Fun Fact: flower spikes on Phals almost always emerge between the 2nd and 3rd leaf down from the top (on each side), so the key to two spikes is encouraging more leaves between blooms 😎👍
@@susie-q96 Ohhh. Haha I thought it was something special to orchids, ya know how the deeper you get into something you end up learning new acronyms? I can be such a dork🤣🤣🤣
@@susie-q96 Ohhh. Haha I thought it was something special to orchids, ya know how the deeper you get into something you end up learning new acronyms? I can be such a dork🤣🤣🤣
I have had paphs for several years and they have bloomed annually. I am not an 'orchid person' and bought my first one about a decade ago to sit on my kitchen table (a townhouse kitchen at the time with lots of natural light). When it finished blooming, I put it in a windowsill and bought a new blooming orchid for the table. So within 2 years I had accumulated 5 plants. I moved in early 2023 and lost 2 in the process. The other 3 are blooming now. I don't like house plants (I am a huge outdoor gardener). I also did not care if the orchids lived, so they get little TLC from me. These were purchased as 'icebox orchids' from the grocery store; the directions said to water once a week by putting 3 small ice cubes directly in the pot. So that is what I did for years and never once fertilized. Yet they thrived. In Spring 2024 I decided I was tired of these orchids and was going to toss them into my compost pile. However, I decided to try the 'rice trick' and it was shocking. Most people put 4 - 5 tbsp plain rice in a jar of warm water, let sit overnight, strain out the rice, then water the plants. I decided to be even lazier. I put a handful of regular rice in my kitchen sink, filled with hot tap water, let sit overnight, then sat the orchids in the water for an hour the next day. Let the plastic orchid pot inserts (containing only the orchids and bark) drain for 2 hours, then returned them to the decorative pottery containers. I did this at the beginning of 1 month, skipped a month, then repeated the process the next month. The orchids bloomed incredibly. They were fuller and more beautiful than when I first bought them almost a decade ago. And the colors were more vibrant.
Thanks so much. I didn't want to use store-bought fertilizers for my orchid, because I feel many of them are stressful for plants. This really helps me. We are from the south of India, and thanks to our cusine, rice water is readily available on most days.
Wow, this type of flower is not for newbies. Thanks for the very informative information regarding this flower. Maybe in the future. Rich, I very excited about the house move. You have all the hard work and we get to see how you rearrange all your beauties. Hope it all goes smoothly. Love and Peace.
I just did this last month 😅 I cut both flower spikes at close to an even level, and it decided flower season was over 😮 I did get two full blooms per spike.. lesson learned for next time!
Keeping cool over winter and watering less often in winter certainly did wonders for my two orchids. More blooms than last year. Although on the same east facing window as last year, I had to move them to the side a couple of weeks ago as they where turning yellow. They look OK now with just a suggestion of yellow remaining. So it must have been a lot sunnier this year. What a lot of people may not know is that Baby-bio Orchid Food is exactly the same as regular Baby-bio but at exactly half the strength. Reason being is - I think - because orchids are epiphytes which grow up in the trees on bark and so have evolved to need less nutrients per rain shower. So one can use either of the BB’s if you remember to use just half as many drops of the regular. Also, just dunk the orchid in a large bowl of the fertilized water to give the bark a good soak and you wont waste any down the sink as with top watering. For water treatment, rather than that buying that obscenely expensive and ready prepared stuff just buy a 100 gram bag of Sodium Theo-phosphate (about £8 to £9). Can’t post the link to the formulae you need to dilute it to but you can look that up yourself and you will see that it will last you until its time for you to go to that big greenhouse up in the sky (or that big smelly compost heap down in the bowels of the Earth).
If I remember from school. Geotropisim, gravity sensitive hormones, some float, some sink. I am a plant node, so do I want to be a root or a shoot? Quick survey of my geotropism chemicals, how many floaters or sinkers? Two shoots will divide the amount of available floaters. One shoot will concentrate the available floaters and boom, a new flower spike. At a guess, long time since I was at school.
Thanks for the hack; I discovered this reblooming technique by accident, and now use it successfully with all my phalanopsis orchids. Also: love all your posts: informative and entertaining .
My phal blooms for months before the blooms faded. I went to cut off the old stem and lo and behold it was already growing a second one! Amazing plant. I need more orchids. I use Espoma orchid fertilizer.
