How to water orchids to make them lush and flowers how to race? Growers recommend fertilizer from onion skin.
Simple home elixir for your orchid health
Do not hesitate to try a simple homemade fertilizer that will make your orchid a healthy, beautiful and lush flowering plant. Health is the foundation! The plant that does not suffer has ideal conditions and suitable nutrients, It will not only bloom, but will also grow, it will better resist any pests, but also to the fools in the carethat everyone will commit from time to time.
How to nourish the orchid? Knowing things recommend onion fertilizer or. It is a fertilizer easy to produce, you only need household waste in the form of onion peels – and that’s all.
Why onions?
Why should it work? The onions clearly contain beneficial substances that are used for their healthy people, but work very well in the care of plants. These substances include antioxidants, flavonoids, potassium and sulfur. Although we associate antioxidants with the fight against free radicals, it is in the onion, which helps plants in defensive reactions. Onions have slightly disinfection antibacterial effects and volatile substances from the onion or onion odor, repel many pests.
Each fertilizer, and therefore onion, must be treated with cautiously. In practice, it seems that you should not use it too concentrated and more than 1 to 2 times a month.
In the case of orchids It is necessary to ensure that the plant is not waterlogged. It is ideal to leave a flower pot for 10 minutes in onion water. Then pull out the pots, let all excess water drain and return to the original habitat.
How to prepare the extract and use properly
Onion fertilizer is popular with orchid owners and works great for various other rooms or garden crops. In just a few weeks, the first additions and sprouting of new leaves are visible.
Although a completely natural and easy -to -manufacture leach of onion peels is a perfect means to water orchid, it is not a fertilizer that will replace all other products.
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Production is extremely simple. You will need:
- 2 liters of boiled or rainwater
- two handfuls of dry skins from onion
- container
- colander
Put the onion peels in the container and pour them over 1 liter of hot water. Let the macerate until the next day, then drain, dilute a liter of clean water so that the fertilizer is not too strong. Then use as a watering for flowers.
