The thrown Phalaenopsis cut a knife, the flowers purred, and the neighbors scrambled for it!

After the flower withers, the flower cutting sword promotes the flowering

If you want to continue to bloom after the phalaenopsis has faded, you have two options: first, bloom twice that year; second, bloom again the following year. Two choices correspond to different pruning methods ~

1. Second flowering of the year

Find a pair of scissors, wipe it with alcohol first, keep 4 nodes at the base of the foil, cut off all the above parts, and keep it in a warm place with sunshine.

Phalaenopsis pruned in this way will bloom again after 2-3 months, but it should be noted that this plant consumes too much nutrients and is not conducive to the growth of the following year.

2. Flowering again the following year

Phalaenopsis will be cut off from the bottom of the foil, appropriate supplement a little potassium dihydrogen phosphate.

After this pruning, the Phalaenopsis enters the cultivation stage and is carefully maintained until it blooms more flowers the next year.

post-shear curing

After the flower withers, the Flower Cutting Sword is the most important step, but it doesn't stop there. If you want to grow Phalaenopsis better, you need the following steps.

1. Plant depots

Gently remove the plant from the pot and remove the soil from the roots, leaving the tender, fleshy roots intact.

2. Trim roots and yellow leaves

Cut off the old roots, rotten roots and yellow leaves.

3. Disinfection and drying

Soak in hydrogen peroxide or carbendazim solution for half an hour and dry in a ventilated place.

4. Moss wraps the root basin

Soaked in new moss will be wrapped up on the root basin can be, pay attention to the root system should be evenly separated, not a few roots squeezed together.

Daily maintenance of Phalaenopsis

Phalaenopsis after pruning, the next step is to carry out daily maintenance, so as to ensure that Phalaenopsis blooms again.

1. Watering

Phalaenopsis when watering depends on the specific circumstances, mainly based on the pot soil dry and wet conditions, can be judged by toothpick method.

Put the toothpick in the ground and pull it out after ten minutes. If the toothpick is only slightly wet, it needs watering. If it is too wet, it is not necessary.

2. Fertilization

Balance fertilizer (balanced combination of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) is mainly used during seedling stage, and high phosphorus fertilizer is mainly used during flower induction, such as potassium dihydrogen phosphate (light should be increased appropriately during flower induction). Fertilization is stopped after flower bud approaches peanut kernel size.

Water moss planting can be twice water fertilizer, bark planting water fertilizer once, occasionally 1-2 months to use a high phosphorus fertilizer.

3. Light

Phalaenopsis like astigmatism, avoid direct sunlight. In winter, direct sunlight can be used to aggravate the color.

4. Regular ventilation

Phalaenopsis likes warm environment, but bogey stuffy, all year round to maintain good ventilation, can be placed in the window.

common condition

No experience in raising Phalaenopsis flower friends, a see Phalaenopsis stems and leaves rot, half-dead look want to throw away, it is a pity! Flowers teach you how to solve common ailments of Phalaenopsis.

1. Stem rot

Black spots on the stem, and slowly corrode the entire stem. Mainly too much water, basin airtight, water distribution does not go out, such as stuffy bad stem.

Treatment: repot, prune rotten roots and disinfect roots, dig out black spots. Apply alcohol or iodine in the wound, wound healing after re-basin, did not heal before dry maintenance every day to spray more water orchid plants.

2. Yellow leaves

Phalaenopsis new shoot top atrophy, tender leaves pale yellow, old leaves also gradually dark yellow. The reason is that the accumulated water has been wet for a long time, resulting in a lack of oxygen in the soil and partial root rot.

Treatment method: should control watering and stop fertilization, according to the actual wet and dry degree of watering. Can be placed in a ventilated place to speed up the evaporation of water basin soil.

3. Rotten roots

Improper watering and so on lead to pot soil ponding or pot soil permeability itself is poor, will cause Phalaenopsis rotten roots.

Treatment:

(1) Cut off the rotten parts

Remove the plant from the basin, rinse the roots with clean water, cut off the rotten roots, and try to keep the intact parts.

(2) Disinfection treatment

Soak the cut and residual roots in potassium permanganate 2‰ solution for 10 minutes, air dry, and then smear the cut with plant ash.

(3) Refill the basin

When re-potting, press the rhizome, pour water, put it in the shade, cover it with thin film, keep it at about 20℃, and new roots can grow in about 20 days.

The trimmed Phalaenopsis can still bloom beautifully

And most importantly, save money on buying flowers again!

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