Culture: Orchid with or without fertilizer

Orchid culture is passionate about the challenge of flowering. An orchid is often offered or purchased already in bloom, keep the flowers during the whole period is already a source of concentration and attention, often unusual for novices. But when it comes to revive this plant luxuriant, where the amateur is facing some issues botanical complex. All orchids do not bloom only once a year and do not necessarily have any rest period. It is therefore the first to know of your features or your orchids in order to assay the fertilizer at fair frequency. The measure, she will rarely be variable depending on the species, the orchid is not a major consumer of fertilizers. Generally a half dose of fertilizer for green plant only if you use in industry. Some orchids require this addition once every 3 weeks and others will accept 2 times a week during the leaf development. But never systematically with every watering, except for the orchid Vanda consuming water throughout the year, flowering is supported, the means must be winded. There are fertilizers manufactured in labs that you find in supermarkets and specialty stores in the latter but you can also find another way to help your plant to bloom easily. This horticultural fertilizers, whether other roots become compost or plants such as ferns which will remove all the phosphorus, and again you have to know assayed. An orchid is not receiving fertilizer during the period of rest, or vegetation, because it completely destroys its roots will not support the crystallization of the residues around them while the orchid gets its own little water. Always rinse the roots between each addition of fertilizer. Last thing, the orchid need nitrogen during the growing season which takes place just after the end of flowering. Again, this is a very precise dose for this plant if you want beautiful. However, arriving in the growing season, recognizable by the growth of new leaves, the orchid is requesting potassium and phosphorus. Of course, reproducing the exact terms of its place of origin is a challenge, but also grow orchids without any particular contribution. Before making your decision you should know they will not be so large and colorful as you can imagine if you do not add it. Note, however, special cases, very large species, such as Cattleya, gladly welcome this little help from nature, but those that require little space and offers miniature flowers can largely do without.