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Key Points for Orchid Cultivation: The Four Precepts and Twelve-Character Essentials of Orchid Growing
Let the China Orchid Network tell you: over more than a thousand years of orchid-growing history, the people of our country have accumulated rich experience in growing orchids, some of it even "secret tips," such as...
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Orchid Cultivation Special: A Detailed Guide to the Essentials of Orchid Growing for Beginners
Orchid Cultivation Special: The Essentials of Orchid Growing for Beginners. "Books are mostly useless, and true masters stay deeply hidden," many new orchid enthusiasts find it hard to discover the way into orchid growing. Often many new orchid enthusiasts are...
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How do you care for Peperomia obtusifolia so it blooms? Master these care essentials
Peperomia obtusifolia is a flower that many households love to grow. With good care it can bloom, and it can have two flowering periods every year. If you want it to bloom, you must pay attention to your usual care methods, give it a growing environment of 20°C and plenty of light, and replenish water and fertilizer in good time without any oversights. Before the flowering period, you can spray it with some low-concentration products to prevent certain pests and diseases.
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How do you grow orchids so they bloom? Master these care essentials
Orchids have elegant forms and a delicate, subtle fragrance, and they multiply quite readily, so many households keep one on their balcony. But if you want it to bloom, simple care is not enough: you need to ensure its growing environment is warm and humid with plenty of nutrients, ideally in acidic soil, placed in partial shade, with timely watering, though not too much, and shelter from rain during the rainy season so it does not become waterlogged.
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Appreciation and Care Essentials of the Three-Diamond Round Plum Cypripedium (San Zuan Yuan Mei) Variety
The leaves take shape as natural fish-belly leaves, with many bright veins, a very glutinous leaf texture, heavy crystal content, and graceful leaf posture. The flower scape rises 40-plus cm above the foliage. The floral bracts are distinctive, especially thick and glutinous with multiple veins, and the buds are bizarre, like dragon horns. After the flowers open, the flower scape turns from red to green, becoming clean and tender green, but the flower stalks still...
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Introduction to the Chinese Fireworks Cymbidium sinense variety and its care essentials
The leaves are semi-arching and soft in texture, green with a yellowish tinge, 40-55cm long; the flower stems are reddish and upright. It is a multi-lip unusual flower, with the lip coating yellow at the base and dotted with red, and deep lip grooves that give it a rich texture; at its most floriferous it bears seven lips. The column is short and small, yellow in color. Overall it is crystal-clear and gorgeous, grand and imposing, like brilliant fireworks, which is how it got the name "Chinese Fireworks".
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Introduction to the Characteristics and Care Essentials of the Duan Mei Huilan (Duan Mei Fortune Orchid) Variety
Petal type: Red-to-green shell type plum petal Overview: "Duan Mei", in the 24th year of the Guangxu reign (1898) it emerged from Shuangxi Mountain in Fuyang, excavated by the Shaoxing man Jin Xiaolong, and planted by Shao Zhiyan and Wu Enyuan of Hangzhou. Red huilan plum. The leaf habit is upright and straight, with the leaves beginning to half-arch from above 2/3 of their length; the leaves are broad, and the leaf veins are fine and bright white. The red shell sheath has a green tip, and the flower...
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Introduction to the Characteristics and Care Essentials of the Cymbidium ensifolium 'Xiahuangmei' Variety
Each plant has 3-5 leaves, leaf length 26-42cm, width 1.4-1.6cm; leaf color emerald green; plant form loose; leaf posture semi-pendulous; lateral veins prominent; leaf surface flat and glossy; fine serrations at the leaf tip obvious; leaf tip has a small short point. The flower scape is upright, height 15-24cm, yellow-green; one scape bears 3-6 flowers, loosely arranged; the sheath at the base of the inflorescence has a yellow-green background color, slightly covered with purplish-red vein lines; the flower bracts are long and broad, similar in color to the flower scape; the sepals (outer three petals) are oblong, narrow at the base, gradually broadening toward the front, widest at the 2/3 point, narrowed at the front end with tightly rolled edges, the tip folded in pairs, the midline portion protruding outward, sepal length 1.6-2.0cm, width 0.7-0.9cm, color yellow-green, leaning yellow; the petals (pollen cap, petal lips) are shorter and smaller than the sepals, standing separately with the lip (tongue) on the three sides of the column (nose tip), and close to the column, the petal base is narrow and long, tightly edged from the middle, the front end rounded and blunt, forming a deep pouch, the front ends of the two petals are widely separated, the top of the column is clearly exposed, the petals are pale yellow, with uniform purplish-red spots on the lower part and the abdomen of the column; the lip is short and round, the front end of the middle lobe slightly drooping, noticeably thickened, the edges slightly rolled inward forming a shallow pouch, the side lobes are not obvious, the lip background color is pale yellow, both sides densely covered with purplish-red lines, and showing through to the outside; flower diameter 1.8-2.2cm. It is a variety that blooms and multiplies readily.
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