Winter is the peak season for the growth and flowering of crab claw orchids, there are many friends who like crab claw orchids have collected various varieties of crab claw orchids, the flowers are gorgeous and colorful, like fairy flowers, in fact, as long as you like crab claw orchids, the time of raising is long, it will definitely be hooked with grafting.
Because you want to raise the crab claw orchid well, the time of raising is long, and even can be raised for more than ten years, into a flower waterfall, it must be grafted, otherwise the crab claw orchid relies on its own root system, raising a year or two is a problem, do not mention the cultivation of a big old pile. So how to graft with crab claw orchid is simpler and easier to survive? Grafting crab claw orchids pay attention to the following steps.
First, the choice of rootstock
Because the root system of crab claw orchid is relatively weak, after one or two years of maintenance, the root system has problems, and it is easy to rot the roots if it is slightly too much watering, so many cannot be raised for a long time, and it is more difficult to cultivate them into old piles alone, and the average person will choose to graft. Crab claw orchid grows fast after grafting, flowers a lot, and it is easy to grow into a flowering tree.
Crab claw orchid is a plant of the cactus family, rootstock must choose the cactus family of plants, of course, to choose the root system is more developed. In the later stage, crab claw orchids can be supplied with more nutrients and grow better.
The rootstocks generally used are cactus, leaf fairy and dragon fruit branches, their root systems are more developed, and the vitality of relatives after grafting is better. Some friends choose to use cactus balls to graft crab claw orchids, in fact, this is unwise, because the root system of the cactus balls themselves is not developed, and the growth is not fast, so it is used to graft, and the supply of nutrients in the later period is insufficient, and the crab claw orchids must not grow well.
Second, cactus grafted crab claw orchid
Grafting crab claw orchid, choose cactus or leaf fairy is more, with cactus grafting, it is best to use a relatively thick cactus, such as beef tongue or rhubarb thorn This leaf is particularly thick, the nutrients inside are particularly large, the later supply of crab claw orchid growth nutrients, plant aging slowly, can support crab claw orchid growth for more than ten years, is very suitable rootstock, cactus varieties are many, when grafting rootstock must choose the right variety, do not choose a very thin cactus, less nutrients, can not grow for a year or two to suck dry.
Choose a cactus thicker leaf grafting, first of all to find a good part of the thorn seat, a palm piece is best grafted 4 points, can be on both sides of the palm piece opposite, more beautiful, if the grafting point is too much, the back grows fast, the palm piece can not move, the thorn seat is the place with thorns, that is, the place where the cactus sprouts side buds, the thorn seat above the half centimeter or so, with a knife obliquely cut 45 degrees angle to cut a two or three cm horizontal knife edge, and then deeply cut about one or two centimeters, the grafted blade must be fast, do not repeatedly squeeze its tissue, The leaves of the crab claw orchid should be selected to be relatively thick, and it is best to have a harder marrow heart, so that the leaves are easy to survive.
Cut the leaves of the crab claw orchid on both sides, remove the green of its forming layer, and expose the white place inside, which is the formation layer of the crab claw orchid, align its formation layer with the knife edge of the cactus to form the layer, directly insert it, and then cut a cactus long thorn, fix it with the thorn, and complete the grafting.
The place where the cactus stabs the seat is the place where the cactus sprouts, which is the nutrient gathering point where it grows, so it is grafted here, the survival rate is relatively high, and the growth rate is relatively fast in the later stage. Then placed in a ventilated scattered light place, about 20 days or so, as long as the wound heals, it can survive, a piece of cactus can be connected to four points, the location can be arbitrarily chosen, for aesthetics, mostly on both sides of the relatively neat grafting.
Of course, there are many ways to graft, and some friends use side grafting. Deeply cutting on the thorn seats on both sides of the immortals, and grafting the crab claw orchid on it, it is also possible to survive. Some friends use the top grafting method to cut the top of the cactus horizontally, cut it in half, and then insert the crab claw orchid into the formation layer above, which can also survive. There are many ways to graft, according to your favorite way to come, but the ultimate purpose of grafting is to be beautiful, to ensure that it can survive.
After survival, crab claw orchid can use the developed root system of cactus and thick leaves to grow their own leaves fat and strong, and there are many long leaves, thick and flowering, and it can bloom two or three stubble flowers a year, which is not a problem at all.
Cactus is not dormant in the summer, summer can continue to grow, but also can continue to supply crab claw orchid nutrients, crab claw orchid is also very easy to survive the summer sad dormant period,
Some friends grafted several layers of crab claw orchids, can live for more than ten years, grow into a large flower tree, very spectacular. Grafted with multi-layered crab claw orchids, you can choose three to five layers of cacti, it is best to use a very straight and thick cactus for the best, this can be cultivated in advance. Each layer can be grafted with four points of crab claw orchid, and each layer can have a separate color, so that the flowers are colorful flower trees, and they are more spectacular.
Third, ye xian grafts crab claw orchid
With the leaf fairy grafting crab claw orchid is also very common, the root system of the leaf fairy is quite developed, 1 year can grow to three or four meters high, the growth is rapid, in addition to the fear of cold, there is no disadvantage, its root system developed nutrients are particularly sufficient, if the crab claw orchid is grafted on the leaf fairy, its sufficient nutrients are all supplied to the crab claw orchid growth, the later growth is relatively fast, the flowering is also more, and the years that can be supported are also more.
It is also relatively simple to graft crab claw orchids with leaf immortals, choose the branches of leaf immortals, choose semi-woody branches, the epidermis should be green or brown, do not have lignified, so that the survival rate is relatively low.
Choose a semi-woody branch and cut the outer skin with a knife in the thorn seat. Exposing the formation layer inside, the crab claw orchid should also choose a relatively thick, on the side of the more drum, that is, the side that receives the sun, called the yang side, here a knife, the formation layer is exposed, and then use the clip to pair its formation layer with the formation layer of the leaf immortal, clamp together, so that the grafting is completed.
Grafting is also very simple, and many flower breeding masters use leaf immortals to graft.
Leaf fairy grafting after about seven days can become alive, more than a month or so can grow and flower, leaf fairy grafting, its branches are relatively thin and soft, can not be formed independently, to use a shelf to support it, but its later will be longer as good as possible, blossoming into a flower waterfall grows to one or two meters high crab claw orchid, most of them are grafted with leaf immortals.
Fourth, dragon fruit to graft crab claw orchids
Many friends also choose to use dragon fruit branches to graft crab claw orchids. The dragon fruit branch itself is relatively thick, the growth is relatively straight, use it to graft the crab claw orchid, can be independent of the row, without shelf support can be, but also from the place where it stabs down to the part of the marrow, and then the crab claw orchid on both sides of the cut, exposing the formation layer, directly into it can be.
General novices just began to learn to graft, are using dragon fruit branches to graft, after grafting, the molding is relatively fast, the growth is relatively rapid, but the growth of the later stage is obviously not as good as the growth speed of cactus and leaf fairy grafting, so we can choose rootstock according to our own needs and our own technology.