Hope you like the video! If you would like a bit more info on my current orchid situation, and why I have started trying foliar feeding now, I've put a little more detail in the description above :-) I didn't give a full explanation in the video I realised! Links to other videos I mention here: Quick Watering Day video: ua-cam.com/video/tqUb3PQoZBU/v-deo.html (Short) My Watering / Fertilising Routine: ua-cam.com/video/p87-HcOuRTE/v-deo.html (Full, detailed, long) My Lighting and Previous setup: ua-cam.com/video/kOh_5Q5DmkY/v-deo.html (Before the house move) Thanks so much for watching! :-)
❤️ Maggie wheeee is how we say it I think lol. As if it’s French. You know I’m arachnis obsessed. I sing Maggie Mae to mine all the time cause I’m a nutter. This was such a fun video! The pink yellow cattleya and that Mimi Palmer hybrid are gorgeous. And we got to see muffin! ❤️
Muffin loves it in there, I think he believes it's now his own private garden and so he likes to help me with upkeep and repotting 😃 That's why the room was such a mess haha, I'd been repotting stuff with Muffin's 'help' 😁 He likes to play with LECA... this Arachnis has grown sooo much since I moved over! Remember initially I got it as a stump with a keiki? Then I eventually cut the bottom stump off once the keiki had enough roots, and now you would never know it was a cutting! They grow so well 😃
The Orchid Room oh good of muffin to help spread the leca all over the place cause we all know that’s rare and difficult to do all on our own 😂 I do remember your little Maggie! They are tough plants! My baby one is chucking out roots like crazy in sh but Maggie has been a little slower to decide that she loves it. I increased her light a bit and hopefully that gets her moving. :)
Thank you for your tour of your new grow room. Everything seems to be taking well to their new location. Excited about the spikes that your couple of orchids never gave you. This was awesome. Have a great day. Looking forward to some of the updates on things.
Thick leaves open at night (cattleya, Phal kind of leaves) / thin leaves during the day (oncidium, miltoniopsis kind of leaves) ... in a nutshell 🤗 wonderful seeing your orchid room come together like this! I hope you are happy with it 🌸
My hero ❤ I looked it up after to double check 🙂 Seems they also close in warmer temps to reduce water loss, so 25C was pushing the limit even for those that had stomata open. It was morning when I filmed this so once the sun came round it got even hotter... Some evidence for absorption through the epidermis as well though, so maybe it still did something. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂❤
Wow! Loving the new space and everything looks really nice and it's adapting well. Growing in a conservatory must be quite different than with lights. Looks like you got a good handle on things :)
Hi Jess! Yes it really is quite different- I'm learning alot! They all want way more nutrients now also, more heat and light really does make a big difference 🙂 Thanks for watching 🙂
Hi Annabel, great to see you're getting settled now and your orchids are looking fantastic 😊. I'd love to have a space like that... Or just a whole house for orchids really 😂. Unfortunately I'm stuck to my one room due to light levels in the rest of my house but my bathroom seems to have attracted some cooler growers now too. I really don't know how they got in there and they seem to multiplying too..... Ooooops 😂😂.
Hi Maxine! A whole house sounds good! The boys can camp on the lawn XD It's funny how the orchids just sneak in, isn't it!? It's like they sense a good environment and just want to come join in :-) Have a great day!
Wow thanks for the update that is such a nice growing space! So inspiring, I need a conservatory in my next house. I have to try semi-hydro also I might buy some leca beads at ikea and try it first with a noID phal to get the use of it because you have great great results!
