What is the common planting method of orchids?

Orchid is a very beautiful ornamental flowers, it flowers when it will emit a faint fragrance, the whole looks very elegant, deeply loved by flower growers. Since ancient times, orchids are loved by literati, whether poetry or painting, orchids are often mentioned. Today, let's see what common cultivation methods are for orchids.

Orchids common cultivation method is potted planting, now the family potted planting orchids by everyone's welcome, can play a role in embellishing the environment.

1. Select orchid plants

Orchids in the pot to culture and orchids grow in the wild, its living environment has been greatly different, wild is bound, growth space is also limited, potted orchids after domestication, leaves can generally be shorter than just dug back by half to one third.

2. Planting

Potted orchids should simulate the growth habits of wild orchids for cultivation. Wild orchids like to grow under the shade of trees, where scattered light can be seen and warm and humid places cannot accumulate water. There is almost no trace of orchids in ravines.

When planting orchids in pots, you need to choose orchids pots with bottom holes, plant them with loose and breathable plants, do not use soil seeds directly, but plant them with granular plants, such as pine needles, leaves, bark and other mixed stones. Do not turn the pots frequently after planting.

3. Fertilization

No, no, no. Such as new orchids on the pot, pot soil is too fat, often can not survive, even if it can survive, but also rarely flowering. If summer fat is too much, autumn leaves are flourishing, often causing poor flowering of spring newspaper leaves. If autumn fertilizer is too little, it will affect the formation of underground flower buds at the turn of autumn and winter. Such as weekdays too much nitrogen fertilizer, leaves too fat, so that the growth of leaves and flowers nutritional imbalance, will occur without flowering or less flowering phenomenon. Generally speaking, leaf bud new, can use a small amount of light fertilizer several times. Depending on leaf color fertilization, is a more appropriate way, leaves yellow and thin is lack of fertilizer, should topdressing, black and leaf tip coke is too much fertilizer, should stop fertilization. Fertilizer must be decomposed, not decomposed can not be used, avoid using human excrement.

4. Watering

Practice has proved that orchid eight minutes dry, two minutes wet best, flowering and sprouting leaf bud period, watering should be less. The rainy season should be moved back indoors, or put up a tent to shelter the rain. Summer in the morning or evening watering, should not be too much, autumn watering can be increased. In dry season, spray every evening. Spray upward spray, then fine mist, so that the leaves wet, wet ground, increase air humidity. Sometimes the best spray several times a day, watering from the basin side watering, not head pour, not at noon watering. Although watering in winter can be greatly reduced, but not without watering, pay attention not to let the pot soil dry thoroughly, winter and early spring and watering cause the leaf sheath along the wet, to be dried and moved indoors to avoid decay.

5. Place

Orchids placed in very important places, it directly affects the growth and development of orchids. Orchids are generally placed in the open air in spring, summer and autumn (in the shade of the open air in summer) and indoors in winter. It is best to be surrounded by open and humid air outdoors. There should be plenty of light indoors, preferably facing south. This is good for orchid growth. Orchid basin is best placed on a wooden stand or table, not on the ground.