Miscellaneous Talks on Orchid Cultivation: Introducing You to Orchid Fungi

Everyorchidenthusiast hopes their orchid babies will grow abundantly and healthily, so they do everything they can - some use traditional fermented fertilizers, some use modern inorganic fertilizers, and each has different insights.Orchidfertilization differs from that of other ornamental plants. Other plants are simply given different fertilizers at two different growth stages (vegetative growth and reproductive growth),orchidfertilization, besides requiring different fertilizers at different growth stages of the orchid, also distinguishes between flower-type plants and leaf-type plants, which need different fertilizers, and leaf-type plants are further divided into "xianming" plants and "houming" plants, which need different fertilizers, so it is quite complex. Friends may have many insights on fertilizing flower-type plants, and in my previous posts many friends replied with a lot of their own experiences. Since many modern orchid growers are far from orchid-producing areas, most of them use hard potting media forcultivation. Although everyone has their own unique methods, have you noticed that whether it is an orchid youcultivateyourself or aorchid plantjust re-imported, the quality of their root systems cannot be compared with that oforchid plantsgrown in soil, and there is also a big difference in the size of the pseudobulbs. There are many reasons, but the most important one is the relatively large difference in the quantity of "orchid fungi". "Orchid fungi" are to orchids what trace elements and vitamins are to an ordinary person - extremely important. Now that the root of the problem has been found, we can find corresponding countermeasures. It can be said that 60/100 of the nutrition of orchids cultivated with hard potting media is absorbed through the leaves, which greatly weakens the original main function of orchid roots. So when we use hard potting media for cultivation, we should think of creating a small world suitable for the growth of orchid fungi. Since hard potting media themselves are very poor at retaining water and nutrients, many friends think of using mixed potting media, but this also makes it hard to fundamentally solve the problem. The development of modern orchid-growing techniques has provided us with a way to solve the problem. Everyone knows that tissue-cultured seedlings grow in culture medium in their early stages. Why can they grow so healthily? It is because these substrates easily promote the growth of "orchid fungi". These substrates are extracted from seaweed. Oh, so seaweed extracts can enhance the activity of potting media and promote the growth of "orchid fungi". Among the "seaweed fertilizers" currently circulating on the market are Japan's "Zhixiang", Australia's "Xishuo", and others. Several friends and I are all using the above products, and the results are quite good. I hope this can also be of some help to friends. Of course, our country is vast and the climates differ, so perhaps some friends can come up with even better methods - please don't be "stingy" about it. (Zheng Haiping) Orchids grown this way can be said to get 60/100 of their nutrition from the leaves, which greatly weakens the original main function of orchid roots. So when we use hard potting media, we should think about creating a small world suitable for the growth of orchid fungi. Since hard media itself is very poor at retaining water and nutrients, many friends think of using mixed media, but this is also hard to fundamentally solve the problem. The development of modern orchid-growing techniques has provided us with a way to solve the problem. Everyone knows that tissue-cultured seedlings grow in culture medium in their early stages. Why can they grow so healthily? It is because these substrates easily promote the growth of "orchid fungi." These substrates are extracted from seaweed. Oh, so it turns out that seaweed extract can enhance the activity of the potting medium and promote the growth of "orchid fungi." The "seaweed fertilizers" currently circulating on the market include Japan's "Zhixiang", Australia's "Xishuo", and others. Several friends and I are all using the above products, and the results are quite good. I hope this can also be helpful to friends. Of course, our country is vast and the climates differ, so perhaps some friends can come up with even better methods. Please don't be "stingy." (Zheng Haiping) It can be said that 60/100 of an orchid's nutrients are absorbed through its leaves, which greatly weakens the original primary function of orchid roots. So when we use hard potting media for cultivation, we should think about creating a small world suitable for the growth of orchid fungi. Since hard potting media themselves are very poor at retaining water and nutrients, many friends think of using mixed potting media, but this also cannot fundamentally solve the problem. The development of modern orchid-growing techniques has provided us with a way to solve the problem. Everyone knows that tissue-cultured seedlings grow in culture medium during their early stages. Why can they grow so healthily? It is because these substrates easily promote the formation of "orchid fungi." These substrates are extracted from seaweed. Oh, so seaweed extracts can enhance the activity of potting media and promote the growth of "orchid fungi." Among the "seaweed fertilizers" currently circulating on the market are Japan's "Shixiang," Australia's "Xishuo," and others. Several friends and I are all using the above products, and the results are quite good. I hope they can also be helpful to friends. Of course, our country is vast and the climates differ, so perhaps some friends can come up with better methods. Please don't be "stingy." (Zheng Haiping)