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What Are the Common Small and Medium Parrot Species? A Full Breakdown of Their Pros and Cons
Pet parrots have gradually made their way into people's lives along with social trends, and they are appreciated and loved for their beautiful feathers and their knack for learning human speech. Nowadays many people like parrots and have started keeping pet parrots, but
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How to perform secondary treatment of orchid potting medium
The potting media I use for growing orchids are very varied. I have used hard media, semi-hard media, and soft media, and the results differ little. The main thing is still the difference in management for different media. Different media require different growing methods. Personally, I still prefer soft media a bit more, so I will not go into detail here about specific cultivation methods! There is also no so-called miracle medium; as long as...
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What is the difference between large cymbidium, medium cymbidium and weak cymbidium?
It looks like a cross between Shizhang Hong and Baodao Xiannü. A red-flowered three-star butterfly form of Jianlan (Cymbidium ensifolium), a fine butterfly-type flower, with tall scapes that rise well above the foliage, elegantly arching leaves, large color blocks, lively and vivid; the lower the temperature, the more vivid the flower color. New shoots start out red, are pink-tinged as new shoots, and turn green once mature.
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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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The Best Time for Repotting Orchids and Changing the Growing Medium, Plus Experience Shared
Orchids are perennial herbaceous plants, and their growth rate is relatively slow. Like other plants, orchids also need a relatively stable environment to grow, which means the growing medium in the pot and the surrounding environment need to be relatively stable, and frequent repotting and medium changes are not suitable. ...
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How to switch potting medium when sprouting buds? Guoxiangju explains in detail
The two buds produced by the three old pseudobulbs were turned out for inspection. Both buds had new roots about three centimeters long, and the bud bases were also brownish. What stunned me even more was that all three old pseudobulbs had rotted, and though still firm they had lost their vitality, so I had no choice but to discard them. The same situation appeared in three pots: the sphagnum moss had turned brown with a slight rotten smell, and the old roots were hollow and rotten....
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How to mix orchid potting medium? Sharing several common recipes
Potting medium is the material foundation on which orchids with fleshy roots depend for survival. Grasping the characteristics of orchids and preparing a potting medium suitable for orchid growth is a key element of successful orchid growing. In orchid-growing areas, orchid enthusiasts can easily buy orchid potting medium at orchid markets: Emei Xiantu soil from Sichuan, Tangji orchid stone from Taiwan, China and Guangzhou, and Japanese Ishiyaki stone...
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Sphagnum moss is a high-quality growing medium for cultivating orchids
Sphagnum moss, also known as peat moss, is a plant of the genus Sphagnum in the family Sphagnaceae, and it mostly grows on rocky cliffs or beside streams and springs in temperate and cold-temperate forests. Fresh sphagnum moss is white-green or bright green, loose and cotton-like, densely interwoven into patches, with stems creeping and appressed, having irregular branches or pinnate branches, and the stems and leaves are nearly the same shape. After cleaning and dry...
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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 Use Willow Bark as Orchid Growing Medium
A new flower collected in Hubei, its bloom appearance is very close to the Chunlan (Cymbidium goeringii) cultivar (Cui Yipin), named by orchid enthusiast yuesha.
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