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That is Rlc. Siao-Cing Beauty aka not my plant. That plant was loaned to me for the pollinia, which I harvested and have used for a couple of hybridizations already. It is another dark red, vigorous, fragrant Cattleya. I have promised progeny from the crosses to the owner of this plant. It is interesting that you noticed this.....

I have lived in Southwest Florida for only 10 years and brought my orchids inside my garage once in that time (but maybe I did not need to). I will think about bringing some in when the temps get into the lower 40s and high 30s. When it got cold before, I wrapped my tree mounted orchids in frost protection blankets - that is the lightweight white cloth that is used specifically for that. I do not move orchids for hurricanes and very rarely for cold.

@ I have lived in Cape Coral for 5 years and have only been growing orchids for 1 year. It makes me nervous with temps in the 50’s but if you say it’s ok then I will try it. Thank you for the response.

Hey - it was dark outside. And I saw a bloom spike that I would not normally have seen. So, there may be more flashlight use in the future!!

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I do not know if they still have it - RF Orchids is response to phone calls. I brought these two Cattleyas onto my local orchid society meeting where we have member (popular) judging. Cornerstone 'Compass' won the third place in the category - there were a lot of really nice Catts. When I removed the plants from the display table, a few people around me gasped because they had not really seen the flower since it was buried behind other plants. Once I removed the plant, they moved closer for a better look. Competitive orchid growers place their plants in advantageous viewing locations at meetings and shows, so that their plants get the best viewing. I always hope that people will look carefully at each flower at these meetings, like I do - apparently this does not always happen. I am happy that you liked this flower - I also think that it is really nice - cannot wait for the other blooms to open!!

@@plantpropagator 😊😊😊rf no luck, but I found it Odom orchard 😀 so happy 😀

@@yolantalachance2779 Thanks for letting me know - I like the people at Odoms - need to plan another trip there very soon.....

I do not know why you had an empty spike. I have seen blossoms rot inside the sheath but that was rot and not nutrient deficiency or oversupply. I have also seen some blossom deformities that are related to the use of fertilizers or supplements that include growth regulators, or viruses. If this plant has not bloomed for you previously, you have also even have a genetically defective plant where bloom development has been disrupted. Sorry - could be a lot of things.....

@@plantpropagator They have been great bloomers in previous years, so it is not about genetics. I'll keep monitoring them. If it happens a second time, I will think it is disease... that would be unfortunate, they are very good plants!

Thanks for your comment - more blooms coming!!...

Congrats on your seed capsule! I usually do not change a thing about how I grow my plants, if they have seed capsules. Thanks for your comment!

These were all nice orchids - I was VERY selective. I already hybridized the Den. Ukulele Baby with one of my Dens that I grew from seed. Thanks for watching and for your comment!

I am growing Catasetums because other people that I know like them. Most of mine are from my daughter. I have my first batch from seed coming out in a few months, and we will see how long those take. I hope that yours' do well!

I thought the same thing, but I am not sure either! I can never know what I will get, male or female flowers, from my catasetum... This year and last I had almost all female flowered spikes. The year before that it was just the other way around. No change in care or place...

@@Naturamorpho I guess your catasetum are just really happy these past couple of years 😄 Could also be that the plants got larger to support female flowers? Part of the charm of growing catasetum haha!

@@thegardeningbotanist I have talked with Catasetum growers and they say they cannot predict the flower sex and it changes from year to year. For this plant, I had divisions growing within a few inches of each other - one had male flowers; the other was this plant with (maybe?) female flowers. I will look at the flowers when they open next - I did not look at them that carefully - only know that they were really different from the male flowers that I have seen in the past. I have seen Catasetums with male and female flowers on the same plant - never both parts on the same flower - but I do not have that much experience with Catasetums.

Love your show! get a little bit dizzy with the shaky camera 😕

@@plantpropagator yeah the "green helmet" structure is very distinct from the flatter lips male flowers have! I love catasetinae, they spare me from having to water them for months haha!

So many plants that should all grow very quickly. Some of the plants were hard to get out of the dishes because the roots were so stuck to the plastic - that is another challenge that would be difficult to do in a small glovebox....

Thanks for watching and for your comment - happy to share

I know about the work thing - luckily, I have a helper and she is just awesome! Most of these tend to grow quickly - those plants were mostly cattleyas but there were some Dendrobiums and Catasetums mixed in there....

Sure - I just harvested a bunch of pollinia today but I can make another video on this soon. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for your comment - the flower on the den is a little small for my taste but it is a vigorous plant and seems to flower a lot - all I have to do is hybridize it with a bigger flower.....

Thanks for your comment - this video was actually taken on a THIRD return trip in 3 days. The first trip was to drop off some of my seedlingbs. The second trip was to drop off some flasks. And, the third trip was to pick up the plants that I had previously selected and make this video. I closed them down on this last day - I think that they may have been getting tired of seeing me....

