Can orchids in the rainy season be drenched in the rain? that's what I do. Try to imitate the wild.

When Lanyou had a certain understanding of orchid watering, he fell into another entangled circle. They already know how to control water for orchids, but what about orchids grown outdoors in the open air on rainy days? These days because of the rain in the Yangtze River valley, many Lanyou write to good farmers asking for these details.

The good farmer's advice to them is that if you don't have many orchids, if you have the conditions and time to carry them, you can choose to move to shelter from rain in the case of days of rain, so you don't have to worry about the orchids being too wet and rotten. But if you raise as many as I do, it is obviously impossible to move in and out every time, so I will use my own method to talk to you.

Good photo farmer is in the field built orchid shed, the top is shade net (75% shade rate), rainy season I did not use plastic film to keep out rain. Because I think the use of plastic film, will make the whole orchid shed humidity and temperature increase, in summer is not conducive to the normal growth of orchids, but will easily get stem rot and root rot.

The density of the shade net itself can prevent raindrops from hitting the orchid leaves directly. It has a buffer effect. In fact, the rain inside the shed will be smaller than that outside the shed. Such rain can clean leaves, clean leaves can breathe better, orchid leaves need to breathe. Another advantage is that the orchids of good farmers are basically not watered unless they are artificially watered during the summer drought, which also saves a lot of labor.

The picture above is the spring orchid and cymbidium in the farmer's orchid shed, both in imitation of wild state. Of course, there is a condition for this rain. Good farmers are in mountainous areas without industrial pollution. The air quality here is good, and the rain will not affect orchids. If you are in an industrial pollution zone, take care of yourself whether you get wet or not.

Lanyou came to a practical question, before you said: orchids can not water summer afternoon, then what if it rains? Anyone who can ask this question is a good friend, let me tell you.

The orchid shed under the shade net is also relatively cool in summer. My orchid shed is empty at both ends, so the air circulation is very good. The orchid shed built beside the stream will always have cool wind blowing. Generally speaking, the temperature of the orchid pot soil in the shed would not be as high as outside. Even summer afternoon thunderstorms do not form hot steam, so the impact on orchids is not significant.

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