I put my L. discolor into a flat, rather shallow container, and after the flowering is done, I actually found the loooonnng canes, separated them a bit from each other (leaving part attached to the rhizome) and placed the canes down into the medium so that the “hairs” are pointed down into the medium (I use the smallest size of Orchiata bark with a little bit of peat moss so she stays moist, and I DO live in a very humid environment, she’s too big for any self-watering setup that I can find now) and that’s how they form their new roots. Some people use a cup of water to create roots, but mine rooted into the medium just fine as long as I kept it quite well moistened. I did give her a fairly sunny spot indoors during the winter in my indoor greenhouse, but outside, she’s under the banana trees beside the pool, getting some dappled sunshine. I cut the flower spikes off when they faded, removed the leaves when they faded (they almost always do except for at the very end of the cane from where the blooms come, those leaves stay nice), and then I’d find a logical “end” to a section of a cane (so maybe 6 inches or so), find a joint and gently pull it off, and place it onto the top of the medium wherever there’s room. They’ll start to grow longer (and root down into the medium) and will start to grow new leaves from the top. You can triple the size of your specimen every year, it happens pretty quickly! And the Macodes Petola grows a LOT more slowly, I have it in the same type of medium as my L. discolor, and there are now four little plants (the rhizome kind of hides out just below the debris at the surface of the medium) and they all have those adorable spiraling leaves in the center. They like a bit more light, and a little bit less moisture than the L. discolor, but they’re right beside each other now, under my banana trees, and seemingly happy to be back outside. These are considered almost invasive in south Florida; can you imagine? Great video as always!
I recently purchased a ludisia and it is growing like crazy! It's placed in a northwestern bathroom window. I water it about every other day. I'm very pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to care for!
Hi Danny. If the variegated cattleya is the one you received from orchid.com in the USA check it for fusarium. I bought a cutting 2 days after you received yours. It never did well and looked similar to yours. Upon inspection I discovered it was infected. I treated it and it now lives attached to a tree in my garden away from my orchids. Good luck with yours.
Hi Danny, Glad to see your Ludisia collection is thriving. I was so inspired by yours, I started my own collection. I have to say, they are doing spectacular. I'm gowing them under IKea lamps with grow lights and in self-watering pots, using a succulent type of media, very gritty. It seems to be working very well for me. My Macodes has doubled in size and I'm seeing a new leaf pushing from the base of the plant.
Personally I was surprised by the level of humidity my phal. schilleriana needs. I agree that they definitely do NOT like to be wet. My growing space is quite dry during the winter and I was actually surprised by how much it enjoys to be humid. I had to amend my schilleriana's medium with a bit of sphagnum moss to help with general moisture and found that it helped a lot. I'm glad you will have the keiki as a sort of orchid insurance, though!
So glad for the update :) Could you do one on the Jewell orchid? The MACODES PETOLA. There are barely any videos on how to take care of it. I found only a couple with very little info. Only a few minutes long. I recently bought one and would like to know more. Thank you in advance.
Ludisia looks better in a bowl shape pot because of its crawling habit . It doesn’t have deep roots so a wide shallow pot is perfect for it. They green leaf one is gorgeous.
Glad your Mecodes is starting to stabilize! I love my Mecodes Petola, and grow mine in a deep pot (no drainage hole) filled with about 4-6 inches of course sand. I put the Mecodes in a plastic pot that fits tightly into the first pot, sitting on top of the sand. Media is leca, .25 inch lava rock (pre-agitated to remove edges), and calcined clay. I have it deep enough in the first pot to give it a lip to grow against and keep it from rambling as much. It still "rambles" in the pot, but as you mentioned, anywhere the stalk/rhyzome(?) touches the media, it grows new leaves. This method gives it good humidity, and encourages a bushy appearance. The flowers are not amazing, but oh that foliage! It is like gold glitter is in the veins 😍.
Hi Danny, can you make a video on all the types of pots you have, and how you like them ( Self-watering, Clay, Ceramic, Plastic, etc. ) and how you find they relate to certain orchids, etc … Thank you !
Love the updates! Lookin forward to hearing on thw growth of the Macodes Petola! For your upcoming update video, I'd love to hear on any updates on your oececlades spathulifera!
I like you favorite. Very unusual to me. I like the unusual and different and that surely is. Really nice of a subscriber to give you your now favorite orchid. I see why. Sparkle is my thing too. Thanks for sharing all your tips.....
Hi Danny. Thanks for update. Glad to see your a dimophochis Lowii doing well. Can hardly wait to see this guy in bloom. Would imagine that all four growers would have first bloom at same time ? That would be exciting as well as seeing the unusual bloom. Your ludisia has his own mind. Perhaps to grow a forest amidst it's being in a lone chair and propergate its' own family.
