This watering and moisturizing of orchids almost killed a pot of cymbidium, and this orchid friend taught us a lesson.

The good photographer has always told orchid friends that orchids like to be wet and afraid of stagnant water, so they would rather dry than dry. But everything has a limit, no matter whether it is too dry or wet, it will not work. Today, I would like to share with you a true story. The protagonist is Mr. Lan Youzhang, a good farmer in Shaanxi.

Last spring, Mr. Zhang began to learn to grow orchids. Everything was done step by step, and the orchids were growing well. In summer, because the climate in Shaanxi was relatively dry, he began to spray orchids for fear of lack of water. At that time, he asked me that the good farmer told him that it must be good for orchid leaves to spray and moisturize.

Later, for a period of time, Mr. Zhang found that his orchids had not been watered for two weeks, and the leaves were still lively green. He thought that the plants were not short of water. At this time, when he was on a business trip for a month, he told his wife that if he found that the moss on the basin was not fresh or the leaves showed signs of drying, he had always believed in the principle of "better dry than wet."

A few days after he returned home from a business trip, he found that the orchid leaves began to wither. He didn't understand what was going on, so he called to take pictures of the farmer. After asking him in detail about the whole process, the farmer asked him to pour the pot and look at the roots. as a result, the roots had all dried up. What he did not understand was that the leaves of the Mingming orchid had been very greenish all the time. Why did they suddenly wither?

The orchid friend in this case was confused by an illusion that orchids do need leaf spray because orchids grow in the open air in the mountains, and dew will form on the leaves at night due to the temperature difference, which is tantamount to humidifying it. And now the city raise orchid mostly balcony or semi-balcony, the city temperature difference is not big, can form dew is very few, spray humidification is definitely right. But spray is no substitute for watering, which supplies the water needed by Langen.

In this case, the moss acts as a false witness, and the moss can grow normally by spray. As for the orchid leaves, if the orchid is affected by drought, it starts to dehydrate from the root tip, and then extends all the way up. When it is reflected that the leaves are seriously dehydrated and dry, the orchid plant has already damaged its vitality. Of course, such orchids could have been saved if they had been discovered earlier, so that the farmer saved two pots of spring orchids at the end of last year because of the drought in summer.

Brothers, watering and spray moisturizing are two different concepts, do not be confused by the illusion, welcome to participate in the discussion, if there is any inadequacy, please correct.