How I take care of my orchids
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- And if lived in florida, I could grow these on trees and call it a day 😞
But since I’m in Indiana, we result to caring for orchid the basic way. The biggest tip is, if your orchid is healthy (no rott or mushy/dying of leaves, or severe plant issues) then there is no need to repot just yet.
Also, a mistake I’ve seen is potting and orchid in soil. Orchids have those very thick roots and they will not survive in soil. My potting medium of choice is either orchid bark on its own or a combination of orchid bark and spaghnum moss.
Stay tuned for an upcoming orchid video where I show you what to do once the blooms are gone.
I get so paranoid about getting water in my orchid's crevices that I stuck a tampon in there after I watered it
That's a great idea!! I'm gonna try that. Thanks!!!! 😊
Am i the only one who just pour the water when watering my orchid?
@@ninetythree93 yeah you're not a real plant parent and you can't sit with us
@@elliewellie_UA-cam well i live on equator so even if i dump water on my orchid the leaves gonna dry soon, and i plant them outdoor fyi
I dont have to sit with other plant parent just because i do differently, as long as my plants thrive i dont need any label
I bought a liquor pour spout for some of my finicky plants and it works great for getting the water right where you need it 😊
My grandma has over thirty orchids so whenever I go to her house I meet the new ones and give them all some love
And I’m quite sure she’s not repotting them every 5 minutes!
I’ve got 3 orchids, 2 which were rescued from B&Q (the British version of Home Depot) when they stopped flowering I cut the stems back and I’ve now got three spikes growing! 😁
I have never seen orchids at B&Q you lucky bean
@@Nocluewhattoputhere6 always check the roots. Make sure they’re nice and green. I’ve got another one in bloom at the moment! It was £2 in their clearance section 😁
Okay thanks!
@@PipsNails 👋🏾😄Same here from Tesco sale clear out!😂🙌🏾🙌🏾😂❤❤
@@simplyyyfab_u_lous_3266 you’ve got to love a bargain! I’ll check out Tesco’s plants next time I’m there 😊
thank you for being simple and easy with the steps somebody’s UA-camrs go down the rabbit hole over things that are so simple so thank you
After seeing ✨interesting✨ orchid care tips on UA-cam recently, this is a breath of fresh air. Orchids are my fave houseplants (I currently have 11) and it pains me to see misinformation on these little green friends. Those orchids are beautiful!💚
That means so much! I take a lot of time to learn and practice plant care. I appreciate you being here.
How much to water? Everyday, once a month?
First time with a orchid. TIA
@@esterpineda6183 So mini phalaenopsis orchids want more water that the larger ones, I would say every other week or when the medium is dry and the roots look silver is a good time to water. The frequency will depend on surrounding humidity💚
I had my orchid about five years just realized I don't do any of this lol but it's happy and flowers 🤣🤷
You don't water it?
@@BigNoe-u7u oh yeah 🤣 I do do that when I remember.
Yeah, this chick is an idiot. You can absolutely water the crown of the plant. The leaves are shaped like that to funnel rain water towards the crown in nature for a reason.
Thank you for the “no ice” advice !
I’ve been using the ice watering method for four years and my orchids give beautiful blooms twice a year. I also apply orchid fertilizer spray every two weeks to the crown and underside of leaves. I only have three plants but they are thriving.
@@irene5450 It's no different from you getting out of a cosy bed and leaping into a bath full of freezing cold water. You wouldn't like it, nor do they. Please don't do it, they are tropical plants.
I asked my bf for an orchid for vday, I dont like bouquets since they die, what's he do? Orders a $150 flower arrangement with orchids 🙄🤦🏼♀️ Thankfully he cancelled it and got me a live orchid 😍 Came right to your channel to freshen up my knowledge on how to care for them
I watered one with ice for 5 years with no problem. She was a tough cookie. So grateful for this knowledge
It's a bad idea. Stand outside on a hot day and get someone to chuck a bucket of ice over you and you'll see why.
My mom bought me an orchid and it’s my first plant! I’m so excited because I’ve expressed interest in caring for indoor plants. Thanks for the tips!
Me too omg!! A friend recently bought me an orchid as a gift, I had wanted one for years. I almost cried for joy because I have had a desire to garden for years now. But it's even stronger this year. So, I am in the process of learning how to care for my new baby orchid.
