How to process the substrate of potted orchids

Can use rotten pine bark plus rotten peanut shell and some red brick grains, conditional can buy some planting stone or perlite, cultivate orchids these materials are enough. This kind of plant material has high air permeability, but the water retention may be poor, and the time of fertilization is not long. The advantage is that it is not easy to accumulate water when often watered. This kind of plant material belongs to hard plant material, which is very suitable for beginners to raise orchids.

The rotten old bark on the pine tree is relatively fresh and raw, which is not fully ripened and directly mixed in the plant material, and the later fermentation produces heat, thus affecting the growth of orchid potted plants. Only the rotten pine bark that can be crushed and slightly darker is the safer orchid plant.

After picking up the raw pine bark, skim it first, cut it into small particles, and then boil it for about 30 minutes. After degreasing, we have to proceed to the next step, that is, fermentation. But the bark is relatively hard, difficult to rot, a short time of heap, just let the bark become a safer substrate, at this time its nutritional value can not be played to the maximum, so it is better to ferment for a long time.