Practical tips to encourage plants to grow more new shoots
(Recommended) Tips for growing more new shoots
(Recommended) Tips for growing more new shoots
Everyorchid growerhopes that their belovedorchidswill send up more new shoots. Generally speaking,orchidsbegin to sprout at the end of March each year, and shoots that grow between March and June are called spring shoots. Next, from October to December, they can sprout again, and the shoots at this time are called autumn shoots.
Spring shoots are relatively easy to cultivate into strong, beautiful plant forms, while autumn shoots, because they sprout not long before the severe cold of deep winter, are unless there are complete heat-preservation facilities, relatively unlikely to becultivatedinto strong orchid plants.
The basic condition for old orchid plants to grow robust new shoots is that the orchid plant itself must be mature and robust. When a new shoot grows to the mature stage, if every five days to one week you spray a suitable diluted fertilizer, such as Zhiquan or Xishuo - the former diluted 1000 times, the latter 6000 times, mixed and diluted for application - then when this mature shoot grows new shoots, it will certainly be able to grow both strong and numerous new shoots.
Next, if you hope that every old plant can send up new shoots, you can choose an appropriate period (April to May), divide the old orchid plants appropriately (they must not be completely separated), and soak the orchid roots in undiluted root-promoting solution or in a diluted solution of Zhiquan or Xishimei sprouting agent for two to three hours. After cooling for one night, plant them into pots. In this way, each old plant will send up at least one new shoot, and some may even grow two or three shoots, with quite good results.
When repotting, soaking in growth hormones such as root-promoting solution, Jialanbao, or Zhiquan is just like a woman fully supplementing nutrition before trying to conceive: a mother with sufficient nutrition naturally has a higher conception rate. If orchid lovers want their belovedorchidsto sprout many strong shoots, they might as well try the above good methods.