What good advices you allways have to share with us! Thank you Nina. I´m on the process of having FIVE spikes on my Satnhopea jenishiana to open soon, my Casio is ready to film them but I can not garantee such good results in order to show here as your´s and the other colaborators have. Thanks to all of you, dear friends and orchid lovers. Hope to see you all in your next carecollab.
Hi Clementina 😍💐 so good to see you again 🙌🏼 FIVE!!! 🙆🏼♀️🤩🥳 wow!! That is going to be sensational!! You have to try... and I wish you luck that you will be successful on the first attempt. But if not, then you have the opportunity to try again with all those spikes!! That is impressive 🤭 awesome!! Thank YOU so much for watching, Clementina! and for sharing your up and coming blooming sensation of your Stanhopea!! Fantastic 🥳🥳🙆🏼♀️ hope your Friday was beautiful 🌸
"I grow it in inorganic media" And Stan has decided to create his own microbiome around himself. "You don't want to give me moss, lady? Fine, I'll grow my own."🤣Now if you didn't have the new growths that came out of the bottom of the basket I'm betting you could just wrap the base in hob, criss cross two chains (+ style) under the orchid, and pull them up, no basket needed. Then you'd have less chance of spikes getting caught up. Also, I gifted Paula a maxima coerulea. OK, I was a little mean with the free plant I had sent with it. Well, you'll see one day when she puts out the unboxing.
Don Miguel 🥰💐 hola jefe! And Stan indeed said 'hold my beer!' 🤣 I love that little micro climate it is growing and I am peeling off the hob material gradually without ripping new roots out, so, its only a little bit here, and a little bit there, but yeah... he is doing quite well within his little cosmos 👍🏼 I love the idea of the chains being the only thing around the orchid, and, you know what?? 😅 I would not break the lower growths, because I can easily pry the basket wire apart if I were to do what you suggest ... it is well worth thinking about and I definitely won't forget your idea, thank you! I don't want to spoil the surprise about what else you sent Paula, but... if it is a stinky one, then... you are a naughty boy! 😂😂 generous, but naughty! 😉 really appreciate you watching, Michael, and, thank you for that idea 👍🏼 hope your day was fabulous and that the evening will be chillax ❤️🌸
🦒💖🙌🙏 You have grown the Stanhopea brothers so well, they are real beasts but beautiful beasts and delicate despite their size. The spikes seem to grow blind without a GPS to guide them 😬 What a shame that spike headed into the only place it shouldn't have, when there was so much free space to go to 🤔 The scent is fabulous, very, very pleasant. From what you say, your frangrance is a lot more powerful than mine, maybe because it's warmer at your end? I can feel it is strong and lovely in Stan's vicinity but it fades just a few steps away on the same porch. However, amazingly, I can feel it a lot stronger at a lower level, in the lower porch, where the other orchids live as if the scent found a better "highway" to spread on to. It's open space between the two porches at that corner, right by where Stan lives. It has been an amazing week, I have been mesmerized by this blooming, so distracted that I even forgot to give it water a couple of days 🤨 With the cooler temps and 96% humidity I may get away with it. I went to Lisbon yesterday and although it was warmer there it was also foggy/cloudy and humid. Hoping it clears out later this pm. Thank you so much for Stan my dear NIna, I love it, love it. Wishing you a bright, sunny and fruitful day with much love to you and yours 😘🥰🤗💖
FFF 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰💐 Beauty and the Beast... meine liebe Freundin.... all wrapped into one basket! Fantastic!! I thought I had the perfect basket... shallow, sturdy, big squares... and along comes Stan the Man and says 'watch me!' 😅 it's fine! I am glad that he bloomed out and even though I would have loved to have had a few more spikes, it is the back end of the orchid and needs to recover and grow properly. I am happy with the progress and I am very happy to see how it is growing a little micro climate all of it's own. I am cultivating that micro climate because, it in itself looks so magical! I suppose the fragrance on my patio disperses more evenly, because the covered portico is open on all sides, including into the living room, so it has the ability to disperse in all directions. I don't know... as long as you enjoyed and were not disappointed, after me going on and on and on about the spectacular blooms and fragrance to go along with them. Just glad that you are not disappointed 🙏🏼 Thank YOU for being so ready to give Stan a home! 🙏🏼 I couldn't have asked for a better person to have him!! Happy 😘 hope your weather has cleared up as well, amiga mia! Thank you for being so on top of this CareCollab! I am glad that everything worked out so perfectly 🙌🏼 wishing you a relaxing rest of your evening ❤️🌸
Hi Nina, what an excellent dissertation on Stanhopea's. Finally got my 1st on in a basket. Young plant, we'll see how it goes. Thank you Orchid Master.
