Very fashionable has become a habit of giving bright orchids to familiar and beloved women. Trading networks gladly picked up the idea and on the eve of March 8, September 1 and many other holidays on the shelves there are wonderful tropical plants with unusual, colorful inflorescences.
How to save flower?
Orchids are purchased as indoor plants, but to keep them and achieve subsequent flowering is not allowed to succeed. And all because these flowers require a special relationship and care. It differs from the usual indoor plants and the soil and transplant method, and watering.
What you need to know that the orchid feel good and continued to bloom on the windowsill:
- After the bloomon is completely faded, it must be cut. The plant must be transplant, and the floweros will require additional nutrients. Therefore, it must be removed, leaving a small penetment of 10 cm.
- For transplant will need a bark. Orchids, massively sold on the eve of holidays, usually belong to the family of phalaenopsis and grow on the bark of trees . In essence, they are parasites of rainforest.
In order not to spend on the bark, you can do it pine and score it in the forest with fallen old trees. It is better to peck for 30 minutes in order to soften, kill bacteria and remove most of the resin, but you can use and not processed.
- To prevent rotting to the crust add moss and charcoal. Coal can be purchased at refueling or dialing yourself in old fires. But Moss is better to buy in a flower shop. It will be not expensive and need a small amount.
- Orchid needs a transparent planting pot . What they are sold in transparent plastic pots are not saving the manufacturer, but the need. The roots of the plant participate in photosynthesis on a row with leaves and need sunlight.
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Knowing all these simple nuances, each owner of a presented orchid will be able to transplant and enjoy the subsequent flowering.
How and when to transplant?
When all the materials and the pot are purchased, and the bloomon linked, you can proceed. First of all, carefully remove orchid from the old pot and free the roots from the soil.
In the middle of the root system, a peat pot will be present in which a young plant sprout, it should be removed, otherwise the roots can bend. For an adult plant, this element is absolutely not needed and creating an inappropriate moisture accumulation at one point, under the outlet of the leaves.
It is necessary to inspect the roots. Delete all rejoices and dry parts. After that, root injured places with green or hydrogen peroxide. This will prevent the appearance of disease.
At the bottom of the pot, you need to put drainage from the ceramzit or other pebbles, so that much moisture does not accumulate in the cortex. To disinfection, they should be quickened. On the stones laid slices of cortex in the car with coal and moss . Then there is an orchid root system, so that the leaves remain over the pot. All the rest of the space is filled with the remnants of the planting mixture. Old soil is better not to use.
Further care
In this form, the flower is installed at a permanent place. . It is necessary to water it abundantly, following the roots, but it should not be poured. The water level should be kept in drainage stones. So the roots will develop, and the plant will delight the owner with good bloom.
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