I am Ukrainian and have been watching and learning from you for many years. And now I am very grateful to you for helping my Ukraine. Many people lost their homes and everything they had and orchids also died, and the worst thing is that many people died, including children. I can't stop crying. Thank you, God bless you for your support. Thank you for your videos, they help to distract at least for a while. My English is not very good, please forgive any mistakes.
Hugs to you and yours. I'm so sorry you and your people are dealing with so much pain and losing so much. I think of you all and pray for you often. May the evil stop soon 😣❤️🇺🇦
I give to the cause through Sarmatian's Purse to help your people. I am praying that the monsters will be punished in the worst possible way. Invading a sovereign country without cause is a WAR CRIME. I'm praying that Russia will be kicked out of the UN and lose their most favored nation status. I am broken hearted at what has happened to you and your people! Praying for victory for Ukraine.
I have 4 small and 2 large vandas. I was going craaaaazy hauling them to the shower, soaking in buckets, hanging up to dry, moving them to south windows, etc. every day! I have many other orchids and other plants but these took up so much of my time that I was considering getting rid of them. Then, in one of your earlier videos, you showed how yours were all potted. I potted all mine, they are doing fabulous, and I'm no longer regretting owning vandas! Thank you for all your advice, videos, explanations, and encouragement! 😊 🇺🇦
Because of your past videos I potted all my vandas, and wow. It’s been life changing, I don’t have to water daily. Maybe weekly or every two weeks; plus, they’re growing! Before my vandas never grew, now they grow very well.
Thank you for the Red Cross link. I donated. Even if this conflict ends tomorrow, the devastation and human costs are staggering, and the people of Ukraine need all the help they can get. Oh, and I love the big Vandas. They're beautiful and I've had - and lost - quite a few. And yes, they are expensive here in Denmark. The free-hanging ones are really impractical in the home for me. My most successful attempt was one I converted to pot. It flowered three times before disintegrating (I suspect fusarium). I enjoyed your video on easy vs. difficult orchids, but under my conditions, I will say that Oncidium types are easier than Vandas - though obviously the cool ones need to be kept cool.
Donations to icrc who decided to build headquarters for Ukrainian refugees in Russia after meating with Lavrov??? As a ukrainian, I would say, that icrc is the organisation which had the most of money donated in order to help to Ukrainians and did almost nothing for real help.
I have a vanda pachara skate. I grew up next to the nursery for a major orchid retailer. I've known the owners son for over 30 years and he showed this one to me, I was instantly in love
I am Ukranian, living in US. Love your shows and listen to you regularly, ever since I found your channel. My best friend from Odessa is in Moldova now with her family. Thank you for being companionate, reminding everyone about our cause and supporting our country. God bless you.
I'm just getting into Vandas and love your videos. Please keep showing us tips on them. I believe they will come back thanks to wonderful people like you.
Thank you for sharing the Redcross information. You continue to teach us & you inspire us with your passions & we are grateful for you. May you have peace in these most trying times. 🦋
Another instance where MOG tells me exactly what I need to do right as I find myself in a conundrum about some orchid issue or another. Someone just gifted me with my first Vanda, fortunately a small one, and I realize I don’t have the focus to mist or dip the roots a couple times every day…Dani had one video before this that talked about her experiment with potting vandas…but now I see how exactly to pot mine, which is currently in a basket. Thanks to our industrious, internationally connected Miss Orchid Girl.
I really love everything I have seen on your channel. You have helped me strive to keep my orchids healthy. But this video really spoke to me. I know I am late to seeing this but I have really wanted to donate, I now have a place to donate without fear of it being a scam site! Thank you so much for everything!!! You are fantastic!
All these Vanda orchid rescue videos are giving me hope. I feel most of my roots are dead...the vellum is in good shape but no live root tips and they are mostly tan and not health and green. I'm trying! Thank you for your great videos that focus on the plant care!