🌸🥷🏼 Bob San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰💐 hi!! Fast forward several years and the care has only changed in the amount of fertilizer and calcium this orchid gets! 😅 I am mind blown as to what it has done in the recent 10 months, after it got too cold in the winter of 22/23 and lost a lot of leaves. Now it looks like that never happened and well... aeration is going to be an issue if it repeats another 40+ growths for 24/25! But... thank you so much for your comment. Your's will take off for real next year. In the second year of having my Stanhopea, it grew 15 new growths. So... buckle up my 🌸🥷🏼 friend! You may need an annex 😅 thank YOU so much for watching and thank YOU so much for the incredible support here 🫶🏼 have yourself a wonderful start to the new week ❤️🌸
Hi Nina great care video very unusual orchid with beautiful blooms tho shame the blooms don't last very long but you have grown it well nina looks very happy in the set up great job 😘😘👍
Hi Stephen 😍💐 unusual ... that is a great word for these blooms! That word describes what I was trying to babble on about!! Unusual!! It would have cut the video length into half if I had used that word 🤣 I need me some more new growths on the side that had the spike growing, or else it will all be a little lopsided, and also, because I want to close the gap between the orchid and edge of the basket, so that no more spikes get caught. We shall see! Right now, I have new growths in the middle of the orchids, which is great, but... I am hoping to have one, at least, coming out of the other side 🤞🏼 thank you for your kind comment, Stephen, and for watching! I got your email, and will get back to you... You have a Cattleya Nina?? Que?? I googled it... you did not make it up!! 🙆🏼♀️🥹 how very sweet of you! Now, I feel I need one as well 🤣 thank you for the heads up and that rabbit hole 🙌🏼😅👍🏼 have a great evening, Stephen!! 😘🌸
HI!! 😍💐 the grid size... I thought it was the perfect basket, also, because it was shallow. We have hopefully, only had that one experience of a bud getting stuck 🤞🏼 just when you think that you found the perfect alternative, here comes a bud and says... hold my beer! 😂 thank you so much for watching, lovely lady! I hope your Friday was beautiful 🌸
HI Jose 🤩💐 it is growing everywhere... I need it to grow in the direction of where the spike got stuck, to shorten the distance to that side of the orchid and the edge of the basket, but... so far, there is nothing coming out of that side. New growths are all in the middle ... I hope, that will change. But, what an amazing orchid 🙏🏼🙆🏼♀️ well worth having an orchid that just grows and even changes it's media according to it's preference! All I need to do was give it a little bit of help 😉 thank you so much for watching, my friend!! I hope your Friday was awesome 🤗🌸
HI Troy 😍💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and a massive thank you for being here, I so appreciate that. This Stanhopea bloomed with 20 blooms this July and if you would like to watch the video on how Stan spikes behave and see this year's blooms here is the link ua-cam.com/video/WTnNvMKjddY/v-deo.html It was not a single bloom show this time around, which surprised me, but there are a lot of things I have observed since the care video aired. Just in case ... because you are going to LOVE growing Stanhopea and if you have space, it won't just stay with one 🤪 Mine is now growing 14 new growths... its an insane orchid, I love it! Thank you so much for watching, I appreciate your time. Wishing you a wonderful Sunday and once again, welcome 🫶🏼❤️🌸
@@NinjaOrchids thanks for such a warm welcome! I slid onto your channel last week and just loved that you put the health of your orchids before their blooms. I’ve been hooked watching your videos whenever I have time now! I have a very large area with high light for my Vandas and I think the Stanhopea would just love it there. It’s bright, warm and great air circulation. I was able to cover my hardwood flooring with a protective mat so now I can just mist away whenever I would like to, instead of hauling my hanging baskets to the shower every time I need to water. With this current setup I have, I feel like the Stanhopea wouldn’t be much trouble at all. And it offers a humidity of 68-74% at minimum. Some days my humidity sits at 82-84%
