How to get new orchids from a bouquet: 6 original ways

Let's talk about 6 original ways of propagating orchids, which will help you grow new plants from flower stalks or leaves.

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Rooting in a sponge

If you want to propagate orchids using flower stalks, then this method will suit you.

You need to prepare a simple kitchen sponge and a long glass a vase Cut the flower stalk and insert it into the hole in the sponge.

Place the sponge with the flower stalk at the bottom of the vase and pour some water. After 10 days, small roots should appear on the peduncle.

Rooting in potatoes

This method is suitable for rooting orchid leaves. You will need potatoes and sphagnum moss.

Potatoes contain starch and moisture, which help root the leaves. Make slits in the potato and insert the orchid leaf.

Wrap the potato with moist sphagnum moss. After 10-14 days, the leaves should take root.

Rooting in banana

This method is also suitable for rooting orchid flower stalks. You will need a banana and sphagnum moss.

Banana has high nutritional value and enough moisture to stimulate rooting of the flower stalks.

Place the flower stalk inside the banana half and cover it with moist sphagnum moss. After 14-20 days, you can transplant the rooted flower stalk into a pot with soil for orchids.

Rooting in natural conditions

This method imitates the natural habitat of orchids – tropical forest. You will need wooden logs, activated charcoal, coconut fiber and sphagnum moss.

Divide the flower stalk into 3 parts, treat each section with activated charcoal.

Attach the stem parts to the logs and wrap them with coir and moist sphagnum moss. Place the logs in light without direct sun. Periodically spray the moss with water.

Rooting by the “shock method”

This method is based on the fact that stress can cause orchids, like any other plants, to take root.

You will need a flat saucer with water, stockings and boiling water. Cut off a leaf from the orchid and hold it over a pair of boiling water for a few seconds.

Then place the leaf in a small cut in the stocking and put it on a saucer of water. After 10-20 days, the leaf can take root.

Rooting in wax

This is a rather unusual method of rooting an orchid using beeswax. You will need wax, a vase of wet sphagnum moss and cling film.

Cut off the peduncle of the orchid and seal the section with wax. Place the peduncle in a vase with sphagnum moss and cover with a film.

Leave for 10 days, periodically opening and moistening the moss. With the help of this method, orchids also take root well.