ORCHIDS-MOST POPULAR FLOWER

ORCHIDS-MOST POPULAR FLOWER

Orchids-most popular plant

Orchids-most popular plant

The name "orchid" comes from the Greek root orkhis, meaning "testicle".With an estimated 25,000 different types existing naturally and more being discovered each year, orchids are of the largest flowering plant families. Although they are commonly thought of as tropical flowers, orchids grow naturally in almost all climates.Phalaenopsis are among the easiest and most rewarding orchids to grow.Phalaenopsis is listed by the American Orchids Society as the first orchid which is appropriate for a beginning with some serious orchid growing.Orchids are also popular object in Chinese art and culture.

Orchids-most popular plant

Orchids-most popular plant

Orchids-most popular plant

Orchids-most popular plant

ORCHIDS-A SELECTION OF SPECIES

Miltonia specie


ORCHIDS-A SELECTION OF SPECIES

Aeranthes Grandiflora specie


If you wish to have variety,the cultivation of orchids species will provide you with a glorious range of flower form and color throughout the year.
While many orchids growers assemble a mixed collection of species and cultivated hybrids,there are some who prefer to grow only species.Should you decide to do the same,your choice of plants will in no way be restricted,for such is the range of species available that the pleasure and challenge of growing them equals if not surpasses that of growing a mixed collection.
Cultivating a mixed collection of orchids species is both rewarding and challenging.Many are delicately scented;others mimic the insects that pollinate them.

Dendrochilum specie


The following section presents a selection of orchids species that are relatively easy to cultivate:
-Aeranthes
-Aerides
-Barkeria
-Bulbophyllum
-Calanthe
-Colax
-Dendrochilum
-Masdevallia
-Miltonia
-Oncidium
-Stanhopea...

Bulbophyllum specie

Planting Orchids Reproduction

Planting Orchids Reproduction


Orchids do the reproduce by the pollinator transfers. The pollens of one orchid transfer to another and share a special kind of the pollinator relationship with the help of a bird or an insect. The flowers of orchids have evolved to lure the pollinators to visit and pick sticky pollinia from it. As soon as this pollinator visits other flowers, the pollinia are transferred to the flower and it gets fertilized. After the fertilization, a seed of the flowers begins to form. It can take the time from certain weeks to months for the development of seeds inside seed pod. When the seed of the plant is ready, the pod bursts and miniscule seeds start floating in the air.

Planting Orchids Reproduction


There are thousand of these seeds in the pod but only some are lucky enough to find the suitable conditions to grow and out of them also only some get the chance to be matured into a plant. Mycorrhizal fungus is needed for the germination of the seed of the orchid plant. These seeds are so tiny that they cannot carry any nutrients with them but they form symbiotic relation with the fungus for getting the food.

Planting Orchids Reproduction


A lot of these orchid plants like Dendrobium, Epidendrum and Arundina reproduce asexually. The small offshoots in these plants can be very well be separated by the mother plant when the roots of the offspring are strong enough to be sown in the soil to have a mature plant of its own. A sexual reproduction can be used to have multiple division of one plant. The healthy adult plants can be divided and re spotting for the division to grow separately.

Planting Orchids Reproduction

Orchids Nursery-Dehydrated Plant

Orchids Nursery-Dehydrated Plant


Plant does not look healthy. What should you do?
Plant needs water as soon as possible because it is dehydrated, or you have a plant in the past too much watering, which decayed roots. Supply of green overhead of the water is so disabled; the plant is, ironically, at the plethora of water dries. The solution is as soon as possible transplantation into fresh medium. Remove the old wet substrate and all the rotten roots. With a little luck, the new plant will run roots and survive. At least one month after transplant, do not use fertilizers.

Orchids Nursery-Dehydrated Plant

Why are leaves chained?

Why are leaves chained?


Why are leaves chained?
The problem occurs primarily in Miltonias and hybrids with Odontoglossums and Oncidiums. These families are vulnerable to the uneven substrate humidity and it reacted with the active and slows down the growth of leaves and stems. If you leave the substrate too long dry, after swamping growth quickly resumed. Leaves and arteries do not grow more evenly and be 'captured' in the older leaves, which they embrace. Young leaves, therefore, became chained and remains deformed.

Why are leaves chained?

Why does yours orchid not blooming?

Beautiful Orchid


Flowering is only one phase (phase generative) in the development of plants, which is in direct connection with the growth of green parts (vegetative stage). Some orchids flower, when the growth of green parts is closed, the others before it starts. In this rough division are still a lot of variations, which are essential if we are to prepare the orchid to re-bloom. Exact knowledge of the growing cycle of each genus orchid is therefore the key to success, if we want to see the flowers. Given the complexity and diversity of orchid family (Orchidaceae), it is impossible to create a transparent description of plant growth cycles and the formulas for flowering.
Phalaenopsis If the plant has a sufficiently strong and healthy leaves bloom when you move in a cooler area. The difference must be at least 5 ˚ C. Minimum temp. 16 ˚ C!
Cymbidium grows rapidly in spring, summer forms pseudo bulbs, autumn they ripen and in winter, however, thrives. In autumn the plants need to highlight the low-temp. (about 7 ˚ C) until the first flower. Otherwise, the plants only grow and not flower.
Dendrobium Nobile Type thrives on similar care as cymbidiums.
Miltonia and all the hybrids in this group of flowering is not precisely defined, is the shift between different genera and even between species within the genus vary.

Beautiful Orchid

Blooming Orchids

Blooming Orchids


Most popular orchids, phaleonopsis, may still in new branches blooming whole year and more. Most orchids otherwise not flourish so long, the average is somewhere between 14 days (miltonia, cattleya) and one month (cymbidium, paphiopedilum, oncidium). Only a day or two of flourish vanilla and orchids of the genus stanhopea.
How long to hold a single flower on the Orchids?
Inflorescence phaleonopsis and paphiopedilum can remain healthy and beautiful even more than four weeks, while the flowers cattleya becomes plain after 10 to 14 days. By the age of many orchid flowers start to change color until at the end does not redden and fall. These include a number of vandas (v. coerulea and hybrids), zygopetalum, cymbidium and others.

Blooming Orchids