Aman after my own heart with plants My daughter asked me dont u have enough? I answered NEVER THERES TOO MUCH BEAUTY I CANT GET ENOUGH AND I LOVE THEM ALL🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
It took years for me to get Phaelanopsis to grow successfully.When I could.I made the mistake of letting the roots do as they wanted. They happily stuck to the windowsill,wallpaper and anything they touched. Stuck they were! It took the paint and the surface of the wood off the windowsill. The flowers were abundantly lovely. It must have been the extra roughage from the woodwork!
@@SheffieldMadePlants I was bothered about the damage. They were no longer the exotic difficult plants I thought they were, but troublesome weeds. It gave me a crazy thought that people in South East Asia give orchids away to unsuspecting westerners because they are really obnoxious weeds that stick to and damage their houses.
@@SheffieldMadePlants Yes I was extremely bothered. An exotic orchid suddenly became viewed as an obnoxious weed. Pay back time for being proud of a Syngonium weed from Guyana, may be! To be honest I still love Phaelanopsis but I watch those trifid like roots very carefully now! Maybe I shouldn't sleep in the same room as them!!! 😉
Thank you for your clear and down-to-earth approach. There is so much info about orchids on the Gram; I was given my orchid in May and it is now down to one bloom. I’ll follow your advice and see what happens. I’m hoping to turn orchids in to a hobby. Thank you.
Hello Mr Sheffield!!! I wish I could keep orchids but they do not like me lol... but I love the flowers. Thank you for sharing this information and it is making me reconsider trying again. Your information is very definitive and easy to understand!!!
This is interesting advice, and worth trying. A major source of orchids here in the US is Trader Joes, where I've always got mine. Usually I don't keep them after they've bloomed, but sometimes do if the leaves are lush and green and fit my jungle decor. They can last several years but in my experience don't rebloom. i recently got a Lovely yellow orchid, not a phal, with a second budded stem which is now blooming gloriously. 🌺🌺🌺
Well, now I am excited to try another orchid !! I hope I have all your information logged securely in my brain 😳 Your channel is wonderful . Thankyou 🙏 🙏
1st question: How do you keep track of your scissors? 2nd question: What exactly is a hipster, and why am I a hipster because I own too many plants? 3rd question: Should I replant and water before I snip the tip? I have more questions, but these seem to be the big ones I have. You've been pretty clear on most everything else.
Hello Mr. Sheffield, thank you for featuring orchids! I currently have 46 in my collection, and I LOVE them. I am even growing a few of them in Pon and LECA, so far so good. Great tips!!
Our hero has journeyed to orchids... It's over, this will become a dedicated orchid channel. Another way to treat phalaenopsis is after flowering just cutting the whole flower spike down, then let it have the "hibernation" season or more like grow season where it grows roots and then leaves (usually in the warmth of the summer), until it's ready to bloom again and it will shoot the new spikes up. I actually tried cutting just the top node that didn't wasn't spent and it ended up dying all the way down. There's also caveat to how there's plenty of orchids that are growing in just some normal field and terrestrial orchids that grow over the forest floor. Also don't panic if the lowest leaves start suddenly dying by going limp, yellow and dropping. Don't do any hasty changes to your caring. It's normal for them to let the oldest leaves go sometimes. But like you said, scorching is not in their interest usually, given that they grow on the branches and trunk, so they're shadowed by the leaves of the tree and the canopy, protected from direct sunlight.
Well hello plant doctor. It's been awhile. I went on a long vacation. Seems I've missed a lot. I wanted to say that I steam all my veggies and when I'm done I let my orchid sit in the steam water after it's cooled off. My orchid had only two leaves but now it has 7 beautiful leaves, but no flowers yet. Since I steam daily for meals I give the veggie water to all my plants.
Thank you for all the information. I do love your commentary, you put fun into plant growing. I am about to take on orchid growing so you can I hope how much I appreciate your channel.
Glad I nicely put the orchid back on the shelf at the shop! Not at this level in my planthood. LOL! Thanks for the great video again Rich! Too funny.. the hoarders from hell!! 😂
You know what? I (after caring for plants for over 30 years) just took home my first orchid a week ago. It seems they are the one plant everyone is scared of! I am going to encourage you to get one, too. I went with a mini orchid because it seems like baby steps. So far, so good. Go get it back!!
