Orchid Lessons! Highs, Lows, Tips and more
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- #OrchidUpdate #Orchids #herebutnot
A year's worth of orchid insights; from pH and fertilizer experiments, to methods for more blooms and bigger plants. Also Orchid books, LED lights AND some thoughts as I look to 2019
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Basics of Phal Care for Newbies
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6 reasons you shouldn't cut spikes on your phalaenopsis
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Advanced phalaenopsis tips - how to get more spikes, understanding the care requirements of warm blooming vs cool blooming species, and more
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Update on Phal spikes & temperature cycling for more flowers
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Watering Phals - MORE WATER!!!
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pH Adjusting your orchids...the ins and outs of Hard Water & Acidification of water for epiphytic orchids
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10+ things I've learned about growing orchids
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I dont mind long videos. I love that it's like ur just talking to me in the same room.
Thanks to your video related to advanced phalaenopsis care, it made me discover more orchids outside of what I knew before! Also, picked up new interest to collect summer blooming orchids & obtained the hybrid seedlings that who knows what the flower will look like 😂 and purchased a vanda for experimentation to culture in appartement
Great summary of and lessons learned for 2018! Looking forward to how you do against your goals for 2019. I enjoy reading your blog as it contains tons of information that I can learn from and validate against as I grow in my orchid hobby. Good job!
I'm 35 too and work full time as a doctor.. took on yet another role at my hospital this year supervising all the residents. So I'm flat out ... but feel so committed to my 'chids too! Lucky I don't have any actual kids at the moment - just a partner and two dogs ... I do feel guilty sometimes how much time my orchid hobby takes up, but I love it so much! 2019 resolution to balance out my time a bit better. Good luck with your flasks... Keen to see how it all pans out. Oh, and don't worry about long videos, I reckon most ppl really enjoy them :) . Happy new year!
Orchie Dee - my goodness, you’re a busy one! I get it though...go! Go! Go! 😄 thanks for the encouragement-selfishly, shorter videos would be easier to edit. Haha Happy New Year!!
@@HerebutNot I know what you mean. My last video was my longest yet - 40mins and I was too lazy to review my editing after haha.. SUPER choppy when I finally watched it through yesterday. iMovie is pretty good and easy to use for a free program if you are a mac guy. Anyhow, just found your channel, thanks for the entertainment!
Thanks for all your videos. I live in SK and it was sooooo nice to find your climate appropriate info. Great advice & thanks for sharing your knowledge!! 👍
Great video. I am one of the peeps that you mentioned that watches your videos but never goes to your website. Wishing you good fortune in 2019!
Happy New Year. May more beautiful orchids be in your future.
Judith - thank you Judith! New year, new blooms 🥰
Happy new year! Looking forward to the more contents on your channel
Thank you for the encouragement Mende 976 - Happy New Year!!
Congrats on getting such good growth this year and getting your flask to germinate! I'm hoping you can give some regular updates on them as they grow :). I'm also interested to see your new propagation projects as they come. Have a happy new year!
Thanks Gabrielle! If you’re interested, I have been tracking a lot of my findings in a post on the blog (herebutnot.com/how-to-breed-flask-phalaenopsis-orchids-steps-for-dry-seeds-green-pod-propagation-methods/) and I’ll definitely post new updates as they grow on.
Thanks for the orchid love - and have a happy new year!
Your lush and happy plants motivate me not to let things slide too much. I agree with many of your points and since it's quite a hassle for me to translate my thoughts into a foreign language I'm even more happy about your videos/blog. I wish you a happy and healthy new year 2019 and hope your channel will go through the roof!
Thanks so much Bumblebee 🥰 been loving your recent videos too-I see your plants are looking on-point. Looking forward to more of yours...and I love the greenhouse tours...I have none to tour here, so I live through you 😁
Very interested in "stem propagation". Looking forward to those videos!
Cool update ♥ Looking forward to your next video. :)
Happy new year!!!2019 here we come!!:)
Yep...I still haven't got a routine down completely. When I do get it to a routine, I can really tell a difference in the quality of the plants.
