Without watering for a long time, the soil is dry and short of water, which causes the leaves of plants to become soft.

Solution: Water the plants once in time. Water the potted plants in time every day.

2. The water is rotten.

Potted crab claw orchids are afraid that excessive watering will cause soil water accumulation, which will lead to root rot and soft leaves.

Solution: cut off the water immediately when the roots are rotten. When necessary, take the plants out of the pot soil, prune the rotten roots, put them in a cool place for ventilation and drying, and then put them in the wet soil again after the roots are dry.

3, improper lighting

Crab claw orchid likes scattering light. If it is exposed to direct light, its leaves will soften.

Solution: move the potted plants to a cool and ventilated place and shade them in summer.

4. Nutrition exhaustion

After flowering, the crab claw orchid consumes a lot of nutrition and produces a lot of soft stems and leaves, which is caused by lack of nutrition.

Solution: Use potassium dihydrogen phosphate once every half a month before flowering. Prune 2-4 stem nodes in time after the flowering failure of Crab claw orchid, and do not put them in an excessively shady place to ensure sunshine within 8 hours every day. The frequency of fertilization is guaranteed once every 7 days. After using 1 ~ 2 times, it is the key measure to promote the bud of Crab Claw Orchid to change to a fertilizer with high phosphorus and potassium content, and apply decomposed liquid fertilizer 1 time every half month, with the concentration of 40% fertilizer to 60% water, with phosphorus fertilizer as the main and nitrogen fertilizer as the supplement.