Hi Ian! Thanks 🙂 I'm getting there slowly and getting to really like it! I think trying it on one orchid first is the best approach, get used to how it works, and if things go wrong at least it's just one. Let me know how you get on 🙂
Hi Annabel ! :) Your Phal Purple Martin is actually a blue variety (not the original Purple Martin). I have 2 plants of the blue variety and both have fragrance only at the late morning and noon. While my original Phal Purple Martin has fragrance all day round but stronger at noon. :)
Oh thankyou for that! I still can't detect any fragrance from this one, but it is still a small plant 🙂 keeps flowering though, as one fades it opens a new one, I just love it for that 🙂
Oh I wish we could still get those temperatures. Unfortunately, it feels like fall already. Days gets barely 23 °C and it gets down to 14 °C during night time. Only my cool growers are out still and some hardy cacti. I have been eying that superstupid on the Claessen website and might actually venture to buy it now after seeing yours. :) Happy growing. -M
We have had a few intermittent heat waves here, followed by a week or so of rain, then another hot spell 🙈 Can't keep up- last week it was more consistently 25C or so in the conservatory, but 80% humidity with the rain outside. Then I had the fan on full without the humidify setting, worrying about how damp everything was 😅 but the week before was when it got up to 35C and I got a leaf burn on a catt, and I had already panic bought the shade netting a few weeks ago when it was hot, so decided it needed to go up. The gigantea hybrid is lovely, and faster growing than the gigantea parent! Only thing missing Is fragrance! With the large amount of gigantea in it, i suspect it will start making larger sprays of flowers once it matures more. It has a nice big lily-pad leaf shape too!
Hi Annabel! Congratulations on the new set up, your babies look amazingly happy. It’s a pleasure seeing them so green and healthy. I have a question: I know you prefer semi-hidro given the excellent results you have, however is there any particular orchid you keep in a different media? Thanks in advance. 🥂🙏🍀🌞
Hi Marco 🙂 All my orchids are in a large variety of different media and setups, depending on individual species requirements. All my setups are inorganic and wicking with reservoirs, but I vary the media used and airation ratio. Hope that helps!
I didn't even notice- your English is perfect! I've been adding more lava rock to the Vandas particularly, and also putting some of them in more aerated pots, but still keeping a water reservoir. They seem to like this a bit more- for some species at least!
The Orchid Room about vandas... I don’t know if you remember but thanks to You my only noid Vanda is thriving in semi-hidro . It has four new strong roots and a lot of new babies . I am wondering if my angreacums would enjoy sh too... they are my most favourite so far and I don’t wanna kill them. What do you think? Should I go for it? 😘😘
Hi Annabel, you mentioned an Ebay seller that you wouldn't recommend but I didn't the name can you remind me of who it was? I'm so impressed with you orchid collection. Might be green with envy to be honest 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Thank for sharing. 🌸💜🌸
Hi Kelly! I only purchase from UK or European eBay sellers, so I don't know where abouts you are located, but if further afield then you wouldn't have to worry about this particular one or three, since plants can't be purchased from across regions without investing alot of time and money into the correct paperwork 🙂 If you're in the UK though, I'll grab the names out of ones I've had bad experiences with for you!
ebay.co.uk/usr/blakessbotanicals1 Rootless divisions. They usually are the orchids pictured though, so if there is something rare and you want a challenge with a small (expensive) rootless backbulb, at least you can see the orchid you're buying.
ebay.co.uk/usr/airplanefran Small, rootless divisions. I think possibly a business partner of one of the above from something that was said on a Facebook group.
Bear in mind these are only my experiences, although I have spoken to many others with similar experiences from these sellers. I think they ban people who give bad feedback, so they get away with it 🤷♀️
Hi Lili! Thanks 🙂 I tend not to count, but I believe I hit 400 a while ago, so probably over that but below 500 (I think 😅) Many are young plants or seedlings, but those are getting bigger now...
It comes through very pink in winter and looks very very like my mini crystelle-smith, but a big version. Pot. Psycho bride has been suggested, but that also looks a bit off. I think it's only yellow now because of the very hot weather 🤷♀️ I've shown it in bloom 4 times now and each time it looks slightly different haha... I don't think it's possible to put an ID on this one unfortunately. It's very large, both bifoliate and unifoliate, which rules out many of the minis with similar flowers
How do you find your warmer growers are affected by the cooler temperatures? Any signs of them objecting? I am asking because I would like to give my Phals cooler night temps but I’m afraid it will affect my warmer growers. They all grow in the same space.
