How to do water withholding to encourage root growth? Correct methods and key operational points

Water withholding to encourage root growth

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Rootless and shriveledorchid plants, if there are many seedlings, it is very difficult for them to recover after potting. Precisely because the nutrients in the original pseudobulbs can last a long time, the orchid often becomes lazy and cannot be bothered to sprout. By the time new shoots come, it often sacrifices the few to save the many, harming several pseudobulbs itself to sustain the growth of the new seedlings. For the orchid's seedling production, this is waste! What a pity!

6 rootless and shriveled seedlings damaged by fertilizerCymbidium kanran, is really quite laborious to grow. I bit the shoots apart and divided them into 3 pots, used coarse material, and forced the shoots!

The 3 pots of old seedlings. New shoots appeared almost at the same time, and now a new problem arose. For the orchid to grow, it must rely on the roots to absorb nutrients, so now water must be withheld.

Strange as it seems, since there are no roots, it should need more water. But when there is more water, the orchid shoots do not need to hurry to absorb nutrients from the roots, so rooting also slows down.

If you want fast rooting, you still have to force it, withhold some water. The orchid wants to survive and must maintain growth, so it is forced to grow new roots!

Hehe! Watching the leaves and pseudobulbs gradually plump up, this forcing has been fairly successful!