Brother Liang-talk with the orchid every day and keep the orchid on the balcony.

Photo 1 from right: Liu Mingliang, Yang Aiguo and Yang Daowu take a group photo in front of Liu Mingliang's personality exhibition hall of the 27th China Lanbo Expo.

Mr. Liu Liang, executive director of Changsha Orchid Association, everyone called him "Brother Liang", not only because his name is bright, but also because his bald head is also shiny, and the orchid is also very beautiful.

A few days ago, several orchid friends and I went to Brother Liang's house to enjoy orchids. We were met by several reporters from Hunan Metropolis Channel interviewing him on his balcony to raise orchids. I can see that the reporters were attracted by the more than 300 pots of beautiful orchids and were infected by the man who was infatuated with orchids. They kept changing their perspective and position around Brother Liang and more than 300 pots of orchids, one question after another while chatting and shooting. The reporter also sends the microphone to the guests from time to time to ask one or two questions. A few hours passed before I knew it.

Fig. 2 reporters are interviewing Brother Liang and Mr. Liu Neian, a famous orchid in Hunan.

In the past, I knew that Mr. Liu Mingliang was a famous Lanqi, the backbone of Changsha Orchid Association, Changsha Lanshi and the 27th China Orchid Expo. He spends almost all his spare time on Yilan. He likes to go up the mountain to pick orchids, to participate in various orchid activities, and to give people orchids; he is full of love for orchids, and he is full of enthusiasm for orchids, especially listening to him talk about orchids, which shows his super appeal. He has orchid friends all over the world, and hundreds of people in Changsha and Xiangxi have been influenced and driven by him to become hardcore orchid friends.

After watching this interview, I have a better understanding of Brother Liang.

Fig. 3 more than 300 orchid pots on the balcony of Brother Liang's house are healthy, fully sealed and have a high seedling emergence rate.

First, how did he seal the orchids on the balcony?

Balcony orchid ventilation, light transmission, moisturizing have many practical difficulties, it is difficult to achieve full sealing like orchids in greenhouse. And saw the orchid on the balcony of brother Liang, it is really surprising: the basin is healthy, the basin is fully sealed, and the seedling rate of the basin is high. This time, he revealed 5,000 secrets to reporters: (1) carefully match the plant materials and orchid pots. Choose different size orchid pots and different plant formulations according to orchid varieties and seedling conditions, so as to achieve the ingredients of each orchid pot.

Fig. 4 A butterfly flew in when Brother Liang pushed the window of his house

It's specially customized. (2) improve the ventilation condition. The summer in Changsha is very hot, and the temperature on the balcony often reaches 38-39 degrees. It is necessary to strengthen the ventilation of the balcony. He has several small fans on the top of the balcony, and two large fans are placed 3 meters away from the balcony to dissipate heat to the balcony through the orchid. (3) in the hot weather, the air conditioner is continuous, the fan is continuous, the window is open, and the humidifier is turned on to cool down. (4) there are supplementary lights in winter. (5) watering carefully. Summer watering, generally choose morning and evening with flood spray, and then turn on the fan to dry the leaf surface and leaf center. Due to the limited conditions of Lanchang, he watered it with a cart to the bathroom for 4-5 hours at a time.

Fig. 5 Brother Liang's orchid 1

Second, he is going to build a wild orchid conservation base in the countryside

When the reporter asked where these orchids came from, Brother Liang said that they were all wild orchids grown locally in Hunan and were selected and bred from the mountains in western Hunan. Some of them were personally selected and bred down the mountain, some were bought from grass farmers, and some were exchanged with Lan you. To cymbidium, spring orchid, spring sword, cold orchid, Jian orchid-based, each pot of orchids have a story. He said that in the past, when he worked in western Hunan, he often went to the mountains with some orchid friends to collect orchids during holidays, and it was very interesting to go up the mountain to breed orchids. At the same time, there are several rules that cannot be broken: first, do not carry bags or pickaxes to ensure that you will not dig indiscriminately; second, if the selected grass exceeds 10 seedlings, you must keep the old bulbs and make sure that you will not dig indiscriminately.

Fig. 6 Brother Liang's Orchid 2

There are also provenances on the mountain; the third is that all the grass that has been dug and sifted off must not be thrown at random, but must be planted back on the mountain; fourth, go up the mountain to select orchids with Lanyou, tell them the rules, and ask them to abide by them as well. Now, he often digs orchids in the mountains around Changsha or in western Hunan, but this is mainly an outing for exercise or invited by orchid friends. He said that there are few good flowers on the mountain now, so it is rare to get the next hand on several occasions. These orchids are his accumulation of more than 20 years, and they are very valuable resources. he plans to build a wild orchid protection base in Hunan Province to protect and breed these wild orchid varieties selected and descended from the mountain. He is also working on how to protect Hunan's local wild orchid resources. At the same time, some new wild varieties are constantly collected and exchanged.

Fig. 7 Brother Liang's Orchid 3

Third, he is an orchid farmer full of passion and happiness

The reporter asked, "aren't you tired of doing this?" Brother Liang said that raising orchids is a happy thing! Although, sometimes work 4-5 hours continuously, sometimes even longer, but the heart is always full of passion and happiness! He said that his balcony kept more than 160 varieties of more than 300 pots of orchids, fragrance overflowing all the year round, walking onto the balcony, calm, relaxed and relaxed, free to breathe and imagine at will. He said that the balcony is his spiritual home. In his spare time, by raising orchids, participating in labor, adjusting his spirit, optimizing the environment, and purifying the air, it is also good for his health. He also shared with us many wonderful stories about him and the orchid. He said, you don't know how exciting, meaningful and fulfilling it is when you pick a good orchid, save a rare variety, or after several years expect a downhill gambling grass to blossom and produce a top-quality flower.

Fig. 8 Brother Liang's Orchid 5

Observe the growth, sprouting and flowering of orchids every day, see orchids such as emerald belts, enjoy orchids such as beauties, smell fragrances such as gods, can really eliminate fatigue, regulate spirit, make people pleasing to the eye, full of interest. Orchids are the spirits of nature. Since he is an elf, he must understand human nature. He said that since raising orchids, he has been talking to orchids every day. Sometimes this kind of dialogue is as deep and serious as facing a respected teacher, sometimes it is as relaxed and lively as facing one's own child, and sometimes it feels like a beautiful woman with the same heart is in love, always so real, so natural, so intoxicating. This kind of fun from home cultivation is a kind of fun of work, life, health and elegance. I learned from Brother Liang's chat that he was going to write out this feeling and share a collection of essays with Lan you.

Fig. 9 Brother Liang's orchid 6

Fig. 10 Brother Liang's orchid 7

Fig. 11 Orchid 8 of Brother Liang

Fig. 12 Brother Liang's Orchid 9

Fig. 13 Orchid 10 of Brother Liang

Fig. 14 Orchid 11 of Brother Liang

Fig. 15 Brother Liang's Orchid 12

Fig. 16 Brother Liang's orchid 13

Fig. 17 Brother Liang's orchid 14

Fig. 18 Brother Liang's orchid 15

I very much look forward to the completion of his wild orchid conservation base and the publication of his orchid prose collection as soon as possible.

Let's like Brother Liang's love of love and the success of raising orchids on the balcony.