２．The planting materials and
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| When we talk about the materials of planting for Paph, we have to talk about trasplanting at the same time. We have to transplant Paphs, when (1) the materials in pot is aged, (2) Paph grows bigger than we expected for the pot, (3) Paph is unhealthy for desease and/or salt trouble in pot and we had better wash the roots in fresh water as fast as possible. We have many kinds for materials of planting. In truth, you have to deside the materials for your growing by yourself and we can not recomend which one is the best for you. Because it is dependent on the surroundings for growing Paphs and your personality. |
When we transplant ?Transplanting for Paphs should be faster
than we expected basicaly.
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The materials for transplanting(1) sphagnum moss
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(1) Sphagnum moss |
< preparations > |
| You have to use sphagnum moss as fresh as possible.
You prepare appropriate amount of moss in a bucket and soaked
in water all night long. In the next day, you curl up it to a
ball, wring it dry and spread on news paper to dry. Keep it for
a few hours at least until the moss dry to be moist lightly |
| Transplanting（Figure） |
| You can use any kinds of flower pots like unglazed pottery, plastic and plastic film. I recomend the plastic film for the biginners. |
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| (a) You take out the plant from pot not to injure
the roots and take off the aged potting materialswell. Take off
the rotted root and dried leaves at the same time. You may devide
the plants if you need. (b) You soak the plant in the mixture of medicine, a germicide and an insecticide. The medicine should be diluted to a few times more than regular using. A germicide will be Benlate and/or Manneb. When you devide the plant, I recomend to put the pasted medicine of a germicide with a small amount of water. |
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| The upper is using sphagnum moss only for the
potting material. The lower is using sphagnum moss and stones. |
| (c) You keep the plants with several bigger
stones, a kind of volcano stones like Hyuga just under the plants,
the center of the plant and put sphagnum moss around the roots.
You had better put the moss not to wind. Be careful not to injure
roots. You don't need to put moss on the end of roots. You put moss bigger and harder on the base of plant and lesser and softer on the end of root like tailing over. (d) Put the plant in pot not to injure roots. As the moss around the base of plant is bigger, it will be fixed well when you press the moss into pot. From the middle to the lower part of pot, the amount of moss will be lessen and it will fixed softly. (e) After transplanting, the plants must be keeping in the condition of the stronger shade and lesser watering for about one month. Never fertilize in this situation. |
The transplanting for the biginners |
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For the biginners, it is very difficult to use sphagnum moss
for the transplanting material. When you can not taransplant
well in sphagnum moss and water too much, the roots of Paphs
will be rotted evry easily. So, if you want to use spagnum moss,
you had better replace the larger stones on the lower part of
pot instead of moss to keep fresh air among the stones. This is very nice transplanting for the biginners. The biggest faults is the next transplanting. When the plant and their roots grow well, you can not transplant in the same procedure. Because their roots are too long and too amny. In this case, you put the plant in a pot at the first and stone for the next about half depth. And you make moss round in a small ball with a diameter of a few centimeters and put it through roots.around the base of plant, you put more moss harder in order to keep the plant stable. |
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