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All about Orchids

All about Orchids

A practical guide to the home cultivation of most beautiful orchids

7/4/09

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

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6/18/09

Orchids Requirements

Orchids Requirements


Most orchids require the same care: like having a lot of light (not direct!) and plenty of water, which incidentally can not even stand in a decorative container, for flower it would be bad. If you foster your orchid properly, the new flowers, depending on the species, occur in three to six months.

Do not re-potting orchids too often in the new container. Normally, do this only a few times. And one more bad news - under ambient conditions is very difficult to reproduce orchids. Continue to do your best with orchids Cymbidium: once from the earth grows six germ flower is simply divided into two smaller flowers.

Orchids Requirements

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6/7/09

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

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5/21/09

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 !

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4/27/09

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.


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4/26/09

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

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