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Can fertilize when butterfly orchid blossoms, how does foil handle after butterfly orchid blossoms?

Marie Schrader
2020-11-16 11:23:35
Winter heating room orchids are the most deadly, because indoor heating air will be very dry, and orchids like humidity, so need to spray water around the plant to humidify, but can not spray water on the stems and leaves. In winter, the light is soft, the heating room raises orchids, and the strong light is blocked by glass, so you can bask in the sun more. Usually along the edge of the pot inserted bamboo sticks, nothing pulled out to see the bamboo issued dry watering, autumn and winter to orchids for a month or two of low temperature period, is conducive to plant flowering.

1. Can fertilizer be applied when flowering?

Phalaenopsis fertilization should be applied before flowering, the main choice of fertilizer is phosphate fertilizer and potassium fertilizer, it is recommended to dilute it before application, apply fertilizer liquid into it, so that the plant can better absorb.However, pay attention to not fertilizing after flowering, the flowers have accumulated enough nutrients to ensure the demand of flowering period.If applied, it will damage the root system, which will lead to the early end of the flowering period and the easy fall of flowers.

2. how to deal with foil after flowering

1. Light pruning: After flowering, it can choose light pruning from the four or five sections of the base of the flower sword, so that after two or three months of pruning, the plant can blossom again and enjoy the flowers again.But this treatment also has drawbacks, will consume a lot of nutrients in the plant, which may affect the next year's flowering, the growth of the next year is also unfavorable.

2. Heavy pruning: Heavy pruning is to cut off the whole foil directly after flowering, cutting from the base, which can save a lot of nutrients, can make it better recuperate, and can better blossom in the next year, so that the flower color will be more gorgeous when flowering in the next year, and the flowering period will be longer.The specific choice of which treatment method depends on personal needs, want to open twice a year to choose light cutting, want to better open once to choose flowers after heavy cutting.

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