Seeing the two flower spikes makes me jealous. My orchid gets careful 'by the book' watering, regular feed with orchid fertiliser, it's over 4 y old yet every year only one spike. I also tried 're-blooming' it a couple of times. It failed every time. So I just sit and wait until October/November when it normally starts pushing new (and only one) flower spike to enjoy the blooms end of March onwards.
Amazing video as always! This might seem like a bit of a stretch, but how about trying some Scented Flowering Plants? They're not covered much on UA-cam. Would love to see you try them!
I have one that has grown a new leaf or two and lots of juicy light green alien rootz. Fingers crossed it will rebloom. I had cut the bloom stalks completely off🤔. Lol, my attic is hotter than Hades. Thanks, as always for the advice. Best wishes on the move. It's not easy, especially with 202 children!
What a great video again. Thank you. My mom is an orchid magician, and she had hers for 20+ years with flowers reaching up a meter over the pot. I had one nearly dying due to too much sun and my husband drowning her while I was away, but she came back and bloomed for me, even though several of her leaves look sad. Now that she's done blooming, she is in the middle of pushing out new leaves. My question to you is, at what stage do I put her in a cooler room? After the leaves are finished growing or immediately?
I know this makes me a vile heretic, but I don't stake my phals. I have no problem with the way they grow in nature, in fact, that low arching spike is rather graceful. I just put them on a stand or in a tall vase for the duration of the flowers. They seem to be happy enough that I get two seasons sometimes from them.
Same, I have thrown away stakes. Both my orchids are rescue ones. And one of them finally started flowering again, and it is getting a second steam 🙂 one. One of them is on the south east window, get a couple of hours of direction sun and is doing brilliantly. Another one is on the north west window it will be interesting to see how it will be growing there.
I hate them. But I keep buying them and I will until I get it right. I am the sole person who repots and trims my mothers up. All she does is water it and fertilize it when I tell her it’s time. It’s gorgeous. Mine… ☠️ 🤷🏻♀️
I watched, “I Lift Plants”, and he had a Genius Idea about leaves not opening on your Monstera, and the likes; Take a Nearly dripping wet paper towel, gently wrap around that leaf, 15 minutes later, remove and the leaf should open right up! He shows how he does it on one of his plants!
I've sadly always cut the whole flower spike off after that first flowering. My orchids usually do end up getting a second flowering (maybe a year later) on another stem (my orchids always seem to die after the second year). Thanks though as now I know how to get new blooms much sooner.
I have been growing Phalpaenopsis for maybe thirty plus years now, started off well, even had new plants forming on the old flower spikes, then i moved house and even though i still buy a new plant every so often, which last around two years, now down to one plant, watched you're video on the plug it grows in, and remove it, which i had down to tissue culture growing. So i don't know, why i lose them after so long, maybe i should leave them alone instead of pampering them? Nice videos BTW
I very much needed this video, thank you! Bought my very first mini orchid last week (after years of being too scared to have one) and was hoping you had something. On the card, it says to feed an ice cube every week- that seems wrong. Any thoughts from anyone? There seems to be so many differing opinions on them (hence my own fears on not doing right by them) but this makes me believe I did make the right choice in getting one, like I can do it! BTW, plant mom for about 30 years and this was the one plant that terrified me above all else. Really appreciate this video. Random question for Mr. Sheffield- have you ever done a bonsai? If so, thoughts? Also just got one of those, a ficus retusa. (I am still making my way through all your videos, forgive me if you have done a video.)
Ouch! Ice cubes actually kill orchids as ice will burn the roots with excess cold. Please water Phals with room temp water + just a little fertilizer (weakly, weekly is the rule) and enjoy them!
I've found these are surprisingly easy to care for if you give them enough light and leave them alone. What's your view on the epiphytic (christmas/thanksgiving/fishbone/zigzag) cacti? I noticed you don't have many of those in your collection.
Oh no, I didn’t know about checking the nodes, I cut both spikes after they finished blooming, I hope I get new blooms I do see a new leaf on its way out.
