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How to choose orchid potting medium? Let's talk about all things orchid potting medium
Potting medium is one of the staple foods of orchids and the foundation of growing them. With a good potting medium, more than half the battle of orchid growing is already won, so its importance goes without saying. Orchid growers all place great importance on and pay close attention to potting medium, yet their assessments of it differ widely - each side has its own reasons, as the saying goes. Their choices of potting medium are extremely varied - like the Eight Immortals...
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How to choose orchid potting medium? A detailed method explained clearly in one article
People usually describe orchids (specifically Chinese orchids, the same below) as terrestrial plants, but strictly speaking, this is a misunderstanding; orchids should be semi-epiphytic plants. The stomata on orchid leaves are sunken, so respiration is incomplete, and the roots must also help with respiration....
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How to Choose Orchid Pots? A Guide to Selecting the Ideal Orchid Pot
Once an orchid is planted in its pot, when it encounters adversity severe enough to endanger its life, it remains confined within that pot, having to endure six months or a year, until the next repotting and division, before it can leave this hostile pot environment. Therefore, whether the pot we choose is appropriate is especially closely related to how well the planted orchid grows and propagates....
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How to choose the best time for dividing orchids? Improve the sprouting rate and the rate of strong seedlings
Fellow orchid growers, we all know that repotting and dividing should be done in spring and autumn, yet no monograph has ever stated a best time, and none of the orchid experts has either. As everyone knows, orchids are still mainly propagated by division, and of course everyone does this work in spring and autumn, however...
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What soil is best for Phalaenopsis orchids? How to choose a growing medium
I saw a flower enthusiast asking what soil to use for Phalaenopsis orchids, so it is worth explaining this to the flower enthusiasts at Yuhuagu. Phalaenopsis is an epiphytic orchid, and its thick white aerial roots are exposed around the leaves. Besides absorbing nutrients from the air, they also carry out growth and photosynthesis....
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How to Choose Cymbidium faberi Varieties? A Practical Variety Recommendation Guide
Bred by Teacher Hu Jiang of Tiantai. Teacher Hu said during his lifetime that this flower was purchased from a mountain farmer, and it cannot be confirmed which mountain it was dug from. But several of the series of Cymbidium goeringii he bred have already been named after Huading, so this flower was named Huading Su. The wild-collected plant type is tall and coarse; in the early period the plants Teacher Hu grew were also relatively tall, with leaf span reaching 30 cm...
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How to choose Cymbidium ensifolium? Master these new selection criteria
A new plain-heart variety collected in the wild in Fujian - Jingkai Su, first flowered in 2013. Seller: Nanjing Xiangyun Orchid Co., Ltd. This flower has medium-length, arching and drooping leaves with blunt rounded leaf tips, acceptable leaf texture and dark green leaf color, an airy and well-spaced flower spike, flowers in a white glutinous crystal quality with a rimmed edge, an elegant and delicate fragrance, large flowers held above the leaves, and an overall rather distinctive appearance.
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How to Choose Orchid Varieties Through Pictures
When Jingbo describes the condition of orchid seedlings, adjectives like "good structure" are often seen. But what exactly "good structure" means seems to be a matter that can be sensed but not easily put into words. Today Jingbo will try to explain his own understanding of structure, and corrections are welcome for any shortcomings. Because of the directional characteristics of new growth emerging from the front pseudobulbs in orchids, most...
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Why should you choose strong seedlings when introducing orchids?
popo405 has been growing orchids for over ten years, and has paid quite a lot in tuition both online and offline (much less now). I have always wanted a chance to remind fellow orchid growers, especially beginners, of the importance of introducing stock, but lacking ready material on hand, I would just be talking nonsense and it would easily come across as preaching, so...
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