I don't even water mine that often. Probably once or twice a month lol so happy that my first two bloomed again! One of them had 8 flowers!! I was shocked! And so proud of myself 😭
@@ATX_737 it depends on various factors. The first two that I got, that I was mentioning in this post, has moss (I haven't repotted them but I plan to once these blooms fall) so they stay damp for a very long time. The other two that I got recently have only the wood chips/bark so those I water more often, about every 10 days. I wait until I see the roots are dry (the silvery color) and then I water them. For the ones with moss, I also see the roots and make sure the moss is dry too. We don't want root rot!! 🙅🏾♀️
Where I live is close to the coast too so I'm sure it's more humid than other places too.
i get shocked when i see orchids at the store and the tag will tell you to water with ice cubes. 😟
It's always confused me, since I know orchids wouldn't like the cold ice. Now I have proof for relatives that ice is no good for orchids.
It's a marketing ploy. If your Orchid dies because of incorrect instructions you'll need to replace it with another orchid!
I just love this woman
Very amusing and informative
Thanks for this short and concise yet informative video. Needed it. Just got an orchid and I didn’t know what to do with it. Now I do.
I’m still waiting on reporting one of my orchids I got a year and a half ago but that little bastard just keeps blooming. I love her for it, though. Didn’t think an orchid could be that tough and just bloom for well over a year
She looks beautiful as like as her orchid looks. 😊
The orchid is very beautiful 😍 🤩. Subscribed to the channel for beautiful plants 🪴.
So glad you mentioned the not adding ice and the do add lukewarm water!
I "rescued" 3 fiddle leaf figs yesterday from Lowes ($10.00 each) and thought of you. They joined my other 3 on my back patio.
On another note: your hair always has the healthiest sheen to it! But, yeah, thank you for the orchid tips! Sorry… squirrel!!😂
😂 I appreciate the squirrel moment nonetheless. Thank you!!!
The sun can see the orchid as long as the leaf isn't overheating, so few hours of morning sunshine is a great boost
I’ll try again because of you… I’ll pick some up at Trader Joe’s this weekend
I love these videos so much!! Thank you for making easy to understand content!
My non-plant roomie brought one to me on Valentine's Day and I was like,
"Oooh, pretty! WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME"
Omg thank you sm for your advice!! Weeks ago the flowers on my orchid fell off and we all thought it died💀 and then proceeded to abandon it JDJDHDH now that i've watched this and the pt 2 i went to check the plant and it's growing some small buds through the nodes!! Gonna go chop off the old open nodes now😩✊
I have lane so very much watching you. Im learning how to drown my h@3s and let them drain properly.
I love orchids, they are so beautiful 🎉
Can you plz add subtitle on the top ,cause in the shorts it doesn't see.
Plz do this and your videos are so helpful for me..
You really make me wanna get some. My mom always loved them, but they were never really my thing.
Great use for the empty tomato buckets I have laying around though
Thank you for the explanation! ❤ I have 2 orchids!
Have mine in semi hydroponic for about 6 months and it's extremely happy growing new leaves.
I always come to your channel when I seek help with my babies❤💪
Love your content girly!!
I love orchids because they're so beautiful, but I'm scared they might die if I get some. But I'm going to try it out because of you
This was so helpful. I need to repot the one I have. I hope she survives
For fertilizers, I remember my mom just using our Flintstone vits 🤣
Wow
Love your videos. Informative and fun
Ignore her ignorance on getting the water on top crown of the plant. Orchids grow like that to capture water in the top crown and absorbs some of it too. Its a funnel system for the plant in the wild to funnel rain water towars the center of the plant.
I killed a fern - my first! - in Feburary. I was/am so sad and it killed my crazy plant bitch mojo. Now I'm recovering from surgery and can't plant, but once we hit the end of summer clearance rescue babies, I'm gonna rescue some. Thank you for encouraging me to get my plant lady groove back
A lot of ferns are really hard to keep healthy. Don't beat yourself up :-)
Beautiful. I love this. I never knew what to do
I have tried telling my mom not to use ice cubes, but she is adamant saying "that's what the instructions say" smh.... She's a gardener and we have dozens of plants inside and outside...
There is a company in the UK that includes those instructions with their plants. It's in their interests for you to kill the plants, so you buy another. Several of us, who have been growing orchids for many years, tried to explain this to someone last year at the Malvern International Orchid Show. She had bought several orchids from this company and wanted to ask why they weren't doing so well. She refused to believe her ice-cube watering was the reason because that's what the instructions said that came with the plants. If she'd waited until the thunderstorm that came later and poured very cold water through the roof we might have been able to make the point a bit more strongly!
The new bag of orchid potting soil had mealy bugs. Now I’m trying to get of them on two of my beautiful plants. I hadn’t even heard of them until I saw them on the plant.
lol…your first statement was my exact situation….thanks for the video..
