Prepare potting soil: use garden soil, leaf-rotted soil, river sand, and basic fertilizer mixed to form a nutritious soil, with drainage holes at the bottom of the pot. Trim the root system: cut off the rotten, dead and old roots, and trim the hairy roots appropriately. Planting into the soil: Spray the soil with moisture first, then put the crabapple orchid into the soil and fill the soil at the root position. Post-planting care: put it in a semi-shady place.
Crab orchid planting method
1, prepare potting soil
Crab orchid on the soil requirements are relatively high, before planting to prepare the appropriate substrate, can be mixed in the garden soil in rotting soil, river sand, and the appropriate amount of fertilizer, and then placed in the sun to disinfect, to avoid residual bacteria, insect eggs, pots as long as the bottom of the drainage hole, the size of the appropriate pots, and the soil is suitable for the plant. The pot can be used as long as it has a drainage hole at the bottom and is of a suitable size.
2, pruning the root system
Crab orchids in the soil before, to deal with the plant, mainly to check the root part, if there is a rotten root, withered roots, the old roots must be cut, but also appropriate to cut out the hairy roots, pruning, placed in a cool, ventilated place to dry the wound.
3, planting into the soil
planting crabapple orchids first spray water, the soil spray wet, then in the pot filled with one-third of the soil, and then the treated crabapple orchids into the potting soil, one hand to support the root, one hand to fill in the soil around the root system to compact, to avoid inverted oblique.
4, after planting maintenance
Crab orchids on the pot for a week and then watering, watering can be, forbidding stagnant water, watering the crab orchid to move to a semi-shade, well-ventilated environment, do not water frequently, and so on, when the beginning of the sprouting of new leaves, and then resume management, slowly increase the light, the appropriate fertilizer, to promote the growth of more vigorous.