I so appreciate your feedback on my content, thank you for letting me know. It is encouraging and motivating to read. I appreciate that 🫶🏼 soooo your space sounds like orchid grow heaven! I have a vivid imagination and it sounds wonderful 🤪🥊 I hope that you will get as much of a thrill out of your Stan as I get out of mine! Any questions, ever, ask away, no matter the video du jour, it doesn't have to be this one 👍🏼
🌸🥷🏼Trish San 🥰🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️😍💐 good morning, or good which ever time of day it is when you get to read this reply 🤗 real estate... indeed! Years ago, I was thinking that this one will have to bloom first, I will find my feet with this genus and then get me some more! Uhhhmmm yeah!! I thought about adding hooks under the cover of the blooming alley and have 2 more hanging like chandeliers, but if Stan needs 'help' then I have to accommodate him as well. The box I sent to Fernanda was 3 feet x 3 feet x 3 feet and I had to make a makeshift ledge of industrial stiff foam to not squash the growth that was underneath the basket. It was not a plan to ever send Stan away, because, dang... size! And... sometimes things happen, weird... I had this massive box, of such sturdy quality, don't know where I got it from, but never threw it away because it was just such an amazing box. When Fernanda said she would 'deal' with the logistics, I did not have to look twice and the box was perfect. So, I guess it was meant to be. But the real estate issue, that is a true issue, and he is a messy one when it comes to watering because he drips everywhere, which, indoors...👎🏼 I am happy to geek out over the blooms, year in year out with you in mind 😘 thank you so much for watching, meine Freundin!! Much love to you and I wish you a beautiful 🌸🥷🏼FriYAY!! ❤️🌸
@@NinjaOrchids good day to you! And oh my the blooms are stunning. Maybe in a future galaxy I can also see a Stan bloom in my space…but for now… I wait for next year’s bloom 😀❤️🌸
mine grows in a hanging basket with paperbark lining, it blooms in January here (southern hemisphere) beautiful blooms but last only a few days, but wll worth it. the buds look like aliens when they split . great video
Anna, hi 😍💐 so good to see you again!! You must have heard me today, saying your name! I had some blooms to dedicate 😉 however, that will air in a couple of BFY videos down the line... I just had to capture the blooms today. I agree that it is well worth growing a stanhopea, and I am lucky to be getting away with being able to do so despite my low temperatures, which it absolutely would prefer not to have to deal with. Very lucky! Thank you so much for watching, Anna!! I wish I still lived in the southern hemisphere .... well, preferably around the equator 🥰 Wishing you a great Saturday! I hope your Friday was awesome 🤗🌸
Hi Debbie 🥰💐 thank you so much for watching even though this orchid would not be something that would be added to your collection any time soon! IF I had known how massive these can get, I would probably have shied away from buying it. Also, back when it was little, I had it indoors in the winter... as it grew I did not have the space anymore, and that had me concerned because these are warm to hot growers.... my winters are not warm! It is coping though and I cannot be more grateful, so, it has it's place in my collection, just for being a great sport 😅 I hope that you are having a lovely day, Debbie 🤗🌸
Very unusual and beautiful orchid!!! Bravo, Nina🌸 if in future i will have my own greenhouse i will definitely have it. 😊 but for a moment i don't have space for her...
Hi Amina 😍💐 she is a stunner... now that the blooms have faded, the real work starts to keep this monster happy and fed! With my RO system functioning properly this year, I am all for it! Need me some nicer leaves on the new growths 👍🏼 challenge accepted 😂 I look forward to you getting a greenhouse, Amina! That is a dream of mine, maybe I could get my dining room back, but... as it is not my property, I am not about to do anything along the lines of greenhouse. I asked my landlord for an extension, conservatory style on the west side, he could not quite understand the point 🤪😅 I tried 😉😂 thank you so much for watching, lovely lady! I hope that your Friday was fabulous 🌸
Hello, lovely lady 😍💐 she / he is... I have a hard time calling him Stan the Man and yet in actual fact, all my orchids are she... silly, isn't it! 😅 thank you, Cheery, so so much for leaving me a comment and taking the time to watch! I really appreciate it 😘 much love to you ❤️🌸
I left a comment under one of your videos, because I have an idea I would like to run by you... would you mind sending me an email ninjaorchids@gmail.com ?
