Is it possible to save an orchid without roots, with one living leaf: garlic will not let the flower perish
Some gardeners proudly boast of a real greenhouse of orchids, while others are sad to notice that their plants stop blooming, dry out, wither or rot.
If you belong to the latter category, you will probably find the advice of an expert from the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh useful. She told how to restore a plant even if its roots are practically absent and only one leaf remains alive.
To do this, you will need the most common garlic and the instructions from this article.
First, treat the orchid to remove any remaining soil, dry roots, and fungus-infected leaves. Ultimately, you should be left with a central stem with undamaged, healthy leaves.
The stem should be dried to remove excess moisture using a paper towel.
The next step is to crush 3 large garlic cloves using a knife or mortar. Place the crushed garlic in a glass container and pour in 400 milliliters of water.
To improve the properties of the product, garlic can be soaked in rice water.
To make rice water, add two tablespoons of rice to the water, stir, and strain immediately. This will help saturate the water with calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus.
Garlic soaked in water is left for three hours.
After this, the garlic tincture should be strained. A small amount of the resulting liquid is poured into a tall glass or bottle.
Then you need to soak only the base of the orchid in this liquid for 25 minutes.
All that remains is to let the orchid dry, after which you will have to construct a structure from a plastic bottle, the neck of which you need to cut off and place it on the bottom with the lid up.
Place the plant inside so that the root is standing on the bottle cap, and fill the container with water so that the base of the orchid just touches the surface.
All that remains is to regularly top up and change the water for fresh water, and also spray the flower leaves with clean water every 3 days, and in about a month you will see that the orchid has put out new roots.
Earlier, the expert told when to plant begonia seedlings.
