In orchids there is something special, aristocratic. They are gentle, elegantly fragile, these plants are capable to complement interior of any house or apartment with unique and graceful esthetics.
Cultivation of orchids demands certain knowledge of that, as for care for them, watering and fertilizing. However very first what everyone who has decided to lodge on the windowsill this gentle tropical plant faces, it is its right choice.
Before purchase of plant it is necessary to consider some of very important factors by which it is possible to define, the orchid is how healthy. The first what it is necessary to pay attention to is root system, flowers and leaves of plant.
Roots and leaves have to be clean, without spots and decay. Regarding flowers – if at them there are black dots, then such orchid definitely should not be bought as for certain the plant poured down cold water or the long time contained in cold. Will also not prevent to pay attention and to pot in which the orchid grows. It is not necessary to do purchase if on walls of pot green spots are observed. It can demonstrate to too intensive watering of plant that can bring in the future to rotting of root system.
The intensity of watering of orchid directly depends on air temperature indoors – than it is higher, those should water more often. It is also necessary to watch that in pot there was no surplus, and, above all - stagnation of water. The main reference point in this case is condensate on pot walls – if it is absent, then the plant needs to be watered. Still it is possible to pay attention to substrate (soil) – between waterings it has to manage to dry. It is necessary to water plant with warm, otstoyanny water or boiled. It is possible to give to drink orchid and so – it is simple to submerge pot in the container with water. Optimum time for watering – the first half of day.
For fertilizing of orchids it is necessary to use only special fertilizers, with observance of all proportions. It is necessary to feed up plant only during growth, with intensity once in two-three weeks. It is necessary to know that fertilizing is not compulsory procedure. The plant can be not fertilized if periodically (every two years) to change substrate. Glut of substrate fertilizers can lead to the fact that at plant the immunity will decrease. The low immunity can become the cause of frequent diseases of orchid. Important: for fertilizing of orchids it is impossible to use the fertilizer intending for other plants. The most famous producers of fertilizer for orchids: "Bona Forte", Greenworld, Pocon.