Water moss has many advantages in pots.

Water moss has many advantages in pots.

Today I read a good article, excerpted to Lan you: it is difficult to plant orchid, one of the difficulties is the choice of plant material. Water moss has three advantages. The first is the optimization of the environment. Water moss in clean, no impurities, is a natural orchid plant material, using it to grow orchids is very robust, but also can reduce diseases and insect pests; the second is the effect of heat preservation and moisturizing. As orchid substrate or orchid basin surface cover, water moss can not only prevent soil from polluting the leaves during watering, but also reduce water evaporation, maintain soil temperature constant, and play the role of heat preservation and moisture preservation. The third is the role of root protection and sprouting. Most orchids are fleshy roots, which require good ventilation, air and water permeability to the substrate, and the dried water moss is very loose, which is very suitable for the growth of orchid roots, so it can avoid rotting roots caused by stagnant water in basin mud. In addition, the plant material of water moss is constant in temperature and rich in nutrition, which contains organic matter and many kinds of nutrient elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, zinc and iron, which can not only save fertilizer, but also promote orchid germination. the germination rate of orchids planted with water moss is 30-50% higher than that planted with common plants.

My years of practice has proved this point.