Care of Orchids

Care of Orchids


At the leaves are black dots. What should you do?
In most cases, black dots are the result of fungal (Fusarium, Botrytis) or bacterial (Erwinia, Pseudomonas) infections. The difference is difficult to determine, in any case, isolate the affected plants. Fungal infections treated with fungicides (Dithane M45, Antracol), with bacteria-infected plants, however, rather discard, because the curative use of bactericidal often insufficiently effective. In many cases, the spots are due to natural aging process and death of older leaves, which is normal and inevitable.
On the flowers are black dots. What should you do?
Gently tissue flowers are an easy target for aggressive fungus (Botrytis), causing black spots on the flowering leaves. Use of fungicides is meaningless, because the flowers are permanently damaged. Phenomenon can best be avoided if the plants do not spray after the flowers, especially the dangerous mist after sunset when the air temperature drops. So, we need to avoid high air humidity (dew) in combination with low temperatures (below 16 ˚ C).

Care of Orchids

When orchids bloom?

Blooming Orchids



This question is impossible to give a single answer. Many families have a specified period of blooming that encourages climate factors. If this situation we can not guarantee, we’ll never saw the flowers. These include the dendrobiums type Nobile, cymbidium, falusi, sinokes etc...

Blooming Orchids


In contrast with these orchids, there are also large group of orchids, which do not have a clearly specified period of bloom and bloom when they are sufficiently strong and therefore able to hold flowers. These include phalaenopsis, paphiopedilum, many masdevallia etc...

Blooming Orchids

Types of Orchids

Vanda


Oncidium


Miltonia

The most common type, which you can get in our places are Phalenopsis and Cymbidium. The first feature numerous short and broad leaves, while the type Cymbidium is known by a large number of long and narrow leaves (at times reminiscent of the wide grass) and some root strips.



Dendrobium


Cattleya

Orchids Care

Orchids Care

Quick information about orchids
Orchids are beautiful, when you bring them from store, after a few weeks of the domestic "farming" is reflected in a completely different light. Glumness is imminent. Therefore, you must learn how to care.
Orchids grow on the bark
All orchids that you can buy in are the hybrid species, which means that they are quite well adapted to flourish between the four walls. In nature, these flowers are a parasite and usually can be found in the bark, it should also be ground for their education in the pot light, pieces of bark with accessories. Fortunately, it is possible in the flower shop to get a special fertilizer for these beautiful flowers, which has a lower defect - a very unpleasant odor.


Orchids Care


Orchids Care

Room garden - Orchids

Room garden - Orchids

Representatives of this group of plants derived from the family of orchid sites, the most extensive plant family of flowering plants on Earth. Recently, orchids are one of the most popular groups of room plants
Specifics

Each specific type of orchid has a specificity associated with cultivation. If exposure to some common characteristics: it was worth it to get the orchids flower only once, on one flower (Cymbidium) or repeated (Phalenopsis) that can be properly removed or cut.

When flower buds appear, orchids do not remove. Only by opening up the first button, we bring them to the desired location. Neither of these orchids does not like the too much water in decorating container, therefore, ensure the proper watering and disposal of excess water. Not repotting them too often and always ensures the proper substrate for orchids, which should be allowed to drip.


Room garden - Orchids


Room garden - Orchids

Tips for growing orchids

Tips for growing orchids

Tips for growing orchids
1. Orchids should not be exposed to sunlight heat, particularly in the midday hours, but be sure to have enough light. The apartment is on the cultivation of orchids the most appropriate east and west windows.
2. The orchid for growing need high humidity. Ensure you to place the container in a room filled with water. Very effective way of damping is to spray plants with sufficient care for the humidity of the air.
3. Water for watering orchids should not contain too much calcium.
4. Orchid roots need moisture, but they sometimes leave to almost completely dry. Excess water is always more dangerous than its lack. Only in summer days, when the new shoots of the most intensive growth, we can be a little more carefree.
5. Air roots should not be removed until they are fresh.
6. Very practical for transplants are prepared substrate mixture for orchids, which you can buy in the flower shop.