Enjoyed this, Happy New Year! Liked your recaps and goals. Good comments I think about routine for continuous stable health and growth of the orchids. I do that 😁 , my orchids don't have a chance to complain about much 😄. Congrats on the flasking, wow. I appreciate your enthusiasm and it was charmingly expressed..nice vid! That white phal with purple dashes is beautiful, hadn't heard of or seen that one before, and I love it. Funny fragrance! More utube posting in 2019!!!!! 👍 much success and thrills and enjoyment in 2019!
Thanks Patricia!! Appreciate your encouragement as always 🥰
'I'm becoming a Phalaenopsis Nerd".... haha....that made me laugh, as I can relate. Happy New Year to you! Thanks for sharing your knowledge:)
Very Good, I will be waiting for all your ideas on increasing flowers and branching for next year. This year of 29 no name grocery store phals (all I can acquire here) in Salmon Arm BC. 25 In spike, now at 70 years old I am not trying to get to detailed, but keep it simple and grow healthier plants. So I respect and appreciated what you are doing (wish you had a greenhouse ) :0) Thanks
Jacolyn - check out my video on “Advanced Phal Care” - the experiments I talk about in this video I summarize in the advanced care video. For more flowers: cool nights (16C) for at least 8 weeks, up to 16 weeks. Consistent watering and care, and dialed in nutrients (including pH adjustment)...and good light is essential, but your big windows should be plenty
I totally understand what you mean when you describe "hoarding". I have been collecting orchids for about 5 years and it's been a challenge for me to say "no" to buying more when I've pretty much reached my capacity now...I really have to scale down to the orchids I really love, and give the others away or sell...it's really hard to resist purchasing new orchids, and I guess the only positive is that I have been much more selective in the last year...
Hi Dustin , thank you for your response, appreciate it. I will definitely learn more. One thing I just wanted to clear up, I was not looking for a one to one session but more of ... not on you tube comments kind of a thing. I understand the time commitment and busy schedule too and that’s ok. I will keep watching your posts and blogs and learn more that way.
Mother Patel - feel free to message me on Instagram. It allows for messaging and photos if need be
Great reflection on your 2018 otchid growing year. Like your goals especially producing more videos. I would love it if you could do videos on the cloning subject. I am a phal lover and would be happy to see more video on your phal seedling and how to care for them. Thanks very much for sharing and have a wonderful year ahead. Happy NewYear!
Thanks MaryG! I will work on a video of how I cared for my seedlings. In the meantime I have a post/journal of how the project went - if you’re curious: herebutnot.com/deflasking-phalaenopsis-seedlings-how-to-first-time-experiment/
Thanks very much for your website. I read through it and it seems you are doing very well with your seedlings. Don't forget to make video when any of them bloomed. I don't know if you know about this other fellow you tuber (ua-cam.com/channels/MTdCSCsu6vgflO6sJ0iY1g.html ) , she has done de-flasking and bloomed hers as well. Few years ago I did a course at Kew Garden (London ,UK) about how to grow orchids from seed, which included the de-flasking as well, and as far as I remember, they also recommended a very dilute solution of ordinary bleach as fungicide , once you took them out of flask. I haven't personally done it but it can work ( just a suggestion). I will visit your v-log to see their progress. Thanks.
