Tips for beginners introducing new plants: these key points you must know
This variety is only the size of a Chinese cymbidium (Cymbidium goeringii), with the widest leaf reaching only 1.5cm, thick and wrinkled leaves, firm and powerful, swaying elegantly. The leaf tips form a pouch or twist with a barb-like feel, the leaves show intermediate variegation patterns, and the variegation falls at the tip.
As beginners, we often like to introduce single-growth or weak plants, or even greenhouse plants.
The final result is that nine out of ten die, or they cannot recover and remain in a half-dead state.
I have read many veterans also talking about the issue of introducing plants, so why do I still make this mistake? Being greedy for bargains~
After seeing enough, you understand:
Many introduced plants are old growths that sellers have divided off - too wasteful to throw away but useless to keep, so they use the Zhongjiao website platform to earn a bit of cigarette money. Beginners must understand this before buying.
Many plants with flowers are ones the seller thinks bloomed and damaged their vitality, so they divide and sell them separately; when they reach your hands and are not cared for well, they easily end up half-dead.
Many weak plants are the weakest part divided from a clump and put up for auction; the weak ones are split off while the remaining strong ones sell for a high price.
So, I suggest beginners:
For Cymbidium faberi (Huilan), do not buy if the widest leaf is under 1cm; do not buy if all are old growths; do not buy single-growth plants; best not to buy water roots; do not buy if there are too few roots. For Cymbidium ensifolium (Jianlan), best not to buy those with fewer than 3 leaves.
Study more relevant information about the flowers you want to buy, and only buy after you are familiar with them. (This point is very important)
The cultivation environment needed for weak plants to recover is something the average household orchid grower cannot achieve, so do not harbor false hopes!!!