Tips for growing orchids


Tips for growing orchids

Orchids and Parasites

Orchids and Parasites

Phalaenopsis orchids should be transferred approximately once a year. Use the appropriate size of the crucible and the plant transferred to a special soil for orchids (substrate), which is to settle around the roots, while at the same time provide room for root aeration.
If a flower needs medical attention ...
Phalaenopsis orchids should be reviewed if the aphides, cochineal, mites and snails. Cochineal is one of the most common parasites in the Phalaenopsis orchid, and it can be removed with a soft cloth or cotton cloth, soaked in isopropyl alcohol. Cinnamon and isopropyl alcohol are ideal for natural resources in your locker with drugs for the orchids.


Orchids and Parasites


Orchids and Parasites

Orchids Care-Light,Light,Light !

Orchids Care-Light,Light,Light !

Light, light, light
Phalaenopsis orchid likes space on a bright, preferably on the east window. It is also suitable the west window, but be careful for a direct hot sun, which burns to the list. In winter the plant prefers moving to southern window, the same applies even if the windows overlap the curtains or the tree.
Appropriate temperature and humidity
Phalaenopsis orchid corresponding temperatures between 18 ° and 27 ° C. The optimal cultivation try night room temperature maintained at 18 ° and a day between 22 ° and 27 °. Temperatures above 30 ° can slow growth, while the cold night temperatures in the fall to promote the growth of stems.
Phalaenopsis orchids enjoy a moderate level of humidity. The ideal level of relative humidity ranges between 50 and 75%. In a heated room is best to place the plants in the tiny tray for moisture, filled with sand and water.
Use a fertilizer
Watering depends on the type of substrate mixtures that you use and the environment. Your orchid start watered about once a week. During the period of active growth of orchid use fertilizer.


Orchids Care-Light,Light,Light !

Orchids-A Dash of Mystic

Orchids-A Dash of Mystic

Orchids have always been accompanied by a dash of mystic. When Orchids was brought from the New World, around them outbreak a fever. Many seekers and orchid collectors have lost lives; they was looking for new and unusual orchids, in order to accommodate the desire of wealthy amateurs orchids. Today craving after these wonderful plant remains. How do arrange for them to be able for longer enjoy their color and beauty, read below.
What is the right Orchid for beginners?
The best type of orchids for newcomers is the Phalaenopsis. The colors of the flowers are all - from pure white to almost black. No other type of orchids has not much different colors and textures of flowers such as Phalaenopsis. Its additional advantage is the incredible long life cycle of flowers, as it often thrives up to six months.


Orchids-A Dash of Mystic

Orchids -Most Beautiful Flowers

Orchids -Most Beautiful Flowers

If God really exists and he did something nice, so that could be women and orchids. Each one on own way radiates its own beauty, tenderness, charm and grace. Without them it would be life on earth boring and sad. In Orchids family belong more than 30,000 species of plants which grow in all climatic zones except the Arctic, the Antarctic climate and ice mountain areas. Their specialty is two-sex flowers, consisting of three provisional and three petals. Gives the typical appearance of the back leaves, known as labelum and is a different color from the other flower leaves. Beautiful flowers are a wide variety of shapes and colors, which are very long time persist in the plant, or cut off in the pot.


Orchids -Most Beautiful Flowers

Wonderful Orchids Flowers

Wonderful Orchids Flowers

On the flowers is worth the wait.
Sometimes it is necessary to first orchid flowers wait a few years, a possible long wait, the more are looking forward to the first flowers. In particular, since some types of orchids flower two to three months. We should not even think that orchids are interesting only for their flowers. On its own way orchids are pretty well as a green house plant. When we try to cultivate the orchids for the first time, we must carefully select the type of cultivation. We should starts with the one of the simpler types, which may be already on the window shelf ensure conditions similar to the natural environment orchids.


Wonderful Orchids Flowers

Growing Orchids-Rules

Growing Orchids-Rules

Growing orchids
Growing these plants is not necessarily expensive, but also not too difficult if we take into account certain rules. Commonly known types of orchids are not more expensive than the other room plants and can be placed on the window shelf. Many farmers are starting the production of caution with a single orchid in a kind, caring which is not too complicated. Of course, some at the beginning had luck. Later, after the first performance, interest in orchids grows, and many people become passionate lover of these beautiful flowers.
Most orchids grow on other plants, mostly on trees, but are not parasites; they grow in symbiosis with the host. As the plants take carbon dioxide from the air, all the other essential nutrients, however, receive the rainwater and rotten parts of plants.


