Plants that have been speculated to sky-high prices are now disliked, the reasons and survival prospects**.
New Year's outlook for 2024 Orchids, which belong to the orchid family, have a high ornamental value. Orchids in the strict sense refer to eight varieties such as Chunlan, Molan, Jianlan and Huilan.
In the past, orchids inhabiting the mountains and wilderness were deeply loved by people for their unique flower shape, fragrant aroma and rich connotation, and became a prominent cultural symbol.
In the new era, orchids rely on the east wind of the capital and become fragrant and sweet, with millions of orchids at every turn, making them rise and be in short supply.
While it soared, it was just a bubble, and as more and more people entered the market, it dropped sharply and the number of people affected continued to grow.
In order to recognize the orchid market, it is necessary to fully understand the value of orchids and the reasons for them, so that we can develop a planting strategy suitable for the season and avoid the risk of overplanting.
Market characteristics. Orchids are ornamental, cultural and commoditive, and are deeply loved by domestic consumers and have become market leaders.
Ornamental. Orchid with its unique structure, strange flower shape, erratic aroma, deep and beautiful, colorful, different varieties of plants have their own beauty, such as the tiger orchid is gorgeous, the elegance of the plain orchid.
In addition to flowers, orchid leaves are also highly ornamental. The posture of the leaves, the shape of the leaves and the patterns of the flowers complement each other, and the combination of length and thickness constitutes a beautiful picture.
Cultural attributes. Orchid is a symbol of beautiful things, and cultivating and planting orchids has been an activity for literati to cultivate their self-cultivation and nourishment since ancient times, and it is also a good gift for gifts.
Historically, there are many kinds of ink orchids, innumerable, such as the watercolor brushwork of the court painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, the ink spring orchid of Zhao Mengzhuan of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the ink and wash spring orchid of Zheng Sichun in the early Yuan Dynasty.
Product attributes. Orchids have high ornamental and cultural attributes, good commodity attributes, high economic benefits, low-end varieties can be used as potted flowers, and high-end varieties can be used for investment.
In the past, when the limelight was strong, there were thousands of orchids everywhere, but now the bubble has dissipated, such as Yonghuaixu, Jinsha Bookstore, and Suding Houguan, all of which have fallen off the altar.
The cause of the fall.
With the development of the times, orchids are becoming more and more common, as a result of being abandoned by capital, they cannot be ordinary flower varieties, and their appearance is the inevitable result of market development.
Science and technology are booming, and the supply capacity is enhanced. With the rapid development of science and technology, the cultivation and planting methods in the past have been greatly improved, and novel science and technology have helped the development of the industry, and the expansion rate of production capacity has increased exponentially.
The more expensive the orchid, the more concentrated it is, and the fewer varieties it takes, the more the opportunity to rapidly expand the scale of cultivation, with the result that the noblest orchid is naturalized as an ordinary orchid and cannot become an evergreen.
* Bubbles are counterproductive and awareness declines. Although orchids have a strong fragrance and different forms, their value varies from person to person, and everyone's cognition is different, and the ** they are willing to pay is also different.
Therefore, when the inflated bubble is ruthlessly dismantled, different groups of people have different cognitions, there will be value differences, pessimism and negativity will spread from top to bottom, gradually occupy the market, and the top-down positioning will be subverted.
The withdrawal of capital hastened the collapse of the industry. With the decline in the commercial value of orchids and the squeeze of profit margins, the promoters behind the scenes have been withdrawn by capital one after another, and the buying and selling have become increasingly dull, and the attention has plummeted.
Orchids were abandoned by capital, which directly led to the cultivation of the industrial planting chain in prison, and the midstream industry chain brokers were stationed to check at the same time, resulting in downstream consumers being afraid to take action, and the amount of orchids was greatly reduced.
Counterfeiting is rife, and the foundation of trust is crumbling. The increase in the value of orchid products has given birth to a complete industrial chain of counterfeiting and selling, and sticky flowers, inferior flowers and other high-quality flowers are passed off as high-quality flowers, and some through the Internet platform, inferior orchids are flooded, resulting in the collapse of the bridge of trust in buying and selling orchids.
Cultivation techniques. There are many varieties of orchids, different ecological habits, and large differences in related cultivation areas and climates, resulting in different management methods.
Prepare the crop. Seedlings can be purchased directly from professional stores online, and transplanting should be selected in a planting environment with ventilation and light transmission, convenient drainage and irrigation, and suitable temperature and humidity.
Containers and substrates can be freely combined and selected at will: containers can be purple sand pots, tile pots, porcelain pots, plastic pots;The substrate can be an irregular substrate such as bark, fern roots, tiles, coconut shells, etc., or an irregular substrate such as aquaphytic moss, cow dung, humus, feathers, etc.
Moisture management. In the process of watering, the watering strategy should be flexibly adjusted according to the substrate, season, temperature and humidity and variety, and the humidity and growth should be checked regularly.
The growth period, high temperature, sunny days, good growth, poor water retention should be watered more, dormant period, low temperature, rainy days, poor growth, good water retention should be watered less management principles.
Nutrient management. Under the natural ecological environment, orchids are rooted in barren rock trunks, and there is a shortage of nutrients, and they cannot take in enough nutrients, so thick fertilizer and heavy fertilizer are harmful, and nutrient management should be scientific and reasonable, appropriate and diligent, sufficient light, and avoid sudden taboos.
That is, the slow-acting organic fertilizer and the fast-acting inorganic fertilizer are reasonably matched to effectively supplement the constant, medium and trace elements; The concentration of fertilizer should be appropriate, and the dosage and concentration should not be too high, which is easy to hurt seedlings and plants; It is also necessary to adjust the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in the fertilizer according to the seedling conditions.
Pest and disease control. Pests and diseases are common natural enemies of flower and vegetable crops, especially in artificial cultivation, orchids have weakened their own resistance and are more susceptible to the threat of pests and diseases, such as thrips, spider mite, scale insects, nematodes, etc.
In terms of prevention and control, it is necessary to strictly prevent diseases, eliminate diseased and weak seedlings, and strengthen the inspection and disinfection system; It is necessary to adopt overall management, improve cultivation methods, strengthen the management of light, water and fertilizer, and improve resistance; Preventive spraying and pest control should be alternated.
Finally, I want to say that the wind and clouds are illusory, the thunderstorms are natural, and the fallen leaves that people talk about return to their roots, and it is the noble orchid that returns to the homes of ordinary people, which is a very good thing.