Hey everyone! I have two orchid nurseries that I highly recommend ordering from, if you live in the states. The first is just a few cities over from me in Minnesota, called Orchids limited. They have a huge selection and gorgeous plants. The second is called Akatsuka in Volcano, Hawaii. They have beautiful Cattleyas that they breed, and I also buy most of my miltoniopsis from them!
Firstly let me say thank you for the intro, plus info to help put where we can, I couldn't imagine how you would be feeling right now with the horrific events happening, this is my 💔 for you guys. So I have 2 very tiny vandas who I acclimated from pot to bare rooted, my idea is to keep them in a beautiful clear vase which is what they're in & have been for some time now. I read or saw someone say when watering bare rooted vandas they should be liquid fertilised each time which is working out great, they're growing really well.
I have all my vandas in pots and anorganic substrate for over two years, I can support your way of housing them full-heartedly^^ They only started blooming after potting them, they never did barerooted.
Thank you for this video! I have a small seedling Vanda and what you showed me today has educated me that I am transitioning it wrong which is great for me because now I know how to do it correctly! I love all your videos I have helped me become a good orchid mom
I came on here to learn how to repot my vanda orchids, but what has stood out is your plea for aid for the Ukrainian refugees! As a Red Cross Staff myself I'm very moved by this!
We have to think of ourselves as the good guys, and the people that are trying to oppress and enslave other people, those are the bad guys. In order to BE a good guy, you have to do GOOD things, though! Every little tiny bit counts. Even if it's just a few dollars, it adds up. There are so many people suffering around the world right now. The best thing that we can all do is be thankful and grateful for what we have and don't ever take it for granted.
Thank you so much for your videos. They have been a tremendous help. I learnt a new way of housing vandas today. I love vandas but maintaining them has been a challenge and I have lost a lot of them as a result.
Thank you so so much for this video!! I was terrified to try vandas but your other videos convinced me to take the leap and get one. I got a relatively small Bangkok Sunset, held my breath, and potted it. It arrived with a small flower spike and so far the spike is still growing and the few roots I can see still are alive and green, so I’m hoping I actually manage to pull it off! I’ve been watering the same way you mentioned to help the roots adjust, so I’m very happy to know I’ve been doing it right.
I’m so happy to read your comment about getting a small Bangkok Sunset, they are stunning in my opinion and I’ve been thinking about getting a vanda but reluctant to get anything that’s going to get too big. I had my eye on Neofinetia but they are generally a bit too small and will take ages to flower. Bangkok Sunset could be the solution I’ve been looking for. Thanks for your comment.
I love in Paris, France and all my vandas are potted and doing very good! As you used to to do, I stick the tray under the pot so it can retain a bit of water. This way, I don't need to water them much even during summer time! It's a great great way to keep them indoor without having to soak them every single day^^
I repotted my Vandas from a bark chip medium to a combo bark chip and sphagnum moss medium in a Repotme Slitted Pot and placed that in the hanging wooden basket because I like that look and I have it hanging under our Gazebo. Fingers crossed that they’ll like their new set up and space. ✨
This video is sooo encouraging! I only have a very vigerous rhyncostylis gigantea that should be flowering size next year, but it arrived potted in bark, so that's no problem. I however want to expand my collection and the bareroot to pot thing is really scary. I successfully shocked a vanda into death two years ago when I completely changed its environment from barerooted to potted (semi-hydro of all things). Next time I will try it your way.
Thank you for this video. I have 4 dwarf vanda types currently in air baskets,as they was grown in the nursery in south Florida. Now few hundred miles north of there inside. I want to put them into pots with orchid medium.
Hope peace returns to your part of the world soon. I think it's better for both sides of the waring nations. BTW looking at the older Vandas established so well in the pot I must consider collecting them once again.
Thankyou Danny, I've just bought Vanda Pakchong blue Mc. It is in one of those baskets, I'm in Australia temperature goes over 40°c ,I'm worried about keeping up water to her & wanted to know if / how to pot her. Now I know what to do. Love your videos.
