For those who raise crab claw orchids at home, you must pay attention to this.

Editor: Yu

Crab claw orchid leaves green and lovely, flowering time just in Christmas, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, flowering fresh Yan lively, very gratifying.

But many flower friends say that their crab claw orchids are dead, and it is not easy to raise them. The editor wants to say that if you raise them once and sum up the experience for the second time, you will raise them very well.

In fact, crab claw orchid is not difficult to raise, remember these maintenance points, your crab claw orchid can also burst basin!

Maintenance of crab claw orchid before summer

Crab claw orchid likes warm, humid, shady environment, when the temperature is 15-25 degrees, it grows fastest.

In late spring and early summer, around May, crab claw orchid enters the first growing period of the year. At this time, to pay attention to keep the basin soil moist, but the crab claw orchid itself is afraid of stagnant water, wait for the basin soil surface to dry for two or three days before watering. Spray more water on the leaves when it is dry. Fertilization at this stage, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer collocation, nitrogen fertilizer mainly.

Summer dormancy and maintenance

Enter the midsummer, more than 30 degrees, crab claw orchid began to dormancy, do not think that summer evaporation quickly, more watering, otherwise properly rotten root death.

During dormancy, watering at most once a fortnightly is enough and stop fertilizing at the same time. Too much light will cause yellow leaves. In summer, we must pay attention to cover the strong light and keep it ventilated.

The second growth period in autumn

After the Beginning of Autumn, the temperature dropped, and the crab claw orchid entered the second peak growing season of the year.

In order to lay the foundation for the next season of flowering, during the growth period, to ensure that water, thin fertilizer, watering is the same as before summer, compared to other flowers, crab claw orchid still need to control the water. The grafted crab claw orchid should also be watered with reference to the water demand of the rootstock. It is more dry after autumn, and the crab claw orchid is sprayed to moisturize every day.

Budding period and flowering

Starting from October, when the temperature drops to about 15 degrees and the light conditions are sufficient, the crab claw orchid begins to give birth. During this period of time, water, fertilizer and light are all guaranteed to blossom more and more beautifully.

Watering should still be dry and then watered, but continuous drought will affect the pregnant buds; fertilizer and water should reduce nitrogen fertilizer, increase the proportion of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, and spray Huaduoduo or potassium dihydrogen phosphate on leaves. Light is very important for crab claw orchid flowering. From the growth period after autumn, crab claw orchid should avoid strong light to give sufficient light every day. The important thing is to control the light time within 10 hours in order to give birth to flower buds. At this time, many flower friends crab claw orchid grows vigorously but does not blossom.

Pre-flowering bud drop: too much water, lack of water, lack of light, light time is too long, the temperature is too low, are the causes of bud drop. At this time, it is necessary to control water, spray more water, and spray phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, give enough light every day, but the light time should be controlled. To ensure that the temperature above 10 degrees, shelter from the wind maintenance.

Bud thinning and post-anthesis care: after budding, in order to ensure the quality of flowering, the excess buds should be picked in time, leaving a bud on each stem and the new young stem next to the bud should also be picked. Maintain it as usual when it is in bloom.

Dormancy after anthesis

After flowering, the crab claw orchid consumed too much nutrients, and the leaves wilted and wrinkled and went into dormancy. Many flower friends think that crab claw orchid is dying, in fact, it is not, at this time, do not water or fertilize more, but immediately cut off the residual flower and its two or three stems and leaves to reduce consumption and store energy.

At this time is about January, if the maintenance is proper, water control, spray moisturizing, fertilization, shade to the sun, to ensure the temperature environment, crab claw orchid dormancy period will be shortened, the second pregnancy bud. This kind of secondary flowering before and after the Spring Festival, after the flower dormancy.

Crab claw orchid shaping and pruning

The post-flowering pruning of crab claw orchid has been mentioned above. There are also two points to pay attention to: first, the plant growth is too dense, it is necessary to regularly branch thinning, so as not to affect the ventilation environment.

Second, after the crab claw orchid grows into a plant, the stems and leaves will grow very long, and we need to use bamboo or steel wire rope to build a multi-layer round shelf for it to support the stems and leaves, which is not only good-looking, but also ventilated, which is beneficial to growth.

Common diseases and insect pests

If poor ventilation, high temperature and wet water, crab claw orchid is easy to get anthracnose, rot, leaf blight. Timely ventilation and water control, picking off diseased leaves and watering with carbendazim can be prevented.

Regular ventilation, water spray moisturizing, can prevent crab claw orchid red spiders, scale insects and other common pests. Red spiders should timely remove the problem leaves, and use Huasen or mite net spray, scale insects should be scraped off pests or cut diseased leaves as soon as possible, and sprayed with spectral insecticides such as imidacloprid.

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