Growing Orchids-Rules

The Genera and Species of Orchids

The Genera and Species of Orchids

Phalaenopsis
Phalaenopsis is the most widespread genus orchid. You can bring up in the apartment, as well as in greenhouses. It was named from the Greek word phalaina - moth and opsis - because its flowers look like moth
Vanda
The name derives from Sanskrit’s name Vanda for the species Vanda tessellata. Their homeland is India, Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, southern China and northern Australia.
Paphiopedilum
Paphiopedilum is widespread in southern China, India, South Asia and the Pacific Islands. It was named from the Greek words Paphos - the name of the city in Cyprus and pedilon - shoes.
Cattleya
In nature is found from Costa Rica to tropical Central America. Genus was named after William Cattley, which has successfully raised Cattleya labiata orchid species, which is used as packaging material in the transport of other orchids.
Cymbidium
The name derives from the Greek word kumbos - hole, because the lips are in the middle of a flower designed in the hole. Their home is a tropical and subtropical Asia (Northern India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Borneo), and northern Australia.
Dendrobium
Their homeland is Asia, the Philippines, Borneo, Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The name derives from the Greek word dendron - a tree, and bios - life.
Oncidium
It is a genus that is very complex, as some species are reclasificied. The name derives from the Greek word onkos - swelling, whereas the lower lip flowers look like they were swollen.
Miltonia
This is a small orchid genus, which is named after Lord Fitzwilliam Milton, who was an English lover of orchids. Their homeland is the central and southern Brazil to Argentina.
Zygopetalum
Masdevallia
Epidendrum
Ludisia discolor
Hybrids: Burrageara, Cambria, Miltasia...


The Genera and Species of Orchids

Setting Orchids

Setting Orchids

Purchased plants need to adapt to new conditions. Often it happens that orchids (especially Phalenopsis) flourish quickly or very quickly lose the flower and not develop buds. This is due to the violent change in breeding. Orchids are grown in the purchase of greenhouses, and subsequently transported and some time behind the flower shop almost no light. Then the plants become very sensitive to light. From March until the end of September, this may mean the death of the plant.
For most species, the most appropriate is east or west window shelf. For species Cattleya, Vanda, Dendrobium and Cymbidium, the appropriate policy is to the south window, while the northern location is not recommended because of the lack of light, especially in winter. Phalaenopsis, Paphiopedilum, Ludisia grow better in a bright room, but not in direct sunlight.
For many species of orchids, it is useful to be placed during the summer on the balcony or terrace, but only when we are sure that the night temperature does not damage the flowers. In early autumn they put back in place. Fresh air is strengthen orchids and has a beneficial effect on their flowering. Specifically, it is very useful for the Cymbidium, Zygopetalum, Nobile Dendrobium, Cattleya.
Orchids can be successfully placed in the basement, if we where ensure them the artificial light, heat and adequate ventilation.


Setting Orchids

All about Orchids-Cymbidium (Cymbidium)

Cymbidium Orchid

Cymbidium flourishes nice in the middle and strong light. Enough is morning sun or afternoon overshadows sun. During the growing season, these orchids prefer day temperatures between 23 and 28 º C and night temperatures between 10 and 18 º C. Our summer temperatures are suitable for plants, where they protect against hot and dry conditions. From spring to autumn, until danger of frost, is an ideal location outside "under the cap", or the tree.
In the racial season must be Cymbidium moist but not wet. During the coldest period, however, prefer less watering. Do not allow the order to the plant stand in water or to water stayed around the bulbs. If during the winter stand over the radiators, they need to be sprayed.
If night temperature in summer moving between 10 and 18 ° C, placed them in the north, overshadowing window. If the temperature will be too high, they'll not prosper. Ideally, by the summer transfer them on a free. There remain until the autumn until the night temperature does not fall to 5 ° C.
Watering frequently. It is also strongly watering (every month), the Rinse-off from the substrate accumulated nutrients. Winter fertilization is not necessary. It is possible, that you will have to remove at transplantation flower stalks (cut flowers to hold in the water even weeks after the break). Before planting, soak the substrate well. New container should be large enough for the plant so that it is in the same container for 2 years. Pseudobulb's should be above the substrate, should not be buried.


