Growing orchids has 3 major difficulties, yet orchid addicts remain endlessly devoted to it

What exactly are the 3 difficulties of growing orchids on a home balcony? There is a flower friend who often nags in my ear, saying that growing orchids is really not easy, how difficult, how very difficult. But his tone does not sound like complaining; instead, there is a hint of showing off in it?

When the flower friend first started growing orchids, he began experimentally with one plant in one pot. After gradually figuring out the tricks of growing orchids, whenever he saw an orchid he could not resist "chopping off his hands" and buying, buying, buying! I can really understand his feelings. When there was no longer enough space on the balcony at home, he hung them up to grow them, and later he had to buy racks to "store" them for growing, and the difficulty of management gradually increased.

The first difficulty is watering. At first, one orchid could be handled with one small spray bottle, but later that no longer worked, and a water tank had to be prepared nearby; watering time was even harder to control. During the day there were many passersby, and water dripping down led to complaints, so he could only water in the middle of the night. I really admire the flower friend's spirit, and give him a thumbs-up!

The second difficulty is spraying pesticides. Growing orchids also attracts pests and diseases. Seeing his beloved orchids suffer, how could he not feel grief and indignation! Especially in spring, when insects also breed and harm the orchids, he had to use carbendazim to kill these bugs no matter what. Then the problem came: not to mention the smell of the pesticide spray, it was so choking that people could not eat or sleep, and he would also get complaints! Sigh, he could only get up in the middle of the night to close the windows and spray.

Finally, he also had to guard against strong winds and heavy rain in the middle of the night. At first, with one or two pots of flowers, moving them around counted as weight-loss exercise, but later, looking at orchid pots all over the balcony, he helplessly could not move his feet, and in the wind and rain he just treated it as training their storm resistance. But the flower friend was still uneasy in his heart, worrying that if they broke, the one whose heart ached would still be himself.

Although I listened to the flower friend's complaints, I thought to myself that although he said growing orchids was difficult, he never slacked off in ordinary care. He even took the trouble to choose organic liquid fertilizer specially for orchids when fertilizing, slowly watering pot by pot, watching the orchids grow strong and then bloom, caring for them meticulously as if they were his own. It could also be seen that the flower friend was crazy about orchids.

The flower friend not only loves orchids, but also likes to brew orchid tea. Drinking his flower tea and listening to his "complaints," I tease him every time, "Tang Sanzang still had eighty-one trials on his pilgrimage to fetch the scriptures, and you only have two or three difficulties. Why not just give them all to me?" As a result, the flower friend shook his head harder than if he had taken "ecstasy pills," saying "no, no, no" nonstop, and then laughed heartily.

When flower friends care for flowers and plants, do you also feel this way? Both sour and sweet, joyful in it! How many difficulties have you encountered?