Orchid Cultivation: A Little Cultivation Experience of Single Seedling of Cymbidium Dragon Root (Transfer)

Dragon root seedlings have always been a considerable variety of resources, many excellent orchid varieties are dragon root single seedling down the mountain, because of its low price, the unique characteristics of varieties, more and more attention. The price of good varieties of single seedlings of dragon root has also risen to a certain extent. In the past, the price of dozens of pieces is almost 1--200, in the past, the price of 1-200 is now 3--400, and in the past, hundreds of pieces are now almost 1,000 pieces... However, the high breeding risk of dragon root single seedling also makes everyone discouraged. Cymbidium reeds head small, weak seedlings, single seedling culture risk is quite high, especially cymbidium single seedling line grass culture risk is even greater. Less roots, injured roots, long-term bare roots, long-distance transportation and other factors make its survival rate in about 30%, in the face of such a large resource, we can only do nothing for a long time, sometimes see a good thread down the mountain dragon root art, can only helplessly dare not buy, even spend a lot of money to buy, live to die...

7 years ago, I accidentally entered the orchid sector, had also suffered the bitterness of the orchid sector, fake grass, fake flowers... I've been to everything the blue world knows. I forget how many dead grasses there are, but I only remember that the most expensive one of the dead ones is more than 500,000 yuan... Finally, when I almost lost my fortune, I was lucky enough to worship Wang Jiuquan, a master of Hubei Orchid Art, under Master Wang. In the days when I followed Master to travel north and south to collect orchids, I was more influenced by Master's love for orchids. Master was an orchid idiot. The inscriptions he bred won countless gold and silver prizes in the Orchid Expo, and even won the special gold of the National Orchid Expo for three consecutive years from the 17th National Orchid Expo. His idea of orchid cultivation is very simple. He often tells me that orchid cultivation should be "treated like a son". I often go to aftertaste this sentence, this sentence "treat orchid as son", not only reflects master's artistic realm of raising orchid, but also reveals master's deep love for orchid...

Influenced by Master, I have been working hard on orchid cultivation techniques. To this day, I am still constantly improving my planting materials. I have visited many elders in Orchid Realm and found that from south to north, due to the relationship between air humidity, temperature and climate, our Orchid Realm roughly follows this pattern. The planting materials in the south are harder, while the planting materials in the north are softer. Under the condition of sufficient air humidity, the hardest and most direct benefit is safety, but in terms of nutrition, they are far inferior to soft planting materials. Nutrient fertilizer must be added to maintain the growth needs of orchids. The nutrition of soft plants is something we do not doubt, but as long as the humidity reaches a certain limit, there is almost certainly no guarantee of safety. This is the orchid growing area. I know the habits of orchids very well. There is one thing that orchids cannot do without, that is, oak leaf decay soil. Therefore, I have combined the strengths of the northern and southern plants, mainly decaying soil, to maximize their permeability. In the past two years, my orchid seedling rate has been maintained at more than 1:1. Because it is an orchid growing area, I have come into contact with more single seedling grass of Xiashan Dragon Root. After countless deaths, I finally found out the cultivation experience of single seedling of Dragon Root. This experience is also suitable for the rejuvenation of weak seedlings. I hope everyone can cultivate orchids well. Raising orchids well is the premise of all problems. At the same time, I also hope that experienced elders of the Orchid Realm will give advice. After all, ginger is still old and spicy. Your kind words may save us a few years of detours.

Dragon root single seedlings in everyone after getting please do not do disinfection treatment, wash several times with water can, generally down the mountain grass is not infected, grass grass is just picked from the mountain, so there is no need for disinfection, deliberately to destroy the acid-base balance of grass will only backfire. If the grass roots really have local erosion and need disinfection, please reduce the usual disinfection dosage by twice, shorten the disinfection time by twice, and immediately wash the whole grass with clean water after soaking, try not to let the medicine remain, because the grass is like a baby, these excessive acid and alkali he cannot bear.

After the grass is washed clean, the roots can be planted after a little drying. Here, the roots should be specially explained to everyone. Drying roots. The original intention of this link is to accelerate the healing of root wounds and scars, soften the roots of grass, and avoid damage to roots during planting operations. Clear this truth, we can understand, in fact, as long as the grass roots are not injured, grass roots are not particularly many cases, there is no need to dry roots, let a living body do a dehydration treatment, think about it, ah, Xiaocao is unable to accept, after all, his resistance, vitality is still very weak. If the roots of the dragon seedlings are damaged, they must be treated. They can only be dried slightly. As long as the clear water at the roots is dry, they can be treated.

The choice of plant material, I advocate using fine material, the reason is very simple, fine material and root can maximize the combination, conducive to the early service of the root basin. My present plant material ratio, for your reference: Sichuan rotten leaf soil 50%, the smallest peat particles 10%, 0.1-0.2MM tree bark 10%, the smallest pumice 10%, snake sawdust 10, the smallest red ceramsite 10%. (Plant material is only for everyone's reference, there is no best plant material, only the most suitable plant material, plant material ratio and local environment, climate, temperature, humidity, management methods have a great relationship, everyone do not imitate, orchid cultivation must be careful, heart to nature, please remember!)

The choice of pots, it seems that we all know that big grass with big pots, grass with small pots this truth, then, I ask you a word, how do you measure the size of a grass? Length? Width? Wrong, the size of grass here is measured by the absorption capacity of the roots. In fact, the roots of dragon roots seedlings, roots of strong seedlings, in the same length compared to the case, the absorption capacity of small grass roots will be far lower than the roots of strong grass, not to mention the number of strong grass roots, the length of the grass to a lot of grass, so we absolutely did not estimate in the choice of pots, I have a detailed planting data for your reference: a pot of grass 5 seedlings, a lot of roots, grass height 30CM, leaf width 1.2 CM, pot surface diameter 35CM, height 43CM. A pot of cymbidium dragon root thread art, pot surface diameter 8CM, height 10CM, grass height 8CM, leaf width 0.3 cm. Three roots, root length 3 cm. There is also a pot of 4 dragon root cymbidium small line art grass co-cultivation, grass is about 10CM high, width is 0.3, pot surface diameter 18CM, height 23CM, total root number 10, root length about 4 cm. Three pots of grass-like plant materials, the same environmental location, growth period, large pots of strong grass 3 days to complete a dry irrigation cycle, medium pots 4 seedlings co-cultivation 5 days to complete a watering cycle, the smallest pot single seedling to complete a watering cycle. Through this data comparison, we will certainly find that the absorption capacity of dragon root seedlings is really poor, so in order to completely ensure the growth of seedlings, we can put grass and big grass together, borrow the absorption capacity of big grass, can completely avoid the danger of water in the basin, so dragon root seedlings will not be easy to raise? Say simple point is to find a pot of strong seedling big grass, dig a nest on the pot surface of the big grass, plant the grass, so there is no problem, and the leaves of the big grass can also play a role in shade in summer, winter and warm effect, ha ha, I used this method after, never died dragon root grass. Countless value-added ah, not to mention the distant, that is, last winter I took the dragon root cymbidium butterfly grass,(photo in my Qzone) grass height 8CM, 4 leaves, each leaf butterfly more than a third, ha ha, at that time others were afraid that they could not raise, we are not afraid, buy according to the mistake, this year's new seedlings are higher than the old seedlings.

There is a key to remind everyone again, must remember to use fine plant material ah, if the pot surface plant material of large pot grass is too coarse, must remember to change fine ah, coarse plant material and small roots are not simple to serve the pot

Below I put the actual operation of the photos sent up for your reference. The last few photos are the recent growth of my garden, please point out.