3:48 the patterns on the foliage look almost exactly like native terrestrial “rattlesnake plantain” orchids we have here in Maine. They’re the ones I found while hiking and so fascinated me that I became obsessed with orchids.
I grow my Ludisia's as ground plants... just not in the ground... so something akin to a very large bowl pot [in shape] so that the stems can sit flat and ramble across it and I get a display of "candles" [the flower spikes] the flower spikes will always grow upwards, so shall never give a cascade effect... kind of like the Spathoglottis in that sense...
Hi Danny, I wanted to know if you still have your Phal sun passat orchid in your collection still? we haven't seen a new update in a very long time on that orchid. It would be nice to see the evolution on that orchid since that last video you made on it! I'm getting myself one soon thank you for inspiring me to get this unique orchid. And nice update video your plants look wonderful I enjoy your videos keep up the great work.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of info out there regarding the Macodes Petola. I just recently purchased one. I got it straight from the orchid nursery, I visited recently. They told me never to let it dry out completely and low light are the key requirements. However my question is how do you keep something moist all the time without it being soaking wet, in someone's living room? I don't have a greenhouse that I can provide humidity in that sense. I noticed that at first I was so scared it would dry out that I'd water once a week but the result I was getting fungus on the top layer of the moss. I managed it by spraying a bit of hydrogen peroxide 3%. But anyway my question to you, how do you water the Macodes?
Hi Dani, I have two Phalaenopsis schilleriana and I have the exact same thing with both of them having their oldest ailing leaf sticking around for months (nearly a year now!) I grew one in a bark leca mix and she did great but once winter came she lost most of her roots. However the other schilleriana is doing great in small leca beads in semihydro. No loss of roots at all. So not sure how to interpret that. Two brands of leca though. Maybe she didn't like the other brand (or maybe it was too dry/ that leca too full of salts still even after I boiled it). Might stick the struggling one in moss and see how she does. She looks hydrated even though she has lost quite a few roots. Anyway, just so you know that someone else had the strange things with the leaves happening too :) hopefully we can figure out how to keep them happy x
I LOVE this kinds of updates!! Can you please let us know how your Vandachostylis Colmarie and your Potinara Burana Beauty are doing, specially the Burana Beauty that i wanna see if yours has the tendency mine has, that creates 3 new growths a the same time multiple times for year and it does not bloom and when it did last year it was just one flower.
Hi Danny. Thanks for all the updates. I so have a couple of requests though. I don't remember if you have a psychopsis by if you do can you show it and the Charles Fitch, a micro den (if you have one, I do, turns out it's an Alba! After 5 long years of waiting it's finally bloomed this year). Thanks, Rowan
Hello Danny, I live in Arizona and I have gnats in my medium from my orchids. How can I get rid of them and I just repotted them. I'm thinking they were in the new medium or a orchid I got on discount. Please help me 😦
Hello Dani, I have something weird happening with a Dendrobium Nobile which I wonder if you could explain. This year it has produced lots of keikis and I have watched your videos about the winter rest and genetic coding of the decision to become flowers or keikis. This one was late go in into its rest as it was still growing but the 2 flowers it has produced have roots growing from them, just like the keikis. Have you seen this before and what should I do? I have removed some of the keikis.
Love the foliage on the ... er, the lightning-leaved not-Ludisia (I did see it once, but since I was busy at that time and going to a wrong location, didn't get it and grrr...) and the schilleriana. Hope the Lightning-leaf grows as vigorously as my ludisia so you can spread the joy.
Hi Danny Thanks on the update on your Catt Moscombe. I have a BC Moscombe x nods and from what i can see it takes more from the B than the C, It is not variegated and it is more compact than the Catt. Hope she also did not take the diva behaviour ahahahah. My shilleriana after flowering started to have limp leaves and I repotted her in organic (repot imperial mix) she is growing roots and leaves plumped up! She hated Leca under my care :) Hope to see some new leaves starting to grow, From my Phals species only the belliina likes Leca. so strange! many thanks and big hug
I put my L. discolor into a flat, rather shallow container, and after the flowering is done, I actually found the loooonnng canes, separated them a bit from each other (leaving part attached to the rhizome) and placed the canes down into the medium so that the “hairs” are pointed down into the medium (I use the smallest size of Orchiata bark with a little bit of peat moss so she stays moist, and I DO live in a very humid environment, she’s too big for any self-watering setup that I can find now) and that’s how they form their new roots. Some people use a cup of water to create roots, but mine rooted into the medium just fine as long as I kept it quite well moistened. I did give her a fairly sunny spot indoors during the winter in my indoor greenhouse, but outside, she’s under the banana trees beside the pool, getting some dappled sunshine. I cut the flower spikes off when they faded, removed the leaves when they faded (they almost always do except for at the very end of the cane from where the blooms come, those leaves stay nice), and then I’d find a logical “end” to a section of a cane (so maybe 6 inches or so), find a joint and gently pull it off, and place it onto the top of the medium wherever there’s room. They’ll start to grow longer (and root down into the medium) and will start to grow new leaves from the top. You can triple the size of your specimen every year, it happens pretty quickly! And the Macodes Petola grows a LOT more slowly, I have it in the same type of medium as my L. discolor, and there are now four little plants (the rhizome kind of hides out just below the debris at the surface of the medium) and they all have those adorable spiraling leaves in the center. They like a bit more light, and a little bit less moisture than the L. discolor, but they’re right beside each other now, under my banana trees, and seemingly happy to be back outside. These are considered almost invasive in south Florida; can you imagine? Great video as always!
