Lipstick spider leaves soft crepe how to do, appropriate shading increase temperature/watering dilution

Lipstick orchid, named for its flowers shaped like lipstick, is a common indoor plant. In life, many people like to keep a pot of lipstick at home, not only because of the beauty of its flowers, but also because of its green and fat leaves. But some flower friends' lipstick hanging orchid leaves soft crepe, affecting the ornamental, this is how to return a responsibility? In this regard, it is up to the editor to solve everyone's doubts.

First, lipstick hanging orchid leaves soft crepe

Indoor culture is not compared to outdoor, many flower friends at home to raise red orchid, because of improper maintenance and other reasons, its leaves will appear soft wrinkle situation, then lipstick hanging orchid leaves soft crepe how to do? At this time, flower friends must be in a hurry, but there is no hurry, we should find the reason, and then solve the problem. In this regard, the editor summed up four reasons, and attached solutions, let's move on.

2. The causes and methods of soft wrinkling of four kinds of leaves

1. The light is too strong

About lipstick hanging orchid leaves soft crepe reasons, in fact, there are many, we should first consider the problem of lighting. Because lipstick hanging orchid likes semi-shade, avoid strong light, once let it accept strong light direct light, high temperature exposure will make plant leaves appear soft crepe phenomenon.

Solution: if the leaves are soft and wrinkled caused by too strong light, you should immediately move the lipstick orchid to a ventilated semi-overcast environment; however, it is almost impossible to restore the leaves to their previous state, but lipstick orchids have an advantage. That is, if you cut off all the leaves, you can grow new ones, so when you send too many soft leaves, just cut them all off!

2. Too much watering

Lipstick orchids like a humid environment, especially during the peak growth period from March to September, which requires a lot of water. If it is a veteran, but the novice watering is difficult to grasp the amount of watering, so it is easy to water too much. Once too much watering, resulting in basin soil stagnant water, it may lead to root rot, the result is lipstick hanging orchid leaves soft wrinkling.

Solution: at this time, we should take out the whole lipstick, then cut off the rotten roots, and disinfect the wound (apply some carbendazim and other drugs) to avoid infection, and finally put on a new pot soil and replant it.

3. The temperature is too low

Lipstick hanging orchids are not cold-resistant and need to keep warm in winter. But some flower friends ignore the temperature, the result is lipstick hanging orchid in the ultra-low temperature in winter, the phenomenon of soft wrinkling leaves.

Solution: immediately move the lipstick orchid to the interior for maintenance, and adjust the room temperature to more than 5 ℃, which can well alleviate the condition and avoid frostbite deterioration; after careful maintenance for a period of time, lipstick hanging orchid leaves will recover a lot. As above, if the leaves are too soft, you'd better cut them all off.

4. Excessive fertilization

In the growth process of lipstick orchid, proper fertilization is beneficial to plant growth. But if fertilization does not grasp a degree, resulting in too much fertilization, it may cause branches and leaves to wither and wrinkle.

Solution: if the lipstick leaves become soft and crepe caused by too much fertilization, we should water the plant to dilute the fertilizer so that the excess fertilizer can be discharged through the vents at the bottom of the basin.