Three pots of Cymbidium goeringii nursed back to life over half a year are sending up new shoots, proving the method works

Haoshe Nongfu is not an orchid expert; what he shares is nothing more than his own practice. The pot of Cymbidium goeringii in the picture below was rescued on December 22 last year, when a netizen said: Don't bother, just throw it away. I wrapped the roots in pure moss, and now it has grown new shoots. Orchid friends who are interested can take a look.

There are three pots of Cymbidium goeringii here, belonging to a local orchid friend of Haoshe Nongfu. Because last summer was too dry, the orchids dried out from lack of water. He asked Nongfu to help save them. I gave these three pots of Cymbidium goeringii a drastic root trim, then mixed up new potting medium. Only one pot used pure moss to wrap the roots.

Because they were trimmed and potted in winter, I did not give them special shade treatment either, just put them on the balcony. From the end of last year until now, the low winter temperatures were not met with any insulation. Watering was done naturally (rainwater). In the whole process, only the root trimming and potting were done by hand; everything else relied on natural conditions.

The potting medium for these two pots of orchids was mainly pine bark and hickory shell, mixed with a small amount of humus soil. Now it looks like the pure moss pot has produced the fewest shoots, only one new shoot, while the other two pots have produced more shoots than expected. One of them, with two old shoots, produced 3 strong shoots.

These two pictures are the Cymbidium goeringii that were rescued at the time. Seeing an orchid like this, do you plan to throw it away? Over half a year, Haoshe Nongfu recorded the whole process and feels a few points are fairly important, so he wrote them down to share with orchid friends.

1. These orchids all suffered from drought, not from water damage. If it were root rot from water damage, they definitely could not be saved.

2. The potting medium ratio suits this kind of orchid, perhaps because it is close to the native soil from their mountain.

3. The placement environment: always on the balcony, with good ventilation and air flow. During these six months there was no fertilizing and no spraying, which is equivalent to letting them grow wild.

4. A fairly important point: for half a year I did not fuss over them. Orchids are actually very afraid of being disturbed. Some impatient orchid friends often repot, which is also bad for the orchids' growth.

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Next time orchid friends encounter orchids like this, they can avoid throwing them away and try Haoshe Nongfu's method. Before long, it can give you back a pot of robust new orchids.