Счастливого Нового года! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 спасибо за твои видео! 🎆🎇🌠🌅
Nice video
I had started to use seaweed Emulsion fertilizer on my orchids and I think that in addition to micronutrients and epsom salts have really helped my orchids besides regular fertilizer for orchids. Also Rick on Rick's orchids said he puts a couple pinches of Epsom pelleted lime on his orchids once a month. I started to do that and I've noticed a difference and how green and health from the leaves are. But the watering sort of got away from me was more Sunshine with the warmer weather and I think I should have upped my watering schedule because I noticed the leaves not being is firm. I'm also using a higher nitrogen fertilizer like you just mentioned around 11 minutes because they're growing I just found one regular Miracle-Gro that's 24 8 16 and I think I'm going to use that because the first number is nitrogen and the last number I think helps the roots I know the middle number helps the blooms but they're not blooming. Anyhow thank you so much for taking the time to make your videos. And I'm still wondering about that phalaenopsis that hugely oh my gosh that's a must be a hog when it comes to fertilizer. Also I just added the Cal Mag to my fertilizing schedule Rick said orchids are calcium Hogs. I hope he's all right I noticed he hasn't been posting as often I guess you know who I'm talkin about anyhow take care my new Orchid friend
Fun .. and maybe you could explain a little bit more about the stemming process. That sounds interesting Thanks so much.
Oh I really adore you!!! Finally someone who can proof there is no need to complicate, only grow them...well probably as you do ;-) So people save money, choose good media, try to master watering and feeding and enjoy! Thank you so so so much for sharing. I am so happy to follow you in 2019. especially with your Phalaenopsis species collection which are my favorites!
Thanks for the kind words - And I agree...got tired of being told how complicated orchids are. If I can do it up here in the frozen tundra of Canada. Anyone can.
@@HerebutNot I noticed people don't wish to try and learn how to water them so they think put them in FWC is great solution...and with time they become happy with having plant alive. I don't like that! I really tried and for me organic media with good watering regime is the best way to grow them. Thank you so so so much!!! I will share your youtube chanell with my friends for sure ;-) Big kisses from Croatia!
I'm a bit surprised you aren't using seaweed/kelp extract. I only started using it a couple of months ago, not soon enough to see any real difference with the orchids--but--I used some on my rose bushes and whoa, flower count, size and color are all improved. I have seen some new root activity with the kelp on orchids that didn't have great roots (for ages), we'll see how it goes. Hope you had a nice holiday season, wishing you a great New Year, see you on the flip side.
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Hi Michael! I do use seaweed a bit. I try not to use it too often as I’ve heard it can lead to mutations and/or deformities. I apply it in the spring with a light dose of SuperThrive. But I try not to go overboard with it
Omg!!! Im shoookkktttttt! I envy your phals!!!! Wow! Imma click subscribe button now!!!! Oh my Goodness!
Beautiful plants!! New subscriber and very happy I found you. From upstate ny but just moved to Sweden and was so sad to leave my plants behind. As I have been rebuilding my collection here I decided to give some phals a try again but... one is already in decline and I am trying not to panic. Your laid back attitude helps! Given the climate I am in I realize I just can’t be taking advice from hot climate growers which is what took me down the wrong path. Not blaming them just glad to find someone in my general conditions to follow. I will look for your instagram if you have one. Already spent time on your site. Cross your fingers for my poor suffering phal if you wouldn’t mind! Happy new year!
Thanks for the love Melissa! *fingers crossed for your phal* - I'm on Facebook and Instgram as "Here but not"; if you aren't getting anywhere with your phal, drop me a message on facebook and send me some photos. Happy to help where I can.
Oh I was so secretly hoping you’d say that lol. I liked the page and will reach out tomorrow with a bit more info and a photo or two if you don’t mind. I have already implemented a series of stupid things (I’ve now stopped doing any new things to this poor plant) and truly think a little guidance will help. I will not hold you responsible for the eventual outcome :D you’re a dear for offering help to all of us. Have a wonderful evening :)
Happy New Year! OMG kitty kat got soooo big. He's beautiful. One thing - LONGER VIDEOS please.... not shorter - longer.
