Assertion: epiphytic orchid | /r/HasProperty | watered
Facets:
value: very frequently
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: However, this is not the miraculous solution, the plants must however be monitored and in periods of high heat the humidity and wetting must be more frequent: The support on which the epiphytic orchids are fixed must be of hard wood, it must last in a very wet environment several years; avoid very resinous coniferous woods; do not use wood fallen on the ground for a long time in the woods and that are already beginning to decompose, also avoid wood collected on the seashore because surely the salinity will be very high; do not use wood or freshly cut branches they must dry a few months to keep the bark well attached to the wood; the most suitable woods for this purpose are: acacia, oak, vines and other fruit plants and naturally cork bark, avoid wood with too smooth bark the small roughness allow the roots to stick strongly and the moisture finds room to penetrate and stay longer; we do not like the arboreal fern supports, widely used in tropical countries, because in addition to the high cost and the difficult finding, when it is soaked with water it dries very slowly and sometimes can cause damage to the roots; naturally the epiphytic orchids will be fertilized regularly, being watered very frequently the nutritive salts are washed out without danger of stagnation.