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The crab claw orchid grows fast and teaches you 2 tricks to quickly fill the basin.

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Crab claw orchid is a common family potted plant. If you want crab claw orchid to grow fast, you need to maintain it according to your habits. Fertilization, watering, light and soil are the key to the rapid growth of crab claw orchid. At the same time, you can also use grafting to make crabs.

Crab claw orchid is a common family potted plant. If you want crab claw orchid to grow fast, you need to maintain it according to your habits. Fertilization, watering, light and soil are the key to the rapid growth of crab claw orchid. At the same time, you can also use the way of grafting to let the crab claw orchid grow all over the basin quickly. Let's have a look!

Maintenance and management of crab claw orchid

(1)。 Soil: choose soil that is fertile and loose, permeable and well drained, which is critical, otherwise it is easy to cause stagnant water.

(2)。 Watering: the crab claw orchid often uses a spray can to spray water, which can absorb water through the roots on the leaves, and can also maintain a certain degree of air humidity, which is conducive to the rapid growth of crab claw orchid. Otherwise, direct watering is easy to control the amount of water, and the basin soil is easy to accumulate water and cause rotten roots.

(3)。 Fertilization: crab claw orchid fertilization is recommended to use thin organic fertilizer, combined with the principle of more thin fertilizer. Combined with watering, let the plant more fully absorb nutrients, meet the growth needs, dormant period can not be fertilized.

(4)。 Lighting: light is very important for the growth of crab claw orchid, can not receive light directly, otherwise the leaves are easy to dry up. Generally maintained in a semi-overcast environment, other maintenance conditions are met, so that crab claw orchid can grow rapidly.

Grafting method of crab claw orchid:

Grafting is also an effective method to make crab claw orchid grow fast. the root system of crab claw orchid itself is weak and easy to rot, and root damage can be avoided by grafting. Cactus and Ye Xian can be selected for grafting.

(1)。 The grafting of crab claw orchid was carried out in late spring and early summer. Choose the well-growing cactus as the rootstock, length 8~12cm, strong crab claw orchid top branch as scion.

(2)。 Insert a slot in the rootstock and insert the scion. Attention should be paid to shading, watering and fertilization, diseases and insect pests and so on.

 
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