A few days ago, an orchid friend sent me a photo, which was a pot of orchid he raised himself. The dense buds had all emerged from the ground. The bud pregnancy rate even reaches more than 100%. How is this raised?
Later he told me that it was the effect of urinating flowers with some hormones, but I didn't expect the effect to be surprisingly good. So is it advisable to raise orchids like this? Will there be any adverse consequences?
First of all, we must know that the conditions related to the bud pregnancy rate of orchids are as follows:
. The number of orchid seedlings in the middle age. Those who can give birth to strong buds are the middle age orchid seedlings. Although some weak old seedlings may also breed flower buds, most of them are not very sound. Usually, a bud breeds a bud is a very good bud rate.
. The proportion of fertilizer applied during normal maintenance, whether phosphorus potassium fertilizer is sufficient.
. Whether the amount of light meets certain requirements, orchids that lack light all year round are also difficult to conceive.
. If the average temperature difference in the maintenance environment can reach more than 10 degrees during the budding period, it will be of great benefit to budding.
But even if the above conditions meet the standards, the orchid bud pregnancy rate will not exceed 100% under normal circumstances. Because orchids need to consume a lot of nutrients for their buds and blooming, and these nutrients are usually stored in reeds. Once the number of buds is too large, it will inevitably cause overdrawing of the nutrients of the reed head.
Most of the orchids we grow will not be "a season of flowers". We hope that the orchids can produce seedlings, conceive buds and bloom normally every year. The "life engine" of orchid is the reed head. If the reed head nutrients are overdrawn, it will affect its life cycle , resulting in the premature aging of the reed head. This will have a great negative impact on the future maintenance of orchids.
, and the flower-enhancing hormone uses the effect of drugs to stimulate the orchid reed head as much as possible, so that it can differentiate the flower buds to the greatest extent. It is usually a technique used in commercial orchids, so that the orchids will look better during the peak sales season. This approach is contrary to the original intention of domestic orchids.
In fact, Lanyou talked to me about this topic a few years ago. They also used hormones to promote flowering, but they all regretted it the next year. The orchids that originally grew well are very good every year, and the seedlings and buds are born very good. But the orchid friends were greedy for a year and hoped that it could breed more buds, so they used the flower accelerator.
Although the blossoming of the first year was indeed particularly good, the number of flowers far exceeded his expectations. But after the flowering period ended, he found that most of the new seedlings sprouted by orchids were toothpick seedlings, which was completely different from the previous state of orchid seedlings. After careful consideration, the planting materials, environment, and fertilizers used for orchids have not changed.
The only possibility is that the reed head of the orchid has weakened its vitality, resulting in the new seedlings that are not as strong as before. The crux of these problems is that the hormone was used to promote flowering the previous year, which led to the decline of the orchid reed head. Because of this, whenever an orchid friend asked me if orchids could use hormones to stimulate flowering, I would express my unsuggested attitude.
orchids (except for some particularly expensive varieties), if you want it to bloom more and better. As long as you do the four elements mentioned above, you basically don’t need to use other special means. Drugs can only cause short-term effects and will not be of any benefit to the long-term growth of orchids.
