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😍Meine Mona 💐 servus schöne Frau! 🤗 I hope you are having a wonderful week! Spring is far far away here in S'ern Spain. It is so cold 😅 if anyone came to S'ern Spain for a winter break, they are very disappointed considering what its going on... single digit nights and days and rain in the forecast for next week. Brrrr!! The dogs are loving it though. They snuggle up together at night keeping each other warm. We now have slumber parties 😂 thank YOU so much for watching this video, I appreciate the support 🥲🫶🏼 hope you are having a cozy evening ❤️🌸

🦤🦅😍 Wingman!! Howdy doody! Thank you so much for watching, my friend! I have to say that, I am frustrated that I do not have the chance to stop this from happening 🙄 hoping that 'one day' will come sooner rather than later, or else the stock is going to be gone and I will only have footage of the past to work with. 😬🥲 yeah... the take care... I am trying, Robert, I really really am. My body is having none of it, and a personal pet peeve of mine is hands on walls... well, I make myself lean against walls when walking from one area to the other because I cannot stand having any chance of hand prints on walls. Not that my hands are dirty, but the same area, touched over and over again will leave marks. Thanks to my grandma, I have this pet peeve ... she hated it when anyone touched her walls 😅 I hope you are taking care as well and thank you so very much for watching 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Laura, hi 😍💐 100% with you on the evaporating cooling effect of rubbing alcohol being used in the same area on a regular basis, compared to isopropyl (which we don't get here). So when I went overboard out of frustration, and saw the damage caused by excessive rubbing alcohol, on a hot day then the amount of time the alcohol took to evaporate, cooling the cells down... I had to put this video out seeing as I talk about garlic alcohol a LOT. I still swear by the mixture, but NOT to drown the structure in it 🥲 hope you are doing well, lovely lady! Thank you so much for watching this video and your feedback 🫶🏼❤️🌸

😍Hi Laura 💐 absolutely yes, however, at a very weak concentration. If you think of black breakfast tea and make the color of your seaweed concentration 'barely visible' as far as the water looking a slight bit yellow, then you have the right concentration for the case you are describing. 👍🏼 let me know if you have any questions / doubts based on what I just wrote! Thank you for watching, lovely lady! I truly appreciate the support 🫶🏼 wishing you a wonderful day ❤️🌸

😍Hi Joe 💐 the way you are doing it, is one way to do it 👍🏼 however, I start to work with new growths the moment they start to swell at the base of the older growth, by way of light training. As in, turn the pot in such a way that the new growth is facing in the opposite direction of the main light source so that it will automatically grow toward the light and for the most part, the growth does that without being tied / helped out. If you would like to watch a video on that, here is the link th-cam.com/video/o9jb0jHV_QI/w-d-xo.html it is a very old video, so forgive any awkward filming or staggered commentary. I believe that, since then, I have improved on my delivery 🫣😅 thank you so much for watching this video and for your amazing kind support here 🫶🏼 have yourself a fabYOUlous day, amigo 🫶🏼❤️🌸

FFF 🥳🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 meine liebe Freundin, hi! It is a shame when it happens at any time, but worse when it is the actual growing season and then the conditions are extreme... of all seasons, not the warm months of the year!! 😓 while I hate that it happens in my case, I kinda expect it to because...... 🙄 still, I had high hopes for this second new growth that my dowiana put out, a first within the same growing season time frame, but I was wrong. Meh! I am now curious to see if the base will still produce roots. The eyes down there are fine... 🤞🏼 vamos a ver! Wishing you the most fabYOUlous of days, amiga mia!! Thank you so very much for watching 🥳❤️🌸

