How to raise crab claw orchid? What do you need to pay attention to?

Crab claw orchid, also known as Christmas cactus, crab claw lotus and cactus flower for the cactus family crab claw orchid, light green, its flowering coincides with New Year's Day and the Spring Festival. The flower is delicate and graceful, gorgeous and moving, it is one of the ideal potted flowers in winter, how to raise the crab claw orchid? What matters should be paid attention to when breeding?

Culture method of crab claw orchid

First, the soil for growing flowers should go first.

In the cultivation method of crab claw orchid, the choice of soil is very important, especially for novice flower friends, a good soil is very important to whether the flowers can be raised well. The cultivation of crab claw orchid can use a relatively fertile mixed soil of rotten leaf soil, peat and coarse sand, and the pH should be kept between pH5.5-6.5. in the cultivation of crab claw orchid, the choice of soil is very important, especially for beginners.

II. Conservation of the environment

The culture environment of crab claw orchid requires semi-overcast and humid, avoid hot sun and rain in summer, and warm and sufficient light in winter. The suitable temperature for the growing period is 18: 23 ℃, the suitable flowering temperature is 10: 15 ℃, no more than 25 ℃, and the best temperature is 15 ℃, and the winter temperature is not lower than 10 ℃. Crab claw orchid is a short-day plant, so it can bud and blossom under short-day conditions.

Third, watering

Watering has always been a continuous topic, there are always flower friends do not master it well, crab claw orchid is not so easy to die when there is lack of water, but it is very easy to die when there is stagnant water, so flower friends must water crab claw orchid rather than flood it, do not work hard to flood, keep watering.

IV. Reproduction

Crab claw orchid reproduction of the most common method is to insert forward, the method is very simple, is to take a few pieces of paper can be inserted forward, the survival rate is very high.

V. florescence management

Crab claw orchid florescence is a little hypocritical, to control water and stop fertilizer, crab claw orchid is particularly sensitive to water, water is easy to drop buds, serious rootstocks will rot roots, resulting in plant death; lack of water is easy to wilt flowers, buds can not mature. The correct method is: keep the basin soil in a slightly wet state, it is appropriate to pinch it by hand, and spray with the same water as the indoor temperature at noon every day, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort. If the basin soil is too dry, it can not be watered at once, but can be watered step by step. Too much watering at one time will make the plant drop buds and stems.

Points for attention in crab claw orchid culture:

1, do not often move the position, find a suitable environment, always there, especially in the bud stage, can not casually move the position of the flowerpot, it is easy to cause falling buds.

2. Although crab claw orchid likes semi-shady environment, it needs short sunshine if it wants to blossom.