How to get started with orchid sourcing? Let's hear from a beginner's experience

Orchid sourcing is one of the important reasons for how well orchids are grown. It can be said that many beginners kill their orchids within a year simply because they do not know how to source them! For beginners, it is impossible to judge accurately right away when sourcing orchids, so it is recommended that beginners ask friends who know about orchids before buying, so they do not waste their money for nothing!

Beginners must not

Generally, orchids sold in real flower markets are greenhouse plants, ordinary commercial stock of hormone-treated plants (the roots of such plants are uniformly neat, the plants are plump and glossy, and they are specially sold to people who do not understand orchids). Do not expect to grow them well. When buying, they are cheap and come with flowers, and are generally used as gifts for people to look at the flowers. Orchid growers will not buy this kind of plant. More than 90% of the orchids on Taobao are fake. You can only buy a few yuan per seedling of wild-collected Huilan as practice, and that is still acceptable.

Beginner attempt

Balcony plants are the first choice for sourcing. This kind of plant is relatively expensive, but its advantage is that it settles into the pot quickly and is not prone to disease; balcony orchid leaves are generally not so plump and glossy, and will have scorched tips! The second type is plants sourced from nurseries that everyone online recognizes as able to keep them alive. If you ask orchid friends on professional orchid websites, you will know that there are not many of them, so it is very easy to find out! Beginners are once again reminded to ask orchid friends who have grown orchids for many years for advice, and not to waste their money for nothing!