I try to pick nice ones - thanks for watching and for your comment!

Thanks - just love your comments!!

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Thanks for your comment - I seem to be more concerned with making too many plants with the keikis that my plants are generating. My Dens are all doing well - even after the hurricanes knock them down and they are sitting on the ground with no pot, they seem to send out more canes and flowers! I may have too many plants - saw another flower on a Cattleya yesterday and I did not even know that plant was in spike. I do not know how the large growers do it....

I think that most orchids are forgiving - I do struggle with some species but, once they die on me, I usually do not try them again. Thanks for your comment

Thanks for your comment - sometimes, sphagnum stays too wet and you will see the return of the rot. The better quality sphagnum moss may actually inhibit growth of the fungus. So, I am glad that this worked for you. Orchids are really very resilient - they can be abused and grow....

@plantpropagator I keep it with airflow so it tends to just be moist. Rapid wet dry cycles. You are right S.Moss will rot things. So far so good in this case.

Fungi like high humidity and the idea is that good ventilation keeps the humidity down and does not allow the spores to settle and germinatate. But, orchids mostly grow in high humidity so this idea is not quite right. I was out of town for almost 2 months before I saw this plant and it may have been heavily infested before the bougainvillea fell on it. I do know that orchids in certain spaces of my growing area are more prone to black rot and I isolate my plants and remove the infected leaves as soon as I see anything. I am always battling this disease!!

That bleach concentration is pretty high - it will certainly kill any organisms on the surface but will also kill any freshly cut plant tissue to a depth of a few mm (depending on how long you expose the tissue). Your concentration is 40% which is close to what I use on seed capsules because the bleach will not get to the seed in the enclosed capsule. I use 10% on isolated seed. Alcohol application is also topical and will kill any freshly cut tissue - but, it evaporates quickly. I just cleaned the tissue with water and then applied fungicide after drying, multiple times. Combatting black rot is a never ending battle!!~

@@plantpropagator I can see that happen when I cut open a green capsule using a blade straight out of disinfectant bleach solution, without rinsing. It works well and I can get the seeds out without any contamination, but the freshly cut green capsule tissue dies and turns black very quickly!

Thanks for your comment and I am glad that you found my video useful!

Thanks for your comment - I really like them too - more blooms coming!!!

Thanks for your comment - will cross a few flowers tomorrow - decided what I wanted to do today and will make those crosses tomorrow AM - so exciting!!

Congrats on your upcoming flower!! So, what is the secret? When I still lived in the midwest, I was successful with the Catts that I could grow outside in the summer and bring them in to bloom in the winter. The Plant Propagator Jr does the same thing. My sister is close to you and she is just learning to grow orchids after retiring - she could use some help.... Thanks for your comment!!

@ I think I’m late to the party haha. I put mine on my balcony in the summer, it’s north facing, but gets morning and evening sun from the east and west. During winter I keep them indoors inside an Ikea cabinet where they get enough warmth to keep growing.

@@OrchidMarcus Sounds good - growing without great space can be challenging but you seem to have things under control. I found that windowsill winter gardening worked best for my orchids - maybe because I could not get high enough light intensity under lights back then...

Thanks for your comment - As you know, I am always happy to share!!

Thanks for your comment - not sure that I can grow good batches of seedlings in my limited growing space. I have 30 registered hybrids so far with a lot more coming. If I only grow 10 of each, that is more space than I have for mature plants! So, I need to count on other people growing most of my plants to flowering to get a large sample size on how these are going to look. Sad, but that is how it is.... Luckily, as you have noticed, there are great records on hybrid flowers so that you can see how these traits come through in progeny. I DO love making those hybrids and imagining how they will look!!!

@@plantpropagator Unfortunately, the records are a little biased towards the best achieving progeny clones, so we are still in the dark as far as what proportions of what we are to expect from a given cross. By the way, I'm not sure you read my rant reply about these very records, a couple of videos ago. It was erased from the comment section for some reason that I can't imagine...

@@Naturamorpho I am not sure that I read your previous comment - did I reply to your comment? If not, I may not have seen it. I can remove some comments from my channel but I have not done this in a long time. I do not know where your comment went??... Yes, you are correct - people keep and collect images of the best of the best so the "ugly" flowers get no screen time. I also do not tend to show flowers that I do not like very much. I do try to show the unusual flowers that many other people may not like. But, I do see your point - I will try to remember to ask the other breeders about the flowers/plants that they toss and why.

@@plantpropagator No, you didn't answer it. It was about a misidentified hybrid on one of the sites that registers them. I'm not saying which site because maybe that was the reason, YT deletes what may look like spamming... Like mentioning a website.

Thanks for your comment - I have never used Keiki paste and have no experience with it. When you make your paste, do you use BA? And do you add vitamins like is added for some pastes? I just do not want to go there personally - I have plenty of plants and often struggle to find homes for them. I am potting up 3 divisions today for one of my large Cattleyas - not sure what do to with them but I hate to toss plants.

