How does the planting depth of orchids affect strong shoots?

Today I read a friend's article about whether orchids should be planted deep or shallow. At present, the relatively consistent view is that deep planting produces relatively fewer shoots, but the shoots are stronger, and the seedlings are strong and bloom well; shallow planting produces more shoots than deep planting, but the shoots are weaker, which of course is also related to the nutrients being spread among many shoots. With deep planting, the pseudobulbs of orchids rot easily and are prone to disease, this is certain, so management must be strengthened.

What I want to say is that in normal times, orchids can be planted appropriately shallow, which is good for sprouting and management. When you see shoot buds stirring or when the sprouting season arrives (of course this is relatively hard to determine, but it can roughly be determined), you can appropriately add medium to the surface of the original pot, with a depth of 0.5 to 1 cm after covering the pseudobulb as the ideal.

Because after new shoots are exposed to light, they stir and unfold leaves faster, and their internal horizontal growth slows down and shifts to mainly vertical growth, so the shoot bodies do not develop fully enough and the shoots are relatively slender and weak. (Take bamboo as an example, of course the conclusion about bamboo is accurate. For bamboo shoots——when bamboo shoots are underground, for every 5 cm increase in depth, their thickness increases by 1 cm, so every year in autumn the bamboo forest must be covered, first to raise the temperature and produce shoots earlier, and second to increase the thickness of the shoots and raise the yield.) From this you can see why deep planting can produce strong shoots.

Author: jcd12345