All of my vandas are bare-rooted since they're almost always die if I put them into pot. Vanda is my least favourite orchid because they're too tricky to take care, especially before I know bare-rooted is okay. But now, I just let them hanging on a wire or attached them into a wooden stick and they live happily lol. The down side is, they're need to be watered more than the other orchid.
Hello, first of all congratulations for such a wonderful and beautiful orchid channel...for lovers of these wonderful flowers it is a pleasure to find such good content....in this same vein I wanted to ask you to include subtitles in Spanish I know that UA-cam it automatically translates it for you, you just have to activate it...thank you regards 😘♥️
Hi, there is no such option, there is only automated English subtitles which are on. Maybe very big channels have more tools than me, my channel is pretty tiny at the moment. If ever such tools exist for me, they will always be on. For now, there is no auto translate for me, sorry!
I have a vanda with very long roots and want to pot it like yours. It grew in the small basket and some barks under it which is attached tightly to when I bought it. Can I pot it with the basket in the medium? Don’t want to end up damaging the roots. BTW, love your tutorial, so helpful and easy to follow.
Thank you so much for this video!! I have a lovely Vanda that I’m trying to pot in a Lechuza pot with their Lechuza Pon. I hope it will work, but I don’t know if I should cut off some of the leaves. They are not yellow or brown in entirety but do have what looks like sunburn on some and some are shredded at the base from roots or the flower spike. Should I remove them? They also have had some sort of hydration issues before I got them cause they droop. What should I do? BTW I LOVE ur videos!!!!!
I went to the orchid show on the weekend and brought a vanda I love the colour and everything but I asked the lady there is it alright to keep outside hanging in my trees and she said yes. because the reason why I ask is because where I live we are subtropical but we get the cold here some of the temps we have been getting is at least 6degrees and 3 degrees in the morning I was wondering because we don’t get frost here would it take those sort of temperatures and the trees I have them are palms and I know for a fact because of the structure of a palm tree that they are insulators of heat so I think my question would be is it alright to keep this orchid out side even knowing we don’t get frost but have low temperatures but is somewhat protected from the exposure of cold while still getting that sort of temperature. Sorry for the hard question 😂
I just had to cut a basket off one of my Bangkok Sunsets. I don't think it was hanging they just let it grow on a table and the roots was all twisted in in the basket. It was a pain and I didn't have any thing pointy to cut it with other then some small jewelers wire snips.. I had plastic everywhere and they small pieces. I had to heartbreaking-ly sacrifice a good root it just didn't want to detach from the corner it was in.
I live in a very dry climate so I want to pot up my Vandas I just bought. I see you are using plastic pots so I'm assuming clay might absorb too much of the water. I do have the luck you have with moss so I have switched to coconut husk chips. I'm thinking some chips with large bark and lava rock. Not too wet but better than having to water every day. How does it sound to you?
Hi MOG, I have a question for you. Can you make a video of the effects of over fertilizing an orchid? I grow my orchids in a sunroom that gets ample sun light and for some reason my buds are blasting and some of the buds look deformed, especially my phals. So, could it be that I’m over fertilizing? Thank you I enjoy your vids very much and learned a great deal from them.
How do you know which roots are bad? I don’t have many heavy roots on my Vanda Jirapapha, I wish I could send you a picture. It was an exhibit at a local conservatory while blooming. But they didn’t have much experience with Vanda and “retired” it when the blooms fell. I bought it because it is so unusual for this area. I had never seen one before. Stores here have Phals only. Most of the root system is thin and dry, since this is my first time working with one I don’t know what a healthy root looks like.
