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Yay congratulations on the car and the AOS promotion!!! Well deserved. You did a great job on the IOS presentation this month. It was so interesting and informative. You are a rockstar. ❤

our root rots every year with repotting

the Besgrow always starts growing when I keep it in a humidity tray, it dies the second I take it out.

Wow. Your haul looks amazing. I bought a Sobralia that just arrived- rough. The leaves were black and the root system sparse. I’m praying it survives, but my Facebook group is telling me it probably won’t 😢

Knowing Cheryl as well and being a part of the BOS board, social media is something I had considered to offer help to as well however my life has already been crazy busy and I knew that at this time in my life, I would not be the right fit at all. I barely keep up with the BOS as of late. I am so glad you volunteered though. It will be great for the AOS!

thank you for sharing your evaluation of different pots. I usually cannot tell which can be saved, how to save it and which to discard

Thanks for sharing. Could you also do a video where you have to cut a lot or all of the roots?

Congratulations on becoming an associate orchid judge for AOS! Your new car is gorgeous! It sounds like you will be very busy and productive. Sometimes we just have to shift priorities in order to move ahead. I’ll miss seeing your channel as much, but will look forward to the content you help produce for the AOS.

Does a single application kill the scale or does it just reduce the numbers?

Where did you find your golden tang? I had one years ago but lost it to scale.

Lindas plantas

That happened to me I went on vacation for 1 month come back with a few dead ones specially the smaller ones😢

So happy I finally got to watch this whole video!! That spotted cattleya (was it aclandiae?) make me do a double take!! 😍😍

glad you did not get hit by a tornado and not too much damage there.

I’m glad there’s only minimal damage in your orchids and everything are just fine. Me, I haven’t have the time to fix my orchids grow space yet after hurricane Beryl turned down my shed cloth post. But anyway, as long as no one got hurt, that is the most important thing. Stay safe and hydrated y’all…

WOW! crazy weather across the country and glad stuff is alright 👍 mine are sunburning even with 65% shade cloth! I have never had such intense UV rays here in Oregon!!!! I am waiting for a 50% shade cloth today to cover roof of greenhouse...I am doubling up.

Waiting for mine to come in. I didn’t see the email until after the 4th

If it's toxic why is d dog so close.dat shouldn't b.

Nice update Kay, have a blessed 4th of July.

Happy 4th Kay🎉 and blooms are looking great 👍....I love the bottle brush Dend. ❤

Beautiful flowers Kay. 🌷🦋👏

Hi Kay, beautiful blooms as always! Glad you have new orchids to add to your collection.

Hi. If you are going to gift some of your orchids for any reason, let me know, I get them 😊 I am just starting and some are really expensive.. thank you Ivette

speaking of Lacey Michelle, that tigrina alba x aclandiae alba (4N) I got from you as a seedling like four years ago finally produced a growth with a sheath. Now, what is interesting is that I cut the rhizome this spring without repotting it and the growth with the sheath is off the back part of the plant, the new lead on the front did not sheath. Anyway, if it blooms I will tag you on IG.

The cicadas have been underwhelming and not very scary. 😅

Cool to hear the cicadas in this video! I will be interesting to watch in the future and remember the tear of the double cicadas.

Nice Haul Kay! Happy belated Birthday.

Its that time of the year! 😊 carrying all of those orchids is a workout!

hi spencer, good propping skills from your daughter 😀. I do like your DIY benches but one disadvantage is they have no weight to them to stop them falling over. And the pipes are sagging soo much. I think you should think about an upgrade to those one of these days. Or add more supporting bars in the middle to stop the sag and fill them up with builders sand to give them more stability.

Don't you just love videos were the presenter is just not organized. Then the damn kid or cat make an untimely entrance making you wonder what is this video about.

Bloom spikes typically emerge from under the second leaf on either side. Roots can be ruby colored as well.

Wow, your new Neos look amazing and in excellent condition. Look at those beautiful roots and leaves (fans), hope they all do well Kay. 🌞👏☺️

So cool Spencer and congrats on the Neos....I could really get into them!!

If you visit from out of country will sellers provide phytocerts?

Not sure you need to fret about the cicadas. They don't eat anything as they don't have a functioning mouth. The females slit woody bark on the ends of tree and large shrub branches to lay their eggs in. Not sure if any orchids you have would meet that criteria. Good luck!

Nice display of award gemstones off to the side 🙂

Hi spencer, good luck with them. Much better height. You can always use cable ties to hang the light from the stands you got. What I would do myself would be to get a thin piece of wood from a hardware store that will be long enough to hang or place on the stands and then attach the smaller light to the piece of wood. Just cause I am always trying to minimize my electricity usage. You can also make a light reflector using some white guttering plastic. Not sure what they are called. Just an idea.

hahaha, I was wondering if you would get the Kay. I think they sent you the wrong plant though, because that is a huge bifoliate and Kay is nodosa x gaskelliana and should be smalliish unifoliate.

I don't understand why you must have the cat in all your orchid unboxings. It is very annoying! I am a cat lover too but we are here to see your orchids not your cat. The room has a door so I don't see why you cant lock your cat out.

Great unboxing, I really like Ecuagenera orchids! Their d.cthbersonii are fabulous, how do you grow them? They need lots of moisture. Thanks for sharing and happy growing 😊

Nice collection Spencer and happy belated birthday 🎉

Those IOS meetings just get better and better! The most interesting speakers and topics.

I bought a Pescatoria Alice Hipkins from Tim, just came in bloom, it is a beauty. Of the three you bought, I will tell you that Melinda Marie is by far the easiest to grow and bloom. Also, if I am not mistaken, Tim rents greenhouse space from SVO and uses some of their broodstock for making his own crosses.

I think you did a perfect job repotting in moss; not too tightly pushed in and you even put some in the core area😌👍💖And your moss was properly moist before using😌I wish you a good growing season🤲🌟

as a person who has repotted a lot of zygos, touch the roots as little as possible. I try not to touch them at all, I remove any loose media with water, the oils on my skin actually burn the velamen and the roots die. You may want to try to get that first one a bit deeper in the pot, the base of the new growth should be just below the top of the media.

I bought 10 last year and I'm still waiting for even one to bloom and four of them are definitely bloom size. I am dying to know if any of them will be the elusive yellow or orange. I don't see why you can't grow them outside in the summer, I have a bunch that grow outside all year and they don't have a problem with the heat or the rain. I will agree that moss is better than bark for growing them. I don't even change the moss when I repot because the roots are so fragile, you will lose more cleaning them off than just leaving the old moss.

In italiano grazie

you say there is no money to be made on the history of orchids. This is not true. Now that orchidroots is down which was a free service guess how one has to check out orchid history? By paying for it. Orchidroots was free. Before this one had to become an AOS member and pay $55 a year in order to be able to check orchids history. No money to be made? I disagree. Who would stand to benefit? The AOS. If there is no more free orchidroots then the only way is to become an AOS member. Cha-ching.

Good luck! I hope this works out well for you.

the light really should be sitting right on top of the terrarium. Light reduces fast the further it travels. Like exponentially. So picture a water sprinkler. Around the sprnkler the most wate will fall. Further way less will fall and at a certain distance plants will not receive any water at all. We cannot see this diminishing effect on light, our eyes aren't designed that way, yu need a light meter for that but essentially your light is so far away like with the sprinkler not a single drop of water will actually reach the plants the distance it is. You are just illuminating the room, the plants are receiiving minimal energy which will be far too little for optimal growth. Sometimes just moving a plant 10 cm closer to a light can mean the difference between it flowering or not. Top of the terrarium is perfect. I'd guess you are 80 cm's off.