The three-step orchid root trimming method is easy to understand at a glance; orchids are actually not hard to grow
Those of you who have grown orchids surely know that orchids are not easy to grow; orchids are fussy things. No matter how you care for them, they stay the same as when you bought them, or even end up looking worse. Actually, growing orchids well is not that difficult; there are many reasons why they do poorly, and root problems account for the vast majority. Today let's start with trimming and sorting out orchid roots~
Orchid
No.1 Sorting the roots
First sterilize the tools used for trimming the orchid with alcohol, then remove the rotten roots and diseased branches. For plants with fewer roots, do not remove too many; you can only peel off their root skin, and the central column should be kept. As long as it has more than four good roots, all the other bad and rotten roots can be removed.
Trimming and sorting the roots
No.2 Cleaning the leaf sheaths
If the orchid's leaf sheaths are not removed in time, many parasites will grow inside them, so they must be cleaned promptly and carefully to make its leaves cleaner. The withered pseudobulbs should also be removed together, but be careful not to damage its leaf buds or flower buds.
Orchid after trimming and sorting the roots
No.3 Trimming the roots
First sterilize root-trimming tools such as scissors, and separate the healthy parts of the plant from the damaged parts so they can be trimmed better. Use different sharp tools for the healthy and unhealthy plants so they will not infect each other. Remove its hollow roots, rotten roots, broken roots or shriveled roots, and be careful to keep the plant's solid core as much as possible. If a root is broken or relatively fresh, there is no need to remove it, and some black roots are its solid core and also do not need to be removed.
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Orchid
Final flower talk: Before sorting the roots, you must distinguish healthy roots from unhealthy ones, keep only more than four good roots, and remove all the other rotten roots. Finally, I hope this is helpful to everyone
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