Thank you for this video. I have 5 vandal’s/mokora arriving tomorrow and I’m afraid they’ll be bare rooted and I was wondering how to repot and if they needed transitioning. Would I be able to ask your opinion on grouping 2 of them in one large pot? I believe they are around 30-40cm tall and I have 4 or 5 coming (think I may have ordered an extra one or two by mistake 😂) and I have 2 large wooden hanging baskets 10inches in diameter. Would it be advisable to maybe have a community pot with 2 in each pot? Also after transitioning them to being potted when should they be fertilised? On the second week like others of maybe wait longer?
hi Danny my first vanda wants to go to heaven and I have now a few more new Vandas that I am going to try 'again' but this time my Vandas look a lot stronger than the first one I bought on eBay. one question I wonder where you are and your grow room is much drier than my place in nyc. for me now indoor is around 23C 9during the day ) degree and somewhere betw. 40-60 humidity here ...I am just thinking about the ratio of moss and bark...thank you
You’ve (almost) convinced me to buy a vanda, I don’t have a spare inch in my growing areas inside and outside but I’m thinking I could hang one from the ceiling in front of a sliding glass door. I’ve had my eye on a Neofinetia but they are so tiny and I’m keen to get something that is flowering size. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Hi, I'd go with ascocentrum christensonianum, tiny one and blooms very easy in warm temps, Neos are more tricky to rebloom in warm conditions! Neo x vanda hybrids are also cute and easier to bloom though :)
Is it possible if you spray your Vanda with water and it's hanging in a bright window that the water on it can make it sunburn when if it were dry, normally it would not in that spot in the sunny window? I've had my Vanda in the same spot and in the last day it got sunburned and I had just heavily spritzed it with water and I saw sunburn today
You are Romanian? I could have sworn that you were Thai or Vietnamese. Of course we never see your face but the pitch, timber and slight accent made me think that you were Asian. Anyway, the presentations are perfectly done. Very informative and fun. One question though is how do you feel about charcoal for medium for phals? I would break it into small pieces and it would be pure charcoal without any starter fluid or anything. Keep doing this fine work Dani. You are the best on orchids!
You don’t need hi humidity so that is good and make sure you soak it and hang it on a hook . I need also a bit more information is it healthy is the root system healthy. Try to describe how the orchid is .And if you need any help I could tell you.
For the way red (more like bloody) cross ignores Ukrainian soldiers in Russian captivity they’ll never get a penny from me. I try to donate regularly to Zolkin and there is a family here, in the US, that I try to help as much as possible. They are newly weds and I hope they’ll be blessed with a bunch of cute kiddos.
I am Ukrainian and have been watching and learning from you for many years. And now I am very grateful to you for helping my Ukraine. Many people lost their homes and everything they had and orchids also died, and the worst thing is that many people died, including children. I can't stop crying. Thank you, God bless you for your support. Thank you for your videos, they help to distract at least for a while. My English is not very good, please forgive any mistakes.
Hugs to you and yours. I'm so sorry you and your people are dealing with so much pain and losing so much. I think of you all and pray for you often. May the evil stop soon 😣❤️🇺🇦
Peace, love & healing light to you & all who are & have suffered. 🙏🏼✨
🧡 stay strong and don't give up hope! The world is with you!
I give to the cause through Sarmatian's Purse to help your people. I am praying that the monsters will be punished in the worst possible way. Invading a sovereign country without cause is a WAR CRIME. I'm praying that Russia will be kicked out of the UN and lose their most favored nation status. I am broken hearted at what has happened to you and your people! Praying for victory for Ukraine.
@@solarwinds- Thanks for your help and prayers 🙏.
I have 4 small and 2 large vandas. I was going craaaaazy hauling them to the shower, soaking in buckets, hanging up to dry, moving them to south windows, etc. every day! I have many other orchids and other plants but these took up so much of my time that I was considering getting rid of them. Then, in one of your earlier videos, you showed how yours were all potted. I potted all mine, they are doing fabulous, and I'm no longer regretting owning vandas! Thank you for all your advice, videos, explanations, and encouragement! 😊 🇺🇦
Because of your past videos I potted all my vandas, and wow. It’s been life changing, I don’t have to water daily. Maybe weekly or every two weeks; plus, they’re growing! Before my vandas never grew, now they grow very well.
