Vanda orchid: how to water, fertilize, replant

Seeing once a flower like orchid wanda, you will immediately fall in love with it.

It enchants and attracts the eye with its extraordinary beauty.

If you want to settle this unusual flower in your home, you must learn all the details of caring for him.

Orchid Vanda: features of care

Orchids can be grown not only in specialized areas, but also at home. It is important to understand that due to the "tropical roots" Wanda care at home will require a lot of effort.

To achieve success in growing a flower, you need to create a number of conditions and maintain them: temperature, moisture, fertilizer, lighting.

The main varieties and types of orchids

The Vanda orchid is a plant up to 90 cm high, leaves are belt-shaped, up to 20 cm long. Peduncles emit up to six flowers. At first they are small and pale, and after a few days they become large and bright.

The main feature of this type of orchid are powerful branched roots (can be up to two meters long). Orchid flower Vanda has about 50 varieties and only four species. Let us consider in more detail what types of Wanda exist.

Chess Wanda. This type of plant is common in Southeast Asia. It has epiphytic (not requiring soil) climbing roots, flower color is golden yellow, leaves are lamellar, cylindrical in shape.

Wanda plate. The birthplace of this flower is the Philippines. It grows in tropical forests with abundant rainfall. The leaves are elongated, the height of the shoots is 40 cm. The flowers grow from the central stem, the color is yellow-brown, the flower diameter is 3 cm.

Tricolor Wanda. It has an erect trunk up to 1.5 m high, the leaves are belt-shaped with a leathery structure. A distinctive feature of this type are short inflorescences with large flowers, which can be up to ten.Color - white or cream with brown spots.

Calyx and petals are wavy, egg-shaped, wide claw. The lip is three-lobed, has the same size as the flowers. The lateral lobes are small, the central one is large, purple or pink, in the shape of a guitar.

Valkovaya Wanda. Belongs to large epiphytes. The trunk length of up to two meters, is located to a strong branching, can crawl. Valkatye leaves - long and narrow.

Peduncle has up to six reproductive organs of pink or red. The lip has three colored lobes: the central one is purple, and the lateral ones are yellow with red spots.

All about landing Wanda

As is already clear, the plant does not necessarily plant in the ground. If, for aesthetic reasons, you still decide to grow a Vanda orchid in a pot, you need to consider that the soil should be quick-drying.

In the pot you need to make a lot of holes for full access of air to the roots. For successful growth it is necessary to plant the plant correctly and create comfortable conditions for it.

Climatic conditions for successful growth

The most important when growing orchids Wanda is the climate. Since it is the temperature difference promotes flowering. When buying a plant, be sure to find out what temperature conditions you need to follow.

Due to the fact that different species originate from different localities, their temperature is also different. For plants native to the plains, temperatures of 35 ºC are not terrible. Plants originating from the highlands require moderate temperatures and do not tolerate heat.

The optimum temperature range is + 22 ... +27 ºС during the active growing season and not lower than +14 ºС during the rest period (autumn-winter).

Active blooming contributes to fluctuations in day and night temperatures of 5 degrees. If the room temperature exceeds the permissible range, it is necessary to ensure sufficient air humidity of 70-80%.

Orchid planting schemes

Since this plant is epiphytic, it is grown in three ways:

• using substrate. For the substrate is best suited pine bark or pine with the addition of sphagnum. If desired, you can buy ready-made substrate in the store.The pot should be taken more freely so that the roots are not crowded, and there are a lot of holes in it for ventilation;
• growing in glass vessels. The vase should be stable and not too high. It should fit only the roots, the green part of the plant should go beyond the vase (because the flower needs a lot of light, and the glass retains the sun's rays);
• growing with bare root system. To do this, simply place the Wanda orchid in the basket and hang it on the window.

How to care for a plant at home

For the successful cultivation of the Vanda orchid at home, it is necessary to provide her with full care. With all the nuances of the plant can even multiply.

How to water a flower

Wanda orchid irrigation mode depends on the conditions under which the flower is grown. When grown in a substrate, watering is carried out only when the substrate does not just dry out, but dries completely.Frequent watering can lead to root decay.

If the plant is grown in a glass vase or in a hanging basket, water it once a week, and in the spring-summer period - once every three days. The flower is taken to the bathroom, the doors are tightly closed and watered with a hot shower for a few minutes (water temperature is 35-40 ºC).

