How will I raise orchids if I start growing orchids again?

Author: Guan Lan

At first, I was very enthusiastic about orchids, dazzled by reading books, couldn't sleep for a long time excited about a flower photo, heard that raising orchids could still make money, greed broke out, got out of control, got hot and saw what I liked, and bought it. There were problems everywhere in the planting and breeding links, deaths and injuries, and looking back over the years, I found that few flowers bloomed, a lot of grass died, and my mood easily fluctuated with the dead grass. I've been messing around and haven't made a name for myself. Was tossed out of strength, crazy in the past, reflect on their own orchid process, very much hope to start all over again.

Maybe there are Lanyou, like me, who have similar experiences and feelings.

How many detours can we avoid if we can start growing orchids again? if we can start growing orchids again, how can we raise orchids?

Seed selection: do not understand the orchid stage, Amoy a few pots of traditional varieties with a price of more than 10 yuan, Chunlan and Jianlan, even hybrid orchids, as long as there is a floral fragrance. When you understand the orchid and learn to raise orchids, if you buy dozens of famous products worth more than 100 yuan, you can have one or two varieties worth about 1,000 yuan, but the total number of varieties should not exceed 20 or 30, which is very tiring in management. The speed of introduction should not be too fast, two or three a year is enough, rolling cycle development. Don't believe the photo, even if it's a hot new product, don't believe the photo, because it's just an instant. Choose varieties, they like the first, flowers reliable second, look at the photos that is not in the understanding of flowers, do not understand flowers would rather not. Many flowers you do not know its defects, and these sellers generally will not say, it is best to see Lanyou's real flowers, he will tell you the real situation, rather than blindly deceiving. At the beginning, do not covet a full range of orchids, there are many orchids, the name is very big, it is only so that orchids are not as good as when you look at the photos. Gambling grass is not to touch, can bet will not be put on the Internet to sell, it is not Xin Lanyou to buy, save money to buy a serious famous product is better than anything else. But it is probably in vain to say that everyone has to go through a process of madness to calmness.

Planting and breeding: although orchids have their own ways, orchids in non-producing areas who do not understand orchid, it is best to plant 70% gold stone and 30% immortal soil in accordance with the requirements in the book, and add snake wood at most. If the bark must be cooked and boiled at high temperature, otherwise there is no reason for the inexplicable death of a lot of grass (this is not much about my blood and tears experience) Do not reject germicides, natural orchid cultivation is good, but you need to deal with all kinds of subtle links, to a certain degree of ease, you can do whatever you want; no matter how clean and strong the introduced grass is, it is best to soak in the proportional insecticide for half a day, as long as the concentration is less than 3/1000, you don't have to worry about soaking for a while. In this way, the plant material is clean and easy to manage, and the invasion of diseases and insect pests is blocked. As long as you buy the right variety of grass without virus disease (viruses can not be killed like germs), then you can basically ensure that the risk of normal cultivation has been kept to a minimum. Usually watering, tap water can, do not use vegetable washing water, Amoy rice water, fish water (either insect or sick). Watering can be mixed with medicine and fertilizer mixed with blue bacteria, the concentration of fertilizer is not more than 2-3 parts per thousand is safe (the simple proportion is about one gram of fertilizer per cola bottle), blue bacteria in proportion to a little bit on the line, more is also harmful. As for fertilizers, it feels safe to use more inorganic fertilizers. After all, organic fertilizers are also hotbeds of germs. Magic fertilizer, bone charcoal and so on can be mixed with plant materials. I have personally mixed dog dung barbecue effect is also good (in short, high temperature sterilization than what mature to rest assured, bought mature organic fertilizer with a little germs, can let you instantly return to before liberation).

Ramet: the reason why I only mentioned this is because many orchid friends are addicted to cleanliness and can't get used to other people's old grass (I also have this problem). The bought grass has new seedlings, and the next year they can't wait to separate the new grass from the old one. After all, they are their own children. Look good. But this is often contrary to the law of orchid growth. In the first year, the Reed head of the new seedling is not mature enough, the separate wound is large, and it is easy to die of infection. After the old man is cleaned out, the wound is not handled well, which can easily lead to the death of the new seedling and the failure of introduction. Even if the new seedling is not infected, because of the lack of nutrition provided by the old Reed head, a single new seedling seems to be more difficult, and it will take a generation or two before it can be rejuvenated. Therefore, the wound treatment of ramets is an important link related to the success or failure of introduction. I used to think that drying, applying medicine, or scalding the wound and sealing the wax could avoid infection, but there were still many people who died inexplicably. I only remembered when I saw the post from you Lanyou in Linzhou this year. No matter how well the wound is treated after the seedling, you can't fill the implant around the Reed wound and need to be air-dried for a period of time. This is a lesson of blood and tears.

Now we can't go back to the stage of starting anew. We are still dealing with the problems left over by history. The damned grass let him die. Dispose of what can be disposed of and pack it light. The grass behind is strictly admitted and carefully planted, which may be another way to start all over again.