Hi! I'm not having any cooler temps really? Lowest is 18C. One night it went lower, but it was 25C that day, so on an average basis, fine. Average temp between the day nights is probably 25C atm, average 18C nights 28C days. I wouldn't let warm growers fall to below 18C in my constantly moist systems as that would likely end in cold, wet, dead roots. My cooler growers were struggling in the heat, so I had to move them to a cooler room 😿 I think slightly cooler nights are OK if they're balanced by warmer days, but for my setup I don't feel comfortable with phals and catts below 18C for very long.
Just to add- You grow in water culture right? So is there the possibility of maybe draining of the reservoirs overnight so if they're going cooler, they don't have the water sitting around the roots? It would be a bit labour intensive though, but just a thought!
The Orchid Room yes! I do grow in water culture, however my warmer growers, such as my Cattleya’s, are in a semi hydro set up (at least my version of semi hydro😁). So the water in the glass is not really a worry. It’s more that my warm growers are the ones right up against the window which is where the cool air would be coming from if I open the windows at night. So I’m worried the top growth and sheaths might be affected by the cool air. I try not to expose them to temperatures below 18 degrees as well but I know my Phals love those occasional cool nights so I wondering what your observations on the lower night temperatures were. We haven’t had too many cool nights lately but it looks like in a week or so we should have a few cool nights so I’m looking forward to that. Thank for your reply!
No problem! I hope you get some spikes! So far having a couple of cooler nights hasn't seemed to affect anything, but it hasn't really dipped very far and the days have been so hot they're probably relieved by it. Its all new to me though, everything was much easier to control before! 🙂
Hi Kelly! I've only just started doing it, but whenever there is a hot day I try and go out in the morning and spray down, either just with low amounts of epsom salts in the water (rain water- finally got a few water butt's set up off the conservatory gutter and we had a few storms, so they're overflowing! ), or on watering days I also add some of my rain mix fertiliser too and spray everywhere. Lower than I fertilise if I'm just watering at the roots, as I don't really want loads of white mineral build ups on the leaves! I'm alternating with higher fertiliser at the roots at the moment, as with all the natural light I've noticed they definitely want more nutrients. So I'm trying to get it into them every way I can! 🙂
Depends entirely on your setup your environment, what you're growing in, how much light the orchids recieve, what your fertiliser is, temperatures, how often you water, what orchids you are growing etc. The true answer is- how long is a piece of string 🙂 Please don't take that with any negative tone at all, but it really is impossible to generalise. I give a bit more info on this in the longer fertiliser video linked in the comments and description, but you really need to go by how your orchid is growing and what it is doing at the time. More growth- more nutrients. More light- more nutrients. Higher temps- more nutrients. Winter affects this in two ways- less light, lowers temps, less growth. And cooler temps- needing to let the pot dry out more, so watering less. As a general rule, I reduce only slightly in winter as I grow under LED lights and keep the temperatures warmer, so I have year round growth. But in your conditions, you may need to reduce more, it's trial and error really. A safe bet would be half what you fertilise with in summer, if you notice dramatically slower growth. Hope that helps!
If they aren't growing new leaves or new roots at all, I would maybe drop them down to a maintenance level, maybe 100ppm of a complete balanced orchid fertiliser. It's easier to start low and build up, than to go too high and get root burn. During growth phals are very heavy feeders- several studies found 60+ppm Nitrogen was optimal in ideal conditions for maintaining growth and preventing lower leaf drop. That's under controlled heat and light though. I feed higher than most because previously I have had lights to drive growth, but now I'm finding I actually need to feed even more honestly with all the sunlight and heat. Trying to adjust to keep up with them- currently on around 400ppm of my fertiliser, which works out around 50ppm N. So, I could possibly go even higher, but I like to increase slowly and wait to see responses first. Great that your phals are spiking!
wait, did I hear you correctly? You're thinking about mounting a plant? I hate to say it, but I think you're going to have to stop buying until you get rid of some, you're full up.😉
Yeah I've made some inorganic self-watering mounts for some ramblers that I'm really liking, so I think this one will be getting a modified version! Leave it potted, but make like a slanted board in the pot that it can climb up, threaded with synthic so it still grabs moisture from the pot. That's the thought process anyway, it literally grows vertically and the new roots don't get down, so I need to do something soon. Haha and this is after taking like 20 miltoniopsis out and putting them upstairs 🤣 I think I want to refine what I'm keeping now though with the orchids I love growing, leaning more toward species and primary hybrids. I'm thinking of doing a giveaway for some complex hybrid phals, den phal complex hybrids and den nobile complex hybrids. I just don't love them- theyre OK, but they just kinda space fill...
