Growing Orchids
Growing Orchids Like all living things on Earth, orchids grow and develop in close relation with the environment. Add up from a number of factors, orchid largely determines all life processes in plant organism. This applies equally to the life of orchids in nature, as well as at home. Of course, in addition to purely external factors such as light, temperature, humidity, soil, food, an important role played by the hereditary properties of orchids. To orchid developed normally and, most importantly, bloom, you must create favorable conditions to them. That may need to Orchid, who finished their growing at home, covered in this chapter. The light and the length of day light for orchids – is the foundation of life, particularly plant life, as it is a source of energy needed to build their bodies. For the successful cultivation of tropical orchids in our latitudes, it is desirable to approximate the conditions of their detention to the climatic conditions of their natural habitat of orchids.
It is not necessary to explain that the climate in the tropics significantly different from the temperate climate. For the first characterized by two important parameters: the duration of daylight is always 12 1 hours. The light intensity during the whole year the same high. Meanwhile, in our latitudes, the light conditions for tropical orchids is very unfavorable. First, the duration of daylight varies considerably in the winter and summer months. In addition, the strength of the incident plants of light in summer is much higher than in winter.