Plant material of lotus petal orchid

The matrix of the origin of lotus petal orchid is mainly rotten leaves and withered branches, supplemented by gravel sand. Therefore, rotten leaf soil has naturally become the staple food of lotus petal orchid. However, in my several years of cultivation, I found that it was good to plant all rotten leaf soil in the first half of the year, but with watering and moving again and again, the rotten leaf soil slowly sinked, the permeability of the plant material gradually became worse, and the moisture content was very difficult to master. Most of them have more or less rotten roots and scorched tips. After the cultivation and comparison of several kinds of plant materials, I now use rotten leaf soil (Rosa roxburghii leaves, Ma pear leaves fully mature and then sterilized and dried, sift out the finest) 60% + granular plant material (according to the planting of orchid roots and plants, choose large and medium size. For example, Daxue uses coarse decayed leaf soil and large granular plant material, while downhill dragon root seedlings use slightly finer decayed leaf soil and small granular plant material.) 40%. This is nutritious (if you think it's not enough, add some such as snake wood, decaying oak or other miscellaneous wood rotten soil to those 60% of the rotten leaf soil. 5% Mel 10% active soil is added to the granular plant. ), drain, moisturize, and ventilate. Watering one water every three or two days won't rot the roots, and it doesn't matter if you water it every seven or eight times. Foliar spraying of trace elements is occasionally made during the growing period, and some phosphorus and potassium fertilizers are added to OK during the pregnant florescence. However, there is no unified nature of anything, only some common characteristics. To really plant orchids, mainly rely on their own observation, more thinking, according to their own environmental conditions, cultivation habits, local climate conditions in line with local conditions, to create a suitable orchid growth microclimate to let it thrive. Raising orchids is a kind of leisure, and raising orchids well is a kind of enjoyment.

Excerpt from the Treasure Book of Orchids author: Wu Yongcai, Tonghai, Yunnan