Reproduction of an orchid by cuttings at home: is it possible to get shoots from a peduncle, how to grow them, and step-by-step instructions, photos, care for the petioles

Phalaenopsis Orchid - description

Phalaenopsis is a genus of epiphytic orchids, which has about forty species. In nature, these orchids grow mainly in Southeast Asia near water.

Phalaenopsis structure

This genus of orchids was first discovered by the Dutch botanist Blume. In the dark, he saw large butterflies sitting on some kind of plant. Imagine the surprise of the botanist when, coming closer, he discovered that these were not butterflies, but flowers!

Blume called this flower "Phalaenopsis", which in Greek means "like a butterfly." It happened in 1825. Since then, Phalaenopsis began its march to the homes of florists as an exquisite and expensive flower.

Phalaenopsis has a wide range of colors. Flowers come in a wide variety of colors and shades, monochromatic and multi-colored.

Phalaenopsis Orchid - gallery

White Phalaenopsis

Burgundy Phalaenopsis

Blue Phalaenopsis

Yellow Phalaenopsis

Peach Phalaenopsis

Variegated Phalaenopsis

Multicolored Phalaenopsis

Pink Phalaenopsis

Black Phalaenopsis

Requirements for the maintenance and care of orchids - table

Temperature	Humidity	Rest time	Bloom	Lighting
In summer, from +20 to + 30 ° C; In winter, from +16 to + 28 ° C; Critical lower threshold, +13 ° C; critical upper threshold + 33 ° C	A minimum of 50% humidity is required. In hot weather 1-2 times a week you can arrange a warm shower and spraying. Do not spray or wet the leaves at low temperatures!	Brief rest between blooms.	It blooms most often in winter and spring, but can almost all year round with breaks for rest. To bloom at night, you need a temperature of +18, during the day + 26 + 28	Diffused light. It can put up with a lack of illumination, but additional lighting is needed for flowering in winter. Daylight hours: 12 hours in winter and 14 hours in summer.

Caring for Phalaenopsis is quite simple and even inexperienced growers can do it. Therefore, this orchid is one of the most popular for growing at home.

Step-by-step instructions for breeding

Let's take a closer look at how an orchid can be propagated through a peduncle at home.

Choosing a suitable flowering shoot

It depends on the choice of a suitable peduncle how successful the breeding process will be.

First of all, it is important that the orchid is healthy, strong and fully formed.

The length of the peduncle does not really matter, the main thing is that the lower dormant buds are present on it.

Pruning

The cut is carried out with a sharp knife or pruner at a distance of about 3 cm from the stem.
The cut site on an adult plant must be treated with crushed activated carbon or an antiseptic.
It makes sense to treat the lower kidneys with cytokinin paste, as described above.
In the future, the procedure will need to be repeated once a week.

Planting in a container with water

The prepared cutting should be placed in a transparent container with room temperature water, for example, in a cut-necked plastic bottle or glass jar.
The water should cover the cutting by about 5 cm.
It is necessary to place a tablet of activated carbon at the bottom of the container, and if desired, you can add mineral fertilizer in 1/4 of the recommended concentration.
The water in the container must be completely changed every week.
The sprouted shoot requires a high temperature (not lower than +25 degrees) and humidity.
To maintain optimal conditions, it is necessary to create a greenhouse (for example, using a plastic bag) and place it in a warm, well-lit place.

We suggest watching a video about creating a greenhouse with water for an orchid baby:

When should the baby be removed from the arrow?

When 2-3 leaves and several aerial roots at least 3 cm long grow from the awakened bud, the baby is ready to be transplanted into a separate pot.

With a sharp movement using a sharp blade or secateurs, it is necessary to separate the baby from the peduncle, leaving about 1 cm along the edges.
Sections must be processed and allowed to dry for 2 hours before planting in the ground.

We offer you to watch a video about the separation of an orchid baby from a peduncle:

Move to the pot

To plant an orchid baby, you need a small plastic pot with a diameter of about 10 cm.

The drainage holes in the pot should be located not only at the bottom, but also on the sides, this ensures that moisture does not accumulate in the substrate, and the rooting process will be successful.

Landing procedure:

A drainage layer approximately 3 cm thick is placed at the bottom of the pot. It can consist of coarse and medium-sized bark fractions.
The drainage is lightly covered with a substrate.
A plant is placed in the center, then carefully sprinkled with soil in a circle until the pot is completely filled.
Make sure that all voids are reliably filled with soil.

A young plant must be planted in a moist substrate. The next watering is carried out in about two days, then - as the substrate dries. For rooting to be successful, the pot with a small orchid must be placed in a greenhouse, which is installed in a warm, well-lit place.

We offer you to watch a video about planting baby orchids into the substrate:

Reproduction by dividing the outlet

The rosette is divided when the orchid has grown up, and it is possible to divide it into a lower and an upper part.

Such a bush has long been in need of updating through the separation of the outlet.

