Does Tiger Piran need to be pruned, how to prune Tiger Piran

Tiger orchids generally do not need to be pruned during the normal indoor maintenance process, and flower friends who have planted tiger orchids know it. This is also due to its appearance, unlike multi-leaf clustered plants, which must be pruned frequently to achieve a better growth and aesthetic appearance.

In the process of home maintenance, potted tiger orchid flowering is actually a relatively rare situation, of course, if the tiger orchid blooms, in fact, as a succulent evergreen plant of tiger orchid, its flowers are not beautiful, when the flowering period is over, first of all, the residual flowers should be cut off in time to ensure the overall aesthetics of the plant, and at the same time can also reduce the demand for nutrients. Cutting off the residual flowers can make the tiger tail orchid from reproductive growth to vegetative growth faster, and grow with richer nutrients ** leaves, so as to maintain the beauty of the overall plant shape of the tiger tail orchid and make it more ornamental. Tiger pill orchid is a perennial evergreen herb native to West Africa and now cultivated throughout China.

Its leaves are thick and broad, straight and erect, and there are dark green irregular cloud striations on both sides of the leaves, which is also called tiger tail because it resembles a tiger's tail.

Tiger pill orchid, also known as tiger tail orchid, is a very typical foliage plant that is fast, adaptable, and can thrive in a moist and warm environment. Tiger piran not only has ornamental value, but also can purify the air and absorb formaldehyde, which is one of the flowers that flower lovers must raise. In the process of maintaining tiger piran, pruning is very important, so how to prune tiger piran?

In the growth period of tiger piran, some dead leaves, yellow leaves, and diseased leaves can be cut off one by one, so as to ensure the permeability and light transmittance of the whole plant. In addition, timely disinfection after pruning can be carried out with carbendazim solution to avoid bacterial infection in the wound.

In fact, there is no ornamental effect on the flowers of tiger piran, so you can use sterilizing scissors to cut off the broken flowers to avoid nutrient consumption and promote healthy branch and leaf growth. Be careful not to cut off the entire stem. But tiger orchids are not so easy to see and usually take several years to be cultivated before they bloom.

Precautions for raising and planting tiger piran.

1. Avoid direct sunlight in summer. Although Tiger Piran loves light, it should also be avoided from direct sunlight in summer to avoid sunburn.

2. Avoid placing tiger pills in a stuffy environment. The weather is hot during the summer season, and the excessively humid and muggy environment can cause the tiger pill to become sick or rot. So, be sure to place the tiger pill orchid in a ventilated and cool place.

3. Tiger Piran is drought tolerant but not cold-tolerant. When the temperature is lower than 5, the tiger pill is prone to frostbite and even death, so in the winter we have to move the tiger pill orchid indoors for maintenance, and ensure that the room temperature is not lower than 5.

If the tiger pill orchid grows too tall, it can be truncated and cut off from the middle of the leaf with sharp scissors, and ensure that the wound is smooth and neat, to avoid damaging the stem, and after pruning, the wound should be smeared with plant ash to avoid excessive loss of tissue fluid, in order to avoid the tiger pill orchid growing taller again, it is necessary to change the pot every 2 years to provide sufficient growth space.

After the tiger pill orchid grows too tall, it should be truncated, use the sharp scissors after sterilization, and cut off the leaves that grow too high from the middle, pay attention to the pruning process, to ensure the integrity and smoothness of the wound, to avoid damage to the stem, and after pruning, apply plant ash to the wound to help the wound heal.

In the process of breeding, in order to avoid the phenomenon of tiger pill orchid growing taller, the pot should be replaced every 2 years, so that the root system can store nutrients and grow more developed, and the tiger pill orchid should be placed in a astigmatism environment, providing no less than 5 hours of light every day to promote its photosynthesis.

Tiger pill orchid likes water is not moisture tolerant, watering to follow the principle of rather dry than wet, insert bamboo skewers into the potting soil, when the bamboo skewers are wet, then do not need to water, and in spring and autumn for the tiger pill orchid regularly and quantitatively apply slow-release fertilizer, so that the plant absorbs nutrients and grows vigorously.

Tiger piran is too tall to prune directly, cut off all the leaves that are too long to affect the appearance, and then spray potassium permanganate at the wound, or spray carbendazim solution to sterilize and disinfect, put it in a cool place to stop watering and fertilizing, wait for a week after the wound heals, and move it to a place with sufficient light for careful maintenance.

If the tiger pill orchid grows too tall and affects its ornamental value, we can directly prune the leaves of the tiger pill orchid, but do not do it in rainy days, and cut off all the leaves that are too long to affect the appearance during pruning, which can reduce soil nutrient consumption and improve the ornamental value of tiger pill orchid.

How to prune the tiger pill orchid is too high, after each pruning of the tiger pill orchid, it needs to be placed in a cool and dry place, and the watering and fertilization should be stopped, and the diluted potassium permanganate in the ratio of 1:500 or carbendazim solution should be sprayed to sterilize and disinfect, which can also prevent the tiger pill orchid from suffering from pests and diseases, affecting its healthy growth.

After pruning, wait for a week, replant the tiger pill in a larger container, and then move it to a place with sufficient sunlight for maintenance, with the help of sunlight, the tiger pill orchid can grow more vigorously, and it can also prevent the tiger pill orchid from growing over, so that the tiger pill orchid grows better.