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The crab claw orchid blossoms are not hot enough. That's the skill. Try these tricks to burst the pot.

Published: 2024-12-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/12/22, Crab claw orchid, much branched, apex drooping, shaped like crab claws, flowers are many colors. There are purplish red, white, orange, bright red, pink and so on, the flowers and colors are gorgeous, and the petals are opened and rolled back, which is very spectacular and beautiful. If you can turn a crab claw orchid.

Crab claw orchid, much branched, apex drooping, shaped like crab claws, flowers are many colors. There are purplish red, white, orange, bright red, pink and so on, the flowers and colors are gorgeous, and the petals are opened and rolled back, which is very spectacular and beautiful. If you can blow up a crab claw orchid, it will also have a little sense of achievement. However, many flower friends can not raise crab claw orchid well, it is estimated that they have not been able to learn these maintenance skills.

In the cultivation of crab claw orchid, the basin soil can be made of broken fine stone and humus-rich pond mud, or it can be prepared with the same amount of general flower culture soil and sand soil, which is not easy to be consolidated and well drained. Because the branches are so many and drooping, if you want to grow into a big plant, you need to set up a bracket.

In the height of summer, direct sunlight will burn plants, causing stems and leaves to turn yellow, resulting in death, so summer must be shaded and ventilated. Spring and autumn 2-3 days with uniform spray pot watering; winter should not be more watering, keep moist, generally 4-5 days watering; summer 2-day watering, and often spray water to the leaf.

Crab claw orchid in the vigorous growth period, flower friends must replenish nutrients in time. Mature liquid fertilizer can be applied every 7-10 days or so, which should not be too thick and irrigated 500 times with water; nitrogen fertilizer is the main fertilizer in spring, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer should be applied in autumn, and it is not suitable to apply fertilizer in summer, which is easy to cause rot. Fertilization should be carried out when the basin soil is slightly dry.

Pay attention to the maintenance of crab claw orchid in winter, the appropriate temperature is 10-15 ℃, need to be placed indoors in the sunny place. Crab claw orchid is a short-day plant, if you need to blossom ahead of time, you can use short-day treatment. For example, if you want to blossom on National Day, you can shade it in early August, shade it with black cloth from 4 o'clock every day to 8 am the next day, or put it into an opaque room, and small buds will appear in late September.

 
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