How to trim the orchid?

Hanging orchid is one of the most traditional living room hanging plants, growing very fast, some flower friends in the home of the hanging orchid is too luxuriant, flowerpots are about to break, many roots are extended to the lower part of the flowerpot, but many flower friends do not want to let the hanging orchid grow too big, so how to trim the hanging orchid to make it look better and grow better? Now let's take a look at how to trim the orchid.

How to trim the orchid?

1. Pruning the hanging orchid should cut off the outer withered branches and yellow leaves, as well as the scorched parts on the leaf tip.

2. When trimming the orchid, do not cut flat or oblique. It is best to cut one knife on each side of the orchid to make it look more natural.

3. The orchid should cut off the yellow leaves at any time, and the basin can be turned once a year in March to cut off the old root, rotten root and excess fibrous root.

4. Cymbidium will cut off some old leaves in the first and middle of May, which will promote the germination of more new leaves and small orchids.

How does the orchid breed?

1. Cuttage: Cymbidium cuttings can be carried out at any time from spring to autumn. Cut the clustered stems and leaves on the stolon and plant them directly into the flowerpot and water them thoroughly and keep them in the shade. Don't bury it too deep when cutting, or it's easy to break your heart. The number of cuttings depends on the size of the basin. Generally speaking, there are 3 cuttings in small pots, 3 cuttings in middle pots and 5 cuttings in large pots.

2. Ramet: when the plant is divided, the plant can be lifted out of the pot, the old soil and rotten root can be removed, and the old root can be cut open, so that there are three stems on the split plant, and then transplanted and cultured respectively. The clustered stems and leaves on the stolon of Cymbidium can also be cut and planted in a flowerpot directly.

3. Sowing: the seed propagation of Cymbidium can be carried out in March every year, because the seed particles are not large, the covering soil above the seed should not be thick, generally 0.5 cm. When the temperature was 15 ℃, it could sprout for about 2 weeks. After the seedlings were formed, the varieties with leaf art were transplanted and cultured. When the varieties with leaf art were propagated by seeds, the offspring were reduced to all-green varieties.

How to raise hanging orchids?

1. Lighting: hanging orchid likes semi-shady environment and is very sensitive to light. When the sun shines directly in summer and autumn, the leaves will wither and yellow, and even the whole plant will die. In winter, because the sun is not strong, we can let the orchid accept some direct sunlight properly.

2. Temperature: hanging orchid likes warm and humid climate, can not tolerate severe cold and heat, the optimum growth temperature is 15: 25 ℃, and the room temperature in winter should not be lower than 5 ℃. Avoid strong light in high temperature, but see more sunshine in low temperature and cold.

3. Watering: Diaolan likes water, has strong drought resistance, and needs more water during the peak growth period from March to September, so it should be watered and sprayed frequently to keep the basin soil completely moist. In the winter dormant period, you can wait until the surface of the basin soil is about 1 cm deep dry before watering.

4. Fertilization: Cymbidium is a more fertilizer-tolerant plant. If there is not enough fertilizer and water, it is easy for the scorched head to grow old, and the leaves turn yellow and lose its ornamental value. For those who have begun to grow small plants, nitrogen fertilizer is applied once every half a month, and those with good growth are not allowed to apply nitrogen fertilizer.

5. Soil: hanging orchid should use light and fertile sandy loam, which requires that the soil contains humus and strong permeability. Potted plants can use rotten leaf soil or peat soil, garden soil and river sand mixed with a small amount of base fertilizer as the substrate.

6, change the basin: the hanging orchid should change the basin once every March, if the basin is deeper and the base fertilizer is enough, it can be changed once every two years. When turning the pot, knock the plant out of the basin, cut off the withered roots and excess roots, replace it with new culture soil and apply sufficient base fertilizer.

7, diseases and insect pests: hanging orchid is generally not easy to occur diseases and insect pests, the occurrence of diseases is generally stagnant water in basin soil, poor ventilation caused by root rot and root rot, should be timely spray control. The dense plant clusters are poorly ventilated and are vulnerable to scale insects, so prevention should be given priority to.

8. Pruning: the orchid should cut off the yellow leaves at any time and turn the basin once a year in March to cut off the old root, rotten root and excess fibrous root. The old leaves of Cymbidium can be cut off in the first and middle of May, which will promote the germination of more new leaves and small Cymbidium.