When does TieguSu bloom?
For many girls, the content about the orchid plant TieguSu, specifically when it blooms, is followed by a comprehensive introduction.
TieguSu belongs to the SuXin variety of Jian Lan, with pure white flowers without spots and is very fragrant. However, some orchid enthusiasts are not clear about when TieguSu blooms. The blooming period of TieguSu is in the summer and autumn seasons and it blooms irregularly. Although TieguSu is easy to cultivate, blooming is not easy.
Here are some key points about the blooming of TieguSu for orchid enthusiasts to refer to.
To make TieguSu bloom, it is first necessary to cultivate strong, mature seedlings to meet the basic standards of TieguSu's nature, which means having three or more leaves, over a foot in length, with fat and solid pseudobulbs, accumulating and storing enough nutrients to consume for blooming. This is the most important basis for TieguSu to bloom.
Through several years of cultivation and observation, weak, diseased, or immature seedlings do not bloom, and new grass or two-leafed grass cannot produce flower spikes.
1. Appropriate enhancement of lighting
Orchids are shade-loving plants, but that doesn't mean they don't need sunlight. Light is divided into direct and scattered light, and orchids prefer to grow under scattered light (which is the basis for indoor and balcony orchid cultivation). Lighting is a necessary condition for chlorophyll in orchid leaves to accumulate nutrients through photosynthesis. Appropriate enhancement of lighting can promote the differentiation of flower buds.
Following the principle that spring orchids prefer shade and Jian Lan can tolerate a bit of sun, I place TieguSu in a sunnier position in the pot, allowing it to receive more sunlight (note that it is to provide appropriate lighting, not full sun). As a result, about 80% of the orchid pots bloomed, with a pot of 30-40 TieguSu seedlings able to produce 4-5 flower spikes.
2. Reasonable application of phosphorus fertilizer
In order to promote the better growth of TieguSu, cultivate strong seedlings, and bloom more flowers, in addition to suitable lighting, moisture, and ventilation, it is also necessary to supply appropriate fertilizer, with a full-price fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and trace elements being the best choice.
In the application of fertilizer, I focused on the weakness of TieguSu not blooming easily and the fact that phosphorus can promote the development of roots and reproductive organs; potassium is an important element for plant erectness, regular activity, and disease resistance. On the basis of applying full-price decomposed, liquid fertilizer, the reasonable application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizers has achieved certain results.
I applied decomposed rapeseed cake (rich in phosphorus) fertilizer to TieguSu twice around Guyu and忙种, and sprayed 2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate on the leaves every 20 days from Qingming to Frost Descent. Through three years of experiments from 1996 to 1998, TieguSu bloomed more frequently, not only increasing the number of blooming pots but also extending the number of times and duration of blooming. There were even cases where a pot bloomed twice, and sometimes flower spikes appeared in the pot until November or December, but the later ones had shorter flower stems. There were also phenomena of a single pot blooming with four or six seedlings.
In summary, TieguSu prefers to grow in groups and is not easy to bloom, which is its nature, but it can bloom and can be divided, which is its intrinsic factor. To fully mobilize its positive factors for blooming, regulate the natural ecological environment of TieguSu, such as appropriately enhancing lighting, reasonably applying phosphorus fertilizer, and many other external factors, to promote the internal factors of TieguSu's blooming, actively and significantly developing from being difficult to bloom to being able to bloom, bloom more, and bloom beautifully.
The above experience and knowledge about when TieguSu blooms, I hope this article can provide you with some help!