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- To cultivate young plants with expertise in orchids
- The right substrate for baby orchids - Tips for sterilizing
- Orchids potting seedlings - That's how it works
- Tips
Only in the right substrate will young orchids thrive properly
To cultivate young plants with expertise in orchids
Young plants from the hand of the experienced orchid breeder score with unbeatable low purchase prices. Prudent care measures are indispensable for transforming the sensitive little ones into royal flower beauties. How to do it right can be found out here.
The right substrate for baby orchids - Tips for sterilizing
The cultivation of young orchids takes place under the sterile conditions of an in vitro propagation in a special nutrient solution. The breeder gives you the young plants in a special glass or a bottle. Leaving the baby plants in the protected environment, they are subject to special stress factors, such as bacteria and fluctuating moisture.
Choose a fine-grained substrate for young orchids. If necessary, cut the contained pine bark pieces with a pair of scissors. To exclude that hide here pathogens or insect eggs, the substrate is sterilized. To do this, put it in a fireproof bowl, sprinkle it with water and loosen a lid. In the oven on the middle rail at 150 degrees top and bottom heat all threatening impurities are killed.
Orchids potting seedlings - That's how it works
Fill the sterilized and cooled substrate in a transparent culture pot. Ideally, set it up as a community pot as baby orchids motivate each other's growth in close proximity. Proceed as follows:
Since orchids as young plants do not yet have storage organs, they are permanently threatened by dehydration. Spray the substrate daily with lukewarm water. Once a week dip the pot in lime-free water and add a liquid orchid fertilizer. Only when there is a tight confinement in the community pot can you isolate the orchid youths.
Tips
If an orchid baby is in the seedling bottle, hobby gardeners puzzle over the best way to get the young plant out of the glass cage. Instead of smashing the bottle and damaging the floral imp, you'd better pick up a chisel. This cuts off the bottom of the bottle and pulls the small orchid through the opening.