Don Miguel 🥰💐 that is interesting! I did not know 👍🏼 thank you for adding the information here. Definitely important for those that have a warm dry environment and I will keep that in mind for when my temperatures warm up again. 👍🏼 much appreciated! I was so happy that this dowiana was pushing a second growth after the first one matured, but.... hey ho 😡 thank you so much for watching! I hope you are having a fabYOUlous day 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Hi Pat 😍💐 this is a dowiana... soooo there is that 🥲 the outer sheaths should be nice and dry, completely hardened off, all 'juices' been and gone, before removing them. When the conditions are warm and there is plenty of airflow, the sheaths should not be removed while still green or even, just going yellow. The longer they are on, the better 👍🏼 thank YOU so much for watching, lovely lady! I hope you are having a wonderful week 🫶🏼❤️🌸

🌤️😍 Hello, you wonderful human being 🫶🏼💐 thank you so very much for your kind feedback and encouraging support! So appreciated 🙏🏼 hope you are having a wonderful week 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Hi 😍💐 stalled growths will either continue growing once they have acclimated, OR they will stop where they are at, remain viable, grow roots and then a new eye will start to swell at the base to then grow properly again. These are the 2 options. As long as the sheaths do not go damp and look like what this orchid did, those growths can still perform. Even this growth, now not being there anymore. I cut it high enough to maintain the base, where it is still possible for it to grow roots, and the eyes are still able to produce new growths, if the orchid chooses to keep this lead active. I hope that your growths are just throwing a little stalling strop and that they will pick up speed again, once they have acclimated 🫶🏼 thank you so much for watching and for your excellent question ❤️🌸

😍HI Liz 💐 thank YOU so much for watching 🫶🏼 I hope that you are having a wonderful week ❤️ so appreciate your time and support 🌸

😍Hi!💐 Thank YOU very much, for watching and for your comment. I appreciate the support 🫶🏼 hope you are having a great week ❤️🌸

🌸🥷🏼Samurai Julie San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 thank YOU so so much for your support, watching and your comment with encouraging feedback! So appreciated 🫶🏼 hope you are having a great week, 🌸🥷🏼Amiga mia 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Hi Andrea 😍💐 thank YOU so very much, lovely lady, for your kind feedback and for watching 🫶🏼 yep, cold temperatures can knock out blooms prematurely, unfortunately. While, often blooms will last longer when temperatures are lower, there is a limit! I am sorry to hear that 🥲🫶🏼 I am holding on. I have ordered a walking cane, which I thought I could get today, but I have to wait a week for it to arrive, so... I hope that it will help me walk. I am counting the days 😬🫣 3 painkillers today and it is not really providing much relief. I will be happy when I get to lie down 👍🏼 I am glad to hear that you are doing ok! That is the most important thing and it has to stay that way 😘 wishing you a cozy evening 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Hi Denise 😍💐 it is a topic that has endless variables, and there is a domino effect when one cause kicks in, compounded by another situation etc etc. Eliminate one, but maintain the other, and this would still happen and so on and so forth 🙄 thank YOU for watching and for seeing this for what it is and not something 'I don't know what I am doing' 😓😘 hope you are doing well, lovely lady! 🫶🏼 have a cozy evening ❤️🌸

@NinjaOrchids Thank you, Nina. I'm persevering despite the circumstances. Hope you have a lovely evening yourself 😁

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Hi Donna 😍💐 thank YOU so much for watching and your kind and encouraging feedback. That is so motivating to read 🫶🏼 never hesitate to ask anything that you may be scratching your head about, trying to figure things out. If you would like to run anything and everything that comes to mind, by me, please do not hesitate!! Every description has a statement in it 'Make this channel work for you'... I would rather say, I am not certain and need to know more, and try to be of help, than not know that I can be of help which would make your growing orchids journey easier. 🫶🏼 I appreciate you and look forward to being of more help ❤️ hope you are having a wonderful week 🌸

