Some suggestions for beginners to raise orchids

Author: 412249954

1. About introduction, introduction is the top priority of orchid cultivation, and it is also the most entangled thing. Because of the chaos in Lanzhou City now, we must cultivate a pair of unique eyes. According to the seedling situation and root condition, we must see through its previous life at a glance. As for the identification of strong seedlings and weak grass, there are a lot of them in the forum today, so I won't be long-winded. In short, it is strongly recommended to introduce strong grass. Before, due to greed for cheap, I bought a few seedlings in Taobao when I first entered the industry. Now I have already gone to heaven. I have also introduced weak grass in the forum. Although I have not died yet, I still haven't grown a seedling strong grass for about two years. As for the flowering test varieties, I don't know if I have to wait until the monkey year. If he had started using the strong grass directly before, he would have filled a pot with it by now, and the fragrance would have drifted thousands of miles.

2, about the sub-seedlings, if you like and orchid, not for immediate interests, please do not sub-seedlings too frequently, as for the reason, I think a single seedling grass with buds, buds grow slowly, many years are difficult to seedlings, and not too strong, new seedlings will not come to flowers (only refers to spring lily), a few beads of strong grass (preferably more than three seedlings), with one or two buds, buds grow very fast, February and March buds, June and July can grow into sixty or seventy percent, or even seventy or eighty percent, individual grass can grow into seedlings. And in April and May, it will grow rapidly with a fat bud. Basically, two seasons of sprouts can come in a year. Considering from short-term seedling, single-cut can achieve the purpose of rapid reproduction, considering from long-term culture, single-cut may not have more seedlings. Single-cut first generation, second generation bud will not be too strong, if keep single-cut, the first generation is weaker than the first generation (this is why some high-end best-selling varieties can not buy strong grass), it is easy to fall grass. If it is our balcony autotrophy, generally will not be single-cut, at most double cut, if it is orchid garden culture, single-cut may be the best way to make short-term rapid profits, but in order to let the single seedling bud grow rapidly, form a commodity, it must be in constant temperature and humidity environment with appropriate hormone. Personally think balcony orchid as little as possible sub-seedlings, I used to like a pot has a four or five seedlings cut down two after ridge grass to let it continue to play waste heat, but after ridge grass to the bud is basically not strong, some only grow half big to stop growing. To wait for rejuvenation will have to wait for two generations, three generations, the cycle is very long, some of the root is relatively poor after the ridge trouble to maintain more than half a year or fruitless and end. We also have to make money for the purpose, at least not short-term profit for the purpose, so, I intend to try to reduce the number of seedlings, the general variety of old grass let it retreat, yellow leaves cut off. When turning over the basin to change the material, we should throw away those rootless old men. After all, people who loved orchids had limited space in their homes. There was no need for two seedlings, two seedlings, and two seedlings to occupy space and spend more energy to manage. As for the fear of rot backup, where the big pot Lianzhu strong grass, and there is no cut left by the seedling caused by infection, as long as the management is proper, basically no accident will occur. The wound treatment of the seedling, I am lucky to get the local senior guidance, learn a lot of treatment methods, the most used is still after the seedling with red-hot steel chopsticks to burn the wound, and then coated with methyl thiophane, dry can be on the basin, this method is very useful, so far because of wound treatment problems have not rotted grass. However, there must be a grasp of the severity of the burn. Don't burn too hard. You only need to burn it gently and seal the wound.

3, on the basin, as for the selection of materials, ratio, each has its own good, you like to use what, as long as you grasp the watering cycle and fertilizer of the material is good. The material must be disinfected before the basin, whether it is soft and hard material, especially soft material bark or something, it is best to disinfect at high temperature, sterilize and kill invisible eggs inside, my disinfection method is, bark, She Mu I use pressure cooker cooking, fairy soil, coconut shell or something after I soak in water, use microwave oven for 5-8 minutes, disinfection should be thorough, this is the key step to prevent two rot. It is very popular on the Internet to rub the roots of orchids before they are placed in pots. I think this is really helpful for orchids to take pots and grow in the later stage. As for the principle, I understand it this way. Rubbing the roots is to carefully clean the roots with your hands. The roots grow in the soil for a long time. The surface will be more or less attached with stubborn stains and some parasites. The roots rely on the surface to absorb nutrients. The cleaner the surface of the roots, the more beneficial it is for the roots to absorb moisture and nutrients.

4, about watering, this I do not say much, different materials, different environments, strong and weak seedlings affect the frequency of watering, orchid roots are fleshy roots, water is easy to black roots rot, long-term water shortage is also easy to hole roots, if it is not master watering, it is recommended to empty the same material basin, and then pour water, put in the environment of orchid cultivation for a few days to see, basically can master the characteristics of dry and wet material time. I don't recommend the method of pouring water in a long flow. I recommend washing the plants with a shower. By the way, the dust on the leaves will be washed off. Too much dust will affect the photosynthesis and respiration of orchids. As for those who are afraid of damaging the center leaf, I feel that as long as your environment is not ventilated to a certain extent, this kind of thing will not happen, at least I have not encountered it in these years. After pouring water, immediately use your hand to pull the orchid leaves, minimize the accumulated water on the leaves, prevent the leaves from spots due to accumulated water, and accelerate the evaporation of water on the leaves. When the orchid leaves are dry, you can see the sun. It is best to water them at night in summer and at noon in winter. In short, it is best to water them when the temperature difference between ambient temperature and water temperature is the smallest.

