How often and how to water the orchid house

If you want to orchid decorating your house was beautiful and healthy, and well grown and developed, then to care for her properly and pay attention to the watering. If such an exotic plant watering wrong or unsuitable water, it may die.

The frequency of watering

In cool weather, watering orchids is recommended that no more than once a week. If we do this more often, the root system of plants will be observed stagnation of water, resulting in the development of the roots rot. If it is hot outside, the frequency of such procedure should be increased to twice a week.

Factors that influence the frequency of watering:

1. the capacitance value. The larger the pot, the more often it should be wetting of the substrate.

2. Humidity and air temperature. The room is cooler and higher humidity, the less need to carry out irrigation.

3. Composition of Peat mixture. Plants grown in well water-permeable substrate that requires a more frequent watering.

However, excessively rare (1 every 8-10 days) to water so exotic, too, can not be, otherwise it will lead to a slower development of the bush, as well as an extremely negative effect on flowering.

In winter, watering of the flower should be infrequent, namely: 1 times in two weeks. The fact that the lack of light and low temperature leads to the fact that the water consumed by the plant is much slower.

What kind of water is suitable for irrigation?

In addition to the frequency of watering orchids need to pay attention to the water used for the procedure. Its temperature may vary from 18 to 35 degrees. However, it is best to use warm water whose temperature is to be 30-35 degrees.

When watering this Exotic taken plain water from the tap, it should properly settle for three or four days. To alleviate it, growers experienced advise, pour it with distilled water in a ratio of 1: 1 or 1: 2.

Very suitable for watering this flower boiled, filtered, softened, rain or meltwater.

Keep in mind that rain water to be collected outside the big city, otherwise, It will contain a variety of compounds that can harm any indoor flower, not just Orchid.

Remember that growing orchids indoors, it just need to be watered in a timely manner appropriate for this water.

This will avoid many possible problems that occur due to incorrect care so exote.