What diseases do orchids easily get in summer? Introduction to common summer diseases

Fellow growers who love keeping orchids often find that summer is when they most easily get sick. Summer already brings hot, scorching weather, which is already very hard for orchids to endure. If they get sick on top of that, it makes getting through the summer even harder.

Orchids are a very ornamental green plant. If they get sick in summer, it not only affects their ornamental value, but may also lead to a result that makes it hard for them to survive the summer. So once you find that an orchid has become diseased in summer, you must treat it promptly. So, what then.

In summer, what orchids fear most is a hot and humid growing environment. Because in such a growing environment, orchids are most prone to soft rot and stem rot. And whether it is soft rot or stem rot, the harm is very great, and sometimes it brings us losses that are hard to recover from.

If we place a diseased potted orchid in an environment above 35°C and take it out to repot it, that is a very dangerous thing to do, and the direct consequence may be that the plant withers and dies. So when an orchid is infected with soft rot or stem rot, you must never repot it directly.

The correct rescue method is to pick out the diseased orchid plant, then push aside the growing medium around it, and then use sterilized scissors to cut off the infected pseudobulb. Then use agricultural streptomycin and apply it evenly to the wound left after cutting off the pseudobulb.

Next, wait one more day, that is, a full 24 hours, then use agricultural streptomycin diluted with water at a ratio of 500 times to make a solution, shake it thoroughly, and use it to drench the roots of the potted orchid. This can effectively prevent and control orchid infection with soft rot or stem rot, thus helping the plant return to a normal state.