HI Ingrid 🥰💐 thank YOU, lovely lady!! Watching my videos and always leaving me a sweet comment, thank YOU ❤️ I hope your FriYAY was fabulous and that you have yourself a relaxing evening 🤗🌸
Thank you for that video. I find it beautifull, and i actually considered getting a Stanhopea. But it's a big plant and since it only flower that short, It's not for me. I will enjoy those of other growers. 😁
Hi 🥰💐 I really wanted more, but first had to see if I can bloom one and then go for more, but... yikes! Once this one showed me how quickly it grows and the wingspan, that ambition went out the window very quickly. IF I had known that this is what it would come to, I may have hesitated in getting this one. I am glad that I had no clue and at the end of the day, also, very glad that it does tolerate the very low temperatures while it lives outside during the winter. 🙏🏼 the short bloom duration is a real deal breaker for me as well... and then, they bloom and its just knock out, and suddenly I feel it is all worth it until they fade, and I am left with the feeling of 'what's the point?' 🤣 true story!! Thank you so much for watching! I hope you had a fabulous day 🌸
HI! 😍💐 really, truly.... absolutely amazing!! Now, we start the process for the coming 11 months and 3 weeks, so that next year we have another pretty show for a couple of day 🫠🙌🏼 thank you so much for watching!! Hope your day was beautiful 🌸
Hi Robert 🥰💐 I hope that it is a friendly visit with refreshments and snacks 🤞🏼 and I hope that all goes well!! Thank you so much for stopping by on your busy day, I really appreciate it 🥰 today was a good one, now, I have to gear up for filming in the dark, and I am not sure if I am in the mood .. have to remind myself that we may just discover something fabulous to motivate me 😬 I appreciate you having my back, again!! That just doesn't get old, ever 🙏🏼 thank you! 🙏🏼 after the appointment, treat yourself 😘🌸
@@NinjaOrchids you can do "Moonlight Sonata" and I'll do Bette Midler's version of "In The Mood". Love that ladies energy, saw her in 1976 live in LA, her bicentennial tribute tour..laughed my ass off! Have an awesome evening and just enjoy the moonlight..you might even see a shooting star or two .... 😀
Oooohhh Bette Midler!! What a voice! I bet that live brings back great memories! Fantastic!! I am going to have to clip that street lamp that got fixed recently 🤣
Yes definitely beasts and mine is no where near as big as yours and mine is annoying me! 🤣🤣🤣 your my inspiration for getting this plant! 🤣🤣 so I am anxious to see mine bloom one day! 🙏 it's all good for me to wait. Mine is a youngen so it was no rush! 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Paula 😍💐 annoying you, already? I will get to your video pronto... this I have to see, why would it be annoying you 😅 I remember you telling me that you heard about the Big Red fragrance and boom.... a week later, you already had one! That was amazing 👍🏼 enjoy the young stage... they grow so quickly 😅 and once they start growing out of the 'young' phase, which does not really take that long... get ready 🤯 thank you so much for your patience! I really preempted the alert email way in advance, but these guys can do things that, if you blink, you'll miss it! Really appreciate your patience, thank you! Hope your FriYAY was fabulous 🤗 thank you for watching 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids Hey Nina yes mine skipped seedling and is already a teenager! They get big fast! Plus mine is one of 3! So the 3 beasts are annoying! 🤣🤣 hey I completely understand that with this one things have to be precise! Fernanda's blooms were fantastic! I loved watching them open! 😍 super! Thanks for including me in this care collab.
Hi Sandie 😍💐 yes! you! will!! Now with your greenhouse being a thing, and not a plan... oh, the possibilities 🙏🏼 well deserved after what you went through and what you lost. I really hope that you can replace that coelogyne... it is not nice to loose an orchid that has a beautiful fragrance. 🥹 thank you so much for watching, Sandie! I really appreciate it. Hope your day was amazing and I wish you a lovely evening 🌸
HI Andrea 😍💐 it is a very big plant, Andrea, that is for sure... and it grows so fast, that it then needs more and more space. Luckily it manages to cope with my low winter temperatures, or else I would not be able to have it in my climate. Pity that the blooms did not make it all the way over the basket. I hope that as the orchid grows another growth, hopefully on the side where the spike came out of, it gets closer to the edge of the basket, so that in a couple of years, no more spikes get caught. 🤞🏼 still had the fragrance though 😅 thank you so much for watching, lovely lady! I hope your Friday was fantastic and wish you a wonderful evening 🌸
Hi! 😍💐 I am going to need a little more information so that I can troubleshoot together with you. Which stanhopea is it? How long have you had it? is it in a closed pot or in a basket set up? what do you see is NOT happening? new growths failing? no new growths? shrivelled structures etc... let me know more and maybe I can help turn things around for you and your Stan 🫶🏼 meanwhile, thank you so much for watching. Looking forward to hearing back from you ❤️🌸
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What good advices you allways have to share with us! Thank you Nina. I´m on the process of having FIVE spikes on my Satnhopea jenishiana to open soon, my Casio is ready to film them but I can not garantee such good results in order to show here as your´s and the other colaborators have. Thanks to all of you, dear friends and orchid lovers. Hope to see you all in your next carecollab.
