How to care for hanging orchids to ensure they thrive
This introduction to green plants and flowers discusses how to care for hanging orchids to keep them thriving and provides detailed information on the maintenance points of hanging orchids. Let's learn about it together.
When growing hanging orchids at home, we may sometimes notice that a potted plant's leaves suddenly become unattractive. As a foliage plant, hanging orchids have a short blooming period, and their flowers are not as visually appealing as their leaves. Therefore, to care for hanging orchids well, it's essential to maintain perfect, lush green leaves.
The condition of the hanging orchid, whether it's thriving or not, mainly depends on the leaves. If the leaves turn yellow or the leaf tips dry up, they become unattractive. There must be reasons for this condition. There are several causes, and by avoiding them and paying attention to some details during maintenance, we can prevent this issue.
With proper care, you can grow your hanging orchids to be robust and lush, with an explosion of growth, transforming significantly within a few months. Each leaf will be beautiful, green, and perfect, and the plant may even bloom, producing many trailing baby orchids and creeping stems, becoming lush and visually appealing.
First, avoid direct sunlight
Especially in hot weather, during the summer, and when the air is dry, direct sunlight combined with low humidity can cause the leaf tips of hanging orchids to dry up and the leaves to turn yellow. Although hanging orchids enjoy sunlight, during the hot season, they should not be placed in direct sunlight.
You can place them in a shaded area of the balcony, on the inside of a windowsill, or in a place with diffused light, or under other potted plants and trees on the patio, where they are shielded from strong direct sunlight.
In this way, during the summer, their condition will be good, without dried leaf tips or yellow leaves, remaining green and visually appealing, with lush foliage. Therefore, it is important to protect them from the sun during the summer, as this ensures that each leaf is perfect and flawless.
Second, fertile potting soil
Poor and compacted potting soil is a reason for the poor growth of hanging orchids, as well as the tendency to have dried leaf tips and yellow leaves. Especially when using only sand or ordinary garden soil without sufficient humus and organic fertilizer, poor-quality soil, or too compacted soil will make the hanging orchids grow poorly, with sparse leaves and prone to yellowing and dried leaf tips.