What to do if there are small bugs in the Phalaenopsis pot? What is its usual lifespan?

I believe quite a few people have heard a little about this: as long as you are willing to care for a Phalaenopsis properly, it is a long-lived flower. Among expert Phalaenopsis growers, there was once an elderly woman who kept hers for ten years, stubbornly turning what was originally a tiny little thing into a giant Phalaenopsis! The flower spike was over 1 m tall, with 40 flowers blooming at the same time, and the whole balcony became like a butterfly garden. When you see this news that makes your heart flutter, do not rush to buy a pot first, because on the road of Phalaenopsis care, there really are many issues that need to be understood and learned first. As a beginner, what key points should you pay attention to in care?

In terms of care, a flower friend raised several questions. He said that he used a transparent pot to grow Phalaenopsis, and recently found that a layer of greenish moss had grown on the surface of the sphagnum moss. He did not know whether this moss had any bad effects on the sphagnum moss? Another question was that as the Phalaenopsis grows bigger and bigger, the original small pot is a bit crowded. Does it need to be moved to a larger pot? In addition, there are always some small bugs crawling in the flowerpot. Do these bugs need to be specially killed and treated? Then, regarding fertilizing, the flower shop owner recommended Taiwan's Huabao fertilizer, and according to the instructions at a 1000-fold ratio, directly spraying it on the flower surface at this ratio. Would the concentration be too strong? Finally, how many years can a Phalaenopsis live in its natural state?

Based on the several questions raised by the flower friend above, the editor shares some views. Regarding moss growing in a transparent pot, for some varieties of Phalaenopsis, when the moss grows especially thick and becomes the sticky kind, new root tips may stop growing when they touch it. However, there are also varieties whose moss likes to grow on the pot surface, and later it will cover the sphagnum moss, causing the contact surface to increase, and under the combined effect of air and fertilizing, this leads to changes in the growing medium.

As for the repotting issue, if I have not misunderstood, generally you carefully pull the Phalaenopsis out from the sphagnum moss wrapped around it, then stuff it into a pot one size larger, and simply use the stuffing method.

Then there is the problem of small bugs in the flowerpot. That will not do. They will corrode the sphagnum moss growing medium and affect it, and later it will continue to be corroded, so the small bugs must be thoroughly cleaned out. As for fertilizing, generally spray fertilizer at 10000 to 20000 times dilution. Fertilizer is usually sprayed when blooming, and the flowers may mutate or the buds may blast. The situation differs somewhat among varieties, so generally once you see flower buds, do not spray fertilizer.

Phalaenopsis has no fixed lifespan limit. If the flower stem grows too long, just cut it off for cuttings and turn it into a new plant.