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- How To Guide Orchids Through The Winter - Wintering Tips
- Plant lamps bring light into the darkness
- Care program in winter
- Tips
Orchids need less water in winter
How To Guide Orchids Through The Winter - Wintering Tips
Winter is putting orchids to the test. While in their tropical homelands the sun shines 7 to 9 hours even in winter, between Hamburg and Garmisch 2 hours of sunshine per day are the maximum. How to maneuver the queen of flowers through the dark season, we tell you here.
Plant lamps bring light into the darkness
The prolonged darkness is the biggest problem for light hungry orchids in winter. While the low temperatures can be easily regulated with the help of the heater, the lack of light requires additional measures. With special plant lamps in daylight quality you can compensate for the reduced lighting conditions. Conventional fluorescent tubes and light bulbs from the hardware store do not cover the light requirement.
Care program in winter
Wintertime is at the same time flowering time for Phalaenopsis and many of their peers. If the problem of lack of sunlight is solved, meet the other requirements for a healthy winter with this care:
In order to raise the low humidity in winter to a bearable for orchids measure, filled with water shells only partially. Ideally, place a humidifier near the plant. In addition, please fill the coasters with expanded clay pellets and water to generate a humid air locally.
Tips
A terrarium serves orchids as an ideal winter-living quarters. Equipped with daylight lamps, a heater and an ultrasonic humidifier, the tropical flower beauties lack nothing during the delicate season. Alternatively, the orchids spend the whole year under these controlled conditions or change in the spring back to their ancestral window seat.