Hi Rosebud 😍 💐welcome! I am not sure if you have commented on my channel before, perhaps my memory fails me, but in case this is your first time, I would like to extend a warm warm welcome and thank you so much for being here, commenting and watching the video. I appreciate your time and support, thank you 🫶🏼 yes, the lean is because of the direction of light that it is growing towards based on the shelf it lives on and where the major light source comes from. I am only attempting to correct the angle of the new growths to grow in such a way that the orchid can stay in the pot for a little longer. I would prefer to have her on a mount and may still opt to divide her into a more manageable piece, get that on a large mount so that it can grow on to it. I was concerned about the evaporative cooling of the leca being too cold for the roots. This orchid does get a substantial temperature drop during my winters, its the larger bowl with more leca and that permanent reservoir as opposed to a mask with a reservoir, that had me concerned. So far, she is doing well and I hope that the new growths currently growing, will bloom. If not, then it is the lack of light. My Fall and winter, so far, have been a nightmare when it comes to light. Having had mostly overcast days, or, if the mornings were sunny, by the time the afternoon came, when the sun would hit this orchid, it is overcast. However, she is still alive and for that, I am grateful 👌🏼 I love this orchid, all rupicolous laelias, as a matter of fact 😅 hope you are having a wonderful 2025 already and again, welcome! Thank you for watching 🫶🏼❤️🌸

🌸🥷🏼 Samurai Sherrii San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 Hello, lovely lady! It is so good to see you! Thank you so much for being so busy and commenting. I was hoping to see you again at some point, because there is a tinge of concern 😘 Destination Maasai Mara next, yes! I have to work toward the prep for that stream. I appreciate you letting me know that you enjoyed this safari and well, I was laughing at myself and the memory of that scorpion bite, as well. It feels a little weird when being the only one in the room, cracking up at my own recollections ... for that reason 'guess you had to be there' 🤣 Thank you so much for taking time to listen to my ramblings and recollections 🫶🏼 have yourself the most fabYOUlous of days ❤️🌸

🌸🥷🏼Bob San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 thank you so very much for watching!! And for your kind feedback 🫶🏼 so appreciate your time and support 🌸🥷🏼Cariño San! Have yourself a fabYOUlous day 🫶🏼❤️🌸

🌸🥷🏼Samurai Sherrii San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 thank you! I hope that the 'messy' jumping across many topics will not be a turn off, instead, that it will be of interest because of the diverse information. Time will tell 😬 thank you so much for listening and for your encouraging feedback 🫶🏼❤️🌸

🌸🥷🏼Director Jose San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 mi querido querido amigo! ¡¡Hola!! es tan bueno verte 🫶🏼🙏🏼 He estado pensando en ti y rezando para que tú y tu familia estén bien. Para que vengas y escuches lo que planeo hacer, aprecio mucho tu tiempo y tomarte un momento para dejar un comentario. Sepa que estoy pensando en usted y esperando que esté bien. Además, ¡que el 2025 ya os está tratando bien! Que tengas una tarde maravillosa. 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Meine Mona 😍💐 servus schöne Frau! Thank you, so much, for the feedback! I appreciate the encouragement, seeing as there are many different topics to be covered instead of sticking to a single topic. I am looking forward to this concept and appreciate the feedback that you think it is a good idea 🫶🏼 also, thank you for letting me know ❤️ hope you are having a great day ... tomorrow is Mona Tag 🥰❤️🌸

Don Miguel 🥰💐 hola jefe! I should wrap him around my waist and keep the feets for Baloo to warm 🤣 I hope that the focus and concentration a live stream requires, will do the warming up. It takes a lot out of me, and once 20 minutes into a stream, I am shedding a layer 😅 the only reason I did not exhibit a red face during the Turkana stream was because I had photography base make up on, but toward the end there, I felt it, too, was starting to fail 😬 vamos a ver! 🤞🏼 thank you for listening and being so supportive, Michael 🫶🏼 I hope you are having a fabYOUlous day ❤️🌸

Wanda, hi 😍💐 Happy New Year to you, lovely lady! 🫶🏼 I hope that 2025 is already treating you well! Thank you so much for listening and for your encouraging feedback 🙏🏼 could get a bit messy, with so many different topics covered in one go, but I appreciate you being up for this 🙏🏼 hope you are having a wonderful day 🫶🏼❤️🌸