I am in Collier County and have NEVER had an issues with cold damage to any of the dens mounted on my trees. I do not know if it gets cooler on your coast but here, this is not an issue. The dens do seem to be more sensitive to the wind from hurricanes but they only lose some of their leaves. I suggest that you try some to see how they do over the winter. It may take a little while for them to attach but it does not hurt to try this. I have not brought any orchids inside my garage due to hurricanes or cold - all of mine stay outside....

Thanks so much for watching and for your comment. If you are interested in that specific dendrobium, it is Den. Woo Leng and I have a lot of them. You can usually buy these at most orchid shops or, if you are in the US, you can contact me at TheOrchidPropagator@gmail.com and we can go from there...

Thanks for your comment. The rubber bands were my idea after seeing everyone using zip ties, twine or fishing line. I have seen so much damage to trees from using these other methods that I wanted to find something different. Some folks just do not want to change from these older methods that are a pain to use, look bad and damage the trees. I am so glad that you found this approach useful. Happy Propagating!

Hi Debbie - what a fun start on your orchid journey. For me, space limitations are the biggest issues. I am making SO MANY seedlings, I fear what my space will look like in a few years!! Thanks for your comment.

@plantpropagator tried to do seeds once, nada. Have a few seeds left and a different agar, so might try again

@@JustcallmeDebbieB I spent 40 years running a plant biotech lab so this is second nature to me. If you are up for a challenge and in the US, you can contact me at TheOrchidPropagator@gmail.com

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Thanks for your comment. I can never get enough of these guys. More first blooms coming!!!

Great question - you can certainly do that. As a propagator, I like to make more and the keikis offer a natural way to do that. As you can tell, some of the keikis do well if you just leave them on the parent plant - but, they will grow more and make even more keikis if they are removed to grow on their own. I have seen keikis on keikis on keikis - these plants will get a little big and out of control - but, that is OK if that is what you like....🙂

Thanks so much for your comment. I do try to "listen" to my orchids and learn from them. As a scientist, I am always observing and open to new approaches and ideas, if they make sense to me. Some of the most successful people on the planet have this same trait - they observe or listen, adjust and move forward. If you do not adjust to the obvious, you are right - you do fail. I am also not afraid to say, "I don't know" and will not try to come up with an answer, if I do not have one - I have seen may people make stuff up if they do not know the answer to a question - I have seen those same people trap themselves into a corner. Now, you have me rambling - thanks for your comment - seems like we are on the same page!

@@plantpropagator cheers John. I do have to remind myself to alwys try to stay positive but thanks for your point of view which was exactly the point I was trying to make. Very good point. Thanks.

Yeah, I am finding that they do whatever they want - I am just an observer...

@Naturamorpho It has happened to me a few times that C. bicolor emits keikis. A colleague commented that this occurs when the specimen in question is under stress and, as if in an attempt to survive, emits keikis. But I wonder: shouldn't this happen with all other orchids of the Cattleya genus? I've also seen comments that the C bicolor is "sensitive" to cuts with metal blades. @Naturamorpho Comigo já aconteceu, algumas vezes, da C bicolor emitir keikis. Um colega comentou que isso ocorre quando o exemplar em questão estar sob stress e como numa tentativa de sobreviver emite keikis. Mas fico me questionando: isso não deveria acontecer com todas as demais orquídeas do gênero Cattleya? Também já vi comentários que a C bicolor é "sensível" a cortes com lâminas metálicas.

@@manuelferrao4469 Sim, a minha bicolor estava sob estresse, sofrendo de canela-seca. Soltou 2 keikis que foram mesmo a salvação dela. Eu replantei os keikis, que estão crescendo muito bem e saudáveis, mas a planta mãe morreu! Quanto às outras cattleyas, eu acho que a questão é a ausência de nódulos viáveis fora da base dos pseudobulbos.

@@Naturamorpho Good to know - my Maikai is definitely overgrown but it is also flowering and producing a lot more pseudobulbs from the edge of the pot. I need to divide this plant and will do so when it is done flowering. I just do not know what I am going to do with all of the divisions - I thought that I may have some space from gifting plants to people but that space will be gone again soon - And, I need NEW plants - not divisions....

@@plantpropagator Try to trade your repeat cuttings for new ones, since I guess most other hobbyists will have the same problem... Does your local society hold repeat cutting trading events for members? I don't even know if it is a usual thing, ... but it might work!

@@Naturamorpho I do exchange with certain members that have plants that I may want. I just prefer to give them away to new growers to try to get them excited about orchids. I am at the point in my orchid growing life that I need to be very selective with new plants that I add to my collection. Most of my new plants are simply my seedlings that I am bringing home from the lab - so many of those need to be repotted into larger pots.... Thanks for your suggestion and comment.