On the experience of raising orchids

Orchids (national orchids) have been raised for more than ten years, and there are two or three hundred pots that have not been turned in the past 10 years. For more than a decade, like all Lanyou, from love to obsession to the present calm stage. I never post on the orchid version, because there are too many orchid friends in the obsessive stage, just like I did 10 years ago. What I can listen to is the sloshing of half a bucket of water among those "theorists, classics, academics". I don't know why I think with my head, and I don't want to ask about the experience of Lan Fu (Lan Nong). Ten years ago, the fever of raising orchids (national orchids) was much higher than it is now. It was a really crazy bull market. Orchid vendors in Fujian could easily carry a bag of sorted grass and go home with tens of thousands of yuan. Now the orchid friends are basically rational in buying orchid, and the orchid peddlers are much more restrained.

Ten years ago, I subscribed to various orchid periodicals and magazines, bought all kinds of orchid books available, and then planted orchids according to the experience in this book. I have used all the plant materials and fertilizers on the market, tried all kinds of "private orchid secret recipes", and participated in the Orchid Exhibition and Orchid City. From more than 1,000 pots of orchids in its heyday to more than 300 pots now, and then realized his own views on orchids (national orchids):

1. Orchid (national orchid) is a kind of grass with strong vitality, which is completely resigned to fate and grows well in its origin. The new bud must not be touched with your hands or want to change its growth method, so that it may cause hard injury and rot the bud.

2. Orchids must be "adapted to local conditions": create an environment suitable for orchids to grow according to their own home conditions.

3. For orchids, just like raising your own children, you want your children to be strong, self-reliant, healthy in all aspects, or a coward, and you can only rely on you to support him for a lifetime. Then you rationally decide whether to care about your children or dote on them.

Orchids sold from the mountains or from Lannong's fields are generally very healthy. But many orchid friends just soak "disinfect" with potion as soon as they buy it home. Anyway, you can't hear the orchid shouting for help. Flowerpots that come out of high temperatures from hundreds of degrees and thousands of degrees, and plants that have just been bought should also be sterilized with potions, as if the germs have long been undercover there, knowing that orchids will come to eat sooner or later. As soon as the prisoner entered the prison, he washed it with cold water, but soaked the newly bought orchids with poisonous water. after the child was poisoned for a month or so, when you went to the hospital for help, the experts with half a bucket of water pointed out the names of various germs, taught you various treatments, and then killed the orchids, making your novice feel how difficult it is to raise orchids.

4. Most orchids are loved by orchids:

(1) use all kinds of fertilizer and medicine to the orchid to turn the plant into "poisonous" soil. If the water is too fat, don't get it on the bud, it will rot.

(2) "dry orchid wet chrysanthemum", most of the orchids are watered to death, not dry to death. The aerial roots of orchids can absorb water from the air, which is so dry that the leaves "cramp" and recover after watering. But all day in the wet plant material, all kinds of bacteria breed.

(3) "trees move, people move": some people move the orchids around every day, move out to see the sunshine in the morning, move to the shade at noon, and move out again in the evening, making the orchids very passive: they just want to share the sunshine evenly with the leaves, and they are moved away by their owners.

5. the problem of basking in the sun: the growth of all things depends on the sun, and plants rely on the sun to make nutrients for growth. Animals and people eat plant nutrients and indirectly rely on the sun. My orchids are nurtured all day long, but they are also shaded. I am mainly afraid that some wet basin soil will be heated by the sun, which will cause hot water vapor to steam (rotten) the new seedlings. If the potted soil is dry, I don't care at all. Orchids are rarely killed by the sun, but some of the leaves are blackened.

6. Orchid diseases and insect pests:

(1) talk about diseases first: orchids can get a lot of diseases, just like people can get many kinds of diseases, but not all diseases can make a person get all of them.

If you let the orchid bask in the sun, it seldom gets sick, unless you just want to practice your "watering for ten years" and pour it out.

There is also an appalling "Bellas virus", which I still don't believe: I have several pots of more than 50 seedlings, and a half-bucket of water from Lanyou insists that there is a "Bellas virus". Up to now, these pots of "growing with cancer" have grown more and more prosperous. over the past decade or so, many orchids have been divided, just like me, only turning over big pots without dividing trees, with dozens of seedlings and hundreds of seedlings full of potted grass. I have never seen an outbreak of the "Bayras virus." I also asked big orchid growers Chen Shaomin, Li Yinglong and others. I also asked Lan Nong in Fujian and Zhejiang that they all said, "I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it." So I think a lot of "killed by the Bayras virus" are made up stories.

(2) Let's talk about pests: the main pests of my orchids are shell insects, which are crowded in plastic greenhouses with too much humidity in winter. Friends joke: "long shell insects of orchids less Jiao Tip", there is also a certain degree of truth, indicating the importance of humidity to orchids. Other pests include snails biting tender seedlings and flower buds, earthworms are sometimes drilled into large pots, and few ants enter orchid pots. So I rarely spray shellfish with omethoate.

Now I grow orchids casually: I will never disinfect orchids, plants and orchid pots. Volcanic stone is the most popular plant material. Because I found that the exuberant Orchid Miao is made of volcanic stone. Never use the "pond cornerstone", for a long time, it will be broken into powder, pulp on the orchid root, impervious to cause waterlogging. Plant material is the size of soybeans. I don't think it is necessary for granules to be coarse and fine. on the contrary, fine and coarse is better for long roots. It is easy to manage with granular plant material, but despite watering (most people like watering), it drips off as soon as you water it.

There is also the problem of rotten new seedlings: I used to be careful in watering, fearing that dripping water into the leaves of new seedlings would cause rotten seedlings, but now I have to water with a tablespoon of water as the head, regardless of what is taboo. Because I found that Lannong or Dalanchang were watered with tap water, and if they would rot the seedlings, they would never water them in this way. Later realized the truth: rotten seedlings are the moisture evaporation in the plant material at high temperature, and the roots of new seedlings are too young to be steamed "ripe". So my experience is: do not water at high temperature, if which plant is damp in high temperature, cool it, (keep the moisture from getting hot), and move it to a shady and ventilated place. Therefore, I seldom rot seedlings, there are rotten seedlings must be it in the case of wet plants, stay in the high temperature environment.

Summing up my journey of raising orchids over the past ten years, I would like to give some opinions to orchid friends:

1. Buy a book on orchid cultivation, because it is more comprehensive than what those experts teach you. The more the book, the more the author will pay. But "it is better to believe in books than to have no books at all".

2. if you can't water the orchid today, don't water the orchid. More than 90% of the diseases are caused by watering.

3. The orchid is "not fragrant because there is no one", which shows that it is very conscious. Why do those big orchid farmers raise Lannong well? It is because they have too much to take care of, and they will not take special care of which basin. You have 10 children, and when you can't take care of them, they will all be promising. If you want to prefer one alone, it will hurt him. It's the same with Yulan.