Orchids can't grow without nutrients, and in the environment, nutrients come from very simple sources, namely gas, sunlight, water and soil layer. As in the environment, the rainy season will dilute the nutrients in the soil out of the liquid, and then along with precipitation flow through the orchid growing place, equivalent to fertilization.

Orchids maintained by human labor have been decreasing their nutrient stocks due to the limitations of the environment and potted pots. That way, fertilization is basically one of the necessary management method processes. Orchids that are not fertilized for a long time will have narrower and narrower leaves, and the longer the orchid plant grows, the more yellow and thin it becomes. Naturally, the orchid seedlings are not robust and naturally cannot bloom.

Some orchid lovers think that it is not possible to fertilize orchids at the beginning of orchid planting, is this really the objective fact? In fact, this kind of viewpoint is related to many standards and cannot be generalized. For example, if small orchid seedlings are planted, the commonly used potted pots are large, and the plant material has a lot of nutrient stock. In that case, it is not too harmful to not fertilize for a year, as the nutrients are sufficient for its growth.

But if it is a large clump of orchids, orchids with flowers, organic matter content of the plant, that kind of planted orchids, if you do not give it fertilizer, it is not too realistic. First of all, after planting, the orchid immediately enters the flowering season, when the consumption of nutrients is very large. The next step is the sprouting of young shoots, which is another point where a lot of nutrients are consumed.

If this type of orchid is not fertilized for a year, it is very likely that the young buds produced in the first place will produce stagnant seedlings (unable to grow strong). In addition, due to the lack of nutrients, it is also very easy to cause orchids of large and small years (one year blooming and one year idle). The feeling that a newly planted orchid should not be fertilized for a year may be due to the fact that orchidists do not know much about the root growth of orchids.

If an orchid is planted in March-April in the spring, even if it is a short cut orchid (also known as seedling orchid), it will be able to grow new orchid roots in about 20-40 days, and after 40 days the new roots will be very strong, and then it will have the ability to digest and absorb fertilizer completely.

I generally propose orchid friends in the planting of course orchids, 45 days do not have to fertilize, is concerned about the environment is not the same across the country, the growth of orchid roots is not the same efficiency. To be on the safe side, I said that we should fertilize within 45 days, but in fact, we can fertilize 40 days after planting orchids.

And the domesticated seedling orchid, there are only some wounds in the seedling, because its potting is faster than the seedling orchid, so the fertilization period can be completely early. Generally 20 days after the planting of split seedling, it is able to fertilize (naturally, this is also the local planting of split seedling in the same garden, if it is remote control in other places, you can refer to the planting of raw seedling orchid).

The standard of orchid fertilization is that it is better to be light than strong, and better to be far than near. This standard is available at any time, there are some orchid friends tend to suffer when fertilizing, is not grasp the standard of orchid fertilization. Fertilizer is too thick, too close to the roots, no matter in which part of the growth of orchid seedlings are not good, which can not be attributed to the newly planted orchids.

Fertilization is a double-edged knife for orchids. If you use it well, the growth of orchids will be more abundant, and at the same time, the ability to resist diseases will be greatly improved; but if you operate it incorrectly, it will lead to large-scale fertilizer damage, and the fertilizer damage is basically irreversible (rotting roots and rotting seedlings at the same time).