Useful tips for propagating the dendrobium nobile orchid at home. Methods of breeding with photos

Probably not a single lover of flowers can pass by the beautiful orchid. Indeed, this guest from India, brought to Europe in the 19th century, shakes and excites the hearts of florists.

Orchid Dendrobium is a favorite species among gardeners. Even novice florists will be able to provide proper care to this plant. It pretty easily adapts to the environment. And when you follow a few simple rules for the care of pleasing their owners with long and abundant flowering.

Features

At home orchid dendrobium nobile propagates exclusively vegetatively. This means that new plants can only be obtained using parts of the mother bush. You can divide the plant you have, separate the stalk, or plant the children that form on an adult orchid.

The difference in breeding methods in different species

As already mentioned, reproduction occurs vegetatively. Of the variety of orchid species, some can be propagated by seed. These species include the Takka Chantrye orchid. Propagation by seeds is a very long and laborious process, requiring deep knowledge in the field of plant cultivation. For fast-growing orchid species such as Faleonopsis and Aeridis, a peduncle propagation method is appropriate.

Advice! Before proceeding with the reproduction of your orchid, be sure to specify the type of plant and what method suits it. Otherwise, you can not only be left without new flowers, but also destroy the existing adult.

What methods exist?

Dendrobium propagates in the following ways:

• By dividing the bush. This method of reproduction consists of dividing an adult flower into several parts.

  Each part should have at least five pseudobulbs. Each separated part is placed in a pot, watered and maintained at a temperature of at least 22 degrees.

• Cuttings. Propagation by cuttings is a fairly popular way of propagating orchids. In order to prepare the cuttings, you need to cut a pseudobulb or an old sprouted shoot two or three parts, put in moistened moss. After this, you need to wait for the roots to appear.
• By the kids. Reproduction by children is ideal for the species Dendrobium. This is due to the fact that on plants of this type of neoplasm appear quite often.

  For sedimentation, the process is carefully removed from the mother stem and transplanted into previously prepared soil.

Plant preparation

Before embarking on reproduction, you need to make sure that the plant is healthy, the leaves do not turn yellow and do not fall. If we are talking about propagation by dividing the bush, then the orchid must be carefully removed from the container in which it grows, to shake off the soil from the roots.

When propagating by children or cuttings, the adult flower must be left in place, only the necessary parts of the plant are separated.

How to choose the right time?

The best time for breeding Dendrobiums is the beginning of spring. At this time, the plant comes to life, begins to intensively consume nutrients from the soil. Therefore, the wounds received when cutting cuttings or dividing will heal in two to three days.

Children also better take root in a new place in the spring. They eat intensely, gain green mass, and therefore grow.

How to propagate a flower?

Bush divisions

If you decide to propagate your flower by dividing, then you need to perform the following manipulations:

1. Carefully remove the plant from the pot, clean it of soil.
2. Decide on the place of division. At least five pseudobulbs should remain on each part. Otherwise, the plant will die.
3. Use a sterile knife to divide. It is necessary to cut so that on each part there are shoots and 2–3 pseudobulbs (pseudobulbs).
4. Treat the cut area with charcoal or garden varnish.
5. Place the resulting plants in containers allocated for them, water and provide the necessary temperature: 22 - 28 degrees.

Cuttings

How to propagate by cuttings? Let's analyze the process sequence:

1. A sterile knife must be used to separate one pseudobulb from the orchid. It is advisable to make a cut near the ground.
2. The part that remained in the hands must be divided into three to four parts. On each of the parts should be two to three nodules. The length of each part will be approximately 10 - 15 centimeters.
3. All prepared cuttings must be placed in a dense plastic bag. Packages must be airtight. Moss is laid at the bottom of the bag, and a stalk is placed on top of the moss. The bag is tightly closed and stored at a temperature of 22 - 25 degrees. Once a day, the cuttings must be aired.
4. We maintain the temperature not lower than 22 - 25 ° С, monitor the humidity and do not forget to ventilate our future orchids once a day.
5. After the roots are formed (about 2 to 3 weeks), young plants can be planted in a permanent place.

You can find out more about the propagation of orchids by cuttings here.

Kids

1. With a disinfected, sharp knife, it is necessary to cut off the shoot with part of the mother's pseudobulb. It is possible to separate the shoot with a hand, carefully removing it without damaging the roots.
2. The baby’s wound needs to be dried for 24 hours, and then treated with garden var.
3. We plant in a bark with a fraction of 0.5 - 1 cm, without deepening the growth point.

When new sprouts appear, you can start transplanting into the ground. It is necessary that while in the bark, the humidity was not lower than 70%. Lighting is preferably diffuse. The lighting duration is about 14 hours a day.

Learn more about the propagation of orchids by children here.

Photo

Look at the photo for different ways of breeding a flower.

Cuttings:

By dividing the bush:

Kids:

Difficulties after transplantation

It is important to remember that orchid is very sensitive to transplant and reproduction. Therefore, a plant should be transplanted only if it is already quite old and completely healthy.

When dividing a delicate flower is subjected to great stress. Therefore, you need to monitor its condition. It is recommended to use specialized soil and top dressing. You must also observe the temperature and light conditions.

IMPORTANT. It is not necessary to expect that the new plant will develop very quickly and will bloom in two to three months. Orchids, which were obtained during breeding at home, will begin to bloom in at least two, or even three years.

Care

After the "new" orchid specimens have taken their permanent place, it is necessary to provide them with suitable conditions.

• First of all, you need to remember that flowers like diffused light. Therefore, they must be protected from direct sunlight. Excessive dimming is also not good.
• They are very sensitive to cold. The temperature should not drop to below twenty degrees.
• Watering the Dendrobium must be carried out through the pan. It is recommended to place the pot in wet sand and make sure that it does not dry out.
• Orchid requires high humidity. Therefore, it is necessary to periodically spray the flower.

At first glance, caring for a finicky beauty is very complicated and has many nuances. In fact, you need to remember the basic rules for caring for this exotic plant, and it will delight its owner with a long and plentiful flowering.

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