Oh also....oncidiums. This is going to make me unpopular but I won't be getting any more! I like the sotoanum, the twinkles just sort of turn into forests, that's OK. But the bigger ones.... I will keep what I have but, no more.
@@TheOrchidRoom "complex hybrid phals, den phal complex hybrids and den nobile complex hybrids. I just don't love them- theyre OK, but they just kinda space fill..." Truer words were never spoken. 😂
Hope you like the video! If you would like a bit more info on my current orchid situation, and why I have started trying foliar feeding now, I've put a little more detail in the description above :-) I didn't give a full explanation in the video I realised!
Links to other videos I mention here:
Quick Watering Day video: ua-cam.com/video/tqUb3PQoZBU/v-deo.html (Short)
My Watering / Fertilising Routine: ua-cam.com/video/p87-HcOuRTE/v-deo.html (Full, detailed, long)
My Lighting and Previous setup: ua-cam.com/video/kOh_5Q5DmkY/v-deo.html (Before the house move)
Thanks so much for watching! :-)
Your space is to die for! Just perfect for an at home grower...
You have a DREAM orchid collection! Goals, for sure! Thanks for sharing...
Massive well maintained collection.
Thankyou 🙂
Hi Annabel! Great video, so many beautiful blooms! Congrats! ☺ Love your greenhouse! Thanks for sharing! ☺
❤️ Maggie wheeee is how we say it I think lol. As if it’s French. You know I’m arachnis obsessed. I sing Maggie Mae to mine all the time cause I’m a nutter. This was such a fun video! The pink yellow cattleya and that Mimi Palmer hybrid are gorgeous. And we got to see muffin! ❤️
Muffin loves it in there, I think he believes it's now his own private garden and so he likes to help me with upkeep and repotting 😃 That's why the room was such a mess haha, I'd been repotting stuff with Muffin's 'help' 😁 He likes to play with LECA... this Arachnis has grown sooo much since I moved over! Remember initially I got it as a stump with a keiki? Then I eventually cut the bottom stump off once the keiki had enough roots, and now you would never know it was a cutting! They grow so well 😃
The Orchid Room oh good of muffin to help spread the leca all over the place cause we all know that’s rare and difficult to do all on our own 😂 I do remember your little Maggie! They are tough plants! My baby one is chucking out roots like crazy in sh but Maggie has been a little slower to decide that she loves it. I increased her light a bit and hopefully that gets her moving. :)
You have a wonderful collection.Great Job! Happy growing!
Thankyou 💗🙂
Fascinating collection, great show.
Thanks Helen! 🙂❤
I love big phals... and I cannot lie?
😁🍃The bigger, the better!
Thank you for your tour of your new grow room. Everything seems to be taking well to their new location. Excited about the spikes that your couple of orchids never gave you. This was awesome. Have a great day. Looking forward to some of the updates on things.
seems like you're getting the new setup sorted.
Thick leaves open at night (cattleya, Phal kind of leaves) / thin leaves during the day (oncidium, miltoniopsis kind of leaves) ... in a nutshell 🤗 wonderful seeing your orchid room come together like this! I hope you are happy with it 🌸
My hero ❤ I looked it up after to double check 🙂 Seems they also close in warmer temps to reduce water loss, so 25C was pushing the limit even for those that had stomata open. It was morning when I filmed this so once the sun came round it got even hotter... Some evidence for absorption through the epidermis as well though, so maybe it still did something. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂❤
The Orchid Room 🥰
Wow! Loving the new space and everything looks really nice and it's adapting well. Growing in a conservatory must be quite different than with lights. Looks like you got a good handle on things :)
Hi Jess! Yes it really is quite different- I'm learning alot! They all want way more nutrients now also, more heat and light really does make a big difference 🙂 Thanks for watching 🙂
Hi Annabel, great to see you're getting settled now and your orchids are looking fantastic 😊. I'd love to have a space like that... Or just a whole house for orchids really 😂. Unfortunately I'm stuck to my one room due to light levels in the rest of my house but my bathroom seems to have attracted some cooler growers now too. I really don't know how they got in there and they seem to multiplying too..... Ooooops 😂😂.
