HOW IT IS CORRECT TO TRANSFER AN ORCHID
The main flower of winter – this is an orchid.
Most Popular, similar to butterflies, phalaenopsis. However, they do not please all gardeners with their flowering.. How to solve this problem, we tell in this article.
Orchid transplant – STEP BY STEP
Orchid transplant – Photo
- We make holes in the cup with a heated tip of a soldering iron for radio installation work or with a heated fork. This is for better water absorption.. Orchids are not watered, but put in water.
- We can transplant a non-blooming orchid.
- Removing rotten roots.
- We transplant into a new pot with pine bark soil and sphagnum moss.
- To make orchids bloom, it is necessary to feed.
- For this we use complex fertilizer Agricola. Dissolve it in water…
- …and put our orchid in water for half an hour. We use fertilizer once every two weeks.. It stimulates plant growth and flowering.
© Author: N. Grigorieva Photo: Igor Piskarev
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Prompt, why it is recommended to transplant many indoor plants in spring? Does any flower need this operation?
In spring, plants begin to actively develop, they need good food at this time, but the growing roots – more space. It's easier for new subterranean shoots to get used to a different pot., that's why in March-April (the most recent date – May) it is worth doing a flower transplant.
If this is not necessary, it is better not to touch the plant. The reason for the transplant may be that, that it became cramped in this container. This is usually indicated by too fast drying of the soil mixture after watering.. Means, the root system took up all the space in the pot. To make sure of this, you need to raise the container with the plant and look at the drainage hole. If roots go beyond it, then, if you don't transplant the plant, the tips of its roots may dry out.
You need to carefully remove the plant from the pot. If the roots have entwined a lump like this, that formed a dense mass, don't even hesitate: transplant is necessary. But before you get down to it, be sure to remove rotten underground shoots.
Strange "grains" I observe on pieces of bark in some pots with orchids. They "live" in one pot for years 5-7, while phalaenopsis grows and blooms. What is this phenomenon?
A microscopic saprophyte fungus has settled on a piece of substrate. He lives on plant and animal remains, decomposing them and processing them into simpler compounds. For living and healthy plant tissue, the fungus is not dangerous and can live for years with orchids in one pot. true, with excessive growth of the mycelium, the substrate, especially bark, collapses quickly, in addition, aeration of plant roots is difficult. I advise you to get rid of this "neighborhood".
TRANSLATION will not help here - the spores of the fungus with the roots of the orchid will also get into the new substrate. Use fungicides.
Biologicals can be used to treat the contaminated substrate: Baktofit (3 d on 1 l of water), «Gamair» (1 tab, on 5 l of water), «Alirin-B» (1 tab, on 5 l of water), Trichodermin (10 d on 1 l of water) and "Fitosporin-M" (10 d on 5 l of water). Orchid pots are soaked in their solution for a few minutes. If the result is not visible within a week, then the concentration of the biological product is increased by 2 times or use chemicals, eg, "Maxim" (2 ml of 2 l of water), Previkur Energy.
Tatyana