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- How to multiply an earth orchid - Instructions for the vegetative offspring
- Multiplication by division - cutting is not always necessary
- Best time is in the spring
- Increase pleione with bulbs - That's the way it works
- Tips
There are several ways to multiply Erdorchideen
How to multiply an earth orchid - Instructions for the vegetative offspring
They are called Knabenkräuter, Frauenschuh, Stendelwurz or Pleione and thrive as Erdorchideen. If you brag about their opulent flowers in the bed, on the balcony and the windowsill, the desire for more copies is obvious. This manual explains in detail how the vegetative propagation succeeds.
Multiplication by division - cutting is not always necessary
Earth orchid species develop different strategies to root themselves in the soil. While young herbs form several tubers as organs of survival, hardy lady slipper orchids establish themselves with a richly branched root system. In order to breed more copies by division, a cut is not always necessary. That is how it goes:
It is important to note that each section has at least 2 to 3 eyes to expel at the new location. For this form of vegetative propagation only well-rooted, adult Erdorchideen come into question. If you expose a young plant to this stress during the first years of its existence, you can expect a total failure.
Best time is in the spring
The best chances of success for the propagation of Erdorchideen exist in early spring, when the hibernation is coming to an end and the new budding has not yet begun. Alternatively, an appointment at the end of the flowering period in question.
Increase pleione with bulbs - That's the way it works
The beautiful Pleione orchids produce only one year old pseudobulbs, the division can not succeed here. How good that the Tibetan orchid gives us tiny bulbous bulbs. These bulbs thrive in the summer directly on the mother tubers. Cut them off with a freshly sharpened, disinfected knife.
Used in a pot with a mix of seramis and garden soil, maintain the little ones over 2 years. Only then are your pupils strong enough to replant them.
Tips
Compared to the vegetative propagation by division, the sowing of orchid seeds proves to be expensive and complicated for the hobby gardener. The seed only germinates in combination with special symbiosis fungi and has high failure rates even under ideal conditions. Where the symbiosis fungus is omitted, as an alternative an in vitro propagation comes into question, which takes place under special laboratory conditions.