How to select a good Orchid

How to select a good Orchid:

1. With healthy leaves are green, The speck and without flash.
2. Avoid plants that are yellow or brown The speck on the leaves and stem, due to possible disease.
3. Stem has a fat, strong and without The speck. Avoid the pseudobulb rugose (possibly because of lack of water).
4. Has a new offspring more (for sympodial orchids), so that if the adults die, have instead. In addition, the opportunity to flowering also greater.
5. Footstalk have used more, which means it is quite laborious flowering.
6. Footstalk full. Stalk is cut off one of nature so that the decrease in the likelihood of acquiring the next will also be truncated.
7. Flower bud in the half and full bloom (flowers do not contract the edge), to better enjoy the beauty of flowers long after the purchase.
8. Stem firmly embedded in the pot. If there is a possibility easy to shake it is new or re-planting in the root system is not good.
9. Check the medium, if there are pests (small insects) that creep. Avoid plants that are pests.
View stalk flowers, whether it comes from plants or cut flowers which only added to the pot.
There are orchid seller prankish, the stick cut flowers on plants that have not actually mean that the bearing value of selling orchids can be higher.


Choosing orchid seeds:
- Healthy with young green leaves with no yellow or brown The speck on the leaves or stem.
- Size is the length of the second leaf 2 times from the first leaf. Orchid's growth will be faster than the size of both leaves is similar to the first leaf.