What types and varieties of sphagnum moss are used for Phalaenopsis, and where in China is the best domestic moss produced?

Office workers, in order to live a better life, busy every day earning a bit more money, yet if they work at such high intensity for a long time, with their minds constantly tense, it is truly exhausting. If your life situation is similar to the above, it is suggested that you might as well keep a few pots of flowers at home. When work tires you out, looking at these green plants can relax your eyes and lift your mood along with them. When it comes to growing flowers and plants, Phalaenopsis is absolutely the best choice; its flowers are big and beautiful, and just one look can send your worries beyond the nine clouds. But as pretty as Phalaenopsis is, how do you carefully care for it so it stays beautiful forever?

If you want Phalaenopsis to stay beautiful forever, you need to choose a good medium, and among these, sphagnum moss is the golden partner for growing orchids. However, on the flower market there are many different varieties of sphagnum moss, so how should novice flower lovers choose?

Generally speaking, sphagnum moss is also called peat moss, and it usually grows on rocky cliffs or beside streams and springs in temperate and cold-temperate forests. Fresh sphagnum moss is white and green, soft and squishy, interwoven like cotton, with stems that grow close to the ground; after drying it turns pale white and soft, and once it absorbs water it can take in 15 to 20 times its own weight in water. Its features are good air permeability and excellent water retention.

There are mainly three kinds of sphagnum moss available on the market; from cheap to expensive they are domestic sphagnum moss, Chilean caterpillar sphagnum moss and New Zealand sphagnum moss. First, domestic sphagnum moss, the most common online, a dozen yuan per bag, but with lots of fragments and impurities, and some sphagnum moss has rather unstable quality. But not all domestic moss is bad; sphagnum moss produced in Guizhou is relatively good-quality domestic sphagnum moss.

Second, Chilean sphagnum moss is moderately priced; many flower lovers choose Five-Star sphagnum moss and Seven-Star caterpillar sphagnum moss. The two have the same function, the only difference being shape; both have airy and loose effects, are relatively short in length, plump in appearance, and good in both water absorption and water retention, while the coarse fibers make the wet-dry cycle faster.

Finally, New Zealand sphagnum moss, which comes in 3a and 5a, costs over 200 yuan for 40 liters; the more expensive kind is cleaner and longer, and it has also been a particularly trendy type in recent years, with the best results in use and not prone to turning black, except that it easily grows green algae.