🦤🦅😍 Wingman!! Really appreciate your feedback on this, thank you so much 🙏🏼 we shall be all over the place when it comes to topics covered 🐿️🐿️🐿️ kinda makes me think of the movie 'Over The Hedge' 🤣 hope your day is going beautifully for you and thank you for being so encouraging 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Debbiiieee, hi 😍💐 YAY!! The feedback here, is encouraging! Thank you so much for adding to it with your opinion! Much appreciated 🙏🏼 I feel as though I might as well schedule all 12 lives in one go 😂 'this stream will go live in 250 days' 🤔🤣 (example for one that could air in August 😂) hope you are having a wonderful day 🫶🏼 thank you so much for listening ❤️🌸

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😍Linda, hi 💐 woohoo!! I am so glad that you are open to doing this, even though it doesn't address a specific topic, but many different subjects that we can elaborate on. Thank you for your encouraging feedback, lovely lady! I so appreciate you and the kind support you provide here 🫶🏼 hope you are having a wonderful weekend ❤️🌸

@@NinjaOrchids You too! 😊 😃 😀

HI 😍💐 it is so good to see you! I hope that 2025 is already treating you well 🫶🏼 thank you for your kind and encouraging feedback. Its going to be squirrelling from topic to topic, without a specific subject, so, I hope its going to be interesting and not annoying 🤞🏼 12 streams will provide feedback if it is something we can carry over to 2026 🫣😅 vamos a ver! Again, thank you for your encouraging feedback, for listening and your kind support, here! Hope your Sunday is going great 🫶🏼❤️🌸

🌸🥷🏼Bob San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 hi!! Thank you so much for your feedback 🫶🏼 appreciate the encouragement. I hope it won't be a messy way of covering orchid information because it is not specific to a single topic. 🤞🏼time will tell 😅 anything to have an orchid chin wag 😂 hope you are having a wonderful day 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Hi 😍💐 thank you! I hope you are doing well 🫶🏼 having a great day ❤️ thank you for listening 🌸

Hi 😍💐 been thinking of you and your orchids, as to how you are coping with the in and out, this far into the season? I hope you are ok and your orchids are showing signs of appreciating your efforts 👍🏼 I have Cousin Itt in bloom as well. You are right about having blooms around that make our winter special. You are right, while I always calculate what an orchid does / doesn't do in a season, by going on Calendar month... it is possible now, that this one will bloom 2x within a 12 month period because of when it bloomed this time around. Good point 👍🏼 thank you for watching! Hope you are having a great day 🫶🏼❤️🌸

Lorali, hi 😍💐 it is so good to see you!! I saw that you subscribed back in September, but I think this is your first time commenting? If so, first of all, a warm warm welcome and secondly, thank you so much for subscribing and for the support that comes along with the time you choose to watch my videos. Truly appreciated 🫶🏼 IF you have commented in the past, and I am repeating my welcome, then... better 2x than not at all 🥰 I will definitely do a summary of how orchids 'came into my life and stayed' for sure. As a matter of fact, I will start the January stream with that 👍🏼 in a nutshell, I was born and raised in Kenya and at the age of 12 I saw a large pink bloom in a friend's parent's garden and loved it. They cut a piece of this plant off and I got to take it home to tie to one of the trees in the garden of the apartment complex I was living in at the time. I had no idea about orchids, but I suddenly had an orchid jungle with many divisions as the word spread that 'Nina wants orchids!' 😂 now that I am 59, there is more to the story, but that is how things started... with what I know now to be a cattleya. I am in S'ern Spain. Very close to Gibraltar. Paradise from April through November, and currently navigating orchid survival anxiety months. 10 weeks to go before I feel I can be safe as the Spring is closer than just around the corner. 🤞🏼 thank you, once again, for being here, for watching! I hope you are having a wonderful day 🫶🏼❤️🌸