Dear SMP, could you please make a video about leaf miners? I have a whole infestation of them in my collection and finding proper info is difficult. Not sure what I'm supposed to do :( every pothos or ivy leaf has them, it's crazy
Have you tried any of your phals in full or semi water culture? I have 3 all doing great in semi water culture, Orchid Whisperer has some good info on it, which is funny because it was through her channel that I discovered yours, and here you are with a video on phals haha
I cut back my orchid, 4 years old, every year. This year, her newly emerged spike got damaged when it was still small and died back. Be careful with the baby spikes!
I have never cut my orchid, had it for 5 years and it has bloomed every single year at LEAST once? Am doing something wierd since my orchid is bloomong so much on its own?
I read it was ok to just let the stalk die back by itself. It did die only half way down and now its got to leaves where the die back stopped. Should I cut it all the way down? Or should I leave it. Could it possibly be growing a new plant? Idk what to do
Hi Mr S, I understand all you’ve said about the Orchids, but ours has come to the point where it has no flowers left and the stems have black stems as well as the tops of the roots being black! So, does this now mean there’s nothing more I can do with it, or……..!
I got 16 and 20 week blooms out of my orchid. I couldn't hold out for this video, but I somehow wound up cutting the stems high and low as suggested. But I think I'm done with orchids; the plastic ones are convincingly realistic and cost less than the real thing. Investing a year's worth of effort for 4 months of benefit isn't my cup of tea.
I have had a paphs for over 3 years and it has not stopped flowering but it is nearly climbing out of it’s pot. The question is can I repot it or wait until it eventually stops flowering
HELP ❣️ I had a beautiful orchid, it flowered nicely. The leaves started turning and they dropped off. I misted it and watered regularly. Any idea what I did wrong? 🌷
@@SheffieldMadePlants Aha that's my winter schedule too Mr.Sheff - under the Italian sky. I'm currently on a weekly basis but it much depends on the weather too. Golden roule goes, water when roots in the pot turn pale. If still green, refrain and check later on
Yes your are on the right trail, but take your orchid out of the soil and let your roots breath. Orchids do not grow in dirt naturally, they are air plants living on tree bark ……
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Fun Fact: flower spikes on Phals almost always emerge between the 2nd and 3rd leaf down from the top (on each side), so the key to two spikes is encouraging more leaves between blooms 😎👍
Yes! My SIL taught me that, so that’s where I always check for new spike growth.😊
@@susie-q96 Curious, what does SIL mean in this case?
@@kjudestevens1519 sister in law. 😉
@@susie-q96 Ohhh. Haha I thought it was something special to orchids, ya know how the deeper you get into something you end up learning new acronyms? I can be such a dork🤣🤣🤣
@@susie-q96 Ohhh. Haha I thought it was something special to orchids, ya know how the deeper you get into something you end up learning new acronyms? I can be such a dork🤣🤣🤣
Thank you Mr Sheffield for showing me how to give my Orchid a "kick up the bum".🌱❤ Love from Australia xox
My pleasure 😊
I have had paphs for several years and they have bloomed annually. I am not an 'orchid person' and bought my first one about a decade ago to sit on my kitchen table (a townhouse kitchen at the time with lots of natural light). When it finished blooming, I put it in a windowsill and bought a new blooming orchid for the table. So within 2 years I had accumulated 5 plants. I moved in early 2023 and lost 2 in the process. The other 3 are blooming now.
I don't like house plants (I am a huge outdoor gardener). I also did not care if the orchids lived, so they get little TLC from me. These were purchased as 'icebox orchids' from the grocery store; the directions said to water once a week by putting 3 small ice cubes directly in the pot. So that is what I did for years and never once fertilized. Yet they thrived.
In Spring 2024 I decided I was tired of these orchids and was going to toss them into my compost pile. However, I decided to try the 'rice trick' and it was shocking. Most people put 4 - 5 tbsp plain rice in a jar of warm water, let sit overnight, strain out the rice, then water the plants. I decided to be even lazier. I put a handful of regular rice in my kitchen sink, filled with hot tap water, let sit overnight, then sat the orchids in the water for an hour the next day. Let the plastic orchid pot inserts (containing only the orchids and bark) drain for 2 hours, then returned them to the decorative pottery containers. I did this at the beginning of 1 month, skipped a month, then repeated the process the next month. The orchids bloomed incredibly. They were fuller and more beautiful than when I first bought them almost a decade ago. And the colors were more vibrant.
Thanks so much. I didn't want to use store-bought fertilizers for my orchid, because I feel many of them are stressful for plants. This really helps me. We are from the south of India, and thanks to our cusine, rice water is readily available on most days.
