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Can and when should you water an orchid with hollow rotten roots after trimming the roots, drying them, repotting and changing the potting medium?
Today a fellow orchid grower asked a question: for an orchid with hollow rotten roots, after trimming the roots and drying them, then repotting and changing the potting medium, can you water it once it is potted? When should you water? What the grower asked about is watering after treating an orchid with hollow roots. First, you have to know how hollow-root orchids form...
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The Ratio and Precautions for Using Cake Fertilizer as a Base Fertilizer in Orchid Growing Medium
What kind of fertilizer is best for orchids? Besides some formulated fertilizers, farmyard manure is also a good choice. Especially the residue left after farmers press oil - cake fertilizer. Rapeseed cake, peanut cake, and tea seed cake are all top-grade organic fertilizers, and farmers...
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Wild orchids need no fertiliser; once you understand their habits, you can grow orchids well even with fine potting medium
Orchids in the wild mountains and fields take root, bloom and reproduce in environments suited to their own growth, and much of what they have is all the living conditions nature provides. But they do not all grow well; some are in a terrible state, barely hanging on, especially 4-5 year old...
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How to mix orchid potting medium? A beginner's summary of 3 years of experience
Orchid potting medium has always been a topic of concern for orchid growers. Which potting medium is actually best for growing orchids? In fact, there is no unified conclusion. In the early days of growing orchids, Haoshe Farmer also tried various different potting media, with both successes and failures. The first time growing...
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How to grow orchid roots well? Besides moss, there is also this potting medium
When growing orchids, you must first grow the roots. In the process of caring for orchids, we generally use moss to wrap the root system and then pot them, or spread a layer of moss on the surface of the orchid potting soil. This can provide very good moisture retention and is also fairly breathable. As long as...
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Orchids, clivia and succulents: use these three potting mediums for plump, strong foliage and a full explosion of blooms
Orchids, clivia and succulents are basically loved by everyone, but many people worry about the potting medium used for growing them, because these flowers have very strict requirements for soil quality, and if ordinary soil is used, nine times out of ten they will not grow well. Moreover, ordinary...
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Remember 2 things when mixing soil for orchids: don't be afraid to use soft potting medium, and avoid hard potting medium
Hello to all you orchid growers. Today, Little Gardener will continue talking about the issue of mixing soil for orchids. Generally speaking, orchid soil mixes are either coarse granules or fine soil. Today, Little Gardener wants to talk about one detail within this, which is...
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Can't keep orchids alive? Many people go wrong with this potting medium
Whether orchids grow well or not, the potting medium plays a big role. If the potting medium is mixed correctly, growing orchids gives twice the result with half the effort; if there is a problem with the potting medium, orchids are very hard to keep alive, let alone grow well. What potting medium should be used for orchids? On these points, Haoshe Nongfu has...
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Growing orchids: use this kind of leaf as potting medium, the nutrition is plentiful enough
Orchids are plain and unadorned, with evergreen leaves, foliage that is soft yet firm, and flowers with a delicate, far-reaching fragrance. People have always regarded orchids as a symbol of nobility and elegance. However, many flower lovers who grow orchids are always agonizing over the question of what potting medium is best. Actually...
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Orchid potting medium Pine and Chestnut King bark pellets, specially blended universal mix for Spring Orchid, Huilan, Jianlan and Molan
Many orchid growers have gone up the mountains to dig or collect orchids, and you will find that lush orchids grow in mountain forests where pine and chestnut trees grow together, in a thick, loose, fertile substrate. So what is this layer of substrate? This layer of substrate is some pine bark, pine...
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