Hi Clementina 😍💐 so good to see you again 🙌🏼 FIVE!!! 🙆🏼♀️🤩🥳 wow!! That is going to be sensational!! You have to try... and I wish you luck that you will be successful on the first attempt. But if not, then you have the opportunity to try again with all those spikes!! That is impressive 🤭 awesome!! Thank YOU so much for watching, Clementina! and for sharing your up and coming blooming sensation of your Stanhopea!! Fantastic 🥳🥳🙆🏼♀️ hope your Friday was beautiful 🌸
"I grow it in inorganic media"
And Stan has decided to create his own microbiome around himself. "You don't want to give me moss, lady? Fine, I'll grow my own."🤣Now if you didn't have the new growths that came out of the bottom of the basket I'm betting you could just wrap the base in hob, criss cross two chains (+ style) under the orchid, and pull them up, no basket needed. Then you'd have less chance of spikes getting caught up.
Also, I gifted Paula a maxima coerulea. OK, I was a little mean with the free plant I had sent with it. Well, you'll see one day when she puts out the unboxing.
BRAT! 😝 your lucky your my friend!!!🤣🤣🤣 the Maxima makes me forget the the small horrible joke! 🤣🤣🤣
Don Miguel 🥰💐 hola jefe! And Stan indeed said 'hold my beer!' 🤣 I love that little micro climate it is growing and I am peeling off the hob material gradually without ripping new roots out, so, its only a little bit here, and a little bit there, but yeah... he is doing quite well within his little cosmos 👍🏼 I love the idea of the chains being the only thing around the orchid, and, you know what?? 😅 I would not break the lower growths, because I can easily pry the basket wire apart if I were to do what you suggest ... it is well worth thinking about and I definitely won't forget your idea, thank you! I don't want to spoil the surprise about what else you sent Paula, but... if it is a stinky one, then... you are a naughty boy! 😂😂 generous, but naughty! 😉 really appreciate you watching, Michael, and, thank you for that idea 👍🏼 hope your day was fabulous and that the evening will be chillax ❤️🌸
@@NinjaOrchids it isn't stinky, probably has no fragrance at all. No, it was something she said "I'll never own one!". Well, he he, now she owns one.
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@@NinjaOrchids He's a brat isn't he! 🤣🤣🤣 wait till you see my video! He gets me good! 🤣🤣
🦒💖🙌🙏 You have grown the Stanhopea brothers so well, they are real beasts but beautiful beasts and delicate despite their size. The spikes seem to grow blind without a GPS to guide them 😬 What a shame that spike headed into the only place it shouldn't have, when there was so much free space to go to 🤔 The scent is fabulous, very, very pleasant. From what you say, your frangrance is a lot more powerful than mine, maybe because it's warmer at your end? I can feel it is strong and lovely in Stan's vicinity but it fades just a few steps away on the same porch. However, amazingly, I can feel it a lot stronger at a lower level, in the lower porch, where the other orchids live as if the scent found a better "highway" to spread on to. It's open space between the two porches at that corner, right by where Stan lives. It has been an amazing week, I have been mesmerized by this blooming, so distracted that I even forgot to give it water a couple of days 🤨 With the cooler temps and 96% humidity I may get away with it. I went to Lisbon yesterday and although it was warmer there it was also foggy/cloudy and humid. Hoping it clears out later this pm. Thank you so much for Stan my dear NIna, I love it, love it. Wishing you a bright, sunny and fruitful day with much love to you and yours 😘🥰🤗💖
FFF 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰💐 Beauty and the Beast... meine liebe Freundin.... all wrapped into one basket! Fantastic!! I thought I had the perfect basket... shallow, sturdy, big squares... and along comes Stan the Man and says 'watch me!' 😅 it's fine! I am glad that he bloomed out and even though I would have loved to have had a few more spikes, it is the back end of the orchid and needs to recover and grow properly. I am happy with the progress and I am very happy to see how it is growing a little micro climate all of it's own. I am cultivating that micro climate because, it in itself looks so magical! I suppose the fragrance on my patio disperses more evenly, because the covered portico is open on all sides, including into the living room, so it has the ability to disperse in all directions. I don't know... as long as you enjoyed and were not disappointed, after me going on and on and on about the spectacular blooms and fragrance to go along with them. Just glad that you are not disappointed 🙏🏼 Thank YOU for being so ready to give Stan a home! 🙏🏼 I couldn't have asked for a better person to have him!! Happy 😘 hope your weather has cleared up as well, amiga mia! Thank you for being so on top of this CareCollab! I am glad that everything worked out so perfectly 🙌🏼 wishing you a relaxing rest of your evening ❤️🌸
Hi Nina, what an excellent dissertation on Stanhopea's. Finally got my 1st on in a basket. Young plant, we'll see how it goes. Thank you Orchid Master.
