Watering Methods Are Not Hard to Learn: Master the Key Points and Get the Hang of It Easily

In Japaneseorchid growingliterature, there is a saying: "three years to learn watering." It means that watering alone takes three years of effort to learn well, as if to remind people to pay special attention to the importance of watering, and to tell growers that they should not be careless or rash about watering. Though the saying is extreme, it does have its basis! Because from the moment we begin growing a particular variety, the buying of orchids, planting, repotting, dividing, or selling off that we do amounts to only a few times a year. Butorchid growingwatering during the process, counting just the 365 days in a year, at once a day, comes to more than three hundred waterings. Watering seems simple and unimportant, but in fact it is aorchid growingcrucially important subject. In cultivation and management, when the strength of the orchid plants, the quality of the environment, and other conditions are equal, watering correctly means orchid growing is sure to succeed! Watering improperly means cultivation is doomed to fail! The importance of watering is a fact recognized by all, but the saying that watering is hard to learn is not agreed with by many orchid enthusiasts! Whether anything is easy or difficult depends on whether one can grasp the key. With a bit of inside knowledge, one who gets the key learns easily; one who does not understand the key never gets it at all. If we first understand the habits of orchids, understand their water consumption and resistance to soaking, and clearly recognize the wet-dry state that orchids prefer, anyone will easily grasp the key to watering. (Wu Anlu)