Then leave the Vanda for 30 minutes, until the leaves dry, and return to the place. Once every two weeks, it is advisable to bathe the roots, immersing them in the pelvis for 20-30 minutes.

Wanda fertilizer difficulties

As the flower grows without soil, difficulties arise with the introduction of dressings. The plant is very demanding to fertilizer. Orchid Vanda needs feeding once a week.

It is carried out by spraying or rubbing the leaves with a special solution from fertilizer for orchids and water (preferably using purified water) in the amount of 1/6 of that indicated on the package.

It is also necessary to take into account the fact that the plant requires active feeding only during the period of violent growth, in the resting stage the number of dressings is reduced. Orchids are also watered by spraying from a spray bottle.

When and how to transplant a plant

Since the plant grows without soil, it does not need transplants.If you decide to grow a flower in a pot, the substrate must be changed every three years: because of the low access of light, the roots rot.

The signal for plant transplantation is the appearance of pimples at the base of the flower - these are new roots. Before they are grown, the plant is transplanted. When the roots grow back two or more centimeters, they become more fragile and can break when transplanted.

Wanda Orchid Breeding Rules at Home

Often we ask ourselves: how to grow orchids at home. Depending on how to care for this flower, the Vanda orchid not only blooms, but also multiplies.

Large plants in the axils of the leaves appear roots, you need to cut off the top of the flower with the roots. Place cut cut with cinnamon or activated carbon.

The cut-off process is planted in a pot with a substrate, having previously made a recess, the roots are gently spread. Watering the handle of the spray infrequently. Abundant watering begins after the manifestation of active growth of the sprout.

Diseases and pests of the flower

The main pests and diseases of the Wanda orchid are:

- mealybug The body of an adult individual reaches 3-4 mm, the shape of the body is oval, pink or orange. Insect covered with white bloom (bags of eggs).

Mealybugs gather in colonies on the underside of leaves or on the tips of young shoots, drinking juice from a flower. They lay their offspring in clumps of white cobwebs, and the flower, struck by them, becomes like artificial snow made of cotton wool.

The chervets are very depleting plants: the growth of the shoots is slowed down, the leaves turn yellow and crumble. A black fungus can appear on the mucus produced by the worms.

Worm eggs are removed from the flower with a cotton swab or a damp sponge. Then the infected place is washed with a sponge moistened in soapy water or alcohol diluted with water, or vodka. If the flower is very affected by the insects, it is better to resort to etching with systemic insecticides;

- spider mite. The size of the tick varies from 0.3 to 0.5 mm, the females are purple-red, the males are bright red. A favorable environment for its habitat are dry warm rooms. It is dangerous all year round.

The leaves of the plant, infected with spider mites, turn yellow and dry.Pests are located on the back of the sheet. Ticks are insidious in that, when unfavorable conditions for their reproduction occur, the female can burrow into the ground and fall into a state of rest before the onset of conditions suitable for vital processes.

One female tick lays 150 eggs at a time. If the flower is not strongly affected, you can wash its shoots and leaves with a solution of soapy water, water tincture of garlic. In case of intensive damage, use insecticides or colloidal sulfur;

- shieldovka. A sign of infection of the flower with the shield is the appearance of yellow dots on the trunk and leaves, which eventually increase in size. Then the leaves turn yellow, curl and fall off. Settling of these pests occurs air flow.

When attached to a leaf or stem, they look like scales or growths. The consequence of infection with the shield is a slowdown in growth, falling leaves, and as a result the plant dies.

Shchitovok removed from the plant, rubbing each leaf on both sides, the stems and even the place around the pot soaked in a solution with a sponge;

- Fusarium. At the base of the sheet appear dark spots.The cause of the disease may be damage to the leaves or roots. As a preventive measure, dead roots and yellow leaves are regularly removed.

If the plant is sick, the damaged part should be cut off, and the place of the cut treated with activated charcoal, then sprayed with a flower "Fundazole";

- bacterial rot. At elevated temperatures and humidity, the roots of the plant begin to rot and become loose. To eliminate the disease, a plant with a pot is immersed in a solution of "Fundazole" or "Topsina".

Since the Vanda orchid is demanding to care for (it is often bathed), it rarely affects pests. Due to excess moisture, more attention needs to be paid to the prevention of fungal diseases.