Showing posts with label Orchid enemies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orchid enemies. Show all posts
Go away...this is my territory!
Makarimi Abdullah
More than 20 years I spend my free time for gardening, especially planting and collecting orchids. Many of my friends admire my orchids, and I really appreciate that. It is not an easy job to ensure all my orchid in perfect beauty all the time.Sometimes it is too hard for me, not because of the time constrain, but the enemies!
I have lot of enemies in my garden, more than you can imagine.
FYI, I have more than 1000 pots, for sure it is very different treatment/ way I should take. Hopefully, this reason will not demotivate you to plant orchid in your garden! Orchid de Dangau is located near to rice field, bushes and beside the poultry farm (if interested you can read Dangau Poultry Farm)so for sure the enemies is different from your garden!
Here i list down what I should facing all the way to maintain the beauties of my orchid.
1. Chickens and turkeys
2. Monkeys
3. Rats
4. Skink (Mengkarung)
5. Hornet (Tebuan) - Vespa tropica
6. Achatina fulica (siput babi)
7. Chinese rice grasshopper & yellow locust (belalang hijau & belalang kunyit)
8. Birds (sparrow) [Burung pipit]
9. Squrriel (tupai rumah)
10. Insects (most common) - the big challenge for me is orchid weevil (kumbang gajah/kumbang tanduk), other: spider mite, thrips, whitefly, ant, mealybug
11. Fungus (most common)

I will story more details, how these enemies influence to my orchid plants and flowers in future post.
(P/S: I quote the pictures by link the caption)
Turkey

Skink (Mengkarung)
Hornet (tebuan) - Vespa tropica
Achatina fulica (siput babi)
Chinese rice grasshopper

Yellow locust
Sparrow (Anthus Spp)
Squirrel (Tupai)
Orchid weevil




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Good bye my friend!
Makarimi Abdullah
See right to the title of this post ... a little surprise? I want to say goodbye to my good friend when gardening. After so long close with me, proximity 2 times a week ... I had to let go. Approximately more than 6 years I use it in the garden. What I mean is ... Back-pack fertilizer / pesticide sprayer.





I just got a new friend ... a passion for gardening more orchids. I will get familiar with this friend after this. Working hard and durable ... heeheee. Last time i used 2 times a week, perhaps with a new friend , it becomes 4 times a week. Whatever grateful to old friends which contributed a lot ... and helped me to win many orchids competitions.

If story about fertilizer and pesticides ... something that becomes essential for the farmers, veggies farmers ,  fruits farmers and flower growers. Fungicide, pesticide and fertilizers will increase productivity and yields.

If you focus on orchids, fertilizing should be frequent enough to give substance to the flowering bushy and healthy, and quality. Only the quality, healthy and fresh orchid will be judged in a competition. 

My experience in growing orchids, fertilizers and fungicide/pesticide regularly helps me to get a good quality, healthy and fresh orchids, and worthy to be crowned the winner in the competition. I was sprayed the  fungicide/pesticide and fertilizer once a week, which is fungiside and pesticides was alternate once a week. It is recommended to fertilize 2 times a week for optimal results. Last time I follow this schedule systematically , because in my collection just few hundred pots, but when it become almost thousand, its very difficult for me to spray my orchids systematically. It's so tired. Extreme tiredness.

So with a new friend, I will practice it again. New adventures just begin ... and I'll update the results from time to time.






As a guide to share ...

The first week, Wednesday-Fungicide
                        Saturday - Ferterlizer
The second week, Wednesday - pesticides
                             Saturday - Ferterlizer
The third week     Wednesday - Fungiside
                             Saturday - Ferterlizer
Fourth week        Wednesday - pesticides
                           Saturday - Ferterlizer

This is the schedule that I use. It will be changed to suit your weekly schedule. 
Remember one thing! You need to watering your plants first before spray with fertilizer, fungicide or pesticide.

Good luck!

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