🌸🥷🏼 Bob San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰💐 hi!! Fast forward several years and the care has only changed in the amount of fertilizer and calcium this orchid gets! 😅 I am mind blown as to what it has done in the recent 10 months, after it got too cold in the winter of 22/23 and lost a lot of leaves. Now it looks like that never happened and well... aeration is going to be an issue if it repeats another 40+ growths for 24/25! But... thank you so much for your comment. Your's will take off for real next year. In the second year of having my Stanhopea, it grew 15 new growths. So... buckle up my 🌸🥷🏼 friend! You may need an annex 😅 thank YOU so much for watching and thank YOU so much for the incredible support here 🫶🏼 have yourself a wonderful start to the new week ❤️🌸
Hi Nina great care video very unusual orchid with beautiful blooms tho shame the blooms don't last very long but you have grown it well nina looks very happy in the set up great job 😘😘👍
Hi Stephen 😍💐 unusual ... that is a great word for these blooms! That word describes what I was trying to babble on about!! Unusual!! It would have cut the video length into half if I had used that word 🤣 I need me some more new growths on the side that had the spike growing, or else it will all be a little lopsided, and also, because I want to close the gap between the orchid and edge of the basket, so that no more spikes get caught. We shall see! Right now, I have new growths in the middle of the orchids, which is great, but... I am hoping to have one, at least, coming out of the other side 🤞🏼 thank you for your kind comment, Stephen, and for watching! I got your email, and will get back to you... You have a Cattleya Nina?? Que?? I googled it... you did not make it up!! 🙆🏼♀️🥹 how very sweet of you! Now, I feel I need one as well 🤣 thank you for the heads up and that rabbit hole 🙌🏼😅👍🏼 have a great evening, Stephen!! 😘🌸
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Perfect grid size basket as I had mention in Fernanda's video. As for the bloom...WOW!
HI!! 😍💐 the grid size... I thought it was the perfect basket, also, because it was shallow. We have hopefully, only had that one experience of a bud getting stuck 🤞🏼 just when you think that you found the perfect alternative, here comes a bud and says... hold my beer! 😂 thank you so much for watching, lovely lady! I hope your Friday was beautiful 🌸
Stanhopea orchid happy in the basket growing upwards and downwards. Gorgeous blooms Nina.
HI Jose 🤩💐 it is growing everywhere... I need it to grow in the direction of where the spike got stuck, to shorten the distance to that side of the orchid and the edge of the basket, but... so far, there is nothing coming out of that side. New growths are all in the middle ... I hope, that will change. But, what an amazing orchid 🙏🏼🙆🏼♀️ well worth having an orchid that just grows and even changes it's media according to it's preference! All I need to do was give it a little bit of help 😉 thank you so much for watching, my friend!! I hope your Friday was awesome 🤗🌸
My favorite local nursery has a Stanhopea I’ve been eyeing and your videos make me want to add him to my collection even more! What a lovely plant!
HI Troy 😍💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and a massive thank you for being here, I so appreciate that. This Stanhopea bloomed with 20 blooms this July and if you would like to watch the video on how Stan spikes behave and see this year's blooms here is the link ua-cam.com/video/WTnNvMKjddY/v-deo.html It was not a single bloom show this time around, which surprised me, but there are a lot of things I have observed since the care video aired. Just in case ... because you are going to LOVE growing Stanhopea and if you have space, it won't just stay with one 🤪 Mine is now growing 14 new growths... its an insane orchid, I love it! Thank you so much for watching, I appreciate your time. Wishing you a wonderful Sunday and once again, welcome 🫶🏼❤️🌸
@@NinjaOrchids thanks for such a warm welcome! I slid onto your channel last week and just loved that you put the health of your orchids before their blooms. I’ve been hooked watching your videos whenever I have time now! I have a very large area with high light for my Vandas and I think the Stanhopea would just love it there. It’s bright, warm and great air circulation. I was able to cover my hardwood flooring with a protective mat so now I can just mist away whenever I would like to, instead of hauling my hanging baskets to the shower every time I need to water. With this current setup I have, I feel like the Stanhopea wouldn’t be much trouble at all. And it offers a humidity of 68-74% at minimum. Some days my humidity sits at 82-84%
I so appreciate your feedback on my content, thank you for letting me know. It is encouraging and motivating to read. I appreciate that 🫶🏼 soooo your space sounds like orchid grow heaven! I have a vivid imagination and it sounds wonderful 🤪🥊 I hope that you will get as much of a thrill out of your Stan as I get out of mine! Any questions, ever, ask away, no matter the video du jour, it doesn't have to be this one 👍🏼
As much as I would love to have my own Stan the Man…real estate is not available 🥲. Love the blooms!