Thank you for the Red Cross link. I donated. Even if this conflict ends tomorrow, the devastation and human costs are staggering, and the people of Ukraine need all the help they can get. Oh, and I love the big Vandas. They're beautiful and I've had - and lost - quite a few. And yes, they are expensive here in Denmark. The free-hanging ones are really impractical in the home for me. My most successful attempt was one I converted to pot. It flowered three times before disintegrating (I suspect fusarium). I enjoyed your video on easy vs. difficult orchids, but under my conditions, I will say that Oncidium types are easier than Vandas - though obviously the cool ones need to be kept cool.
Donations to icrc who decided to build headquarters for Ukrainian refugees in Russia after meating with Lavrov??? As a ukrainian, I would say, that icrc is the organisation which had the most of money donated in order to help to Ukrainians and did almost nothing for real help.
I have a vanda pachara skate. I grew up next to the nursery for a major orchid retailer. I've known the owners son for over 30 years and he showed this one to me, I was instantly in love
I am Ukranian, living in US. Love your shows and listen to you regularly, ever since I found your channel. My best friend from Odessa is in Moldova now with her family. Thank you for being companionate, reminding everyone about our cause and supporting our country. God bless you.
Thank you, Dani, for the appeal on behalf of Ukraine. You are amazing!!
I'm just getting into Vandas and love your videos. Please keep showing us tips on them. I believe they will come back thanks to wonderful people like you.
Thank you for sharing the Redcross information. You continue to teach us & you inspire us with your passions & we are grateful for you. May you have peace in these most trying times. 🦋
You are right there is always hope and every drop in the sea makes a difference as long as we all continue to put our drops in. 💜
Another instance where MOG tells me exactly what I need to do right as I find myself in a conundrum about some orchid issue or another. Someone just gifted me with my first Vanda, fortunately a small one, and I realize I don’t have the focus to mist or dip the roots a couple times every day…Dani had one video before this that talked about her experiment with potting vandas…but now I see how exactly to pot mine, which is currently in a basket. Thanks to our industrious, internationally connected Miss Orchid Girl.
Thank you for the Red Cross info. I will be donating. My heart breaks for the people of Ukraine
As a Romanian myself, I had absolutely no clue that you were Romanian too. Your english is freakin' stellar !
I really love everything I have seen on your channel. You have helped me strive to keep my orchids healthy. But this video really spoke to me. I know I am late to seeing this but I have really wanted to donate, I now have a place to donate without fear of it being a scam site! Thank you so much for everything!!! You are fantastic!
All these Vanda orchid rescue videos are giving me hope. I feel most of my roots are dead...the vellum is in good shape but no live root tips and they are mostly tan and not health and green. I'm trying! Thank you for your great videos that focus on the plant care!
I have been avoiding Vandas because of the barerooted thing and their size. But now, oh boy! Lookout vandas! I am coming for you 😂😂 thanks Danny!
Hey everyone! I have two orchid nurseries that I highly recommend ordering from, if you live in the states. The first is just a few cities over from me in Minnesota, called Orchids limited. They have a huge selection and gorgeous plants. The second is called Akatsuka in Volcano, Hawaii. They have beautiful Cattleyas that they breed, and I also buy most of my miltoniopsis from them!
Omg thanks. I can drive there sometime and bring it here in Canada.
Firstly let me say thank you for the intro, plus info to help put where we can, I couldn't imagine how you would be feeling right now with the horrific events happening, this is my 💔 for you guys.
So I have 2 very tiny vandas who I acclimated from pot to bare rooted, my idea is to keep them in a beautiful clear vase which is what they're in & have been for some time now. I read or saw someone say when watering bare rooted vandas they should be liquid fertilised each time which is working out great, they're growing really well.
I have all my vandas in pots and anorganic substrate for over two years, I can support your way of housing them full-heartedly^^ They only started blooming after potting them, they never did barerooted.
Thank you for this video! I have a small seedling Vanda and what you showed me today has educated me that I am transitioning it wrong which is great for me because now I know how to do it correctly! I love all your videos I have helped me become a good orchid mom
I love vandas. The blooms are very big and vibrant just like Phalaenopsis. We have vanda Mokara here which are cheaper and easier to grow.