@ wow.. cool back story. I love the generosity of one person led to a lifetime for your love of orchids. I am in Florida and currently experiencing some cold nights here. Not a fan of the orchid shuffle thanks so much for sharing looking forward to watching more of your videos. Hope to catch a live feed🤞

🤗 I am not a fan of the orchid shuffle either... I hope that you do not have that cold snap for too long! My shuffles usually last 5 months 😅 that is IF I can shuffle orchids and am not shuffling myself around 😂 I wish I could remember the lady's name that gave me the cutting. Back then, it was just a prize possession and details were not a priority 🫣 hope you are having a wonderful day. The streams will be on replay, in the event that the timing doesn't fit. Still, I shall keep an eye out for you 🫶🏼

Hi Denise 😍💐 hope you are having a wonderful day full of pampering R&R 😘 I appreciate your feedback on this idea, and thank you so much for letting me know. It will definitely be a squirrelling of different information, as opposed to a single topic. Personally, I like it that way because it makes me think because of all the different angles. Hope it is not going to put anyone off 🤞🏼 thank you so much for listening 🫶🏼❤️🌸

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😍🌤️ hey beautiful!! The fact that you are HERE, I cannot ask for more and am ever so grateful 🙏🏼 thank you so much 🫶🏼 hope you are having a wonderful day ❤️🌸

Hi Andrea 😍💐 oh, it is so nice to have blooms this time of year! They really do lift the spirits and I am glad that you have some to enjoy 👌🏼 I am hanging in there, Andrea, thank you for your concern. I hope that you are doing okay as well. Today was the last day of somewhat 'warm' conditions but as from tomorrow it is going to get really really cold, soooo the forecast shows every night in the single C digits and the days no higher than 14ºC.... this is going to be tough to navigate. I may just get my walking stick tomorrow 🤞🏼 stay safe, lovely lady! I hope you are having a cozy Sunday, thank you for watching🫶🏼 ❤️🌸

Don Miguel 🥰💐 hola jefe! I have 2 growths again, on my digbyana, and I am hoping to get both to bloom again after 1 lead did not bloom for several years 🤞🏼 I have it on the glass shelf right up against the terrace door. One growth, I see a sheath but the other one is still a little behind. Such a shame that this orchid would be much more impressive if I could keep the growths going during the winter with the heat and higher light which would make it perform so much better. But that is the story of my life (thinking Dinard 😑) now, my Fredclarkeara is going to bloom so much later than it ever has before! Which is also astounding because Jack and Fred came in at the same time and used to bloom at the same time. The buds on Fred still need another 10 days before the first one opens which will bring us into February... usually, I have it in bloom all throughout January. See how it catches up with new growths during the coming season. Anyway, I am looking forward to a sensational blooming from Fred 🙌🏼🥳 hope you are having a great weekend, my friend! Thank you so much for watching 🫶🏼❤️🌸

@@NinjaOrchids yeah, your FDK is late. You need to talk to him about blooming earlier so the smell of gingerbread is in the house for the holidays. Rooting for both leads to bloom on digbyana, although they probably won't bloom together. Mine had 5 leads bloom this fall but there were never more than 2 blooms open at the same time. Can't figure that out because they should all mature and bloom together but they never do.

Hi Linda 😍💐 the blooms are impressive, indeed, and most come with a fantastic fragrance that usually has a medicinal fresh note in it. I like that kind of scent. I used to love going to the pharmacy with my grandparents as a child, because the smell in there was always so fresh and the pharmacy candies would add to the sweet note. Delish 🥰 and this genus is just fun to grow because they have a speed to them during their active growth which we cannot experience with many of our orchids. If you can ... get one and give it a go 🫶🏼 I am always here if you have any doubts or questions! Thank you so much for watching, lovely lady! Have a beautiful day 🫶🏼❤️🌸

​@NinjaOrchids I love that fragrance, too. I'm old enough to remember the small town pharmacy/soda shop that also had a pinball machine and the latest comic books. Such a nostalgic smell!!!