Hi Maxine! A whole house sounds good! The boys can camp on the lawn XD It's funny how the orchids just sneak in, isn't it!? It's like they sense a good environment and just want to come join in :-) Have a great day!
@@TheOrchidRoom 🤣🤣🤣. I just can't stop them multiplying 😂😂. Thank you and have a fantastic day too 😘.
Very nice video Annabel, lovely blooms! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Margaret!
Love your videos, youre so sweet. Blessings from El Salvador
Thank you so much! I am glad you like them, I appreciate it :-) Take care!
Great video🥰
Thanks Ronda! ❤😀
Love your new grow room, the vandas looking very healthy, and I really enjoyed your video as always.
Thanks! 🙂 I'm starting to really enjoy it too 🙂 Thanks so much, and thanks for watching!
Your greenhouse is stunning!! I would love to see a video about your foliage Orchids ^^
Thanks! That's a great video idea 🙂
Wow thanks for the update that is such a nice growing space! So inspiring, I need a conservatory in my next house. I have to try semi-hydro also I might buy some leca beads at ikea and try it first with a noID phal to get the use of it because you have great great results!
Hi Ian! Thanks 🙂 I'm getting there slowly and getting to really like it! I think trying it on one orchid first is the best approach, get used to how it works, and if things go wrong at least it's just one. Let me know how you get on 🙂
Hi Annabel ! :) Your Phal Purple Martin is actually a blue variety (not the original Purple Martin). I have 2 plants of the blue variety and both have fragrance only at the late morning and noon. While my original Phal Purple Martin has fragrance all day round but stronger at noon. :)
Oh thankyou for that! I still can't detect any fragrance from this one, but it is still a small plant 🙂 keeps flowering though, as one fades it opens a new one, I just love it for that 🙂
@@TheOrchidRoom Purple Martin = Kenneth Schubert × violacea
Yes, thanks, 75% Violacea, 25% pulcherrima
Oh I wish we could still get those temperatures. Unfortunately, it feels like fall already. Days gets barely 23 °C and it gets down to 14 °C during night time. Only my cool growers are out still and some hardy cacti.
I have been eying that superstupid on the Claessen website and might actually venture to buy it now after seeing yours. :)
Happy growing. -M
We have had a few intermittent heat waves here, followed by a week or so of rain, then another hot spell 🙈 Can't keep up- last week it was more consistently 25C or so in the conservatory, but 80% humidity with the rain outside. Then I had the fan on full without the humidify setting, worrying about how damp everything was 😅 but the week before was when it got up to 35C and I got a leaf burn on a catt, and I had already panic bought the shade netting a few weeks ago when it was hot, so decided it needed to go up.
The gigantea hybrid is lovely, and faster growing than the gigantea parent! Only thing missing Is fragrance! With the large amount of gigantea in it, i suspect it will start making larger sprays of flowers once it matures more. It has a nice big lily-pad leaf shape too!
@@TheOrchidRoom oh dear, you have had them all weather types then. 🙈
Hi Annabel! Congratulations on the new set up, your babies look amazingly happy. It’s a pleasure seeing them so green and healthy. I have a question: I know you prefer semi-hidro given the excellent results you have, however is there any particular orchid you keep in a different media? Thanks in advance. 🥂🙏🍀🌞
Hi Marco 🙂 All my orchids are in a large variety of different media and setups, depending on individual species requirements. All my setups are inorganic and wicking with reservoirs, but I vary the media used and airation ratio. Hope that helps!
Yes thanks. You have to forgive my English. 😊
I didn't even notice- your English is perfect! I've been adding more lava rock to the Vandas particularly, and also putting some of them in more aerated pots, but still keeping a water reservoir. They seem to like this a bit more- for some species at least!