5. Regarding fertilization, many Lanyou are very taboo on fertilization. Can you grow good flowers without fertilizer? General fairy soil and other materials are difficult to meet the needs of orchids in the growing season, fertilization is the key step to raise flowers, I generally use Huabao, growing period with 5, occasionally with 2 good, in short, thin fertilizer and frequent application, fertilization I generally only irrigation roots, although foliar fertilizer is safer, but the use of bad will lead to large areas of black spots on the leaves, irrigation roots, then I will reduce the dose a lot, such as Huabao, the instructions require the dose is 1 kg per small spoon of water, I only use 4 teaspoons at most for a bucket of 12 or 13 kilograms of water, thin fertilizer, safe, frequent application, healthy.

6, about light, sunlight is the growth of all things, the growth of any plant can not be separated from sunlight. Orchids are shade plants. Although they grow without sunlight, full sunlight will seriously affect the growth of orchids and affect their beauty. Orchids like soft light scattering environment, do not like direct sunlight, we can not violate the growth habits of orchids, blindly one-sided that more sun is conducive to bud to flower, too strong sunlight will accelerate the old grass grass, but also make orchids become yellow short collapse. I usually choose shade when the temperature exceeds 15 degrees.

7. As for pesticides, I didn't do pesticide treatment before. I didn't realize the importance of pesticide treatment until one day I found that the buds unearthed by Song Mei were badly bitten. As long as you are careful, you will find that there are many small white insects similar to lice in the basin, especially soft materials. This kind of insect likes to nibble on the new buds of orchids very much, so pesticide treatment is very important. It is best to start pesticide treatment in early spring. In early spring, use pesticide to spray leaves and irrigate roots. Be sure to thoroughly, and then uninterrupted foliar spraying, June and July in the root irrigation treatment once, as for what to use insecticides, this or according to their preferences.

8, about sterilization, good orchid, sterilization is also very important, do not think that commonly used pesticides do not do sterilization treatment, in fact, pesticides and sterilization are not the same thing, general pesticides will not kill bacteria. Sterilization is the most important way to prevent soft rot. I think almost all orchid growers have experienced soft rot. When your orchid center leaves turn yellow from bottom to top, it is basically determined to be soft rot. My material has been thoroughly sterilized when it is in the basin, so I can sterilize three or four times a year at most, mainly in the high temperature and high humidity weather in July and August and the continuous rainy weather in winter. There are many kinds of fungicides available in the market, such as thiophanate-methyl, chlorothalonil, carbendazim and so on.

9. About vernalization, in fact, vernalization is to give orchids a period of dormancy, so that orchids that have grown for a year can enter the breeding of flower buds and a short rest. Only orchids with good rest can have enough physical strength to pull out stems and bloom, and breed the next generation. Not all orchids have to vernalize to bloom well. If we have to say that spring and lily have to vernalize, the four seasons, lotus petals, cold and ink do not need to vernalize. It is mainly divided according to the origin of orchids. However, most spring flowers must be vernalized well in order to open tall and graceful flowers.

10. About the growth cycle, recently found that many people do not know the growth cycle of orchids, I only raised spring, lily, spring sword, four seasons, personally think that more than three or four seedlings of strong grass spring orchid spring buds will basically become seedlings in the same year, autumn buds will also become seedlings in the summer of the next year, many spring orchids, four seasons orchids will grow to three or four percent of the spring buds will breed new buds, autumn buds The probability of breeding new buds is far less than spring buds. Cymbidium in the growth of thirty or forty percent of the phenomenon of breeding buds is significantly less than spring orchid, generally in seventy or eighty percent, or soon after the breeding buds, Cymbidium a year is difficult to grow seedlings, generally in the second year to extract the last two central leaves. Spring sword is similar to spring orchid. The seedling cycle of the Four Seasons Orchid is very short. It can basically become seedlings in half a year. My Red Yipin sprouts at the end of February and basically grows in mid-May. It also brings a new bud two centimeters high. In August, the first generation of new grass comes to flower. The second generation of new buds grows to half size. In November, the second generation of new seedlings becomes seedlings, with a bud, but no soil. It means that the four seasons are very fast. How to judge the new grass has grown mature grass, not tall, my judgment method is to see whether the most central leaf is already the highest leaf of this plant, and compare with the old grass mature grass before how much higher the central leaf is than the leaf closest to the central leaf, probably open an estimate of how much the central leaf can grow, at this time the grass basically into seedlings. However, cymbidium sometimes misleads us, and its most central leaf is often extracted the following year. So don't mistake the center leaf.

11. As for the identification of varieties, this topic is really unfathomable. I am very talented and can only identify several of the most common and most obvious varieties according to the leaf shape. As for how to distinguish the introduced varieties, or fly all over the sky those words: "flowers prevail, leaf shape supplemented, buy people first."

12, concluding remarks, how to raise orchids, has been bothering us these new people into the orchid world, when we are still on the road to how to raise orchids wandering, we will be afraid of thirst, hungry them, for a while afraid of wet, dry them, for a while afraid of freezing, hot them. We go around to learn from teachers, the courage to toss, but when we understand the "natural law", we should not understand something? When we are familiar with the growth characteristics of wild orchids, you can raise them well. Spoiled children do not grow into talents, nor do orchids. Reduce your coddling, and maybe they'll grow stronger.