Very simply and honestly put. Have a routine but skip over the pots that don't need it and have another routine in a couple days :P Oh wow you just said the same as I was commenting
Yep, I'm a weekend waterer, at least until I retire. I've learned over the past few years that media, watering only vs. a 20 min. soaking, and how sunny the seasons are directly related to how much water they need and get.
Hi Roger☺️🙌Great topic about watering👏🌟I have had to mount almost all my heat-stressed orchids this Summer. It was Hell-fire. They hang under trees in the garden and are recovered and growing nice😃I just keep dendrobium nobiles in pots now.
The autumn has already shot my spring-summer watering schedule to bits. This is the time of year when not only the trees outside can turn yellow (a bit of morbid humor.. or memories from last autumn xD) Have a think I did, again, cause there's always more needed. Thank you.
Hi, Roger! A very good point! When it comes to watering, I have a routine but I am not a robot hehe. So I would skip anything that does not need to be watered. I enjoy looking at each individual plant and see how they are doing. If a okant does not need to be watered, just as you said, it will get no water.😊
Great video Roger. I went to once a week watering over a year ago. When watering day comes if the larger pots are still heavy they get watered the next week. I heard someone say it’s easier to increase watering than it is to grow new roots.
@@RogersOrchidsGardenandBonsai Not that I’ve seen. More have bloomed this year than last with a couple of first time blooms. I’ve also been fertilizing every week with one flush day per month starting in April using a combination of 15-0-0 and 5-12-26 at around 145 ppm. In the past I did not fertilize on a regular basis and used dyna gro 7-8-6 orchid pro or their 7-9-5 grow. When I was using the dyna gro I did not have a pH or tds meter and feed less than recommended.
You hit the nail on the head with your advice Roger. When I first started growing orchids, I made the mistake of watering them each week on a Saturday. I did this even during the winter months. When most my cattleyas started turning black and brown and dying, I was so confused as to why. Now, I don't have a routine, I just check each orchid each day to determine when it needs watering and or feeding.
Thanks for the information very interesting. I always wait until I see that the roots are silver and how heavy the pot is but that fertiliser stuff you’re buying are use that as well very good stuff.
Hi Roger, could you make a follow up video, maybe a back to basics video on different types of medium and how you can combine them to adjust for your conditions such as ambient temperature and amount of time available for watering?
Some orchids re-absorb nutrients from the spikes but I have found in cultivation, they get plenty of nutrition so I cut them off to tidy the plant and it encourages vegetative growth.
Now that the day temps outside are dropping, my dehumidifier is working hard as the inside day temps are low as well - sometimes, 18C is the best I get. The unit keeps it down to 75%.
Very simply and honestly put. Have a routine but skip over the pots that don't need it and have another routine in a couple days :P
Oh wow you just said the same as I was commenting
Sounds good.
Great video with lots to think about.
Thanks.
Great information Roger. Thanks for sharing the information
Thanks - and you're welcome.
Yep, I'm a weekend waterer, at least until I retire. I've learned over the past few years that media, watering only vs. a 20 min. soaking, and how sunny the seasons are directly related to how much water they need and get.
Exactly.
Hi Roger☺️🙌Great topic about watering👏🌟I have had to mount almost all my heat-stressed orchids this Summer. It was Hell-fire. They hang under trees in the garden and are recovered and growing nice😃I just keep dendrobium nobiles in pots now.
Excellent information.
Thanks.
The autumn has already shot my spring-summer watering schedule to bits. This is the time of year when not only the trees outside can turn yellow (a bit of morbid humor.. or memories from last autumn xD)
Have a think I did, again, cause there's always more needed. Thank you.
You're welcome.
Nope, not turning the heater on yet, it was 104f or 40c here yesterday, here in sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵.
Great video! Lots of excellent, useful information. Thank you Roger.
Thanks - and you're welcome.
Thanks for reminding me about watering . It's my broblem every spring and. autumn . 😊😊
You're welcome.
Hi, Roger! A very good point! When it comes to watering, I have a routine but I am not a robot hehe. So I would skip anything that does not need to be watered. I enjoy looking at each individual plant and see how they are doing. If a okant does not need to be watered, just as you said, it will get no water.😊
This is why I thing going round with a sprayer is not such a good idea as there is no checking.
Very few orchids die from too little water - but many do from too much.
Great video Roger. I went to once a week watering over a year ago. When watering day comes if the larger pots are still heavy they get watered the next week. I heard someone say it’s easier to increase watering than it is to grow new roots.
Exactly.
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Not that I’ve seen. More have bloomed this year than last with a couple of first time blooms. I’ve also been fertilizing every week with one flush day per month starting in April using a combination of 15-0-0 and 5-12-26 at around 145 ppm. In the past I did not fertilize on a regular basis and used dyna gro 7-8-6 orchid pro or their 7-9-5 grow. When I was using the dyna gro I did not have a pH or tds meter and feed less than recommended.
Yes my routine, as I grow outside, is much relied on the weather too. So basically my routine is not, always changing.
Iven though my orchids grow inside, they are still influenced by the weather - light levels, temps.
You hit the nail on the head with your advice Roger. When I first started growing orchids, I made the mistake of watering them each week on a Saturday. I did this even during the winter months. When most my cattleyas started turning black and brown and dying, I was so confused as to why. Now, I don't have a routine, I just check each orchid each day to determine when it needs watering and or feeding.
With watering, if in doubt, leave it another couple of days.
Great video. Thanks.
Thanks - and you're welcome.
Thanks for the information very interesting. I always wait until I see that the roots are silver and how heavy the pot is but that fertiliser stuff you’re buying are use that as well very good stuff.
You're welcome.
Hi Roger, could you make a follow up video, maybe a back to basics video on different types of medium and how you can combine them to adjust for your conditions such as ambient temperature and amount of time available for watering?
I have done one in the past but it wouldn't hurt to cover the topic again.
Scary title.........I don't have routines 😁
Should I cut the spike after the blooms are gone? My Oncidium spikes are still green, blooms gone a ling time ago.
Some orchids re-absorb nutrients from the spikes but I have found in cultivation, they get plenty of nutrition so I cut them off to tidy the plant and it encourages vegetative growth.
Humidity is a problem in my room at the moment it's to high for the temperatures (20 degrees day and night)
Now that the day temps outside are dropping, my dehumidifier is working hard as the inside day temps are low as well - sometimes, 18C is the best I get. The unit keeps it down to 75%.
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