Daily waste that can become Green energy for Orchid

 Daily waste turn into fertilizer

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    Closer View ( Other angle )

Daily Waste: Green Tea leaf

Turn into: Fertilizer for orchid

How to do: Pour unwanted Green Tea leaf into the orchid bowl.

Solution: No pollution and save your own budget.

Mistakes that Common Enthusiast Commit

                                                                                                   Mistakes Common Enthusiast Do

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  Closer View ( Stem )

Name: Sun Burn

Cause By: Direct sunlight for a long time

What happen: Cause orchid tissue dry out ( Short Time )
                       Cause the part that get direct sunlight died, because vascular system
                       been destroyed ( Long Time )

Solution: Move orchid to an environment that has 70% of shade that cover the whole
               body of the plant and spread some moist on the plant. 

Common Disease for Orchid 2

                                                                                                                     Disease 3

                                                                                                                     Front View

                                                                                                              Top to Bottom View

                                                                                                                     Back View

                                                                                             Leaf dries ( Because stem been destroy )

                                                                                             Leaf turning yellow ( Cause by snail bite )

Name: Snail eating

Cause By: Snails

What happen: New buds get eaten.
                       Leaf start to turn yellow and dry out. ( because snail destroy orchid's stem )
                       Soon the whole plant will died by malnutrition.

Time: Any Time ( Dependent by the number of snails that is eating the plant )

Solution: Kill the snail by taking it away for the orchid and eschew moist environment for
              snails to reproduce and survive.
                   

Common Diseases for Orchid

DISEASE 1

                                                                                                                      Front view

                                                                                         Up to bottom ( see the leaf start to turn yellow )

                                                                                                                       Side view

                                                                                                        Close up ( Leaf peeling off )

                                                                                                Close up view ( Roots shrinking )


Name: Yellow Leaf / Fusarium wilt

Cause By: Fusarium oxysprum f. sp, cattleyae ( Virus )

What Happen: - Leaf start to turn yellow, thin, shrink
                       - Roots start rotten, finally turn to brown and purple at the base of the plant.

Time: affect plants may live 3-9 weeks. ( Longer may be a year )

Solution: after plant died please put the media under the sunlight about 5-7 days. ( killing the virus in the media may prevent the next orchid from affection )

( Don't recommend using drug, because it is too expensive and not convenient, since we just plant for personal habit and entertainment )

                                                                                                                    DISEASE 2

 Up to bottom View

 Side View

 Closer View ( Look at the tip of the leaf )

 Closer View ( stem started to shrink and black spots appear )

  Closer View ( Leaf  tip slowly drying)

Closer View ( Leaf slowly drying )

Closer View ( Leaf dried )

Name: Anthracnose

Cause By: Colleetotriohum phalaenopsidis Peuzig

What Happen: - small black spots start appear at the tip of the orchard leaf and slowly spread to the base cause leaf to dry and fall off.

Time: During any season

Solution: put the orchid in a ventilate area and prevent high temperature and moist.

( All information above are from personal experience ( Pictures ) and research from the Internet ( Information ) Those aren't mine!! )