You need to divide so that there are a sufficient number of roots and the main number of leaves on the upper part. From the bottom, you can only leave the stump of the rosette and roots. New orchid bushes will begin to grow from the hemp.

Prepare a new substrate for the bottom and a pot and substrate for the top of the orchid.

Substrate: pine bark, pieces of charcoal.
At the bottom of the pot, you can put a drainage from expanded clay or large perlite, and on top of the substrate - pure sphagnum.

Step-by-step instructions for the process

Remove the orchid bush from the pot.
Dumping the orchid out of the pot
Free the roots from the old substrate.
Freeing the roots from the substrate
Determine the location of the cut.
Determine the location of the cut
Cut off the top, being careful not to damage the roots.
Cut off the top without damaging the roots
Cut off all diseased and dry roots, if necessary, soak for half an hour in a solution for treatment.
Cut off all rotten and dry roots
Treat all sections with an antiseptic after a little drying.
We treat all sections with an antiseptic
Plant both sides of the rosette in the substrate.
A new bush grows from the bottom
You need to water in the usual way, when the roots turn from green to silver-gray.

Green roots on the left do not need watering, gray ones on the right need watering

Additional tips:

peduncles at the top can be left if they are not dried up;
preparations for soaking roots: Fitosporin, Fitolavin, Epin (you can use them together or separately);
when planting, try to fill the voids with the substrate, using a stick and shaking the pot.

There are times when a baby grows up next to the main bush and two sockets are obtained. In this case, the course of action is the same, only you need to separate the bushes in the middle between the outlets.

These two sockets must be separated and seated separately.

Feedback on the reproduction of the Phalaenopsis orchid by dividing the rosette

She just chicked a top with air roots, anointed the stump with green stuff and put it on a piece of styrofoam surrounded by bark.

I did not cut the leaves and did not shake out the stump from the pot. The crown did not notice the sabotage, did not even miss the flowering. And the baby was presented.

Ukka931

Orchid propagation by branches and cuttings

Not always, caring for orchids, it turns out to create favorable conditions for their growth or independent vegetation.What to do if the flower does not have children or basal processes, and you are afraid to share the bush? There are two more reliable ways to propagate an orchid at home.

Bends

Orchid propagation by branches is a simple and safe method for the plant. For this, leafless stems are used in the varieties Dendrobium, Epidendrum, Vanda. The optimal time for applying the method is spring; in favorable summer conditions, the plant will get strong enough and take root.

Prepare a pot of sphagnum moss and figure out how to create a greenhouse over it. Most often, homemade devices are used from disposable plastic containers, where a hole is made at the place where the stem passes.
The prepared cuttings pot is placed next to the mother plant

The leafless stem is laid horizontally on the moss and carefully fixed in this position. A greenhouse is organized on top.
Moss is regularly moisturized

After a month, the buds on the stem should awaken, and small orchids with leaves and roots will grow from them.
Maintain optimal moisture content in the moss and arrange additional lighting if necessary.

Cuttings from stems and peduncles

Another simple, but requiring a lot of attention, method of propagation of an orchid is the use of a peduncle and leafless stems for cuttings.

After flowering, the leafless stem or green peduncle is divided into parts with a sterile instrument. Cut the pieces so that there are 1-2 knots on each. Please note that in the lower part of the stem and peduncle, the dormant axillary buds are the most active and strong, and in the upper part they may not germinate.
All cuts should be charcoal treated to avoid introducing infection into the cuttings.
The cuts are placed on damp moss or substrate and covered with cling film, a bag, or a clear plastic container. The container with cuttings should be placed in a warm place, where its contents will constantly warm up to 25-28 degrees.
Constantly monitor the moisture content of the moss and spray or water it if necessary

It is important to avoid condensation - this is a sign of overmoistening, which threatens the formation of mold. When water droplets appear on the surface of the "covering material", an impromptu greenhouse should be opened for ventilation and drying.
Every 10 days, cuttings must be fed with mineral and organic fertilizers.
After a month, the axillary buds wake up, and small orchids begin to grow from them.

When the length of the roots reaches 3-4 cm, the plants can be transplanted together with the parent cuttings to a permanent place in the substrate.

You can clearly learn about the technique of grafting orchids from stems and peduncles from the video:

Another method of propagation of orchids from a peduncle is based on the classic method of grafting. But do not expect to see the roots over time - after a month, "children" will appear in the place of the awakened kidneys. After flowering, the green peduncle is cut off and placed in water with fertilizers (for example, "Doctor Foley"). The container with the handle should be in the light in a warm place. When the children are sufficiently formed and release long roots, they can be relocated to a permanent place.

In what ways and how to propagate an orchid

Orchids of sympodial species can be divided in the spring, combining this process with transplantation. Monopodial cultures are propagated in other ways.

Separate the children, cut the peduncles and cuttings with sterile tools. Antiseptics are used to treat the sections: crushed charcoal, fungicides.

