Raising flowers at home: crab claw orchids properly close the "small dark house" in order to blossom year after year!

Crab claw orchid is an evergreen perennial flower, generally blooming during winter festivals, the flowers are delicate and graceful, bright and beautiful, especially loved and sought after by the Chinese people, and gradually become a very excellent indoor potted flower in the depths of winter this year.

Crab claw orchid is also a very easy to raise a kind of flower, usually a leaf can reproduce a large pot. Friends who are not good at raising crab claw orchids are usually because they are watered too much, and it is easy to rot their roots if they are watered too often, and it is even more difficult to blossom. If you want your crab claw orchid to blossom year after year, the following maintenance skills must be kept in mind.

The first thing to note is that the crab claw orchid belongs to the succulent plant in the cactus family. The leaves are thick succulent leaves that can accumulate water and do not need too much water.

Lighting: because it is a cactus family, it needs to be placed indoors. If the light is not enough, the flowers of crab claw orchid will be reduced and the new branches will be less.

Watering: need some restraint in watering, on the one hand, use room temperature water, each watering should be sufficient, but the interval of watering should be longer, be sure to wait until the soil surface is dry before watering.

Fertilization: because it is a semi-desert plant, you don't need too much fertilizer, at best three to four times a year in the months after spring, and very thin fertilizer (don't apply fertilizer after buds appear).

Pay attention to indoor maintenance, the room temperature should not be too hot, it does not matter if it is cooler at night, but never go near the heating or air conditioning. If you want more crab claw orchids to bloom, proper pruning is very necessary. Crab claw orchid grows rapidly, in the maintenance process, sometimes a node will grow 4-5 new branches, at this time to cut off in time, leaving 1-2. If there are many thin buds on the stem nodes, you should also remove some of them, which can make the flowers of the same size and bloom more vigorously. After the crab claw orchid fade, remove the residual flowers in time, and cut short the 3-4 stem nodes below the flowers, thinning the aged stems to facilitate ventilation and later maintenance.

How to make crab claw orchid blossom more easily?

If you want the crab claw orchid to blossom, you should first get enough light and put it in a place with more scattered light after spring. Once you have a bud, don't move the flowerpot casually, otherwise it is easy to drop the bud. For the crab claw orchid to blossom on time, you need to close the dark room properly in October, preferably 13-14 hours of darkness every night, which can be covered with cardboard boxes and black cloth. The crab claw orchid knows it will blossom when it feels the night is long and the day is short.