Many wonderful delicate orchids decorate the window sills of us. Undemanding of care - the main thing is not to move them from "their homes" places in time to water and fertilize - they are also easy to reproduce at home. A few manipulations - and you are in the home flower garden blooming, new favorites.
Editorial Kolobok.ua ready to share with you three orchid breeding methods. A spring - the time for such a procedure. Let's try?
Dividing the bush ORCHID
For breeding orchids division it is important to choose a healthy plant with a lot of germs. The procedure itself step by step is as follows:
• need to remove the plant from the pot;
• separated and purified from the roots of the substrate particles;
• shears cut the rhizome so that each plant had a couple of light shoots;
• left to handle the roots of the wood powder and planted in special pots of orchids filled to ½ substrate.
TIP. Transplanted processes now it is important to water every week and spray the leaves daily. There are new shoots? So, flower is successfully rooted.
METHOD basal appendages
Suitable for breeding flower spikes (about 3-5 cm) from the roots.
• It is necessary to cut off the arm of the junction.
• When the process a little obsohnet, it should sprinkle a small amount of charcoal.
• Further - radical processes are seated on the pots with substrate equipped with drainage holes for the exit of excess moisture.
TIP. Now you need to water the flower as the drying of the mass of the substrate in the pot. Except that the substrate should not dry up completely!
BREEDING METHOD OF ORCHIDS seedlings
For this procedure, you need a bulb with orchid seedlings that you buy in specialized flower shop. Break the flask and wash the seedlings under running water, then you need to hold them in a little pink solution of potassium permanganate (potassium permanganate) - literally 2-3 crystallite be dissolved in 250 ml water. After treatment with potassium permanganate seedlings should dry on a paper towel. Ready?
TIP. Put a pot with seedlings in a bright place and do not forget to spray / watered soil water defended as drying substrate
Important nuances. When the seedlings will be sure to fertilize the soil a special fertilizer for orchids. This fertilizer should be three mandatory terms - nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
