How to Take Care of Orchids
How To Take Care Of Orchids: Find Suitable Housing
Just like humans, orchids actually need suitable housing. This need is particularly acute for orchid plants that have been transplanted from the wild and into blissful domestication. As such, knowing how to how to take care of orchids requires unlearning some of the knowledge that you might have acquired while growing other flowers.
To successfully grow orchids, you need the proper mix of food, light, heat, and water. Although all living things need the proper mix of food, light, heat, and water, their proportion and quality radically differs in the case of orchids. How much of each would your orchid need? Well, it really depends on its natural habitat. And in knowing how to take care of orchids, a good rule of thumb is to replicate their natural environment as much as possible.
Most epiphytic orchids come from tropical or subtropical regions where atmospheric moisture is abundant and where intense sunlight is moderated by dense forests. Tropical orchids thriving in rain-swept jungles cling to trees and grow out long roots. They get their nutrients from moisture-soluble minerals in the air as well as from humus in the forks of tree trunks.
Still, other orchids grow on barren rocks, where they can be subjected to drenching rains and drying winds. The constant shifting of rain-bearing clouds temper the sun°Øs heat in the regions where they grow.
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