cases, the plant can not survive.

What if the ball orchid leaves turn yellow?

1. Flowerpot

Usually plant ball orchid to choose a suitable growth environment, the choice of flowerpots need to use sand pots, it is best not to choose plastic pots or porcelain pots. The second is the height of mutual spray, generally choose a higher flowerpot is better, so that it can be more powerful and ball orchid root growth.

2. Fertilizer

When raising ball orchid, the application of fertilizer will also affect the growth of the plant. usually, most people are willing to cultivate it with the soil of their choice, then use liquid fertilizer, and sometimes put a small amount of fertilizer at the bottom of the flowerpot as base fertilizer. Fertilizer must be used, so you can supplement nutrients, but you must pay attention to the amount of fertilizer, according to the growth of ball orchid to fertilize properly.

3. Lighting

Ball orchid likes to grow in places with light, and it is a shade-loving plant, so we should avoid its direct exposure to sunlight to avoid unnecessary damage to leaves. If there is the phenomenon of leaf yellowing, it is possible to find insufficient time, and it is necessary to put it in a place with light for maintenance. In summer, to reduce the light time of the ball orchid, put it in a bright environment, so that the leaves will not turn yellow due to strong light.

Although the ball orchid does not blossom has little impact on its ornamental value, but I believe that many flower friends still hope that their own plants can produce beautiful flowers. Therefore, friends who cultivate ball orchids should still master the growth habits of ball orchids.