It is considered that at home it is difficult to make multiple copies orchids. Nevertheless, there are several ways, having tried which, you can receive posterity from the orchids. It is not so much difficult process how many long.
Otrashchivany children
To force orchid to grow on peduncle the child instead of repeated blossoming quite perhaps. At the beginning of spring it is necessary to choose the strongest plant from your collection having not less than five leaves and the developed root system. It has to fade, have a rest already after blossoming, but the peduncle has to be live with the sleeping kidneys. It is necessary to wake these kidneys. Temperature for this purpose needs to be reduced at night to +16 °C, day to bring to +26 °C, to water orchid not more often than time in 15 days. It is necessary to put pot with orchid on the lightest place to warm up peduncles. If to begin this process in the middle of March, to the middle of June you receive 1-2 children who it is possible to separate and land in small greenery. If in March of plant with suitable characteristics it was not formed, it is possible to make awakening of children in May.
Office of the child
The second way of reproduction of orchid – division of stalk. Divide stalk at the adult plant having at least 9 leaves. The top with couple of leaves and air backs is cut off the disinfected sharp knife, the cut is powdered with activated carbon, dried and landed in substrate for orchids. The pot is put in individual small greenery. The lower part of plant after this operation needs to be processed – to apply on cut garden var. When at the separated top grows several backs, it can be got from small greenery and to replace in constant pot.
The child from bosom
The child can sometimes grow up from leaf bosom. It occurs not often, but if it happened to your orchid, it is possible to seize the moment and to multiply it. Wait when at the child grow air backs and 3-4 leaves. Backs have to be not shorter than 5 cm. Now it is possible to cut out sharp tool the child from trunk of maternal plant. Both cuts to dry and process fundazoly. Treat the child, as well as in the previous options – otsazhivat in substrate in small greenery. Substrate for children is prepared as well as for adult orchids – from pine bark, moss and wood charcoal. Only bark undertakes with smaller fractions and coal more small. At the bottom of pot the drainage is obligatory. The small greenery can be made of plastic bag, and it is possible to cover pot with the child half of plastic bottle. Children turn into adult plants long. Only in nine months they can be supported without small greenery, having replaced in constant pot. And they begin to blossom at the end of the second year.