Hello friends of steemit, the other day I was visiting my grandmother and I can not miss the opportunity to talk about the beautiful orchids.
I was so curious to investigate about their cultivation, and I found it so interesting that I wanted to share it with you ...
The family of orchids has a large number of species. Some twenty-five thousand have been discovered in their natural habitat, and official organizations recognize more than one hundred thousand artificial hybrids. The label of artificial hybrids are plants produced by controlled pollination.
It can be said that wild orchids, as well as those produced with human help, have a wide variety of sizes, some are so small that one has to look at them with a magnifying glass, others look very large.
It is very difficult for orchids to germinate, however, Dr. Luis Knut discovered that by putting them in an aqueous solution, sugar and agargan, which is a gelatinous substance that is extracted from the algae, could make these beautiful plants germinate without them. . No problem began to produce new hybrids immediately and every year there are numerous hybrids never seen before ...
Thanks for reading and I hope you liked it.