I recently purchased a ludisia and it is growing like crazy! It's placed in a northwestern bathroom window. I water it about every other day. I'm very pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to care for!
Hi Danny. If the variegated cattleya is the one you received from orchid.com in the USA check it for fusarium. I bought a cutting 2 days after you received yours. It never did well and looked similar to yours. Upon inspection I discovered it was infected. I treated it and it now lives attached to a tree in my garden away from my orchids. Good luck with yours.
Hi Danny, Glad to see your Ludisia collection is thriving. I was so inspired by yours, I started my own collection. I have to say, they are doing spectacular. I'm gowing them under IKea lamps with grow lights and in self-watering pots, using a succulent type of media, very gritty. It seems to be working very well for me. My Macodes has doubled in size and I'm seeing a new leaf pushing from the base of the plant.
Personally I was surprised by the level of humidity my phal. schilleriana needs. I agree that they definitely do NOT like to be wet. My growing space is quite dry during the winter and I was actually surprised by how much it enjoys to be humid. I had to amend my schilleriana's medium with a bit of sphagnum moss to help with general moisture and found that it helped a lot. I'm glad you will have the keiki as a sort of orchid insurance, though!
So glad for the update :)
Could you do one on the Jewell orchid? The MACODES PETOLA. There are barely any videos on how to take care of it. I found only a couple with very little info. Only a few minutes long. I recently bought one and would like to know more. Thank you in advance.
Ludisia looks better in a bowl shape pot because of its crawling habit . It doesn’t have deep roots so a wide shallow pot is perfect for it. They green leaf one is gorgeous.
Glad your Mecodes is starting to stabilize! I love my Mecodes Petola, and grow mine in a deep pot (no drainage hole) filled with about 4-6 inches of course sand. I put the Mecodes in a plastic pot that fits tightly into the first pot, sitting on top of the sand. Media is leca, .25 inch lava rock (pre-agitated to remove edges), and calcined clay. I have it deep enough in the first pot to give it a lip to grow against and keep it from rambling as much. It still "rambles" in the pot, but as you mentioned, anywhere the stalk/rhyzome(?) touches the media, it grows new leaves. This method gives it good humidity, and encourages a bushy appearance. The flowers are not amazing, but oh that foliage! It is like gold glitter is in the veins 😍.
A picture please!
Hi Danny, can you make a video on all the types of pots you have, and how you like them ( Self-watering, Clay, Ceramic, Plastic, etc. ) and how you find they relate to certain orchids, etc … Thank you !
Hello Danny, I really love your growth room tours, hope we can see more of the. Thank you
Love the updates! Lookin forward to hearing on thw growth of the Macodes Petola!
For your upcoming update video, I'd love to hear on any updates on your oececlades spathulifera!
I like you favorite. Very unusual to me. I like the unusual and different and that surely is. Really nice of a subscriber to give you your now favorite orchid. I see why. Sparkle is my thing too. Thanks for sharing all your tips.....
Hi Danny. Thanks for update. Glad to see your a dimophochis Lowii doing well. Can hardly wait to see this guy in bloom. Would imagine that all four growers would have first bloom at same time ? That would be exciting as well as seeing the unusual bloom. Your ludisia has his own mind. Perhaps to grow a forest amidst it's being in a lone chair and propergate its' own family.
3:48 the patterns on the foliage look almost exactly like native terrestrial “rattlesnake plantain” orchids we have here in Maine. They’re the ones I found while hiking and so fascinated me that I became obsessed with orchids.
I grow my Ludisia's as ground plants... just not in the ground... so something akin to a very large bowl pot [in shape] so that the stems can sit flat and ramble across it and I get a display of "candles" [the flower spikes] the flower spikes will always grow upwards, so shall never give a cascade effect... kind of like the Spathoglottis in that sense...
Hi Danny! In your next update can you let us know how your Zygos are doing?