Wow, this type of flower is not for newbies. Thanks for the very informative information regarding this flower. Maybe in the future. Rich, I very excited about the house move. You have all the hard work and we get to see how you rearrange all your beauties. Hope it all goes smoothly. Love and Peace.
Thank you 😊
I just did this last month 😅 I cut both flower spikes at close to an even level, and it decided flower season was over 😮 I did get two full blooms per spike.. lesson learned for next time!
Keeping cool over winter and watering less often in winter certainly did wonders for my two orchids. More blooms than last year. Although on the same east facing window as last year, I
had to move them to the side a couple of weeks ago as they where turning yellow. They look OK now with just a suggestion of yellow remaining. So it must have been a lot sunnier this year.
What a lot of people may not know is that Baby-bio Orchid Food is exactly the same as regular Baby-bio but at exactly half the strength. Reason being is - I think - because orchids are epiphytes which grow up in the trees on bark and so have evolved to need less nutrients per rain shower. So one can use either of the BB’s if you remember to use just half as many drops of the regular. Also, just dunk the orchid in a large bowl of the fertilized water to give the bark a good soak and you wont waste any down the sink as with top watering.
For water treatment, rather than that buying that obscenely expensive and ready prepared stuff just buy a 100 gram bag of Sodium Theo-phosphate (about £8 to £9). Can’t post the link to the formulae you need to dilute it to but you can look that up yourself and you will see that it will last you until its time for you to go to that big greenhouse up in the sky (or that big smelly compost heap down in the bowels of the Earth).
If I remember from school. Geotropisim, gravity sensitive hormones, some float, some sink. I am a plant node, so do I want to be a root or a shoot? Quick survey of my geotropism chemicals, how many floaters or sinkers? Two shoots will divide the amount of available floaters. One shoot will concentrate the available floaters and boom, a new flower spike. At a guess, long time since I was at school.
havent got green fingers but feeling confident after watching your video thankyou from NZ
Thanks for the hack; I discovered this reblooming technique by accident, and now use it successfully with all my phalanopsis orchids.
Also: love all your posts: informative and entertaining .
Thank you 😊
My phal blooms for months before the blooms faded. I went to cut off the old stem and lo and behold it was already growing a second one! Amazing plant. I need more orchids. I use Espoma orchid fertilizer.
Aman after my own heart with plants My daughter asked me dont u have enough? I answered NEVER THERES TOO MUCH BEAUTY I CANT GET ENOUGH AND I LOVE THEM ALL🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
💯
This makes me want to try just one more time to give orchids another try. Thanks for the video, I learned a lot.
Most people have NO IDEA what you just showed us! Wow. Wish I had known this a long time ago.
It took years for me to get Phaelanopsis to grow successfully.When I could.I made the mistake of letting the roots do as they wanted. They happily stuck to the windowsill,wallpaper and anything they touched. Stuck they were! It took the paint and the surface of the wood off the windowsill. The flowers were abundantly lovely. It must have been the extra roughage from the woodwork!
Sounds cool. You weren’t bothered about the damage?
@@SheffieldMadePlants I was bothered about the damage. They were no longer the exotic difficult plants I thought they were, but troublesome weeds. It gave me a crazy thought that people in South East Asia give orchids away to unsuspecting westerners because they are really obnoxious weeds that stick to and damage their houses.
@@SheffieldMadePlants Yes I was extremely bothered. An exotic orchid suddenly became viewed as an obnoxious weed. Pay back time for being proud of a Syngonium weed from Guyana, may be! To be honest I still love Phaelanopsis but I watch those trifid like roots very carefully now! Maybe I shouldn't sleep in the same room as them!!! 😉
This is a very well made video, very clear with supportive reasoning. Thanks.
Thank you for your clear and down-to-earth approach. There is so much info about orchids on the Gram; I was given my orchid in May and it is now down to one bloom. I’ll follow your advice and see what happens. I’m hoping to turn orchids in to a hobby. Thank you.
Hello Mr Sheffield!!! I wish I could keep orchids but they do not like me lol... but I love the flowers. Thank you for sharing this information and it is making me reconsider trying again. Your information is very definitive and easy to understand!!!
