A famous orchid that is easy to grow and inexpensive, with beautiful flowers and leaves and a pure fragrance

Introduction

Potted green plants are essential decorative items for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and pleases the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1192" introduces you to a famous orchid that is very worth getting.

Bonsai orchid

Orchids are a traditional famous flower of China and were listed among the top ten famous flowers very early on. They do not have gorgeous colors, but they have a noble and pure temperament, which fits Eastern aesthetics very well, and they are an important indoor bonsai plant for Chinese households. The orchid introduced today is named Tiegusu Mei. It propagates quickly and is easy to cultivate, and it is commonly grown among orchid enthusiasts in Fujian and Guangdong. Let us learn about it together.

Tiegusu Mei

Tiegusu Mei is a traditional famous Chinese orchid variety, a variant of Tiegusu. Its leaf shape, leaf texture, and form are extremely similar to ordinary Tiegusu, but it is more beautiful and also more expensive. Its flower shape is a plain-hearted narcissus petal type with a slight plum blossom form. The flower appearance is upright, with excellent spirit and charm. The whole flower has good quality and does not deform even after blooming for a long time. Its temperament is extraordinary. With both plain heart and petal type, it is a rare treasure among four-season orchids.

Large flower quantity

Tiegusu Mei belongs to the Jianlan four-season orchid. Theoretically, with proper care it can bloom all year round, generally blooming in summer, and sometimes also in winter and spring. Its flower quantity is very large. A mature plant can simultaneously produce dozens of flower scapes in a single blooming period, with 5-8 flowers on each scape. When it blooms, it opens in a large cluster, very spectacular. Its floral fragrance is pure, and it is the best-smelling among Jianlan orchids. When it blooms, placed indoors, one plant can perfume a whole room.

Easy to cultivate

Tiegusu Mei has fine, hard leaves and a well-developed root system. Its roots breathe more actively and have higher requirements for light and air permeability. For potting medium, the proportion of coarse particles can be appropriately increased. Keeping it on the drier side makes it easier to cultivate. After the seedlings are strong, appropriate additional phosphorus and potassium fertilizer can be applied. Once its habits are understood, cultivation is very easy. It likes a growing environment with ventilation on all sides and sufficient sunlight. Watering should follow the rule of "dryness nourishes roots, moisture nourishes buds." With such management, it can bloom every year.

Excellent material for bonsai

As a traditional famous orchid variety, Tiegusu Mei has elegant and noble flower colors, pure fragrance, and high ornamental value. When it first came down from the mountains, it caused quite a sensation, with many admirers, and its price once rose accordingly. In recent years, with the spread of cultivation, the price has continued to fall, and it has become an ordinary grass that the general public can accept, but it is still an orchid variety loved by orchid enthusiasts, with high cost performance, suitable for both new and experienced orchid growers.