What are the benefits of potting with sphagnum moss? Growers need to know

Potting with sphagnum moss has many benefits Today I read a good article and excerpted it for orchid friends: Growing orchids is difficult, and one of the difficulties is choosing the growing medium. Sphagnum moss has three major benefits. First is its role in optimizing the environment. Sphagnum moss is clean and free of impurities, and is a natural orchid growing medium. Using it to grow orchids makes them very robust and can also reduce pests and diseases. Second is its heat-preserving and moisture-retaining effect. As an orchid substrate or as a top dressing on the orchid pot surface, sphagnum moss can not only prevent soil from polluting the leaf surface during watering, but also reduce water evaporation, maintain a constant soil temperature, and play a role in heat preservation and moisture retention. Third is its root-protecting and sprout-promoting effect. Most orchids have fleshy roots and require a substrate with good ventilation, air permeability, and drainage. Dried sphagnum moss is very loose and is very suitable for orchid root growth, thus avoiding root rot caused by water accumulation in the pot soil. In addition, sphagnum moss as a growing medium has a constant temperature and is rich in nutrients, containing organic matter and various nutrient elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, zinc, and iron. It not only saves on the amount of fertilizer used, but also promotes orchid sprouting. Under normal circumstances, the sprouting rate of orchids potted with sphagnum moss is 30--50 percent higher than those grown with ordinary growing media. My years of practice have proven this.