How to use vermiculite with orchid soil?
Sweet potato residue soil. Potato bran is green manure (Astragalus sinicus L.) plants harvested, dried, crushed. The sweet potato bran and bamboo root clay or sandy loam, general mixed accumulation and maturity, the Tiaokang soil. The preparation method is: rain field, a layer of soil from a layer of sweet potato residue, pouring a * dung deposited by water, so after the surface water in the reactor; after wetting, and then apply the closed mud. Stack fermentation can be used six months later. When in use, other cultures are added proportionally.
Bamboo root mud. Of the roots of a bamboo clump that has been planted for many years. This kind of mud because of bamboo root, rhizome and leaf and channeling bamboo sheath rot, become loose structure and good drainage, with certain fertility without too much fertile soil, suitable for the growth of orchid. The quality depends on the bamboo root mud from three factors: the first is the original soil, this is the predecessor and foundation of bamboo root mud, with sandy loam is the best; second is the bamboo planting time, lasted longer, bamboo leaves, bamboo role more fully; again from the bamboo stump far more near the bamboo stump soil better.
Formula of culture soil. In the East China, the orchid usually likes to use the orchid mud in Shaoxing, Yuyao and other places. In recent years, the "Mei king" brand "immortal soil" is also popular, but the number of these cultivated soil is limited and the price is expensive, and it can only be used for changing pots. Cultivation of soil to hundreds of tons, thousands of tons of planting area, only locally. After many years of practice we repeated screening, to determine the best formula is: sand soil, sawdust four copies of four copies, Kawa Saji; as a yellow soil is a sand, sawdust, a yellow soil. The mixture was well blended. The pH value of the prepared culture soil should be between 6.5 - 6.8, and it has the advantages of loose permeability, water retention, good permeability, and full nutrition. River sand, sawdust from the water conduction, the use of sawdust, sawdust decomposition by bacteria, slow release of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and so on. Yellow soil also contains a variety of trace elements. After many years of observation, this formula is very suitable for orchid growth. The matrix is especially suitable for wild orchid cultivation, suitable for Chunlan, Cymbidium, of Cymbidium kanran, is also very good, regardless of flowering rate, resistance increased significantly.
Planting orchids requires a special culture of soil, also known as "orchid mud."". Orchid cultivation soil, with loose ventilation, good ventilation, fertilizer appropriate, no pests and diseases, the potential is appropriate. The composition of a soil consisting of one or more basic constituents (matrices)Make。 These basic ingredients are soils, fertilizers, and other materials. Some ingredients seem to be related to "soil.""No, but they are the substrates for stabilizing plants and growth.
Vermiculite can not cultivate orchid soil, because the orchid habits like Yin, afraid of direct sunlight; happy moist, avoid dry; hi rich, rich in humus; appropriate air circulation environment. The property of vermiculite is not suitable for the cultivation of orchid soil.
