How is the substrate-free orchid watered?
Since the blue orchid is cultivated without soil, just like its conspecifics, the watering can is not part of the care equipment. Rather, the watchword is: diving instead of pouring. How to do it right:
- A blue one Vanda Immerse in filtered, room-temperature rainwater for half an hour every 2-3 days
- Make sure that no water remains in the leaf axils and the heart of the plant for a long time
- Furthermore, spray daily with lime-free, lukewarm water
also read
- How to properly care for an orchid as a houseplant
- Caring for the Phalaenopsis orchid properly - a guide for a flower-rich attitude
- This is how the blue orchid gets its color - tips for coloring yourself
In winter, please adjust the water supply to the reduced light and temperature conditions.
When and how is a blue orchid fertilized?
In the course of its summer growth and flowering season, your azure blue flower beauty takes one every 14 days Orchid fertilizer happy to. Please only use a special liquid fertilizer, as usual
Flower fertilizer(€ 71.80 at Amazon *) are too salty. The concentration specified by the manufacturer is also halved. Simply add the nutrients to the immersion water. During the winter dormant growth, fertilization every 4 weeks is sufficient.Is it allowed to cut a Vanda coerulea?
Your blue orchid will not be cut back in the true sense of the word. Rather, a cut in green parts of the plant will cause considerable damage to your sensitive vanda. Only withered, drawn-in leaves and flowers are plucked. A flower stalk cut Please only remove it when it is completely dead. The use of meticulously disinfected knives and scissors is mandatory. Dust the cuts with Primary rock meal or cinnamon to help prevent infections and pests.
Tips
If you come across a deep blue orchid in the supermarket, it is very likely a colored phalaenopsis. A Dutch breeder managed the stroke of genius, a white one Butterfly orchid to dye blue using a patented method. Unfortunately, the splendor does not last long, because the colored orchid will bloom again in pure white by the next flowering period.