🦤🦅😍 Wingman, hi!! No complaints for any orchid that comes into bloom, even though early or later, here either. When just live turns into, it bloomed, I am happy 👍🏼 I like to analyze the why though 😬 and then compare that with what will happen in 12 months, if the fall conditions are normal come that time this year.... will it bloom as per usual, or has it changed it's cycle and this is now normal timing? Things that make me go mmmmmhhh 😅 thank you so much for watching, my friend! I hope that your day is already treating you well by the time you read this 🫶🏼❤️🌸

🦤🦅😍 I saw that he was updating his audience, but could not join in! I really appreciate you, though for taking time out to come over and have a look see, Wingman, thank you so very much 🙏🏼 4N.... I can't even handle being a 1N (Nina... get it? get it?🤭 bad joke!) hope you are having a wonderful weekend, amigo!! Cuddles for Fluff and well, you get a .... 🤔mmhhh.... what do you get?? Oh, a knuckle rub! 🫣🤭 🫶🏼❤️🌸

😍HI!! 💐 Thank YOU so much for watching and for your comment! I appreciate the time and the support that you are so kind to provide here! Much needed and I am very grateful 🙏🏼 hope you are having a great weekend ❤️🌸

😍Jo, hi 💐 here's looking at you!! 👁️ 😆 or side eye 👀😂 get too close to that you may just have a Ripley moment with that pollen ejecting like the Alien baby in the movie 😱🤭 hope you are having a wonderful weekend 🫶🏼 thank you so much for watching ❤️🌸

@ you betcha!

😍Hi Liz 💐 the female blooms look so freaky! Like Betty Boo Beep morphed into Shrek 😂 makes it fun to grow though. Keeps things real interesting! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend, lovely lady! Thank you so much for watching and your continued support 🫶🏼❤️🌸

@ I have an After Dark that is just showing a new growth. It’s planted in bark and I only have it since April. It didn’t bloom for me this year. I’d like to transition to pumice. Do you think now would be a good time? Would you cut off the roots or leave them to anchor the bulbs?

Oh!! Go ahead a repot that straight away! I would not cut any roots off that don't fall off with the bark on their own. They will be super handy for anchoring 👍🏼 also, as the new roots grow the older roots will serve as a buffer for the new roots to get into the media, possibly attach to the older roots making a future repot much easier. You see, the velamen of catasetinae is like thin tissue paper and will stick to everything. It makes a repot or uppot very stressful because that velamen will tear, no matter how careful we are. Having the older roots to provide a potential space for the new roots to grow into, protects them from the pumice which is so porous, the velamen attached to that will tear. I know I am talking a couple of years before the situation arises, but to mitigate the stress of a repot when that time comes, we can plan ahead with the repot present day 👍🏼 I hope that this was helpful! If it prompted further questions... you know the drill 😉

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Debbiieeee, hi 😍💐 yes! It is so cool 😅 some of these will bloom male & female blooms as a combo on a single spike, but this one has a wonderful diverse blooming habit that makes it a keeper... super interesting 😃 hope you are doing well, lovely lady, that you are having a wonderful day! Thank you so much for watching 🫶🏼❤️🌸

HI Joe 😍💐 I love the way they grow and wish I had not lost others while I was figuring out how to get them grow well in leca. The fragrance is so refreshing and I can smell it where I am sat at my desk. Like opening a fresh pack of spearmint gum 👍🏼 it really is like having 2 different orchids. I lucked out to have one that does that on a consistent basis, for sure! I would love to see what the female blooms of the After Dark 'Black Pearl' would look like, but I think that trait has been bred out of those hybrids. Hope you are having a great day, Joe! Thank you so much for watching 🫶🏼❤️🌸