In this week I'm excited and ready to re-decorate the garden of my house with a variety of plants such as flowers, vegetables or fruits. A lot of the way that I do from start planting the plants from seedling to I'm looking for a hump or locate branches or shoots of plants that are already growing, one of my favorite places to find various types of flower is in the home of my in-laws.
There are many types of flowers that are in-home mother-in-law, as Aglonema, Monstera Variegata, Monstera adansonii, Bougainvillea. But there is one kind of interest that caught my attention, namely the orchid flower. According to my husband, the orchid is a flower favorite mother-in-law, he began to grow orchids since 25 years ago or when my husband was still 6 years old.
Do you know plants orchid flower ? for the people of indonesia and the lovers of ornamental flowers, orchid is a plant that is not foreign anymore. The orchid is a flower that is prevalent and widely cultivated in Indonesia. Caring for orchids is not actually difficult because of the orchids can be planted in the area with the weather and climate of any kind. However, many people who are new to the cultivation of orchids fail because it does not perform the appropriate maintenance.
All the orchids that were in the house the mother-in-law, the early there are only a few of the pot but with the precision and patience now there are some thirty-pot even there are already some pots are sold at high prices by orchid lovers. Orchids are cultivated in the house the mother-in-law is a type of anggrek larat or Dendrobium bigibbum. From the description my husband, my father in-law is an agriculture researcher who often go into the forest, and some of these orchids are obtained from the forests and developed by my mother-in-law.
Mother-in-law give you some tips for you who are just starting to plant orchids,
First, note the light of the sun because herbs any need sunlight to perform photosynthesis, which also will help to grow and flowering.
Second, the orchid flower is essentially a plant with a height above 500mdpl or plain, if you grow in lowland don't despair if the orchid you rarely flowering.
Third, pay attention to air circulation orchid plants you, if you plant orchids under trees is not recommended, it is better hanging in a special place like this.
Fourth, do the watering routine if the weather is very hot do watering two times in the morning and afternoon, but if the rainy season no need to water it. The ideal time for watering orchids, namely the hours of 07.00 - 09.00 a.m. and 16.00-17.00 afternoon.
Fifth, given the right fertilizer, there are now a lot of choice of the type of fertilizer or plant hormone that we can try or apply.
It is some tips or advice from a mother-in-law me to you beginners who want to plant orchids.
Indonesia has 5,000 species of species of orchids. Among the number of the known species are native to Indonesia, both of which grow in the forests and has been cultivated by the community. There is an info that is interesting enough that you need to know in the year 1993, the government of Indonesia sets Anggrek Bulan (The Orchid of the Month) or Puspa Pesona (Phaleonopsis amabilis) as endemic plant native to indonesia and protected by law.
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