How to grow orchids? Practical tips for cultivating orchids with care

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Only when you find it difficult to grow them do you truly understand orchids. Indeed, to grow a pot of orchids so that the plant shape, leaf shape, flower stems and blooms are all just right is really not easy. Sometimes it is not much easier than an artist creating a work of art. In the end, growing orchids still comes down to growing them with care. All kinds of knowledge are very necessary, and all kinds of experience can be drawn on, but in the end you still have to experiment yourself, examine and adjust them yourself, to grow them well.

Any idea of achieving success overnight will not grow orchids well. So-called care means using your brain more. The organ of the heart is for thinking. In growing orchids you should observe more, connect theoretical knowledge and experience with the practice of growing orchids, and ask a few more whys: Why does this orchid grow well? Why does that orchid not grow well? Why is this potting medium better? Why does this fertilizer instead cause the orchid fertilizer burn? Then keep adjusting, and sum up the experience that suits you for growing orchids well.

Care also includes being patient. Orchids grow relatively slowly, and their growth cycle is also long. The anxious practice of pulling up seedlings to help them grow often backfires; haste makes waste. Then there is carefulness: growing flowers is no rougher than embroidering. Growing orchids requires being quick-witted and deft-handed.

Repotting and planting all require careful and skillful work. The heart leaves, leaf buds, flower buds and root tips are all very fragile, and a single careless moment can damage them. Once damaged, sometimes it takes a whole year to recover. Many veteran orchid growers are mostly cautious and meticulous when carrying out orchid-growing operations.

It is difficult for orchid growers to master this craft without growing them with care for ten or eight years. So some people say that people grow orchids, and orchids cultivate people. In the process of growing orchids, a person is refined so that in dealing with people and handling matters they become more cultured and more refined. It is suggested that orchid growers hang a banner reading "Grow Orchids with Care" in their orchid room, to constantly remind themselves to grow orchids well.

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