How to prepare orchids before potting? Essential steps you cannot skip
It is time to plant orchids now. How are potted orchids kept? The preparation work must be thorough enough. Only with sufficient preparatory work, especially the preparation before everything is ready. Later maintenance and management will be convenient and quick. So, what should be done before potting orchids?
Potting orchids mainly involves doing a good job of pruning and disinfection. As for how to do this, the steps below are explained one by one, hoping to help you grow potted orchids.
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Before potting, we need to comprehensively observe the orchid, especially the leaves. Burnt leaves, yellow leaves, dead tips and spotted leaves should be cut off. It is recommended to extend 1-2 cm outward from these parts when pruning.
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After pruning the green leaves, the dry leaves and sheaths should also be cut off, because these parts easily hide bacteria, and if not cut off in time, the plant is prone to disease. Of course, when pruning this part, you must be careful not to cut the buds, so as not to affect the survival rate of potting.
Three. Roots
Many potted plants need root repair before being removed from the pot, and orchids are the same. Long, short, dry, hollow, black-rotted, broken and rotten roots should be cut off. When pruning, extend upward about 0.5 cm.
Four, Disinfection
To avoid wound infection, we need to disinfect the wounds immediately after root repair. We can spray the whole plant with a flower-specific disinfectant, and spray as thoroughly as possible when spraying, and can pour in the spray to ensure more thorough sterilization.
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After the orchid is disinfected, we sometimes find that the plant's roots are dehydrated. In view of this, we should spray water in time. Then let the plant dry in a cool place, avoiding light. When the orchid's roots are dry, they can be placed in the pot.
By handling orchids with the above steps before potting, they will survive more easily when potted, the later care and management process will also be good, and the growth state will be better.