The leaves of crab claw orchid are soft and wilt. what should we do?

Crab claw orchid, widely loved by flower friends, is a common flower potted plant in our family, but many flower friends will have soft and wilting leaves when planting crab claw orchid. Today, the editor will introduce to you the reasons for the softening of leaves and their solutions.

The main reasons for yellowing of leaves are as follows:

1. Rotten root

Rotting roots will make the leaves of crab claw orchid yellow. We need to observe whether there is a phenomenon of yellowing and decay where the root of the plant connects with the soil, and if it is observed that the plant may have rotten roots. We need to deal with it in a timely manner.

Treatment method:

If there are rotten roots, remove the rotten roots in time, disinfect them, and then transplant them.

If there are no rotten roots, we should pay attention to less watering and more light, so that the crab claw orchid can slowly return to health.

two。 Inappropriate watering

Excessive watering causes stagnant water in the basin, affects the growth of plants, and may also lead to rotting roots. Watering too little, too dry, resulting in lack of water in the plant, crab claw orchid meat drying, resulting in soft leaves.

Treatment method:

If you accidentally water too much, you should put the crab claw orchid in a well-ventilated place in time to loosen the soil and strengthen the air flow in the soil to make the water dry.

If there is a shortage of water, just water it according to the principle of dry and wet.

3. The light is too strong.

Crab claw orchid for short-day plants, like half-shade and half-sun scattered light, can not direct sunlight, therefore, if you often bask in the sun, but not shade, the leaves of crab claw orchid will become yellow and soft.

Solution:

Pay attention to shading during maintenance, maintain good ventilation, and often spray water to the stem surface to avoid softening.

4. Whether or not you are in a dormant period

Generally speaking, crab claw orchid has two dormancy periods, summer dormancy period and post-anthesis dormancy period, the growth of crab claw orchid is slow, and the leaves will wilt, which is a normal phenomenon.

Solution:

Properly watering, do not need to fertilize, wait until the surface of the basin soil is slightly dry before watering. Spray around the stem often with a spray can.

When the dormant crab claw lotus can sprout new stem segments from the base of the stem and the short section, it can be watered and fertilized.

5 insect pests

Scale insect is a common pest of crab claw orchid, which causes the stem node of crab claw orchid to turn yellow and the leaves wilt and fall off. Therefore, to carefully observe whether there are really bugs in the leaves, if so, you can use small pieces of bamboo to scrape off the insects, pay attention to disinfestation, do not do too much harm to the crab claw orchid.

Solution:

1. If you find a shell bug, you can wipe it off with a cotton swab or brush in alcohol.

two。 Adjust the mother liquid with diesel oil, washing powder and water in a proportion of 10. 6. At this time, the liquid is in the shape of milk. after diluting the liquid containing 30% with water, spray the worm carefully.

3. With commonly used insecticides such as "Huashen", spray them with water at the ratio of 1 to 200 according to the instructions, and then spray them again a week later. Basically, there will be no bugs.

The editor lists almost all the reasons for the softening and wilting of crab claw orchid leaves, and there are also measures to solve them. I hope it will be helpful for flower friends to raise crab claw orchids.