Great stuff 👍
Biobizz is effin' awesome. I use Leafcoat and fish emulsion
This is interesting advice, and worth trying. A major source of orchids here in the US is Trader Joes, where I've always got mine. Usually I don't keep them after they've bloomed, but sometimes do if the leaves are lush and green and fit my jungle decor. They can last several years but in my experience don't rebloom. i recently got a Lovely yellow orchid, not a phal, with a second budded stem which is now blooming gloriously. 🌺🌺🌺
Well, now I am excited to try another orchid !! I hope I have all your information logged securely in my brain 😳 Your channel is wonderful . Thankyou 🙏 🙏
Thank you 😊
1st question: How do you keep track of your scissors? 2nd question: What exactly is a hipster, and why am I a hipster because I own too many plants? 3rd question: Should I replant and water before I snip the tip?
I have more questions, but these seem to be the big ones I have. You've been pretty clear on most everything else.
😅 repot after it’s done blooming entirely. Water as it needs it
@SheffieldMadePlants Yeah, it worked, and I purchased more scissors. I am still unsure of what "hipster" is, but I've come to accept it.
Hello Mr. Sheffield, thank you for featuring orchids! I currently have 46 in my collection, and I LOVE them. I am even growing a few of them in Pon and LECA, so far so good. Great tips!!
Great stuff 👍
I am learning orchids are not so mysterious as i once thought. You are amizing withvyour great info🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks!
This was a great video- entertaining, easy to understand, and good information! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Our hero has journeyed to orchids... It's over, this will become a dedicated orchid channel.
Another way to treat phalaenopsis is after flowering just cutting the whole flower spike down, then let it have the "hibernation" season or more like grow season where it grows roots and then leaves (usually in the warmth of the summer), until it's ready to bloom again and it will shoot the new spikes up. I actually tried cutting just the top node that didn't wasn't spent and it ended up dying all the way down.
There's also caveat to how there's plenty of orchids that are growing in just some normal field and terrestrial orchids that grow over the forest floor.
Also don't panic if the lowest leaves start suddenly dying by going limp, yellow and dropping. Don't do any hasty changes to your caring. It's normal for them to let the oldest leaves go sometimes. But like you said, scorching is not in their interest usually, given that they grow on the branches and trunk, so they're shadowed by the leaves of the tree and the canopy, protected from direct sunlight.
Thanks for the tips
Well hello plant doctor. It's been awhile. I went on a long vacation. Seems I've missed a lot. I wanted to say that I steam all my veggies and when I'm done I let my orchid sit in the steam water after it's cooled off. My orchid had only two leaves but now it has 7 beautiful leaves, but no flowers yet. Since I steam daily for meals I give the veggie water to all my plants.
Thank you for all the information. I do love your commentary, you put fun into plant growing. I am about to take on orchid growing so you can I hope how much I appreciate your channel.
Good luck!
Good luck with the house sale, you have a beautiful home. ❤ all the plants. Thank you for the orchid tips
Thank you 😊
Thanks for this advice on encouraging further blooming. With phals, I like to grow using clay balls in glass vases.
You are the best to explain everything 👍🏽
I appreciate that!
this is the best orchid video care tips ... I've been looking for this for a while... nobody has anything like it. woohoo..
Thank you 😊
Glad I nicely put the orchid back on the shelf at the shop! Not at this level in my planthood. LOL! Thanks for the great video again Rich! Too funny.. the hoarders from hell!! 😂
You know what? I (after caring for plants for over 30 years) just took home my first orchid a week ago. It seems they are the one plant everyone is scared of! I am going to encourage you to get one, too. I went with a mini orchid because it seems like baby steps. So far, so good. Go get it back!!
I started with an orchid and now I have a lot of them. They are way more easy to take care of than you think 😊
❤ the attitude of this dude!
Good morning Mr Sheffield and thankyou
Good morning!
Seeing the two flower spikes makes me jealous. My orchid gets careful 'by the book' watering, regular feed with orchid fertiliser, it's over 4 y old yet every year only one spike. I also tried 're-blooming' it a couple of times. It failed every time. So I just sit and wait until October/November when it normally starts pushing new (and only one) flower spike to enjoy the blooms end of March onwards.
Really informative and clear instructions. Excellent 👌
Glad it was helpful!
Thank You for sharing your tips!!!
Any time!
Great tutorial ... many thanks.
Thank you. Very helpful.
