How to care for a newly bought Phalaenopsis orchid seedling
Let me share with you some knowledge about the Phalaenopsis orchid, a member of the orchid family. How to care for a newly bought Phalaenopsis orchid seedling? Let's follow the editor to find out!
Some orchid enthusiasts have asked how to care for a newly bought Phalaenopsis orchid seedling. Let's see what the enthusiasts are doing. Experience is easier to learn from than theory. I've never bought a large, flowering plant. Most of the time, I start with a 2.5-inch seedling, raise it myself, and accumulate experience. For the first two weeks after buying the orchid seedling, don't move it, don't repot it, and don't water it. Let it adapt to the new environment. After 15 days, water it for the first time.
Keep doing this. Water once every half month, on the first day of the lunar month and the fifteenth day. Water thoroughly so that all the thick roots you can see get watered. Don't worry, they won't die! Once a month, add a little potassium dihydrogen phosphate, about one thousandth (just as if you were watering).
When the flower spike appears and the flower buds are about to bloom, switch to using "Flower Power 2."
Watering a Phalaenopsis orchid is that simple! I've never worried about ventilation or humidity. After watering, just put it back in the pot. When I remember, I'll take a look at a few that may have overflowed, observe, check for yellow leaves, prevent root rot, pest infestations, and bacterial infections. This is a rough management approach.
Until the flowers bloom and until the flowers fade! After a year, it's time to consider repotting and changing the planting medium.
If the roots in the pot are full, it's really time to change to a larger pot. Start repotting and changing the planting medium.
Change from a 1.7-inch pot to a 2.5-inch pot, and from a 2.5-inch pot to a 3-inch pot. Never skip too many sizes! Changing directly to a 3.5-inch pot is risky!
There are rules to repotting and changing the planting medium!
Take the orchid that needs to be repotted, which by this time has already stopped flowering and the flower spike has been cut off. Soak it in water, remove the original pot, and carefully shake off the roots and remove the old planting medium. Trim away the empty and dead roots. Be careful not to break the roots or drop leaves. In another pot, evenly moisten the new sphagnum moss with a one-thousandth solution of carbendazim, then squeeze out the excess water to make it slightly damp. Keep it handy.
If possible, get some pine bark and tie it into small blocks. Use the new sphagnum moss to tightly wrap the pine bark (using pine bark saves some sphagnum moss) to form a tight ball.
Shake the orchid roots open and tightly wrap the center of the roots with the tight ball of moss.
In the new transparent plastic pot, fill part of the bottom with sphagnum moss to slightly block the ventilation holes.
Put the orchid with the tightly wrapped moss ball into the pot! Make sure the orchid roots are evenly distributed in the pot, and fill the center of the roots with a small amount of moss, leaving some space.
Cover the top of the pot with sphagnum moss so that the rootlets are not exposed.
The above [] introduces the detailed content of how to care for a newly bought Phalaenopsis orchid seedling (based on the experience of orchid enthusiasts), hoping it can be helpful to you!