How to raise Peacock Orchid

The stem of Peacock Orchid is thin cylindrical, erect, delicate as silk, evergreen all the year round, and can be used as a potted plant for indoor decoration. It is very ideal for small indoor potted flowers. So how to raise peacock orchids?

1. Soil: like warm, humid environment and fertile, loose, well-drained slightly acidic rotten foliage soil, not cold-resistant, keep room temperature about 10 ℃ in winter, sunny and dry soil in summer, place in semi-shade in summer, and maintain high air humidity.

two。 Watering: summer flowering requires high air humidity and frequent watering, but it should not be too wet. Reduce watering in spring and autumn, increase spray, maintain high air humidity, excessive water and soil viscosity will cause root rot.

3. Environment: keep a dry environment in winter, properly control watering, but do not let the roots dry. Peacock orchid light requirements are not high, it is appropriate to semi-shade, such as excessive shade, will affect the blooming of pregnant buds, avoid strong light direct sun, otherwise the leafy stem is easy to yellowing and wilting, affecting growth.

4. Temperature: the suitable growth temperature of malachite orchid is 15 to 25 ℃, the high temperature is dormant, it is cold-resistant, and it can survive the winter safely above 5 ℃ in winter. Peacock orchids like half-shade and half-sun, afraid of strong light, shade and cooling in summer, change direction every ten days and a half month, correct the sunny tendency of leaves and stems, in order to keep the shape correct. The pattern will look more beautiful as you get older.

5. More than two-year-old flowers can apply bean cake fertilizer and water. Generally in the rotten fertilizer liquid diluted with 10 to 15 times of water. Watering begins in early spring for about a month and a half, once. Do not fertilize in the high temperature season from July to September, otherwise it is easy to rot the roots. The last time you get a little thicker fat after September, don't get fat in winter.

6. Cultivation: leafy branches are commonly used for cutting propagation, which can be carried out all the year round in the greenhouse, with May-September as the best, select biennial leafy branches, cut them off and leave them in the shade for two days, make the moisture in the branches slightly dry and insert six parts of rotten leaf soil and four portions of coarse sand into the culture soil blocked by coarse sand, and place them in semi-shady places after cutting, keeping the air moist, rooting in 20-30 days, cutting the whole branches as cuttings, or cutting a branch into several segments.

Peacock orchid is suitable for family planting, beautiful, and the planting method is relatively simple, if you like, you can keep a pot at home.