Should autumn orchid divisions keep three generations together? A farmer's practice proves this works better

Must autumn orchid divisions keep "three generations under one roof"? A farmer's practice tells you this works better.

Growing orchids is a calm path of self-cultivation, and friends without a bit of patience really cannot manage it. Because orchids, as a highly ornamental flower, can be affected throughout the four seasons due to seasonal differences. Whatever step has an oversight will affect the growth of the orchid. So friends who love caring for orchids all say that growing orchids is like calming the mind, and perhaps that is the reasoning.

Among the four seasons of the year, autumn is now the great opportunity for orchid division and separation. But at this time, many orchid growers become confused and do not know how to divide orchids. In human relationships, people like several generations living together, as this represents the prosperity and flourishing of the family and a growing household. As for orchids, are they like a large human family, also requiring several generations under one roof?

On such a question, of course it is a topic that orchid growers are quite interested in. An old farmer who grows orchids, through his own personal practice, summed up this conclusion, which may disappoint you, but it is indeed only by doing so that things turn out better.

Orchids are usually divided into three generations, namely: old, middle, and young. That is to say, in an orchid pot cared for over several years, there is a large family of three generations on the same plant. But by autumn, it is time to separate the family, so the old farmer separately adopted four practices: planting old orchid plants alone, planting young orchid plants alone, two generations on the same plant, and three generations on the same plant. After more than a year passed, he discovered this problem: without damaging the orchid roots, new seedlings cared for separately also grow very well. Moreover, the new shoots that grow out are thick and vigorous.

Such a result may surprise you if you love caring for orchids. But as for orchids, when it is time to divide the pot, you must not hesitate. Without damaging the orchid roots, decisively caring for new seedlings separately is also entirely acceptable.

Of course, some orchid growers are still afraid that new seedlings cannot adapt well to a new environment on their own, so they use the method of two generations on the same plant or three generations on the same plant, and this is also acceptable. This also lets us, as orchid growers, avoid hesitation when encountering such situations in the future, because all these methods are feasible. However, orchid family separation is only a matter of time. Since there is such an opportunity, why not let the new seedlings experience it?