How to properly care for an oil painting wedding plant
The editor provides netizens with answers on how to properly care for an oil painting wedding plant and shares related experiences on the flowering plant cultivation techniques for achieving a full bloom. Please refer to the detailed introduction below.
Oil painting wedding plants, which many people have heard of, are known to those who enjoy caring for succulents. This variety of plant is often mixed with succulents by retailers, leading many to treat it as such. However, it is actually a type of hanging orchid, a variant within the hanging orchid family.
There are many types of hanging orchids, with round leaves, long leaves, and more. Most commonly seen are the long-leafed varieties, which have green leaves overall. In addition, there are round-leafed varieties; interested friends can search for "hanging bamboo plum," which is a round-leafed hanging orchid.
Among the many hanging orchid varieties, there are many variants similar to the variegation seen in succulents, where the color of the plant leaves changes, making them look very beautiful and increasing their ornamental value compared to regular hanging orchids. In previous years, oil painting wedding orchids were very popular and sold at relatively high prices.
When I first started getting into succulents, about four or five years ago, the price of a pot of oil painting wedding plants was about 20-30 yuan, which was quite expensive. Oil painting weddings have nothing to do with succulents. Retailers mixed them in with succulents to sell them at higher prices, but they are actually just common ornamental foliage plants.
How to properly care for an oil painting wedding plant
The name "oil painting wedding" is a new name given to it by retailers later on. Its actual name is oil painting hanging orchid. Changing the name allows it to be sold at a higher price. Now, succulents in the market also follow the same pattern, with a name change to gain popularity.
With the development of the flower market, oil painting wedding plants are now almost never purchased, and their prices have reached the lowest point. In our local large-scale succulent wholesale markets, oil painting wedding cuttings sell for about two jiao each, with five plants in a seven-sided pot selling for one yuan, or one yuan per pot, and no one will buy them.
The propagation of oil painting wedding plants is very simple, much like the hanging bamboo plum. You can剪下来 (cut down) a branch with scissors, stick it in the soil, water it, and wait for about two weeks for it to root and grow. With proper care, a small side bud can fill a pot in about three months, which shows how fast its growth rate is.