Thank you for your support ❤
Thanks for making good use of your platform
You are such a lovely person. Thank you for your love for the world and the people. HOPE. :)
I came on here to learn how to repot my vanda orchids, but what has stood out is your plea for aid for the Ukrainian refugees! As a Red Cross Staff myself I'm very moved by this!
Thank you for talking about the horrible situation going on in Ukraine 😢
We have to think of ourselves as the good guys, and the people that are trying to oppress and enslave other people, those are the bad guys. In order to BE a good guy, you have to do GOOD things, though! Every little tiny bit counts. Even if it's just a few dollars, it adds up. There are so many people suffering around the world right now. The best thing that we can all do is be thankful and grateful for what we have and don't ever take it for granted.
Thank you so much for your videos. They have been a tremendous help. I learnt a new way of housing vandas today. I love vandas but maintaining them has been a challenge and I have lost a lot of them as a result.
There is always hope Danny. Always, Always.
Love Vandas. That fan shape of their leaves is so nice looking.
Thank you for support! It is terrible things russians do here, in Ukraine 😭 but we are strong, we will fight, we will win 💙💛
Thank you so so much for this video!! I was terrified to try vandas but your other videos convinced me to take the leap and get one. I got a relatively small Bangkok Sunset, held my breath, and potted it. It arrived with a small flower spike and so far the spike is still growing and the few roots I can see still are alive and green, so I’m hoping I actually manage to pull it off! I’ve been watering the same way you mentioned to help the roots adjust, so I’m very happy to know I’ve been doing it right.
I’m so happy to read your comment about getting a small Bangkok Sunset, they are stunning in my opinion and I’ve been thinking about getting a vanda but reluctant to get anything that’s going to get too big. I had my eye on Neofinetia but they are generally a bit too small and will take ages to flower. Bangkok Sunset could be the solution I’ve been looking for. Thanks for your comment.
this is just what I needed it (just acquired vanda memorial holland tan) my first vandaaa! . thank you for all you do and for your heart...x
I just donated. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to help.
I love in Paris, France and all my vandas are potted and doing very good! As you used to to do, I stick the tray under the pot so it can retain a bit of water. This way, I don't need to water them much even during summer time! It's a great great way to keep them indoor without having to soak them every single day^^
I loved hearing your heartfelt comments💕
I just planted my Vanda. Wish me luck
I repotted my Vandas from a bark chip medium to a combo bark chip and sphagnum moss medium in a Repotme Slitted Pot and placed that in the hanging wooden basket because I like that look and I have it hanging under our Gazebo. Fingers crossed that they’ll like their new set up and space. ✨
This video is sooo encouraging! I only have a very vigerous rhyncostylis gigantea that should be flowering size next year, but it arrived potted in bark, so that's no problem. I however want to expand my collection and the bareroot to pot thing is really scary. I successfully shocked a vanda into death two years ago when I completely changed its environment from barerooted to potted (semi-hydro of all things). Next time I will try it your way.
Sending love and prayers 🙏 ❤️
I think about it like that:if jou can spare onley one can of food do it. It will feed +1 person.💗🇺🇦
Thank you for this video. I have 4 dwarf vanda types currently in air baskets,as they was grown in the nursery in south Florida. Now few hundred miles north of there inside. I want to put them into pots with orchid medium.
Awesome vanda orchids
Great Vanda video! Thank you! 🤗
Hope peace returns to your part of the world soon. I think it's better for both sides of the waring nations.
BTW looking at the older Vandas established so well in the pot I must consider collecting them once again.
Thankyou Danny, I've just bought Vanda Pakchong blue Mc. It is in one of those baskets, I'm in Australia temperature goes over 40°c ,I'm worried about keeping up water to her & wanted to know if / how to pot her. Now I know what to do. Love your videos.