Hi Danny, I wanted to know if you still have your Phal sun passat orchid in your collection still? we haven't seen a new update in a very long time on that orchid. It would be nice to see the evolution on that orchid since that last video you made on it! I'm getting myself one soon thank you for inspiring me to get this unique orchid. And nice update video your plants look wonderful I enjoy your videos keep up the great work.
what kind of medium is right for twinkles, in fact that would be a great video what mediums for each orchid!
There doesn't seem to be a lot of info out there regarding the Macodes Petola. I just recently purchased one. I got it straight from the orchid nursery, I visited recently. They told me never to let it dry out completely and low light are the key requirements. However my question is how do you keep something moist all the time without it being soaking wet, in someone's living room? I don't have a greenhouse that I can provide humidity in that sense. I noticed that at first I was so scared it would dry out that I'd water once a week but the result I was getting fungus on the top layer of the moss. I managed it by spraying a bit of hydrogen peroxide 3%. But anyway my question to you, how do you water the Macodes?
I keep this outside in soil self watering and do beautiful..I live in Florida 🤗
Hi Dani, I have two Phalaenopsis schilleriana and I have the exact same thing with both of them having their oldest ailing leaf sticking around for months (nearly a year now!) I grew one in a bark leca mix and she did great but once winter came she lost most of her roots. However the other schilleriana is doing great in small leca beads in semihydro. No loss of roots at all. So not sure how to interpret that. Two brands of leca though. Maybe she didn't like the other brand (or maybe it was too dry/ that leca too full of salts still even after I boiled it). Might stick the struggling one in moss and see how she does. She looks hydrated even though she has lost quite a few roots. Anyway, just so you know that someone else had the strange things with the leaves happening too :) hopefully we can figure out how to keep them happy x
thanks for the update! the macodes petola is real stunning. glad they're doing just fine :) bit of a slow growers tho aren't they.. haha
Hello, Danny! What about your maxillaria tenuifolia. Mine promotes a lot of new grows but no signs of flower spikes. What should I try to do?
I LOVE this kinds of updates!! Can you please let us know how your Vandachostylis Colmarie and your Potinara Burana Beauty are doing, specially the Burana Beauty that i wanna see if yours has the tendency mine has, that creates 3 new growths a the same time multiple times for year and it does not bloom and when it did last year it was just one flower.
Hi Danny. Thanks for all the updates. I so have a couple of requests though. I don't remember if you have a psychopsis by if you do can you show it and the Charles Fitch, a micro den (if you have one, I do, turns out it's an Alba! After 5 long years of waiting it's finally bloomed this year).
Thanks,
Rowan
Do Jewel orchids have shallow or long deep roots?
I love your orchids channel. I would like to know how to populate bulbophyllum auricomum orchids.
Great update, thank you! :)
Hello Danny, I live in Arizona and I have gnats in my medium from my orchids. How can I get rid of them and I just repotted them. I'm thinking they were in the new medium or a orchid I got on discount. Please help me 😦
Hi , where do you buy your Jewel Orchids ? thanks
My shilleriana did exactly the same thing!
I'm interested to see your Phalaenopsis violacea and what it's up to!
Did you get my message about my overwatered jewel orchid?
Hello Dani, I have something weird happening with a Dendrobium Nobile which I wonder if you could explain. This year it has produced lots of keikis and I have watched your videos about the winter rest and genetic coding of the decision to become flowers or keikis. This one was late go in into its rest as it was still growing but the 2 flowers it has produced have roots growing from them, just like the keikis. Have you seen this before and what should I do? I have removed some of the keikis.
Usually, an abundance of keikis indicates overwatering in winter. It needs a dry season to encourage flowering rather than keikis.
@@tanyastelly6243 thank you, but have you ever seen flowers producing roots like the keikis? I don't know how to include a photo in this reply
I found a cattleya with no name on it and it grows directly with bulbs. It is tiny and does not have flowers. How can you help me identify ?
Hey! I know this is a month ago but I suggest you just ask a forum and post a photo too!
Where are the posts you said you would post?
Love the foliage on the ... er, the lightning-leaved not-Ludisia (I did see it once, but since I was busy at that time and going to a wrong location, didn't get it and grrr...) and the schilleriana. Hope the Lightning-leaf grows as vigorously as my ludisia so you can spread the joy.
Macodes Petola!
Can you give us a vanilla update next time?
Hi Danny Thanks on the update on your Catt Moscombe. I have a BC Moscombe x nods and from what i can see it takes more from the B than the C, It is not variegated and it is more compact than the Catt. Hope she also did not take the diva behaviour ahahahah.
My shilleriana after flowering started to have limp leaves and I repotted her in organic (repot imperial mix) she is growing roots and leaves plumped up! She hated Leca under my care :) Hope to see some new leaves starting to grow,
From my Phals species only the belliina likes Leca. so strange!
many thanks and big hug
Catasetum?
U forget fhu Shu cattleya....