Amazing video as always!
This might seem like a bit of a stretch, but how about trying some Scented Flowering Plants? They're not covered much on UA-cam.
Would love to see you try them!
I have one that has grown a new leaf or two and lots of juicy light green alien rootz. Fingers crossed it will rebloom. I had cut the bloom stalks completely off🤔. Lol, my attic is hotter than Hades. Thanks, as always for the advice. Best wishes on the move. It's not easy, especially with 202 children!
Thank you 😊
What a great video again. Thank you. My mom is an orchid magician, and she had hers for 20+ years with flowers reaching up a meter over the pot. I had one nearly dying due to too much sun and my husband drowning her while I was away, but she came back and bloomed for me, even though several of her leaves look sad. Now that she's done blooming, she is in the middle of pushing out new leaves. My question to you is, at what stage do I put her in a cooler room? After the leaves are finished growing or immediately?
Mine went to a cooler place a couple of months after it finished flowering.
Omg this is soo helpful😊
Great video
Thanks 🙏🏾
Blessings 💚💜
Thank you Mister Sheffers : )
Excellent video and information!❤
Thanks!
I know this makes me a vile heretic, but I don't stake my phals. I have no problem with the way they grow in nature, in fact, that low arching spike is rather graceful. I just put them on a stand or in a tall vase for the duration of the flowers. They seem to be happy enough that I get two seasons sometimes from them.
Same, I have thrown away stakes. Both my orchids are rescue ones. And one of them finally started flowering again, and it is getting a second steam 🙂 one. One of them is on the south east window, get a couple of hours of direction sun and is doing brilliantly. Another one is on the north west window it will be interesting to see how it will be growing there.
I don't even own an orchid, nor do I want to. And yet, here I am.
Careful! You could risk contagion ... I started with One Phal which was gifted by a friend and had no idea what to do with it. Now Im' a Phal addict 😄
I hate them. But I keep buying them and I will until I get it right. I am the sole person who repots and trims my mothers up. All she does is water it and fertilize it when I tell her it’s time. It’s gorgeous. Mine… ☠️ 🤷🏻♀️
I watched, “I Lift Plants”, and he had a Genius Idea about leaves not opening on your Monstera, and the likes; Take a Nearly dripping wet paper towel, gently wrap around that leaf, 15 minutes later, remove and the leaf should open right up! He shows how he does it on one of his plants!
Thank You ❤️💐❤️
I've sadly always cut the whole flower spike off after that first flowering. My orchids usually do end up getting a second flowering (maybe a year later) on another stem (my orchids always seem to die after the second year). Thanks though as now I know how to get new blooms much sooner.
You bet!
I have been growing Phalpaenopsis for maybe thirty plus years now, started off well, even had new plants forming on the old flower spikes, then i moved house and even though i still buy a new plant every so often, which last around two years, now down to one plant, watched you're video on the plug it grows in, and remove it, which i had down to tissue culture growing. So i don't know, why i lose them after so long, maybe i should leave them alone instead of pampering them?
Nice videos BTW
I very much needed this video, thank you! Bought my very first mini orchid last week (after years of being too scared to have one) and was hoping you had something. On the card, it says to feed an ice cube every week- that seems wrong. Any thoughts from anyone? There seems to be so many differing opinions on them (hence my own fears on not doing right by them) but this makes me believe I did make the right choice in getting one, like I can do it! BTW, plant mom for about 30 years and this was the one plant that terrified me above all else. Really appreciate this video.
Random question for Mr. Sheffield- have you ever done a bonsai? If so, thoughts? Also just got one of those, a ficus retusa. (I am still making my way through all your videos, forgive me if you have done a video.)
Not tried bonsai yet. Bit of a time investment for me
Ouch! Ice cubes actually kill orchids as ice will burn the roots with excess cold. Please water Phals with room temp water + just a little fertilizer (weakly, weekly is the rule) and enjoy them!
Brilliant thank you!!!
You bet!
I've found these are surprisingly easy to care for if you give them enough light and leave them alone.
What's your view on the epiphytic (christmas/thanksgiving/fishbone/zigzag) cacti? I noticed you don't have many of those in your collection.
I don’t think ever have. Look nice. What’s up?
