How to raise Huilan (experience)

Some flower lovers are not very clear about how to raise Cymbidium. Most of them buy Cymbidium with ripe grass with flowers. After blooming once, they have to wait patiently for several years to return to flowers, and some even grow thinner and thinner until they fail, especially the grass down the mountain. Why?.

Most of the native Cymbidium grows on the top of the mountain or in the upper part of the mountain where there is more light. In Hubei, 2-4 strong plants can also blossom at higher elevations. Occasionally grow in the lower part of the hillside open stone wall cracks, because of strong light is also easy to blossom, but the leaf quality is rough. On the other hand, a small number of those growing in bamboo forests or tall bushes and subarboreal dense forests are not easy to bud because of less light. Some more than 10 clumps of Cymbidium, 10 plants per clump of 4-5 plants, have luxuriant roots, but none of them have buds. The main reason is lack of sunlight.

The experience and lesson of cymbidium is not flowering. an old man who raises cymbidium raises 10 pots of cymbidium, which grows vigorously and blossoms every year. He said: there were four pots budding in one year, and six pots grew well, but there was no budding. He analyzed the reasons. Among them, two pots were turned twice last year, the position of the two pots changed many times, and the two pots were old pots that had not been replaced with new plant material for more than three years. It belongs to nutrient imbalance (he advocated the "cleaning method" in his early years).

Therefore, Cymbidium must pay attention to four points: 1, properly strengthen the sun (avoid the hot sun at noon in summer); 2, do not turn the basin more than once every 2 years (change the size of the basin mouth, add new plant material); 3, the position of basin orchid should be stable, do not move from east to west; 4, be sure to change the new plant material when you wait for more than 3 years.

To put it in detail, amateur orchid cultivation makes "Huilan" grow strong and blossom, and there are the following main points:

1. Fertilization

Every year, when the new plant grows until the leaves are separated, thin fertilizer should be applied once every half a month, the first fertilization should be a little lighter, 0.5-1pm 1000, and then it can be gradually thickened (twice as thick as the fertilizer applied by Chunlan, about 2-3pm 1000). Do not apply fertilizer in midsummer (above 35 degrees Celsius) in winter (below 10 degrees Celsius). If you encounter a warm winter, the temperature during the day is often 15-20 degrees Celsius and above 5 degrees at night, Cymbidium is in a semi-dormant state and will consume a lot of energy. in order to ensure that Cymbidium is sharp in spring and energetic, it is also necessary to properly apply some thin fertilizer (0.5-11000) for foliar spraying, pay attention to spraying on the back of the leaves as far as possible to improve the efficiency of fertilization. Save money!). Usually fertilization should be careful not to let liquid fertilizer into the heart of the leaves, especially the new seedlings, more orchid pots, blow with a fan for half an hour after fertilization, and dry the water droplets of the leaves with toilet paper.

If you fertilize, I only recommend one way, that is, after half an hour of fertilizer, you must pass through a basin with clean water, and then fertilize. Irrigation is generally used 2-3 times a year, 10 days after flowering or new buds begin to split, and when new roots grow 2-3 cm, once (especially large nutrient consumption after anthesis, usually an arrow flower, it is possible to pour 2-3 leaves, or even a seedling grass, be careful to fertilize); before and after Lesser Heat, the temperature is below 30 degrees continuously and fertilizes once; before winter (the night temperature enters 8-10 degrees). Or use observation method to fertilize, often observe the leaf quality, the leaf quality has the loss of green phenomenon, and thinner than before, it means that the lack of fertilizer, then irrigate once thin fertilizer; the new leaf bifurcates to grow new roots, fertilize once, after budding from September to October, and fertilize once after the big stem (70-80% dry). Apply fertilizer by leaf spraying at other times.

2. Potted plant

Pot plants must not be less than 3 seedlings conjoined, and there should be 2 new plants every year, because the budding of Cymbidium is mainly new plants, and it is better if there are more.

3. Moisture

Usually the moisture should be controlled to be dry, slightly drier than Chunlan, control your hands, don't look dry and can't help itching, pour a little bit every day, finish! Because the cymbidium blossoms on the mountain is basically at a higher altitude, where the sun is stronger, that is, the original place is drier, and it buds after several autumn rains. Therefore, potted cymbidium should be dry after the Beginning of Autumn (90% dry to the basin, soilless cultivation or coarse-grained material dry for a week, usually sprayed), wet once after dry, and then carried out twice with the same method, with an interval of about 10 days. In these two times, the whole element of "plant complete" 1Accord 1000 can be added to activate budding (activate the bud embryo hidden in the bulb).

4. Strong roots

It is very important to raise the strong orchid root, especially the lower mountain orchid, which has serious root damage, long time of storage and transportation to multiple cropping after going down the mountain, high nutrient consumption and great loss of vitality. It must take quite a long maintenance cycle to recover, so be patient. The so-called recovery means to let it have more roots. The newly planted Cymbidium is planted with coarse plant material at the bottom of 1peg 3 and 10 cm above the mineral water bottle with several small holes cut around to cover the basin floor so that there is air swirling in the center of the basin floor. After loading the cymbidium, use the coarse plant material to press the root (not to pour down). If there is no root, or if there are few roots, you can use thick iron wire to make a U-shaped inverted planting pot to fix the orchid seedlings, and the spring orchid can also be fixed by the same method. Then add fine plant material (30%) and grass carbon soil plus coconut shell bran (half of grass carbon teasel bran) 70%, cover until the bulb, gently compacted, cover with moisturizing materials (water grass, Cuiyuncao, fine planting gold stone), pour root water once after 3 days on the basin, see sunshine 10 days later, put on the basin rack, and enter normal maintenance. The chaff contains sugar (monosaccharide) which is suitable for the absorption of Cymbidium. The neck of the flower of Cymbidium is often dewy and sweet. Don't lick it. Boss Zhu de likes to lick life dew. Without life dew, the bud will be over in 2 days. Try it if you don't believe me!

In addition, please remember that the environment should be ventilated, the orchid room should be moisturized, and don't move the Huilan basin old.