Crazy about you, banging my head against the wall for you-my orchid raising experience

Carry forward the national orchid culture and spread the knowledge of orchids

It was 1990, and my daughter was nine years old and had just entered the third grade of primary school. One day after school, he said to me, "Dad, the school leader is coming three days later, and the teacher asked each of us to bring a pot of flowers to the classroom." I have no interest in flowers. But I couldn't bear the poor look in my daughter's eyes. The next morning, I took my daughter to the Guanyinqiao Flower Market to buy flowers.

At this time, Jiangbei District Spring Flower Show, all kinds of flowers. A dazzling array of things, contending for Qidouyan. In front of a flower stall, I saw a pot of plant leaves in the shape of a herringbone, with a few drops of water glittering and translucent shaking on the leaf surface. Ask the florist to know the flower name "Gentleman three" with a pot of 25 yuan. So he and his daughter gladly took the flowers home.

This is the first pot of flowers in my life.

I had nothing to do one afternoon, hanging out near my house. I saw a neighbor hang a birdcage in which the thrush was singing merrily. Curious to watch, the host enthusiastically moved a stool to make tea. During the conversation, I learned that the owner's surname was Luo, a worker in the fifteenth workshop of our factory. During the chat, I glanced casually and saw a flowerpot under the birdcage, in which the plants were lush and green. The leaves bent slightly, the breeze came slowly, and the whole pot of flowers swayed in the breeze, showing such a look, with a little poetry inside and outside, with a breath of aura. Curious, he asked, what kind of flower is this? Master Luo replied: orchid, ink orchid. Where can I sell it? Luzumiao Flower Market in the central district of the city, but earlier, or later, the good flowers have already been chosen.

So, I didn't sleep all night. At six o'clock in the morning, I took a bus with Master Luo from Wuli Dian in Jiangbei to Luzumiao Flower Market. The flower market was crowded, and before dawn, some people held flashlights in front of orchid dealers from all over the country. Pick and choose from a basket of downhill orchids. I was so excited that I squeezed into the crowd and chose what I thought was beautiful and beautiful. Buy orchids, go home, at the end of the flower market, a dozen people around a seller of orchids, orchids holding a flowering orchid, three seedlings, asking for 1000 yuan. I muttered to myself: why is this orchid so expensive? You know, a thousand yuan at that time was equivalent to a worker's salary from April to May. To my confusion and doubt, an old man next to me said: plum petal. Hard praise, it's worth so much. I asked: why? The old man replied: it's like falling in love with someone, what and how much to love you, it's all worth it.

In this way, I fell in love with orchids. A few days later, Master Luo gave me a copy of Shen Yuanru. The book Orchid by Shen Yinchun. Only through this book did I know that orchids have petal shapes. The saying of Suxin, etc.; there are Chunlan. Jianlan. Classification of Huilan and so on. Through the introduction in the book how to pass through the leaves of bluegrass. A bract shell. It is good to identify orchids and other aspects. Poor. With the guidance of this book, I chose peach in the lower mountain orchid of the orchid market in Lu Zu Temple. Chunsu is satisfied with the orchid, of which the most noteworthy one is Jing ran, who selected a Buddha orchid.

Also in the Lu Zumiao Flower Market, two Miao Chunlan were found in a flower vendor, which looked quite characteristic. At a stroke, I bought it for ten yuan. A flower unexpectedly blossomed about a month after planting. The whole flower white is slightly yellow, daffodils petal, the strange place is between the petal and the tongue, dots of red and yellow constitute a Quan Yin Bodhisattva hands, sitting on the lotus platform image lifelike and rich fragrance, the heart is very happy.

However, the good times did not last long, as soon as the flowers withered, the two seedlings also withered. What can be done? What can I do?

About half a month after the death of Folan, I was browsing through the newspaper in the office when I saw a piece of news in the Economic Daily: Folan and Cailan were found somewhere in Hubei. People who buy orchids are frantically searching. Only then did I know that the dead orchid is called Folan, and its value is expensive.

My heart is cold!

In this world, whenever there is love, this tiredness must be accompanied by it. Ever since I fell in love with orchids, I always look for orchids everywhere and buy orchids. According to a colleague in my office, the manager of a hotel in Chishui, Guizhou raised a lot of orchids, so he took the opportunity of a business trip to Zigong and made a detour of hundreds of kilometers to Chishui, but unfortunately, the manager was not at home. I had to buy several Miao Xiashan orchids and several rabbit orchids in the street, and I beat back to Chongqing gloomily. When I was passing through Luzhou City, I heard the bus driver say that there were many orchids raised by the one Road Bridge Company. So he found this master in Luzhou and bought nearly 1,000 yuan of orchids in his home. As a result, he took out his pocket and was short of 200 yuan. Fortunately, this Li Sheng was a sincere man and said it didn't matter. Just remit the money to me when you get home. They are all friends of orchids. In this way, after speculating on Lan you's trust and enthusiasm, the first thing he did when he returned to Chongqing was to remit money to the master in Luzhou.

This incident led my colleagues to sue the party committee because of some contradictions in their work. More than a thousand yuan to buy orchids, which was equivalent to three months' wages of workers at that time, the party committee thought that this was no small matter! Where did he get so much money to buy flowers? So check! I checked again and again, but as a result, I cleared two hundred. The sister of a colleague in our department lives in Kunming, while Yunnan is rich in orchids. So we went on a business trip to Kunming (typical fake public and private). Coincidentally, the trade union president of his sister's factory (whose name was concealed) was the vice president of Kunming Orchid Association. So I invited him to have a meal. After having enough to drink and eat, he went to his Lanshe, where more than a thousand pots of orchids came into view. In the end, he sold me Sanmiao Chunlan, and I gave me 200 yuan. It blossomed in the second year, without fragrance. The second time, the third time I went to Kunming, I never looked for this gentleman again. Ever since I fell in love with orchids, only people who raise orchids know the sour, hot, bitter and sweet of them. Not to mention being cheated by orchid traffickers many times, as long as they are their own favorite orchids to find ways to live frugally, but also to buy a few plants …... This is really: crazy for you, crazy for you, love you non-negotiable!

Now that people are old, they no longer have the obsession and impulse they had when they were young; although the heart of Ailan is still the same, it is also more rational and calm. In the final analysis, orchid is also a kind of flower, but fall in love with it because of personal love. Some of my friends come to play occasionally. I offer to give him a pot of orchids. Some friends don't want it either. The reason is very simple: I don't like it. The former Emperor Tang Qianyan has now flown into the homes of ordinary people. Now Lanjie is no longer the fanaticism and restlessness of the past. The price of orchids is close to the people, and it is rational to buy orchids. Due to the development of social productive forces and the gradual increase in people's income, it is no longer a luxury to buy a pot of orchids that you like. Now the orchid market is very busy. You see, every Saturday. On Sunday, Jiangbei looks at Haihua Market to buy orchids. People who sell orchids come and go, and their purchases and sales are booming. This is the new era of orchid market, rational. Buy peacefully, buy calmly and sell honestly. Although there is still a phenomenon of fraud, but that is only an individual, is no longer the mainstream of the market. This is my own process of raising orchids: although I stumble, I don't change my mind. Love what I love; like what I like. Do not change the original intention to love all the year round! Author: Tian Tian

Orchids, you are a good teacher on the way to raise orchids.