Do not water and fertilize orchids too frequently; this is how you grow them well.

Many orchid growers say, why are orchids so hard to grow? In fact, different types of orchids each have their own habits and growth patterns. If you want to grow orchids well, you must follow their nature. Never care for them excessively. If your care goes against the orchids' growth patterns, it will turn out contrary to your wishes. Not only will the orchids not grow well, but the young orchid plants may even die. Therefore, if you want to grow orchids well, you must first learn to be a lazy grower. The following 3 points are examples of excessive care often encountered in the process of growing orchids. Everyone must avoid them!

Watering orchids

1. Watering orchids too frequently

Watering takes three years of skill. This means that watering orchids requires putting in hard work before you can do it with ease and handle it freely. Whether orchids need water must be determined according to differences in climate, season, pot type, and growing medium. Beginners at growing orchids, because they care for the orchids too much, fear that the orchids lack water, and as soon as they see the surface soil of the orchid pot is a little dry, they water frequently. Such frequent watering often causes water to accumulate in the pot and the soil to become too wet, leading to root rot in orchids. In fact, orchids are a fairly drought-tolerant type of plant and do not need too much water. Experience shows that the dryness and moisture of orchid potting soil should be moist but not wet, dry but not parched, and on the drier side when moist.

2. Changing the soil for orchids too frequently

There are many types of high-quality growing media that can be used to plant orchids. When used properly, they are indeed beneficial to orchid growth. Some orchid growers hear today that a certain growing medium is good for growing orchids, and without first testing it on a small number of orchid plants, they replace all the growing medium they originally used for growing orchids with that certain medium; tomorrow they hear that another growing medium is excellent for growing orchids, and once again they replace all the soil.

Repotting orchids

Each time orchids are repotted with new soil, they must go through about 15 days before they settle into the pot, and repotting will inevitably damage some orchid roots. How can orchids bear the torment of frequent soil changes? As long as the base materials of the mixed soil used for growing orchids are chosen properly and the mixing ratio is reasonable, such a mixed medium can generally meet the orchids' nutrient needs for 3 years. Under normal circumstances, there is no need to change the soil frequently.

Orchids

3. Frequently pulling out orchid plants to inspect them

The young and weak orchid plants and single solitary plants are mostly promising plants with few roots and weak shoots. Some orchid growers, after planting this kind of orchid plant, care for it meticulously and give it extra love, placing high hopes on it and looking forward to it quickly growing roots, quickly sprouting, quickly growing up, and quickly blooming. They often dig open the medium around the orchid plant to inspect whether the orchid plant has sprouted new buds, and with a slight carelessness they break the young buds or bruise the bud eyes. Some even pull up the orchid plant to check whether new roots have already sprouted. How can orchids withstand such torment!