Can you grow orchids with pine bark?

Orchids have been raised for a long time, and all kinds of plants will try. In fact, pine bark is also a good plant for growing orchids. It is more economical and practical, and it has certain benefits to the roots of orchids. Because pine trees are rich in turpentine, they can scrape pine oil, extract rosin and turpentine and other things. And pine bark is very difficult to rot, it is more water-resistant and corrosion-resistant.

Because it is difficult to rot, it is also very good to use pine bark to raise orchids. After it is watered in the potted soil, it ferments very slowly, so the heat emitted is very slight, so it is not easy to plant orchids and burn the roots of orchids because of a large amount of heat. If the orchid is mixed with pine bark, it can ferment very slowly in the basin soil, and it can also provide most organic nutrients such as organic phosphorus to the roots of the orchid. Its main function is to build up the organic matter and increase the looseness and permeability of the organic matter in the basin soil.

Now it is also widely used in the greenhouse, we can also get some to raise orchids, pine trees should be easy to find near us. We can find the place where there is a pine tree, scrape the cracked, dry and hard old skin of the pine tree, and don't hurt its tender skin. Collecting these old skin will have no effect on the pine tree and will not affect its growth. The pine bark we collected must be cut into small pieces before use, about 6mm and 8mm, as long as it is smaller than the cover of our little fingernails. Be sure to boil it with boiling water for an hour before use, which can kill insects, sterilize and defatt, and then soak in clean water.

If you soak it in clean water, it will take about three days to change it once a day. After three consecutive days, we can take it out and dry it for spare. This kind of pine bark can be used directly. When allocating the soil, we can add a little bit of nutritious material appropriately, for example, we can add some rotten leaves or peat soil particles into it, the two are very easy to use. It is not only loose and permeable, but also contains nutrients, and the root system grows very well in it. Of course, if you think the pine bark is not good to use directly, and you are afraid that it will burn the roots of orchids, we can put it in a sealed container and add water to ferment it.

Orchid bark is the best, one is willow bark, another pine bark, and other kinds of bark can be used directly, but compared with pine bark before use, it must be thoroughly fermented. If other kinds of tree species are very perishable, if you plant orchids, they ferment in the potted soil of orchids and emit a lot of heat, resulting in heat damage to the roots of orchids, resulting in rotting roots and empty roots.

It is very good for orchids to use bark as plant material, which can not only increase air permeability, water permeability and aerial quality, but also provide nutrition to the roots of orchids, so that our orchids grow vigorously and blossom when they should bloom. grow when it's time to grow, it's not easy to rot roots, and it's not easy to have rotten leaves, black spots, and so on.