Growing orchids in autumn: avoid these 4 risks for no yellow leaves, no root rot, and fragrant blooms
Risk one: buying fake flowers
You may not be familiar with this point, and many people exclaim right away: you can even buy fake orchids? Yes! In fact, orchids are not only the kind we commonly see; there are also many rare and precious orchid varieties, and orchid enthusiasts will buy some relatively rare, higher-priced ones to grow.
Once the price is high, it is inevitable that some unscrupulous sellers will exploit the gap, using fake expensive orchids to cheat people out of their money, so if you have decided what kind of flower to grow and the price is relatively high, you had best pay close attention and not get scammed.
Risk two: pests and diseases
Compared with other different plants, the more precious an orchid is, the more delicate it is, and the more easily it attracts pests and diseases. No matter what variety of orchid it is, as long as you grow orchids, there will be problems with pests and diseases. In the future growth process, the more serious the pests and diseases, the greater the degree of damage to the orchid, and the higher the amount of loss.
In order to effectively avoid and prevent pests and diseases, everyone must grow orchids scientifically and reasonably, and not let orchids be invaded by insects.
Risk three: the risk of rot
In the daily process of growing orchids, you must not only watch out for orchid pests and diseases, but also for rot appearing in the orchid roots. Many friends in autumn feel that the air humidity is not enough, or have not yet gotten over the habit of watering more in summer, and give the orchid too much water, so the water cannot evaporate and slowly accumulates in the potting soil, gradually causing the orchid to rot at the roots.
Although this phenomenon is often encountered, the problem is indeed very difficult to deal with, requiring changing the pot and soil and also pruning the roots, which is rather troublesome, so everyone had best change their daily habits.
Risk four: pesticide risk
After orchids themselves get insects, many people will use pesticides to repel the insects, but some friends have not done thorough enough research, and when spraying pesticides on orchids, they may spray the wrong one, spray too much, or spray in the wrong place, and so on. What Huahua wants to remind everyone is that no matter what kind of medicine you use on orchids, you had best know the pesticide's function and instructions for use.
Once you find that something is wrong, stop using it immediately.
The above are the four risks that Huahua has summarized for everyone. I hope everyone will pay more attention in daily life and prevent them from appearing, so that your orchids bloom more beautifully!