Oh no, I didn’t know about checking the nodes, I cut both spikes after they finished blooming, I hope I get new blooms I do see a new leaf on its way out.
best advice for orchid leaves: cut an aloe leaf in half and gently hydrate its leaves with aloe gel 😉
P.s don't water with tap water. I use mineral water to water well and drain, and it works great.
Dear SMP, could you please make a video about leaf miners? I have a whole infestation of them in my collection and finding proper info is difficult. Not sure what I'm supposed to do :( every pothos or ivy leaf has them, it's crazy
Have you tried any of your phals in full or semi water culture? I have 3 all doing great in semi water culture, Orchid Whisperer has some good info on it, which is funny because it was through her channel that I discovered yours, and here you are with a video on phals haha
Not tried that but will check it out
I cut back my orchid, 4 years old, every year. This year, her newly emerged spike got damaged when it was still small and died back. Be careful with the baby spikes!
I have never cut my orchid, had it for 5 years and it has bloomed every single year at LEAST once?
Am doing something wierd since my orchid is bloomong so much on its own?
Where did the main stalk go?
I read it was ok to just let the stalk die back by itself. It did die only half way down and now its got to leaves where the die back stopped. Should I cut it all the way down? Or should I leave it. Could it possibly be growing a new plant? Idk what to do
I just checked these leaves again and it seems to be growing roots!
How do you like that! If you want a new plant don't cut the stem back!!
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I have several orchids and they've been reblooming for years. I never cut it.
Hi Mr S, I understand all you’ve said about the Orchids, but ours has come to the point where it has no flowers left and the stems have black stems as well as the tops of the roots being black! So, does this now mean there’s nothing more I can do with it, or……..!
Focus on root and leaf health now it’s stopped flowering. A prune of dead roots will help
I got 16 and 20 week blooms out of my orchid. I couldn't hold out for this video, but I somehow wound up cutting the stems high and low as suggested.
But I think I'm done with orchids; the plastic ones are convincingly realistic and cost less than the real thing. Investing a year's worth of effort for 4 months of benefit isn't my cup of tea.
I have had a paphs for over 3 years and it has not stopped flowering but it is nearly climbing out of it’s pot. The question is can I repot it or wait until it eventually stops flowering
You can repot if it needs it
Hey Mr. Sheffield.
When you mention your trash bin, are you saying “S and P bin” or “SMP bin”?
SMP 😁
HELP ❣️ I had a beautiful orchid, it flowered nicely. The leaves started turning and they dropped off. I misted it and watered regularly. Any idea what I did wrong? 🌷
Misting probably
How often do you water?
Maybe once every 2 weeks
@@SheffieldMadePlants Aha that's my winter schedule too Mr.Sheff - under the Italian sky. I'm currently on a weekly basis but it much depends on the weather too. Golden roule goes, water when roots in the pot turn pale. If still green, refrain and check later on
My orchid must be 10 or 15 years old and has never bloomed again...but the leaves are healthy and theres roots growing all the time..what do i do?
Is it in a bright spot?
It's on my kitchen table but gets a lot of light..I could move it to a window and see if that helps.
U R FUNNY❤❤❤❤❤
Can you grow an orchid under lights?
Phaleanopisis orchids grow well under grow lights.
I only have 2, and that's how I grow mine.
This is a good question! Basement apartment, porthles for windows.... Just got my first orchid and it seems happy with just the grow lights.
Sure
If you really want to be a good plant parent look for a pair of plant knives at your local nursery ! Basically I’m saying don’t use scissors
Do you have access to my Google search results? I just looked this up
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I promise you I never feed my orchids, I just give them rain water, they do fantastic
Rain water has nitrogen i think
Ive never been this early before.
Same
Same, right on time for my lunch break
Samee
A great channel my friend. Very informative. Thank you!
Glad you think so!
I never cut anything green off my orchids
Will
Orchids are not “she”. Orchis in Greek means testicle. If anything it’s “he”
Growing plants in your attic with grow lights...? 🤣
Yep
I have a very nice one...fake one from At Home. Lol
Yes your are on the right trail, but take your orchid out of the soil and let your roots breath. Orchids do not grow in dirt naturally, they are air plants living on tree bark ……
Where’s the soil?
Orchids hate me tho 😖
Zrób sam pastę: wazelina + ukorzeniacz= posmaruj oczka i poczekaj aż zakwitną 😉Niczego nie obcinaj.