Peduncle propagation

When the plant has bloomed, the peduncle is used for reproduction. The dormant buds on the stem can become young orchids.

The stem is cut, leaving a stump of 1.5 cm. Further actions:

The peduncle is cut into pieces, leaving a knot with a bud on each.
They are treated with a fungicide, laid out on wet moss, immersing the buds in it.
Cover with foil.

Before the appearance of leaf rosettes, greenhouse conditions are created.

Reproduction by children

Daughter processes with roots often appear on their own. The appearance of children can be stimulated by treating the kidneys with cytokinin paste.

Separate the children who have grown their roots on their own for six months.

Recommendations:

Cut off the baby with a knife or secateurs;
Sprinkle the slices with an antiseptic.
Transplant into a separate pot.

Sympodial orchids are propagated by layering.

Propagation by cuttings

To obtain cuttings, old stems or young lateral shoots are used. If they already have air roots, this simplifies the process, otherwise they create greenhouse conditions for germinating roots.

Cut from the stems, make them 10-15 cm long. Then use the same algorithm as for peduncles.

Seed propagation

Small orchid seeds germinate only under special conditions. Only true enthusiasts have the patience and time to complete the job.

They buy a special nutrient substrate for seeds. Germination will take about 9 months:

The substrate is placed in a sterile glass flask.
Transfer the seeds to the flask.
Cap the container.
Placed in a warm, lighted place.
After a year, the sprouts are transplanted into the ground.

A plant grown in this way blooms in its fourth year of life.

Reproduction problems of the Phalaenopsis orchid - table

Problem	Cause	Solution
The leaves of the children turn yellow	Lack of food	Feed the plants with fertilizer through spraying.
For a long time, children do not appear on the peduncle.	The orchid is too comfortable and does not intend to reproduce.	You can give Phalaenopsis a little stress. Reduce watering, do not feed, raise the temperature to 30-32 degrees. At the same time, make sure that the roots do not dry out! Or use the forced method with cytokinin paste.
The peduncle has turned yellow or dried up, and the baby has not yet given roots.	Lack of nutrition of the mother plant. The orchid may be weak or young.	Remove the baby, you can cut it off with part of the peduncle. Place the baby on the moss, and cut off the peduncle. Feed the baby through spraying, the fertilizer dose is three times less.
The mother plant needs treatment, and babies began to appear on the peduncles.	Weakened plant, improper care or poor quality substrate.	Cut off the stalks and place them in water with activated charcoal powder. Change the water every three days (can be tinted with methylene blue). Spray the babies with top dressing once a week. Treat the mother bush and replace the substrate. When the peduncle withers, plant the children on the moss.
The top of the orchid is cut with a few roots that have dried up.	The cut was made too high or the plant has not yet matured to this propagation method.	Plant the top on the moss, spray with fertilizers with a high nitrogen content (the dosage is half as much). Fertilize once a week until roots appear. Then once a month.
Seeds do not germinate on the substrate	Perhaps there is not enough warmth and light.	Place the pot in a backlit greenhouse.

Tips for successful reproduction and growth of Phalaenopsis:

for feeding, use special fertilizers for orchids or reduce the dosage by half for adult plants and three times for small ones;
use only warm boiled water for spraying and watering;
when the temperature drops, the humidity must also be reduced;
try not to flood the rosette of leaves! If water gets there, you need to blot it with a napkin or cotton swab.

There should be no water in the leaf outlet!

Preparations for the cultivation and treatment of orchids - photo gallery

Growth and flowering activator with chitosan and succinic acid

Foliar Tonic

Biological product for pests

Survival program

Biofungicide

Leaf tonic

Dutch fertilizer

Bioactivator

Comprehensive care program

Fertilizer Multiflor

Shower gel

Nitrogen fertilizer for the substrate

Root growth stimulant

Complex fertilizer

Don't be afraid to experiment with Phalaenopsis breeding. Maybe you come up with your own technology, and then share it with others!

Fundamental rules

Despite the fact that the process of reproduction of an orchid with the help of a peduncle is considered the simplest, it requires strict adherence to certain rules, otherwise the result may be far from the desired.

The factor that triggers the transformation of a dormant bud on a peduncle into a new plant is stress.

That is why it is so important to maintain the right conditions throughout the entire breeding period.

The temperature should be above room temperature, not below +25 degrees. It is not recommended to exceed the mark of +30 degrees, this will most likely lead to overheating and possible death of the plant.
Watering should be reduced to twice a month.
Humidity should remain high - 60-80%.
It is strongly discouraged to use top dressing and fertilizers.

The optimal breeding period for orchids is from late February to early summer. It is during this period that the chances of success are greatest.

If, even if all the conditions for awakening the kidney were not achieved, you can use cytokinin paste, which can be purchased at any flower shop. It is a hormonal agent that stimulates the growth and division of new cells.