33 Best Low Light Orchids: Top Recommended Orchids for Shade

Growing orchids is mainly knowing how to properly imitate the orchid's natural habitats and recreating that environment in your house. A few orchids aren’t accustomed to a lot of light at all, and prefer low light conditions. If you are interested in growing orchids indoors, then you might want to consider low light orchids.
What orchids are best for low light? A window sill with bright direct light isn’t necessary for these kinds of orchids:
Phalaenopsis,
Paphiopedilums,
and Miltoniopsis.
Low light is one thing, but no light is another. No plant will grow well if it is shoved into a dark corner of a forgotten bookshelf, hid under an end table, or left alone in a dark bathroom.
Although there are good candidates for bathroom orchids, they must have some source of light.
If you are thinking about acquiring an orchid for one of these darker spaces in your house, that get no light whatsoever, I’d strongly recommend against it. As long as there is light, even if artificial, then your orchid can make it.
In technical terms, you should be looking for orchids that fall into the low light category. When you light a candle, the amount of light that it gives off the first foot is how we measure light capacity for plants, called foot candles, or fc. When you research, search for orchids that will fall into the 1200 to 2000 fc requirements (some authors mention 1,000 to 1,200 fc).
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction to Low light Orchids
0:59 Defenition and Parameters of Low Light Orchids
2:00 Foot Candle Definition
4:20 Phalaenopsis
5:11 Paphiopedilum
6:37 Miltoniopsis
8:04 Summary
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