The Orchid Room about vandas... I don’t know if you remember but thanks to You my only noid Vanda is thriving in semi-hidro . It has four new strong roots and a lot of new babies . I am wondering if my angreacums would enjoy sh too... they are my most favourite so far and I don’t wanna kill them. What do you think? Should I go for it? 😘😘
Hi Annabel, you mentioned an Ebay seller that you wouldn't recommend but I didn't the name can you remind me of who it was?
I'm so impressed with you orchid collection. Might be green with envy to be honest 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Thank for sharing. 🌸💜🌸
Hi Kelly! I only purchase from UK or European eBay sellers, so I don't know where abouts you are located, but if further afield then you wouldn't have to worry about this particular one or three, since plants can't be purchased from across regions without investing alot of time and money into the correct paperwork 🙂 If you're in the UK though, I'll grab the names out of ones I've had bad experiences with for you!
ebay.co.uk/usr/blakessbotanicals1 Rootless divisions. They usually are the orchids pictured though, so if there is something rare and you want a challenge with a small (expensive) rootless backbulb, at least you can see the orchid you're buying.
ebay.co.uk/usr/falconer1211 Total waste of time. Rootless and very expensive, small, sometimes rotting orchids.
ebay.co.uk/usr/airplanefran Small, rootless divisions. I think possibly a business partner of one of the above from something that was said on a Facebook group.
Bear in mind these are only my experiences, although I have spoken to many others with similar experiences from these sellers. I think they ban people who give bad feedback, so they get away with it 🤷♀️
Great video ...so how many orchids do you have ? thank you for sharing .
Hi Lili! Thanks 🙂 I tend not to count, but I believe I hit 400 a while ago, so probably over that but below 500 (I think 😅) Many are young plants or seedlings, but those are getting bigger now...
the noID at 14:20 might be Potinara Fairyland
It comes through very pink in winter and looks very very like my mini crystelle-smith, but a big version. Pot. Psycho bride has been suggested, but that also looks a bit off. I think it's only yellow now because of the very hot weather 🤷♀️ I've shown it in bloom 4 times now and each time it looks slightly different haha... I don't think it's possible to put an ID on this one unfortunately. It's very large, both bifoliate and unifoliate, which rules out many of the minis with similar flowers
How do you find your warmer growers are affected by the cooler temperatures? Any signs of them objecting? I am asking because I would like to give my Phals cooler night temps but I’m afraid it will affect my warmer growers. They all grow in the same space.
Hi! I'm not having any cooler temps really? Lowest is 18C. One night it went lower, but it was 25C that day, so on an average basis, fine. Average temp between the day nights is probably 25C atm, average 18C nights 28C days. I wouldn't let warm growers fall to below 18C in my constantly moist systems as that would likely end in cold, wet, dead roots. My cooler growers were struggling in the heat, so I had to move them to a cooler room 😿 I think slightly cooler nights are OK if they're balanced by warmer days, but for my setup I don't feel comfortable with phals and catts below 18C for very long.
Just to add- You grow in water culture right? So is there the possibility of maybe draining of the reservoirs overnight so if they're going cooler, they don't have the water sitting around the roots? It would be a bit labour intensive though, but just a thought!
The Orchid Room yes! I do grow in water culture, however my warmer growers, such as my Cattleya’s, are in a semi hydro set up (at least my version of semi hydro😁). So the water in the glass is not really a worry. It’s more that my warm growers are the ones right up against the window which is where the cool air would be coming from if I open the windows at night. So I’m worried the top growth and sheaths might be affected by the cool air. I try not to expose them to temperatures below 18 degrees as well but I know my Phals love those occasional cool nights so I wondering what your observations on the lower night temperatures were. We haven’t had too many cool nights lately but it looks like in a week or so we should have a few cool nights so I’m looking forward to that. Thank for your reply!
No problem! I hope you get some spikes! So far having a couple of cooler nights hasn't seemed to affect anything, but it hasn't really dipped very far and the days have been so hot they're probably relieved by it. Its all new to me though, everything was much easier to control before! 🙂
I love the blooms on the one at 19:41. I didn't quite catch the name. Would you mind sharing its name?
Hi! Renantanda heiko greffier- shown here also at 26:54 ua-cam.com/video/LjEGcjwPG7g/v-deo.html
@@TheOrchidRoom Thank you!
