Make Your Own Orchid Nutrient Solution from Fruit Peels: Strong Roots and a Pot Full of Blooms

Many flower lovers have a few orchids at home, more or less. Orchids are delicate flowers, and if there is the slightest lapse in care, problems will appear. So how do you grow them well?

Besides the most ordinary watering and fertilizing, today I will teach you a little trick: making enzyme solution from fruit peels to grow orchids. Not only does it not breed bugs, but the orchids also grow especially vigorously.

In daily life, the peels from fruit you eat can be kept to make eco-friendly enzyme solution. Orange, apple and banana peels from home are all fine, because fruit peels contain a large amount of vitamins, and extracting them to grow flowers works very well.

Put them in a suitable container in a ratio of 1 part sugar, 3 parts fruit peel, 10 parts water. If you want to speed up fermentation, you can add a little yogurt, or add a little of previously made solution to speed up fermentation too.

Once made, seal it and leave it for more than 3 months before use. Add one bottle cap of the enzyme solution to 1.5 liters of water, and use it when watering the orchids. The roots are guaranteed to grow strong and the flowers to bloom continuously.

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How to water orchids, and when do they need watering?

If you see the surface of the potting soil just turning pale white (half dry), generally you can wait another 1 to 3 days; during the orchid's growing season, when the potting soil is two-tenths dry, you can water, and generally do not let it go beyond three-tenths dry. But this method must be applied flexibly. For example: in humid spring weather, after the topsoil begins to turn white, you can wait 2 to 3 days before watering;