All of my vandas are bare-rooted since they're almost always die if I put them into pot. Vanda is my least favourite orchid because they're too tricky to take care, especially before I know bare-rooted is okay. But now, I just let them hanging on a wire or attached them into a wooden stick and they live happily lol. The down side is, they're need to be watered more than the other orchid.
Thanks for this video, I always fail to raise vandas, I”ll try to pot them and let you know if I am successful. Thanks
Very helpful thank you
Hello, first of all congratulations for such a wonderful and beautiful orchid channel...for lovers of these wonderful flowers it is a pleasure to find such good content....in this same vein I wanted to ask you to include subtitles in Spanish I know that UA-cam it automatically translates it for you, you just have to activate it...thank you regards 😘♥️
Hi, there is no such option, there is only automated English subtitles which are on. Maybe very big channels have more tools than me, my channel is pretty tiny at the moment. If ever such tools exist for me, they will always be on. For now, there is no auto translate for me, sorry!
I don’t have any vandas but I might get one ,one day
very informative, thank you
I have a vanda with very long roots and want to pot it like yours. It grew in the small basket and some barks under it which is attached tightly to when I bought it. Can I pot it with the basket in the medium? Don’t want to end up damaging the roots. BTW, love your tutorial, so helpful and easy to follow.
Hello do you have a video on totally rootless Vanda recovery thank you
Thank you so much for this video!! I have a lovely Vanda that I’m trying to pot in a Lechuza pot with their Lechuza Pon. I hope it will work, but I don’t know if I should cut off some of the leaves. They are not yellow or brown in entirety but do have what looks like sunburn on some and some are shredded at the base from roots or the flower spike. Should I remove them? They also have had some sort of hydration issues before I got them cause they droop. What should I do? BTW I LOVE ur videos!!!!!
I went to the orchid show on the weekend and brought a vanda I love the colour and everything but I asked the lady there is it alright to keep outside hanging in my trees and she said yes. because the reason why I ask is because where I live we are subtropical but we get the cold here some of the temps we have been getting is at least 6degrees and 3 degrees in the morning I was wondering because we don’t get frost here would it take those sort of temperatures and the trees I have them are palms and I know for a fact because of the structure of a palm tree that they are insulators of heat so I think my question would be is it alright to keep this orchid out side even knowing we don’t get frost but have low temperatures but is somewhat protected from the exposure of cold while still getting that sort of temperature.
Sorry for the hard question 😂
I just had to cut a basket off one of my Bangkok Sunsets. I don't think it was hanging they just let it grow on a table and the roots was all twisted in in the basket. It was a pain and I didn't have any thing pointy to cut it with other then some small jewelers wire snips.. I had plastic everywhere and they small pieces. I had to heartbreaking-ly sacrifice a good root it just didn't want to detach from the corner it was in.
I live in a very dry climate so I want to pot up my Vandas I just bought. I see you are using plastic pots so I'm assuming clay might absorb too much of the water. I do have the luck you have with moss so I have switched to coconut husk chips. I'm thinking some chips with large bark and lava rock. Not too wet but better than having to water every day. How does it sound to you?
I need some of those!
Hi MOG, I have a question for you. Can you make a video of the effects of over fertilizing an orchid? I grow my orchids in a sunroom that gets ample sun light and for some reason my buds are blasting and some of the buds look deformed, especially my phals. So, could it be that I’m over fertilizing?
Thank you
I enjoy your vids very much and learned a great deal from them.
How do you know which roots are bad? I don’t have many heavy roots on my Vanda Jirapapha, I wish I could send you a picture. It was an exhibit at a local conservatory while blooming. But they didn’t have much experience with Vanda and “retired” it when the blooms fell. I bought it because it is so unusual for this area. I had never seen one before. Stores here have Phals only. Most of the root system is thin and dry, since this is my first time working with one I don’t know what a healthy root looks like.
Thank you for this video. I have 5 vandal’s/mokora arriving tomorrow and I’m afraid they’ll be bare rooted and I was wondering how to repot and if they needed transitioning.