Hi Annabel, this is pretty inspiring. Are you spraying down daily?
Hi Kelly! I've only just started doing it, but whenever there is a hot day I try and go out in the morning and spray down, either just with low amounts of epsom salts in the water (rain water- finally got a few water butt's set up off the conservatory gutter and we had a few storms, so they're overflowing! ), or on watering days I also add some of my rain mix fertiliser too and spray everywhere. Lower than I fertilise if I'm just watering at the roots, as I don't really want loads of white mineral build ups on the leaves! I'm alternating with higher fertiliser at the roots at the moment, as with all the natural light I've noticed they definitely want more nutrients. So I'm trying to get it into them every way I can! 🙂
@@TheOrchidRoom Sounds great. They seem to be thriving from what I can see.
Hi Annabel. Do you have your paph potted in semi-hydro? What about the pinguiculm (yes I know its spelled wrong lol)?
Hi Mary! Yes- you can see the repot and media used here- ua-cam.com/video/tY0hxP0BkE8/v-deo.html 🙂
Pinguicula are mostly in either synthic or Perlite, self-watering or with a reservoir 🙂
Hi How much should I be fertilizing during winter please
Depends entirely on your setup your environment, what you're growing in, how much light the orchids recieve, what your fertiliser is, temperatures, how often you water, what orchids you are growing etc. The true answer is- how long is a piece of string 🙂 Please don't take that with any negative tone at all, but it really is impossible to generalise. I give a bit more info on this in the longer fertiliser video linked in the comments and description, but you really need to go by how your orchid is growing and what it is doing at the time. More growth- more nutrients. More light- more nutrients. Higher temps- more nutrients. Winter affects this in two ways- less light, lowers temps, less growth. And cooler temps- needing to let the pot dry out more, so watering less. As a general rule, I reduce only slightly in winter as I grow under LED lights and keep the temperatures warmer, so I have year round growth. But in your conditions, you may need to reduce more, it's trial and error really. A safe bet would be half what you fertilise with in summer, if you notice dramatically slower growth. Hope that helps!
@@TheOrchidRoom Thank you, We are in Winter here in Australia, I have 4 Phalenopsus Orchids. they all have new stems starting.
If they aren't growing new leaves or new roots at all, I would maybe drop them down to a maintenance level, maybe 100ppm of a complete balanced orchid fertiliser. It's easier to start low and build up, than to go too high and get root burn. During growth phals are very heavy feeders- several studies found 60+ppm Nitrogen was optimal in ideal conditions for maintaining growth and preventing lower leaf drop. That's under controlled heat and light though. I feed higher than most because previously I have had lights to drive growth, but now I'm finding I actually need to feed even more honestly with all the sunlight and heat. Trying to adjust to keep up with them- currently on around 400ppm of my fertiliser, which works out around 50ppm N. So, I could possibly go even higher, but I like to increase slowly and wait to see responses first. Great that your phals are spiking!
Afac
wait, did I hear you correctly? You're thinking about mounting a plant?
I hate to say it, but I think you're going to have to stop buying until you get rid of some, you're full up.😉
Yeah I've made some inorganic self-watering mounts for some ramblers that I'm really liking, so I think this one will be getting a modified version! Leave it potted, but make like a slanted board in the pot that it can climb up, threaded with synthic so it still grabs moisture from the pot. That's the thought process anyway, it literally grows vertically and the new roots don't get down, so I need to do something soon.
Haha and this is after taking like 20 miltoniopsis out and putting them upstairs 🤣 I think I want to refine what I'm keeping now though with the orchids I love growing, leaning more toward species and primary hybrids. I'm thinking of doing a giveaway for some complex hybrid phals, den phal complex hybrids and den nobile complex hybrids. I just don't love them- theyre OK, but they just kinda space fill...
Oh also....oncidiums. This is going to make me unpopular but I won't be getting any more! I like the sotoanum, the twinkles just sort of turn into forests, that's OK. But the bigger ones.... I will keep what I have but, no more.
@@TheOrchidRoom "complex hybrid phals, den phal complex hybrids and den nobile complex hybrids. I just don't love them- theyre OK, but they just kinda space fill..."
Truer words were never spoken. 😂