Kokedamas have been working great for my orchids too! I highly recommend giving them a try
I just got mine for £2 from a garden centre sale You got me?....Many thanks!! 🥰🤩❤❤Lady😄👍🏾
Everytime i get an orchid i kill it ive had 3 from people who didn't want them anymore from my moms bfs work he just brings them home without asking me if i can take care of it, i feel so bad for them like someone else probably could've taken care of them better lol, one time he did ask about a plant before bringing it home and he said it was " a little big" it was a 5 foot tall umbrella tree smh and it didn't even come with a pot! So my mom had to pick up a new pot and dirt with me
Thank you for sharing Krystal!! I've seen several videos on Orchids being showered on and I CRINGE wondering if they'll get crown rot!!🤷♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Informative . Thank you
And you are funny too😂
I purchased several from "box" stores. Got them home, pulled up the clear pot, and found black roots. Pulled everything out, cut off black parts, rinsed, and then repotted in bark. All still alive. Smallest most damaged, may be growing a new flower branch. Room temperature water. Need to buy some orchard fertilizer.
Distributes just bark?
@@di4085 Yes. I used a coarse bark designed for orchids to begin with. Some were so root damaged when I bought them they actually needed a medium to hold moisture because they dried out too quickly. (you really have to soak when you used bark) I repotted the worst one with 2/3 orchid bark and 1/3 coarse saw dust. The bark provides air pockets and the sawdust hold a moisture level that does stress the roots. Now I'm also adding a kelp based fertilizer to their weekly waterings.
Will this work for everyone - No. When you buy orchids from a dealer or grower they are so much healthier and have a better chance of adapting. Those at the grocery store or big box store are already compromised having been grown for mass distribution, travel, poor light & temperature control, over/no watering etc and so you sometimes start with one foot in the garbage can. Also, I bought the smallest most critical plants. Four of six are sending out new air roots now and are putting up new leaves. One is holding its own. And the poorest one has two 4in air roots, is starting a third, is growing its second new central left, but older (original) foliage wilts - I may have to trim it back drastically and hope.
@@marystewart1746 so order foliage wilts anyways. I did have it sitting in water. I don't know I guess I have to experiment. It's about 5 years old and I think my co-workers got it from Walmart.
Hi Krystal. I think orchids are fine in direct sunlight because back home we put them outside-front yard or garden. I am from Philippines and there are a lot a lot of varieties, and they look so beautiful so exotic so bright and so amazingly attractive to people walking by.
If you are lucky enough to be able to grow them outside they will most likely have a bit of breeze to cool them and possibly dappled sunlight from local trees and shrubs. Most people in the UK, USA etc., can't grow them outside, but have to grow them indoors in their windows. The "no direct sun" advice is because glass magnifies the sun's rays and the leaves will burn.
I love watching your video
I use BetterGro to feed my orchids too, love it 😊!
a lot of orchids are sub tropic they can handle going with out watered for weeks and then get long rain water periods. they root them self in a crook of a tree and absorb water as the rain water runs off the roots their roots are not made to be inclosed in substrate. so watering can be tricky. people use ice because it slowly trickles giving the roots enough time to absorb water as long as your roots dont freeze their fine.
The So-Cal orchid growers sell special fertilizer at orchid shows, and secretly use miracle gro on their own stock.
Thanks for the vid😁👍🏼
I’ve always been told to use ice, and my grandmother has so this explains a lot
Thank you so much 💜
I generally live by at set of rules for all plants of Bottom water if possible, if not, avoid getting water on leaves unless specified that they like being misted and avoid water in all crevices under any circumstances.
Water is often a means for fungus to spread, and while it’s not as rampant for indoor plants, in my food garden many plants actually advise you to avoid getting water on their leaves because it can lead to many kinds of diseases and increase their spread. Strawberries are one such plant which recommended you use a drip hose watering system. (Rain still exists obviously but we can’t control that without a greenhouse.)
For my orchids I use A folded corner of paper towel to get into all the tight crevices and I’ve have no negative effects from using a bit of cinnamon sprinkled in the crown when I accidentally get water in there. Cinnamon is a drying agent, so I figured it would be very effective at wicking any moisture out of there and so far I’ve avoided crown rot any time I’ve spilled water by doing these 2 things.
Best advice hundred percent❤
Thank you 🕊
I don't have orchid. But i live in tropical country that have many of orchid. I heard it's good to water orchid with the water that use for rinsing rice
We adore you girl! Keep it up
I find watering can be tricky if they don't already come in proper orchid growing medium... With some orchid mediums, especially with a lot of bark... You need to soak them for 15 minutes and let that drain after. If the medium is moss or some kind of sponge... They only need to be watered a small amount because that kind of medium will hold onto a lot of water and you will have root rot
CAN WE HAVE A RAMBUTAN UPDATE!!?? 😊👍😱
Thanks, although Ive never seen the note to use ice cubes on any orchids here in stores in Austria
Awesome lookn orchids chicki!❤
You are hilarious!