What is the name of that huge phalaenopsis I've never seen one that enormous! Of course I am new to orchids because I never knew how to take care of them so they always died but after watching Carolyn's Channel in Canada only her site is called jacolyn orchids a combination of her and her husband's name Jack. I've also watched Rick of Rick's orchids in Alabama here in the United States and he taught me a lot also. Carolyn gave me the courage to start with orchids and also got me addicted to them and Rick taught me how to care for them and how the nutrients work. I also get the cold treatment with orchids because I was ready to put some of my orchids outside for the summer but the air conditioner was turned on it caused a lot of them to re Spike. Then I didn't want to put them outside because Carolyn said the bees will get at them and then the flowers will die cuz they'll be pollinated. So I hate to put them outside but eventually they need some summer vacation I guess. If you'd like to see my window of orchids you can go to Kathleen Murphy and add the word orchids to the UA-cam search engine and you'll see my beautiful orchids a couple different videos about them. Carolyn suggested starting a UA-cam channel so I could show her my orchids and then have a history for my own benefit. You did this at the beginning of the year and now you have a thousand subscribers so you've doubled in 6 months. If I double in six months I won't even have a hundred teehee but I have more than orchids on my site I love my house plants orchids are new to me and I love gardening and I have a jungle outside here in Hagerstown Maryland. I live an hour and a half from Washington DC or an hour to have football the board. I noticed you had posted on Carolyn's new post and I had subscribed to you a while back but you hadn't showed up on my Newsfeed so I looked you up again. I'm going to have to keep looking you up because you have a lot of good information here for me to learn more about my orchids and then share it with others
Hi there! I love your goals and I think it's good to think back on stuff we did last year and what we want to improve in 2019. My goals are quite similar: creating better quality video's, improving the growth off my orchids (they are doing good but can always do better) and breeding. I already pollinated some phals and did the research online. So now we wait.. And I def would try stem propagation, I should not be more difficult, just add some BAP to the propagation mix ;) PS: I'm afraid to join more facebook-groups, my space is already very limited :) Love your channel!
Love it Digna's Tropicana! I subscribed - looking forward to seeing more of your orchids!
Cool! Thank you!! :) I think your channel, orchid collection and environment looks a lot like mine, so I've always been very interested in what you're doing and growing ;)
Interesting retrospect on your 2018 orchid culture. Being in Canada I sympathize with you on the lack of orchid buying opportunities. We have just a handful of trusted vendors. Growing flasks is a big risk reward project.
Truthfully, except for a few more phrags, a zygopetalum that doesn't hate me, and some compact scented Vandas, I'm fairly satisfied with my 125+ orchid collection.
I will visit those 2 orchid web sites because I really miss discussing orchids, and simply finding others to trade sell or give away orchids.
My goals for 2019? Simplify my watering routine. My Saturday mornings are monopolized by my orchids. Secondly, I will immediately repot and treat any new orchid coming in to my home. I'm almost pest free and that saves lots of time! Perhaps transfer all my orchids to semi hydro if possible. If not, the either semi water culture or full water culture. Again, it's to simplify my routine so that I'm not afraid to go away on vacation for a week. The goal of doubling the number of flowers is a good one, achievable with happy growing mature orchids.
Wishing you great blooms and good flask growth in 2019!
ResQuetzal I can relate on the weekend commitment aspect of orchid care. Holy man...it takes a good chunk of time. But I do find it calming for sure.
Looking forward to seeing you on the groups. What vendors do you buy from?
@@HerebutNot
I buy mostly from Cloud Orchids, which wind up more often seedlings that are 3 years from blooming. Once in a while I'll visit Paradis Des Orchidees here in Laval and bring something home something in spike like my Phrag longifolium $$$$. I'll buy at the spring show if there is something I can't resist but I despise buying bare root from the Taiwan and Ecuador vendors because, even with a set of viable roots, the orchids sometimes just don't want to adapt. In all fairness, the Vanda genus is the one giving me the least casualties. Blooming them is also working out well so they are the surprise of 2018.
Out west you have considerably more vendor options (with cheaper transport) than me living in Montreal.
What about a book on orchid’s and maybe your other plant’s?
Can you give us a list of the recommended books?
So which orchid book do you find most useful? I have about 6 and 2 are really pretty good.
Where have you found the best information on improving growth? Best internet resource I’ve found is “firstrays”. I’m coming up on one year of growing, but feel I’ve only scratched the surface.
