How to grow new butterfly orchids

Can you propagate orchids yourself?

Growing an orchid from seeds can take up to ten years and is very complicated. This type of propagation is not suitable for hobby growers. But what you can try is growing from one Offshoot or Kindel. These sometimes form spontaneously after flowering. Alternatively, you can try to draw some yourself.

Where do I get offshoots from?

Offshoots usually grow on their own on faded flower stems, but unfortunately only rarely. If you want to stimulate education, then cut Cut the stem off before it gets too dry. Use a very clean, preferably even sterile, knife for this.

Place the stem on damp peat or sphagnum. This peat moss serves as a water reservoir during cultivation and should always remain moist, but not too wet. To keep the humidity constant, you can use transparent film to cover it.

How should I treat Kindel?

If a child grows on its own on the faded stem of your Phalaenopsis, then leave it on the mother plant until it has formed small roots. For a better water supply and to encourage root formation, wrap a little sphagnum around the stem, just below the child. Always keep the sphagnum slightly moist here as well.

When the stem becomes dry, cut it off just below and above the child. Then put the small plant in a relatively fine one Orchid substrate.(€ 7.98 at Amazon *) The coarser the substrate, the more difficult it is for the tiny roots to grow. In order to thrive well, the young plant needs a consistently high level of humidity and a light, draft-free air Location.

The essentials in brief:

• sowing only possible for professionals
• spontaneous childhood
• Cuttings can be cultivated
• Young plants very sensitive