🌸🥷🏼Trish San 🥰🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️😍💐 good morning, or good which ever time of day it is when you get to read this reply 🤗 real estate... indeed! Years ago, I was thinking that this one will have to bloom first, I will find my feet with this genus and then get me some more! Uhhhmmm yeah!! I thought about adding hooks under the cover of the blooming alley and have 2 more hanging like chandeliers, but if Stan needs 'help' then I have to accommodate him as well. The box I sent to Fernanda was 3 feet x 3 feet x 3 feet and I had to make a makeshift ledge of industrial stiff foam to not squash the growth that was underneath the basket. It was not a plan to ever send Stan away, because, dang... size! And... sometimes things happen, weird... I had this massive box, of such sturdy quality, don't know where I got it from, but never threw it away because it was just such an amazing box. When Fernanda said she would 'deal' with the logistics, I did not have to look twice and the box was perfect. So, I guess it was meant to be. But the real estate issue, that is a true issue, and he is a messy one when it comes to watering because he drips everywhere, which, indoors...👎🏼 I am happy to geek out over the blooms, year in year out with you in mind 😘 thank you so much for watching, meine Freundin!! Much love to you and I wish you a beautiful 🌸🥷🏼FriYAY!! ❤️🌸
@@NinjaOrchids good day to you! And oh my the blooms are stunning. Maybe in a future galaxy I can also see a Stan bloom in my space…but for now… I wait for next year’s bloom 😀❤️🌸
mine grows in a hanging basket with paperbark lining, it blooms in January here (southern hemisphere) beautiful blooms but last only a few days, but wll worth it. the buds look like aliens when they split . great video
Anna, hi 😍💐 so good to see you again!! You must have heard me today, saying your name! I had some blooms to dedicate 😉 however, that will air in a couple of BFY videos down the line... I just had to capture the blooms today. I agree that it is well worth growing a stanhopea, and I am lucky to be getting away with being able to do so despite my low temperatures, which it absolutely would prefer not to have to deal with. Very lucky! Thank you so much for watching, Anna!! I wish I still lived in the southern hemisphere .... well, preferably around the equator 🥰 Wishing you a great Saturday! I hope your Friday was awesome 🤗🌸
Very interesting info. My space is small so I won't be able to experience personally! Thank you!
Hi Debbie 🥰💐 thank you so much for watching even though this orchid would not be something that would be added to your collection any time soon! IF I had known how massive these can get, I would probably have shied away from buying it. Also, back when it was little, I had it indoors in the winter... as it grew I did not have the space anymore, and that had me concerned because these are warm to hot growers.... my winters are not warm! It is coping though and I cannot be more grateful, so, it has it's place in my collection, just for being a great sport 😅 I hope that you are having a lovely day, Debbie 🤗🌸
Very unusual and beautiful orchid!!! Bravo, Nina🌸 if in future i will have my own greenhouse i will definitely have it. 😊 but for a moment i don't have space for her...
Hi Amina 😍💐 she is a stunner... now that the blooms have faded, the real work starts to keep this monster happy and fed! With my RO system functioning properly this year, I am all for it! Need me some nicer leaves on the new growths 👍🏼 challenge accepted 😂 I look forward to you getting a greenhouse, Amina! That is a dream of mine, maybe I could get my dining room back, but... as it is not my property, I am not about to do anything along the lines of greenhouse. I asked my landlord for an extension, conservatory style on the west side, he could not quite understand the point 🤪😅 I tried 😉😂 thank you so much for watching, lovely lady! I hope that your Friday was fabulous 🌸
Amazing orchid🤩
Hello, lovely lady 😍💐 she / he is... I have a hard time calling him Stan the Man and yet in actual fact, all my orchids are she... silly, isn't it! 😅 thank you, Cheery, so so much for leaving me a comment and taking the time to watch! I really appreciate it 😘 much love to you ❤️🌸
I left a comment under one of your videos, because I have an idea I would like to run by you... would you mind sending me an email ninjaorchids@gmail.com ?
Thank you, have a great day also!!!
HI Ingrid 🥰💐 thank YOU, lovely lady!! Watching my videos and always leaving me a sweet comment, thank YOU ❤️ I hope your FriYAY was fabulous and that you have yourself a relaxing evening 🤗🌸
@@NinjaOrchids Thank you very much.