I can’t find how to make flasks…I’ve been looking after watching many videos. Can you please provide the link for how to prep the flasks?
Fabulous video! You did cut yourself off some of the time--maybe on purpose? If it's interesting to you, I found your youtube channel through your blog, which in turn I found because I was trying to find info on growing macodes outside of a terrarium. I'm not sure why I haven't come across your channel before because I follow Oliver's Greenhouse, MissOrchidGirl and several others, but at any rate, I'm glad I've found it, now! You definitely present some different info from others and I especially appreciate the windowsill tips. I'm excited to hear you plan on revving up your videos and blog!
I have a macodes on order but I grow Ludisias in a compost-rich media in a shallow bowl.
Yes, I’m playing with a new video editor and the transitions shortened the clips so much and cut off some of my lines :(. I’ll work on that...I’m undecided if I’ll keep using Kinmaster for editing; It’s a bit wonky and I had to re edit the video twice!
Anyways, regarding Macodes petola...give it good light, good airflow, and ample water and nutrients and I think you’ll find it easier to grow than in a terrarium.
Thanks for the comment and Happy New Year! 🥳
What do you feed them, my phals often have small leaves please more videos about feeding and medium you use, thanks in advance. Enjoyed your vids.
Jun Wu I use 1/4 tsp of 20-20-20 in winter per gallon (4L) of water. In the spring I use 1/2-3/4 tsp of 20-8-8. And in summer/fall I use 13-5-15 MSU at 1/2tsp. I always flush my pots with “regular water” first to remove salt buildup and old fertilizers.
Dustin did you magage to try Phal stem propergation or paph polination? We have the same lack of plants available in New Zealand. Omg you are 35 well im those numbers turned around, im running out of time, but I cant afford expensive plants so want to make my own. Happy New Year for 2020.
Hi Esther! No, I haven't done stem propagation yet. Perhaps a goal for 2020. My understanding is that it's similar to sowing seeds, but you need a media with some plant hormones and warm temps to encourage the growth of new plantlets.
Wow, I’m watching this vid in 2022!
What is the name of the large leaf phal in the beginning of the video?
tiffanyjasmine23 Phal Mok Choi Yew (gigantea x violacea)
Coel. pandurata has wonderful pendulous spikes, so if you have the space, put it on a pedestal stand and use the plant in and out of flower as a feature. 😊
Just blame "The Orchid Fairies" for the plant increase 🤣
Feel sort guilty... I live in tropical Queensland, Australia, so get to grow outside all the amazing tropical orchids... but oddly enough, I have always been fascinated by the terrestrials of more temperate zones.
You are actually around the right age to start orchid breeding because it is such a long-term commitment to plants. Most 20 year olds are still enjoying life and are not yet "settled", 30's tend to be focused on children if they have any or career, 40's you are starting to look to diversify your life interests...
I love the green and black flowers of Coel. pandurata - I’m very excited to see it bloom. It was the first plant on my “wishlist” back in the start of my orchid hobby.
I would love to grow outside...I think the sun has much more to offer than LEDs. Haha. But for now 🤷🏼♂️ and I suppose you make a very good point about orchid breeding. It’s a good time to be doing it.
Thanks for the orchid love. Have a great New Year!
What books/ magazines would you recommend?
I'm just beginning my journey in learning how to tend to orchids.
I find a lot of books and magazines are...not very clear about care and culture of orchids. Most talk about where individual species are from and not so much about their care. That may be because care largely comes down to your climate and other conditions...I certainly know the reason I started writing on my blog, was because I couldn't find that type of info.
If I had to choose, I'd say one of the best books I've read is an older book called, "Culture of the Phalaenopsis Orchid
" by Bob Gordon
www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/culture-phalaenopsis-orchid/author/gordon-bob/
You can still find used copies online.
Other places you can get orchid content is:
- American Orchid Society Magazine
- Orchid Species Magazine
- International Phalaenopsis Association magazine
But i warn you, most of these magazines are orchid porn and the care and culture of orchids are short nuggets of info in each edition.