Cymbidium Orchid


Cymbidium Orchid

Tibetan Orchid-Colorfulness Flower

Tibetan Orchid-Colorfulness Flower

Tibetan orchid
Tibetan orchids are very small plants with large flowers.This orchids are fairly lightweight and can be with little effort placed in the simple room situations.Most of about 9 species of the genus Pleione flourish in spring and some of us with beautiful blossoms cheers each Autumn.Cultivation of Tibetan Orchids can tackle even the completely inexperienced fans of orchids.
Sometimes Tibetan orchids have a single sheet, however between flowering start growing flower stem.On top has a very large and colorfulness flower.This orchids is best suited to bright but not sunny site.Tibetan orchids grow well at normal ambient temperatures.


Tibetan Orchid-Colorfulness Flower

Air Humidity- Orchids Elixir of Life

Air Humidity- Orchids Elixir of Life


Orchids Education -air and humidity

The air humidity between 60% to 70% is the ideal climate in which orchids feel good .At Summer, when we often open windows, or even put orchids on a free, less air humidity is not a big problem.In nice weather we have in the room somewhere 50% air humidity ,in the cloudy or even rainy weather we have 60% to 80% air humidity.If we have orchids outside, in that case air humidity is practically 100%.
Problems starts at winter.Central heating at home literally run dry air.Usually heating bodies are located under the window sills, where we have orchids.On such cases air humidity can be quickly falls below 40% or even lower.Such humidity is certainly too low if not critical for the survival of orchids, as well as most other house plant.



Air Humidity- Orchids Elixir of Life

Nasty Orchids

Nasty Orchids

Orchids are really nasty. In fact, parasites. Evil.
And rude dear parasites. And pretty rude.
Rude and demanding. And all
which is still bad.
I take care for a very nice orchid; I got it in the light,
at the appropriate temperature, monthly cleaning dust with its
beef leaves and soaked in water over the weekends.
And I crop it, professionally. Always up to now at the winter was
beautiful bloom. And then it was great, I could just
watch and watch, not to be tired, so it is with
orchids. But this year it was decided not to bloom.
Since it does not. Set the new shoots and all that,
but buds are not.
Because it’s evil.
No wonder that the orchids found on the album
White Stripes title
"Get Behind Me Satan«...


Nasty Orchids

Orchids-The Sexual Power

Orchids-The Sexual Power


Exotic domestic window
In the cold days when the garden is left to rest, we finally have more time for the plants in the house. Among the most beautiful and most popular exotic plants, which during the winter with colorful flowers adorned the elegant homes, are certainly include orchids. Let's see, what the secret of their beauty is.
The sexual power
Attractive appearance of the orchid has always attracted people and burn imagination. Historical sources testify to the fact that the Teofrast, Plato’s pupil orchids named after testis (Orchids in Greek means the testes), whereas the vapor bulbs in appearance a strong hold on the fashion. It is because of the appearance of the tubers are the Greeks believed in their extreme power, so they have dried, grind into powder and mixed in drinks, which should act as aphrodisiac.



Orchids-The Sexual Power

How to Properly Care for Orchids

Properly Care for Orchids

Is it true that watering orchids once a month?
Orchid may fail due to several factors. When leaves yellow, it may be a sign of natural aging. Usually leaves remain on the plant at least a year, mostly as well as 2-5 years before the fall. If blush is therefore only one older leave, it is unlikely for a normal phenomenon. Leaves sometimes became yellow (but not eliminating) as the result of a lack of nutrients, especially nitrogen. In this case to plants add special fertilizer for orchids, or transplanted to a new medium for orchids, but always only in the period of grace.
Mostly is for the declines of the plants cause irregular supply of water - this may be too much or too little. If it’s too little water, plant leaves dropped to reduce transpiration area. Due to frequent watering or the retention of water may begin roots dying; leaves lose turgidity and start falling.
Orchids are very many species; in our country is the most of Phalenopsis, so I assume that there is a problem with this type. Phalenopsis or broad orchid should not stand in water, whereas the roots start dying. Watering only with the soft and at room temperature heated water and the care not to wet the middle - the heart of the leaves. During the intensive growth of leaves and flower water 1-2 times a week, in winter is enough once or twice a month. All types of orchids need very humid air.


Properly Care for Orchids


Properly Care for Orchids