Why to choose strong seedlings in Orchid introduction

Author: popo405

I have been raising orchids for more than ten years, and I have paid a lot of online and offline tuition fees. (now the tuition fees are much less). I have always wanted to have the opportunity to remind Orchid friends, especially novices, of the importance of introduction, but I suffer from the lack of ready-made materials on hand. Open your mouth and talk nonsense, it is easy to give people the feeling of preaching, so I have never started writing, and now several groups of Cheng Mei raised by myself have provided me with this opportunity.

The first group: the largest group, the new seedling this year eight and a half leaves, is still growing, nearly 1.7 centimeters. An autumn bud came at the end of August, and now it is 18 centimeters high and sees six leaves.

The second group, eight leaves of new grass this year, are still growing, 1.5. An autumn bud comes at the beginning of September, which is 10 centimeters high and sees four leaves.

The third group: this year, the new grass has six and a half leaves and 1.1 centimeters. The autumn bud came at the end of October and has just been unearthed.

These three groups of Cheng Mei, the same environment, the same pots, the same planting materials, the same management, the difference between autumn sprouts, everyone has seen. My groups are still balcony grasses that have been raised at my place. in any case, they can basically produce seedlings twice a year, and the comparison is not very obvious. if orchid friends have Cheng Mei in their hands, they can compare the difference between big grass, strong grass and small grass and weak grass.

Now many orchid friends, especially novices, like to introduce grass, flocking to the introduction seedlings of some so-called high-priced grass. They seem to have spent a little money to do great things, but actually lost watermelons and picked up sesame seeds. Just imagine, the orchid price will always fall, especially the high-priced grass will fall faster. When you raise the weak grass and toothpicks, maybe the variety you introduced has already fallen into the price of cabbage. Many unscrupulous merchants take advantage of the cheap mentality of some orchid friends to sell "handling goods" wantonly, not to mention whether you can feed these old grasses, weak grasses and toothpicks (including greenhouse grass, hormone grass and fake grass). Even if you feed, rejuvenate, blossom, find the wrong version after the monkey year and month, it is estimated that the seller has long gone, even if you are lucky to find the seller. It is nothing more than to compensate you for a few seedlings that will have become the price of cabbage.

Therefore, I would like to advise everyone to be cautious in introducing grass, especially old grass, weak grass and toothpick grass. It is an immutable truth that it is always better to sell than to buy. Don't always think that the good thing of "picking up leaks" in Lanshi will never happen to you.