I rescued 3 orchids once. They were doing so well, and one even gave me a baby. I was so happy, but then I moved and two of them died, including the baby 😭 so now I just have 1...and she's just leaves.
🌷 I got an orchid 🌷
I think more than anything is the importance for air around the roots. That the number one reason orchids die. Not necessarily the moisture but the suffocation of the roots with the moisture.
You can use super-thrive for your orchids!
the new rebranded one is safe??
My mom using terracotta pot to plant orchids. maybe because we living in different country. My mom just put the orchids hanging on our balcony indirect sunlight and we plant it on carcol not soil. For fertilizer we use msg. Sometimes we just hanging orchids on the wall with no pot or leave it in a tree and they still bloom every year
Was given an very small orchid with watering instructions on tag to place an ice cube or two to melt at the base rather than watering directly.
I swear by the ice, my orchid has been around for like 10 years and blooms for months at a time
That's exactly what I was thinking 😂 I have like 6 orchids, all of them get ice once a week and the biggest one has been blooming since semptember and is still in full bloom
I.. just watered the orchid.. yep..and THEN came and searched for some orchid care tips.. yep I put some water in the crevices.. Runs to grab some tissue 😂🤣🤣
OK someone gave me all her orchids because they did not want them anymore and they were special to her because they were from the mother and she passed. I don’t think I’m doing a very good job and I need help please.!!!! I want to make this lady proud!!!! Been watching your videos. They are very helpful. I was told to never water an orchid. Only a little here and there at a time. I’ve seen different videos of yours. It tells me to run it under water than let it drain. It was very reassuring to see one of your videos where one of the plants look just like some of my do now and you still had hope. I bought the orchid pack that had the moss and other things it is supposed to be Planted in. Should I only plant it in that or should I plant it in soil as well?
May I ask about your lamp set up? Or your wall set up really.. how long did that take you? Was it very expensive? Thanks for the information about orchids. I was wondering why mine was faltering in the center.. now I know. Another comment suggested putting a tampon in to suck up the extra h2o! I'm gonna try that! And follow your advice about water and repotting.
Love my orchids!! And so much misinformation out there. These are beautiful plants that have the ability to live forever! Love them..they repay you ten fold
I just stick some all purpose fertilizer in a half-full sink and let them sit in it for 20min to 1 hour, depending on forgetting them or not.
I prefer aerated pots with good quality bark and sphagnum moss. I pour water liberally and don't get the leaves wet. My orchids are happy.
I’m in love.
I finished a nursing simulation and stress bought an orchid 😂
I miss that part when I first saw the video 😅
Hi Krystal, I really enjoy your channel. I like your sass and you are also very informative. So I have orchid plants that are almost 10 years old. Some of them have aerial roots that are 4 feet long. I honestly don't know what to do with the roots so I just let it be. I continually get reblooms. Do people trim these roots? Or do I just leave them alone?
Nice plant
I needed this in 2019 😢 my poor baby is gone
Hey 👋..I love ur video..can u suggest me which grow light is best for indoor plant
Hello, orchids love bright direct sunlight, it help them trive, but be carefull of the summer Sun it could burn the leafs.
*_can you do a video on what to do with an orchid (phal.*) That was put outside in the cold and the leaves got burned??!!_*
_Idk if i should leave them on or cut off just the burned/wilted part?? Or will it grow back?? Or do i cut off all the wilted/burned leaves????_
🧐🤔🤨🤷🏼
Please advise!!
#orchidOrphanage
Get your orchards out of the sphagnum moss ASAP. That medium keeps the roots too wet. Go with at least 80% bark chips.
Aw man. I'm just gonna get a cat who sleeps all day.
THANK YOU!!
Thank you!
Can you give some advice on repotting? And should I loosen up the moss around the roots if I do? I also saw something about keeping them in glass containers to allow the roots to see the light
Hey I love your channel so much, I'm curious is your electric bill high? I want to get grow light for some plants I'm interested in getting, but I'm worried it will spike my bill..
The sun thing depends on the type of orchid. Sun vanders (not the one she has) should be outside, in the sun.
D+🥰 adoro plantas ❤️😍
Me who got an orchid a week ago and watered it using ice cubes bc the site I bought it from said to do that
Hey , this is so pretty.. Which variety of orchid is this??
What about air roots? When repotting should I tuck those roots in the pot?
And leaves are getting too long should I cut the old longer ones?
sun can absolutely hit an orchid. you have to acclimate it. mine are in a SE facing window doing beautifully.