Fresh and fresh at Home: the correct way of raising Cymbidium

As a good indoor ornamental plant, Cymbidium plays an important role in regulating indoor air in home life. But if you are not correct to the cultivation way of the hanging orchid, then it is easy to appear the leaf yellowing phenomenon, the effect to the home decoration can be discounted, so, what does the hanging orchid culture need to pay attention to?

1. Temperature:

Hanging orchids like warm weather, suitable for about 20 degrees to grow, winter need to pay attention to cold, can be moved to the house, do not put in the windy place in the window, so as not to freeze the leaves. If the temperature is too low, the orchid will stop growing, if it is less than 5 degrees, freezing injury may occur.

2. Lighting:

The orchid likes to be cool, but it is also necessary to give enough sunlight to make the plant photosynthesis in order to promote its normal growth. When the light is insufficient, the leaves will be yellow, and when the light is too strong, the leaves will wither and even die. In the spring and autumn days, as for cool places where the sun can be exposed, direct sunlight should be prevented in summer and more than 60% of the sun should be shielded.

3. Soil:

It is necessary to choose the soil with good drainage and good air permeability to plant the orchid. The mixture of rotten leaf soil, peat soil, garden soil and river sand can be selected as base soil. For example, you can put some permeable ceramsite at the bottom of the basin, which is about 4 meters thick, then put the plant in the middle of the basin, add mixed soil to seven or eight parts of the basin, compact the soil with your hands, and then cover the surface with a layer of ceramsite.

4. Watering:

Cymbidium prefers to be moist, especially in the summer growing season, it needs to be watered once a day and sprayed twice to the leaf surface. In the spring and autumn season can be watered every 5 days, because the orchid is afraid of the cold, so it is not appropriate to water too much water in winter, so as to avoid freezing, once every half a month.

5. prevention of diseases and insect pests:

Hanging orchids sometimes give birth to some shell insects, whiteflies, etc., if found, should be timely disinfestation. When yellowing in front of the leaves is found, water application and fertilization should be strengthened.

6. Fertilization:

Hanging orchid prefer fertilizer, except in winter, can be fertilized every 10 days, fertilizer can choose organic fertilizer liquid or specifically for hanging orchid fertilizer, the flower market is sold. Fertilizer should be stopped when the temperature is below 5 degrees.