Orchid cultivated by Milo soil method

Just after the National Day this year, together with Lan Youguo, I went to villages and bought bluegrass everywhere. In different places, I encountered several Cailan farmers using old rice baskets to grow downhill grass, which grew well. The author thinks that this method can be taken, and a prominent example is selected for readers' reference.

An old man surnamed Gan in this county has been breeding orchids for more than a year and has grown nearly 150 bowls of orchid grass planted in plastic orchid bowls. Most of the other bluegrass were planted in old rice baskets that were no longer used (bamboo, agricultural tools used by local farmers to pick rice and other things, and a rice basket could hold more than 60 jin of rice). Each rice basket could plant more than 20 nests of nearly 80 seedlings of spring orchid grass. When the author asked how it was planted, the old man Gan said: because there were few flower bowls and farm work could not be managed, he was lazy to plant it all in rice baskets with a layer of broken stones on the bottom of the baskets. Then use wood retort high-temperature steamed sand and rotten leaves to plant, rice basket planted bluegrass, placed in a corner of the roof of the bungalow, shade can be built above, and rarely watered, let it naturally rain, natural growth.

Although he bought several orchid books, he gave me the impression that he didn't get started at all, because he himself went up to the mountain and dug up the bean pea grass (Xian Ye Chunlan), soft leaf Christine, send spring, and so on, all of which could not be named, let alone know the flowers. However, because of his simplicity, he raised orchids by native methods, but he was able to plant good bluegrass and grow luxuriantly. I think this method can be used for reference. Can we take measures according to local conditions and use plastic washing baskets and plastic rice sieves to cultivate national orchids?

Wang Banglin

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