What happens when the leaves of the butterfly orchid turn yellow in winter?
Let me tell you about the experience of the flower clinic with butterfly orchids. What happens when the leaves of the butterfly orchid turn yellow in winter? Next, the editor will introduce this to the netizens.
As a festival flower, butterfly orchids are a popular category in the flower markets during winter. However, some flower enthusiasts have noticed that the leaves of the butterfly orchids they bought at home start to soften and wilt, so they want to ask why the leaves of butterfly orchids turn yellow in winter. Butterfly orchids are different from other plants; they have two main characteristics that we need to pay attention to: one is that butterfly orchids are undeniable tropical plants. The other is that butterfly orchids are epiphytic orchids.
Before discussing the specific reasons, let's talk about the background of butterfly orchids. If you buy butterfly orchids from the flower market in winter, these orchids are greenhouse flowers, simply put, they are grown in greenhouses, with the help of flowering promotion, reaching full bloom (C-S) during the festival. When we bring them home, the environment changes drastically, and the butterfly orchids need time to adapt. This adaptation process is not guaranteed to be successful, mainly depending on whether the care environment's temperature and humidity can meet their growth needs.
If the temperature at home is not high, and the butterfly orchid's leaves turn yellow and become soft, it is basically impossible to save. If it can be saved, there would be no situation of tropical plants being difficult to grow in the north.
If the temperature at home is manageable, and can be maintained above 20°C, when the butterfly orchid's leaves show symptoms, we should cut off the flower spike, then check if the roots have a large area of rot. If there is a lot of rot, we can change the water moss and then repot the plant. There are related articles about repotting and daily care of butterfly orchids in the following sections, so I won't go into details here.
For butterfly orchids, most people treat them as disposable flowers, buying them when they are about to bloom and throwing them away after the flowers fade. In fact, butterfly orchids can be grown for many years, but because they are tropical plants, their condition is not very good in most areas outside of greenhouses, and some of them like to split leaves, mainly due to low humidity.
The above is the complete content about what happens when the leaves of the butterfly orchid turn yellow (soft and wilted) in winter. Green plant enthusiasts can refer to this aspect.