Three measures for raising orchids can keep blooming if you protect the flowers.

As the saying goes, if you keep orchids for a hundred days, you will enjoy the flowers for a while. On the road of raising orchids, flower friends have devoted their painstaking efforts and sweat to their deep feelings for orchids. From the orchid budding to blooming, the elder took half a year to finally see the orchid blossom, isn't it particularly exciting? However, in addition to excitement, we also need to protect the flowering orchids so that they can keep blooming.

So, what can we do to protect orchids? Here are three measures:

1. Appropriate flower thinning

If the orchid has too many flower buds, it consumes too much maternal nutrients, which hinders the formation and growth of leaf buds. In order to protect and develop valuable varieties, we can also break off all the flower buds. If it is an exhibition or decoration basin, you can keep more.

In addition, after flower thinning, in order to meet the growth and flowering needs of orchids, it is necessary to supplement nutrients to orchids. Flower friends are advised to use organic liquid fertilizer for orchids, diluting 500 times to water the roots once a week to promote the growth and flowering of orchids.

2. Protect the perfection of flowers

For the preserved flower buds, the prevention and control of diseases and insect pests should be strengthened to prevent the flower buds and future flowers and scape from being bitten by pests and rodents, and to control the humidity of the basin soil to avoid overwetting and spoiling the flower buds.

Protect the early scape of orchids from freezing in winter. During the period from the flower bud extension to the flowering period, appropriate light should be guaranteed to make the flowers bright, full and shiny. If the light is too weak, the tones of the flowers are thin and lack of luster.

3. Pick flowers in time

Orchids bloom for too long, which consumes nutrients and hinders the sprouting, long leaves and flowering of the following year. Flower friends should break off most of the scape within a week after blooming, leaving only 1 or 2 flowers in each pot. When breaking the scape, stabilize the leaf base with one hand and press the scape to one side with the other, which can be broken and pulled out from the base. Or use scissors.

In addition, all the flowers left in the pot should be broken off when they begin to fade, so as not to allow fertilization to bear fruit. If cross breeding is to be carried out, artificial pollination should be carried out timely and the mother plant should be carefully managed to make the fruit full and the seeds mature.