How to Plant and Maintain Orchid Flowers

How to Plant and Maintain Orchid Flowers

Orchid flowers include one of the popular ornamental plants in Indonesia. Lots of people who use their spare time to grow orchids because knowing the plants of these orchid tribes can add beauty to the front side of the house. The orchid flowers kwiaciarnia lublin can be planted in pots or taped.

Orchid flowers can grow well in a country like Indonesia because it is orchid plants can live in the tropics wet to wilayak sirkumpolar. Therefore, no one is afraid to do orchid maintenance on the home page. If you are also interested to plant these ornamental plants, here's how to plant and care for orchids in pots or taped.

HOW TO PLANT ORCHIDS

Orchid is a plant that can represent or represent a person's feelings toward his partner. That's why there are so many plant shops selling orchid cut flowers. The number of enthusiasts on orchid flowers turned out to make some people interested in cultivating orchid plants around his home.

In explaining how to grow this orchid, there are some things that you need to know first. Orchid flowers can be planted in pots and can also be planted in a way attached to the board or tree trunks. We will discuss it one by one.

1. PLANTING INSIDE POT

Orchids include plants that are ideal enough to be planted in pots. Before you start planting, you need to know a few things. The pots to be used to grow orchids are made from plastic pots or potoh. It is recommended to use pots of clay that have small holes about 2 cm in diameter. The existence of these holes will help the air circulation and facilitate aeration and drainage.

In addition, using pots made of clay also allows water to be absorbed into the pot material in the event of excess water spray. In this way, the orchids you are planting and taking care to avoid root rot. Another plus, with clay pots, in humid environment conditions, the roots of orchid planting will always be maintained.

After getting a pot to plant orchid flowers, next is to choose a suitable planting medium for orchids . Briefly, a suitable planting medium for orchids can be from a mixture of several growing media such as brick or tile shards, fern stems, shavings or pieces of wood, coconut husk, and wood charcoal.

If you are confused, it is advisable to fill the pot with the planting media in the form of coconut husk, fern pieces, wood charcoal, and broken bricks. After the pot is filled with planting media, next prepare the orchid seeds you get from the farm shop in a bottle of 1 cm. Plant orchid seeds directly on pots that already contain growing media.

2. PLANTING BY PASTING ON TREE TRUNKS

Epiphytic orchid flowers can get a more attractive look with a natural impression by planting it taped to the tree trunk. This kind of  is the original habitat of epiphytic orchid flowers. To grow Orchid in the tree trunk, you should choose a tree that is quite shady so that the intensity of sunlight still obtained in moderate doses and not too much.

Epiphytic orchid flowers can be planted on live or dead tree trunks. Actually on the pillar of concrete can also, as long as the place of attachment of orchids meet moisture requirements for growth goes well. When using a dead tree, then select a waterproof and heat resistant sun so that the stem does not easily decay.

When choosing a live tree, then specify a tree with a thick-skinned stem so as not to easily peel off. Better yet to use a tree with a rough surface of the stem to be a good root attached place. Some trees that have criteria on the stem are guava water, mango, java, jackfruit.

Before affixed, tree trunks should be affixed with media that can bind water such as coconut husk, fern pieces, or fibers. For orchid plants that will be affixed can come from young plants (or adults), saplings, or seed compote. If you want to plant mature plants, then lift the plant together with the media planting.

If using young plants and seeds from the compote, before pasted, cut some of the roots and then wash it with water. Next, the seeds or roots of young plants are dipped into the fungicide solution for one or two minutes. Then dip again into the growth regulator solution at the same time.

Dyeing can also be done for plants with additional planting media. After the immersion step is complete, then attach the orchid plants to the selected tree. Strive for the height does not pass so that the treatment is not troublesome.