How do orchid toothpick seedlings and zombie seedlings form? I'll teach you to grow strong seedlings
How are toothpick seedlings and zombie seedlings caused? Master these few points and I'll teach you to grow strong orchid seedlings
Friends often ask me, why are the new shoots of orchids not robust, like toothpicks? And also, for a long time, the new buds have not grown bigger. These are actually zombie seedlings and toothpick seedlings. So what causes these two kinds of seedlings?
How are toothpick seedlings and zombie seedlings caused? Master these few points and I'll teach you to grow strong orchid seedlings
Everyone who grows orchids wants to grow strong orchid seedlings and looks forward to them blooming beautiful flowers. But if you have these few bad habits, you will easily get toothpick seedlings and zombie seedlings. First, when introducing stock, you introduce weak seedlings, or simply introduce the old back pseudobulbs that were cut off by others. In most cases, such mother seedlings will produce toothpick seedlings.
Second, the potting medium is too compacted. Some orchid growers fall into a misconception, thinking that if the potting medium is too coarse, it cannot come into close contact with the orchid roots and will cause empty roots. Actually this is wrong. Potting medium that is too compacted not only produces toothpick seedlings, but even the toothpicks cannot grow bigger and stay stunted there every day.
Third, watering too much while the orchid buds are still in the soil. At this time the orchid buds will lack fresh air. Orchid buds need to breathe. If they cannot breathe fresh air in time, they will become stunted, showing as new buds that do not grow bigger for a long time.
So Good Photography Farmer believes that if you do not want zombie seedlings and toothpick seedlings, you have to change the above bad habits. When introducing stock, be sure not to introduce weak seedlings and old back pseudobulbs. The potting medium is best as humus soil with its own fertilizer effect plus bark. Do not delude yourself that various folk remedies can grow good orchids.
Also, do not water while the buds are in the soil. If conditions allow, you can grow them outdoors. Orchids actually like an outdoor environment. Do these few things well, and it will not be hard for you to grow strong orchid seedlings. The orchid seedlings in the above few pictures from Good Photography Farmer are all newly produced this year. How do they look? Still quite robust, right?
Friends online, have the new orchid seedlings you produced this year grown more robust than mine? You are welcome to share