Would I be able to ask your opinion on grouping 2 of them in one large pot? I believe they are around 30-40cm tall and I have 4 or 5 coming (think I may have ordered an extra one or two by mistake 😂) and I have 2 large wooden hanging baskets 10inches in diameter. Would it be advisable to maybe have a community pot with 2 in each pot?
Also after transitioning them to being potted when should they be fertilised? On the second week like others of maybe wait longer?
hi Danny my first vanda wants to go to heaven and I have now a few more new Vandas that I am going to try 'again' but this time my Vandas look a lot stronger than the first one I bought on eBay. one question I wonder where you are and your grow room is much drier than my place in nyc. for me now indoor is around 23C 9during the day ) degree and somewhere betw. 40-60 humidity here ...I am just thinking about the ratio of moss and bark...thank you
Do you ever cut/trim the roots when they are really long?
Miss, how do you know/how to check it if the vanda orchid need water with this set up?
You’ve (almost) convinced me to buy a vanda, I don’t have a spare inch in my growing areas inside and outside but I’m thinking I could hang one from the ceiling in front of a sliding glass door. I’ve had my eye on a Neofinetia but they are so tiny and I’m keen to get something that is flowering size. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Hi, I'd go with ascocentrum christensonianum, tiny one and blooms very easy in warm temps, Neos are more tricky to rebloom in warm conditions! Neo x vanda hybrids are also cute and easier to bloom though :)
Hey Danny, so you are using repti bark from zoomed instead than orchiata? That would be fantastic being so much cheaper..
Can I ask questions. If you put charcoal is okey too? Pls. I need the answer?
What's your vanda orchids potting mixture please reply 🙏
Is it possible if you spray your Vanda with water and it's hanging in a bright window that the water on it can make it sunburn when if it were dry, normally it would not in that spot in the sunny window?
I've had my Vanda in the same spot and in the last day it got sunburned and I had just heavily spritzed it with water and I saw sunburn today
Hi, it could happen yes, especially if temperatures rose as well!
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Where did you get your tray for repoting your plants.
Hi, from Ikea 😊
I wish I had a vanda I just live in Canada tho so I worry about the cold and I have my room at 17 right now so my phals can bloom
And you know these people are gonna price it 70$ 😭
I hear you. Only the phal varieties are cheaper.
I potted my vanda without removing the basket. It grows well but appearance wise not so nice because we can see the basket in the pot.
Can I use a terracotta pot for my vanda? I'm nervous about this transition. I just got a vanda and she doesn't have a great root system.
What if your roots are really really long?
I would live to “pot” my vanda. Unfortunately the roots are so long. Help !
You are Romanian? I could have sworn that you were Thai or Vietnamese. Of course we never see your face but the pitch, timber and slight accent made me think that you were Asian. Anyway, the presentations are perfectly done. Very informative and fun.
One question though is how do you feel about charcoal for medium for phals? I would break it into small pieces and it would be pure charcoal without any starter fluid or anything.
Keep doing this fine work Dani. You are the best on orchids!
I have a small Vanda but its roots are about 2 feet long. What do I do with these long roots? Guess I shouldn’t pot it
I'm not seeing the link to the products that you use?
I need help!!!!! Just had a Vanda type orchid delivered today and I don’t know what to do with it it’s huge, any ideas on how to hang/display it. Ax
You don’t need hi humidity so that is good and make sure you soak it and hang it on a hook . I need also a bit more information is it healthy is the root system healthy. Try to describe how the orchid is .And if you need any help I could tell you.
I might not have a vanda but I know a lot about them and so many other orchids
For the way red (more like bloody) cross ignores Ukrainian soldiers in Russian captivity they’ll never get a penny from me. I try to donate regularly to Zolkin and there is a family here, in the US, that I try to help as much as possible. They are newly weds and I hope they’ll be blessed with a bunch of cute kiddos.
Could they go in kokedama?
I only have 5 vandas and after the first bloom they dont give me flower anymore but all of them are in good shape i dont know what i am doing wrong 😑
Where can I buy vandas