Thank you for that video. I find it beautifull, and i actually considered getting a Stanhopea. But it's a big plant and since it only flower that short, It's not for me. I will enjoy those of other growers. 😁
Hi 🥰💐 I really wanted more, but first had to see if I can bloom one and then go for more, but... yikes! Once this one showed me how quickly it grows and the wingspan, that ambition went out the window very quickly. IF I had known that this is what it would come to, I may have hesitated in getting this one. I am glad that I had no clue and at the end of the day, also, very glad that it does tolerate the very low temperatures while it lives outside during the winter. 🙏🏼 the short bloom duration is a real deal breaker for me as well... and then, they bloom and its just knock out, and suddenly I feel it is all worth it until they fade, and I am left with the feeling of 'what's the point?' 🤣 true story!! Thank you so much for watching! I hope you had a fabulous day 🌸
Wow what a beautiful orchid ,congrats ❤️
HI! 😍💐 really, truly.... absolutely amazing!! Now, we start the process for the coming 11 months and 3 weeks, so that next year we have another pretty show for a couple of day 🫠🙌🏼 thank you so much for watching!! Hope your day was beautiful 🌸
Love the captive blooms!! 😅
Gotta get ready for out of town Drs appointment... Hope your day was a fun one. 👋🏻
Posted to twitter.... 😅
Hi Robert 🥰💐 I hope that it is a friendly visit with refreshments and snacks 🤞🏼 and I hope that all goes well!! Thank you so much for stopping by on your busy day, I really appreciate it 🥰 today was a good one, now, I have to gear up for filming in the dark, and I am not sure if I am in the mood .. have to remind myself that we may just discover something fabulous to motivate me 😬 I appreciate you having my back, again!! That just doesn't get old, ever 🙏🏼 thank you! 🙏🏼 after the appointment, treat yourself 😘🌸
@@NinjaOrchids you can do "Moonlight Sonata" and I'll do Bette Midler's version of "In The Mood". Love that ladies energy, saw her in 1976 live in LA, her bicentennial tribute tour..laughed my ass off!
Have an awesome evening and just enjoy the moonlight..you might even see a shooting star or two .... 😀
Oooohhh Bette Midler!! What a voice! I bet that live brings back great memories! Fantastic!! I am going to have to clip that street lamp that got fixed recently 🤣
Yes definitely beasts and mine is no where near as big as yours and mine is annoying me! 🤣🤣🤣 your my inspiration for getting this plant! 🤣🤣 so I am anxious to see mine bloom one day! 🙏 it's all good for me to wait. Mine is a youngen so it was no rush! 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Paula 😍💐 annoying you, already? I will get to your video pronto... this I have to see, why would it be annoying you 😅 I remember you telling me that you heard about the Big Red fragrance and boom.... a week later, you already had one! That was amazing 👍🏼 enjoy the young stage... they grow so quickly 😅 and once they start growing out of the 'young' phase, which does not really take that long... get ready 🤯 thank you so much for your patience! I really preempted the alert email way in advance, but these guys can do things that, if you blink, you'll miss it! Really appreciate your patience, thank you! Hope your FriYAY was fabulous 🤗 thank you for watching 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids Hey Nina yes mine skipped seedling and is already a teenager! They get big fast! Plus mine is one of 3! So the 3 beasts are annoying! 🤣🤣 hey I completely understand that with this one things have to be precise! Fernanda's blooms were fantastic! I loved watching them open! 😍 super! Thanks for including me in this care collab.
Some day I will have a Stan. I had a coelogyne that smelt like Cinnamon but 😭 I don't have it any long because she was one of the ones that froze.
Hi Sandie 😍💐 yes! you! will!! Now with your greenhouse being a thing, and not a plan... oh, the possibilities 🙏🏼 well deserved after what you went through and what you lost. I really hope that you can replace that coelogyne... it is not nice to loose an orchid that has a beautiful fragrance. 🥹 thank you so much for watching, Sandie! I really appreciate it. Hope your day was amazing and I wish you a lovely evening 🌸
That is a beautiful plant but very big too big for me nowhere to put it
HI Andrea 😍💐 it is a very big plant, Andrea, that is for sure... and it grows so fast, that it then needs more and more space. Luckily it manages to cope with my low winter temperatures, or else I would not be able to have it in my climate. Pity that the blooms did not make it all the way over the basket. I hope that as the orchid grows another growth, hopefully on the side where the spike came out of, it gets closer to the edge of the basket, so that in a couple of years, no more spikes get caught. 🤞🏼 still had the fragrance though 😅 thank you so much for watching, lovely lady! I hope your Friday was fantastic and wish you a wonderful evening 🌸
I’m struggling with mine ,it in bark. And look horrible. I don’t know what to do.
Hi! 😍💐 I am going to need a little more information so that I can troubleshoot together with you. Which stanhopea is it? How long have you had it? is it in a closed pot or in a basket set up? what do you see is NOT happening? new growths failing? no new growths? shrivelled structures etc... let me know more and maybe I can help turn things around for you and your Stan 🫶🏼 meanwhile, thank you so much for watching. Looking forward to hearing back from you ❤️🌸