@@HerebutNot
I live in zone 7
Hot hot hot here
2 are doing well on top of the bathroom shelf.
1 huge orchid on my kitchen table...doing great!
1 not so good.
Are you on fb?
@@susiemccoy7 - most of the stuff from the American Orchid Society should be well tailored to you. Their membership includes a login to their videos which are nice...lots of info in there
You forgot to mention that you have a friend overseas from Greece 🙂
If you ever decide to ged rid one of these great no id Phals that I saw in other videos I would be more happy to adopt one.
Happy new year 🍾
Apostolos - Hahaha. I cannot imagine how poorly they would ship 🛳 ! 🤔 but I did say experiment! Haha - Happy New Year my friend 🥳
Hi again
margespenst 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
Great video and input! New to your channel from orchaholics anonymous - subbed! You should stop cutting yourself off mid sentence with the transitions though :)
Thanks Sean! Yeah, I was testing a new editor and unlike the previous one it doesn’t blend the audio on transition. Sorry!
Hi Dustin, you say you want to help others, but I see very few replies from you, any reason? I’ve read all your blogs and watched most of your videos and I truly am jealous of your collections, but I’m happy that you have managed to grow these orchid in this Calgary weather. That’s exactly where I need your knowledge, since I share the same weather.
If you do get a chance to reply , please do write a line.
Sorry, did you have an orchid or plant care question that you need an answer to?
Thank you for responding back, sorry if I sound a bit too pushy. I got too too too excited when I heard that You are from Calgary.
My question is, wait this is still my first question, there’ll be more, first of all I have an orchid with just one leaf, how do I know if it’s going to survive? Second thing, please tell me about how you manage to provide a good weather surrounding your orchid, with it being so dry around and humidity being low?
Is it possible to get in touch with you? Don’t mind, I see you have a lot of knowledge and I agree there are many out there with that kind of knowledge. But being from the same place and close by, I feel you would be able to help more. I feel if I could somehow show you my indoor garden😊, you can help more by seeing it personally and guiding me appropriately.
Mother Patel - no worries. I try to respond to most of the question. Some slip through the cracks, or I just don’t have the answer. Regarding your questions:
1. Single leaf orchid - not ideal. It would be difficult for even me to bring a plant back from one leaf. You may want to dispose of that plant and try again with a healthier specimen. Best-case scenario, you save the plant-it will still be 2-4 years before it flowers again.
2. As you know, our humidity sucks. I don’t fight that-I just make sure my plants get watered before they get too dry, that they get good light, and that the roots are healthy and happy. Humidity (in my opinion, despite what others think), is mostly inconsequential for the easier orchids like phals, phrags, and paphs.
3. I appreciate you wanting to learn more, unfortunately I don’t have that sort of time to offer one-on-one coaching. That’s why I write the blog content and create videos-to help share perspectives, but still keep this hobby manageable for my personal time. I hope you understand.
To get you started, I’m going to share a link with you that covers in detail my perspectives and care advice for growing orchids in Calgary.
On growing orchids in Calgary:
herebutnot.com/how-we-grow-orchids-in-calgary-alberta-canada/
And an intro to phalaenopsis orchid care:
herebutnot.com/4-requirements-keep-phalaenopsis-orchid-alive-blooming/
I went to an orchid grower/wholesaler today and bought two no name mini phals....I’m so ashamed 😞promise to be a bit more discerning
Nooooo! Not shorter videos!!!
I wanna be orchid friends!! Cuz I too have no orchid friends
joey Join usssss *zombie arms* > Orchaholics Anonymous on Facebook
Sign me up for a clone of Anaconda and Princess k
Heh heh; still haven't got around to the cloning attempt yet. But I've put your name down in the event I getter done :)
the fact you care about the plants just shows youre a compassionate cultivator. im sorry youre out of space- maybe you can find a more efficient way to keep your plants- theres nothing wrong with loving what you have.