Rey!! 🤗💐 thank you so much for coming over to have a look see and leave a comment! I hope that you are having a good evening and enjoying your plants 😃🌸
Nice video Nina, i like you show where these pretty orchids and where they grow in the wild. Definitely one that I would like to have in my collection. Nice informative video.
Hey Justin 🤗💐 thank you very much for your encouraging comment, Justin, I really appreciate it! This one would do well for you in your climate, you don't have the dryness to combat. When you get one, you, Sir, are going on The List! 🙌🏼 Have a wonderful evening, and thank you so much for watching 🌸
Heeey!! Amigo! 🙌🏼🥰💐 YT erased my reply earlier in the day... I am sorry that this is now so late to reach you! You are probably having breakfast now, so... hope that you have a wonderful day and thank you so very much for watching 🙌🏼🌸
HI Ian 😃💐 I thought the Murasakikomachi with it's 4 month developing spike was long.. if this spike decides to bloom, then, it will be the longest to grow in the history of my collection. Watch this space, is all I can say 😅 thank you for watching, Ian! Have yourself a wonderful day 🌸
I have a liones which I bought with spike and kept for long time with no movement and it dried after 8 to 9 months. Good observation to figure out their reason to bloom. Hopefully yout spike will bloom. Thanks for sharing and happy growing.
Mary, hi! 🤗💐 first of all, let me apologize for such a late reply! 50% of the comments I replied to earlier... my replies were erased... gone! So, I do apologize for being so late in getting back to you! My leonis spiked for the first time during the winter and into early spring, but nothing ever continued. One small bud started to develop but it blasted and now the spike is being absorbed. So... first time bloomer woes or am I getting something wrong. I will only know the answer to that question when it tries again. The didieri, I have a little more hope now that I have seen Ed's video, because his spiked sooner than mine did, so... seeing his bud form... I have a little more hope for the same to happen to mine, just a little later. Thank you so much for watching, Mary! Again, I am sorry... I was not aware that YT had this reply glitch until I went to check Studio one more time! 🌸
I have Angraecum didieri. I bought it on a mount, but took it off because it didn’t seem to be doing well. I have it it a clay pot with seedling potting mix. It’s really doing great now. We learn by doing and paying close attention to the orchid. You do a fantastic job of knowing your orchids. Thanks for sharing.🤗🌴🥀
Hey Shirley 😃💐 I can just imagine how your didieri is loving that set up 👍🏼 has it bloomed for you yet? do you keep the clay pot in a saucer of water to keep the root tips from desiccating on the dry clay? or is that not a problem? Curious to know, and if you have the time, I would appreciate it if you could let me know. I have wondered about having angreacums in clay pots, if one day I get more little ones, but cannot afford the pricey orchitops anymore. Thank you so much for watching, Shirley 🌸 have a wonderful day 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids I have had it a year,and it really was very unhappy mounted. It’s doing great in the clay pot, and has bounced back. Has not bloomed yet. I have it in my fish tank right now, so it’s getting plenty of humidity. No problem with roots sticking on the pot. There’s no catch pot under it. It sits on pebbles. It’s still a baby plant, and got set back when on the mount.
Thank you for this lovely very informative collab! The best Ive seen this far Nina! Including mine 😉, now I have some vital new tools in order to get mine going on for real! And congrats to the spike!! Cant wait for the update with it in vloom! Have a lovely day! 🥰🥰
Hi Karin 🤗💐 thank you so very much for your kind comment, Karin, so very much appreciated and very encouraging! Keeping fingers crossed that mine will bloom! After I have seen Ed's and that it is starting to form a bud, my hopes are a little higher than they were yesterday 😬 Have a wonderful start to the morning! YT erased many of my comments earlier in the day, 🤔so I do apologize for the late reply 🌸
🦒🙏🌺!!! It will be interesting to find out what that spike is telling you. Too bad they "speak" so sloowwly... Three years should be enough to aclimate but with her slow metabolism it is hard to know. Watch and obserse... yeah !!! Looking forward to developments. Very cute Angraecum though!!! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. Thinking of Alexandra here🤞🤞, good luck girl 🌷!!!! Hope you are feeling a lot better today. Sending you mingi abrazos 🤗❤️😍
FFF 🙌🏼🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰😘💐 take 2! Half of my comments from this morning were erased and only an hour ago, when I went to Studio to upload a video, I checked to see if there had been any further communication from my replies and I have this whole list of comments that I 'had not responded to' 🤔 your's was one of them, and I know I replied to everyone before starting to film etc.! I am so sorry for this! I was a 'good girl' in my comments, nothing offensive, but 50% did not stick in YT ?? So very strange! I will email you to tell you about Alexandra... but... in a nutshell, it went really well and they asked her to come for the weekend 🙌🏼🙌🏼 😃 I thought 3 years is plenty as well, but who knows with these slow growers! Ed's video gave me hope, because his spike sooner than mine and seeing his bud swell, maybe mine will too and then we know where we are at 🤞🏼 Thank you for watching, thank you for your kind comment and thank you for being patient with me (YT!) 🤬 much love to you, meine liebe Freundin, and have a good night's rest! 🥰❤️🌸
Hi Nina, great video. I had a didieri once, it decided it would not live with me, it turned all yellow and brown after I repotted it and I haven't tried again yet. I have leonis and sesquipedale var. augustifolium (supposedly smaller narrower leaves) idk. Those are doing fine after repotting. That didieri was the fussiest orchid I've ever had. At least I know what I did wrong with my phal. schilleriana but I have no clue what the didieri needed or didn't need. I don't think I fertilized it even. I want to have another one in the future but I want to make sure I'm not gonna kill it first. Lol. Thank you again. Take care lovely lady🌞🌿🌺🦸♀️🌻
Got my first didieri last November. It was a beautiful specimen, blooming size. I promptly repotted it into a wooden basket and it died in 2 weeks😱! The leaves just fell off and that was that. Since I really liked the plant and my pride was hurt because of it's rapid demise I was determined to find another one after I did more research. I already knew that it should thrive in my environment. I also knew that it would do best for me in an open basket. So, in order to avoid the whole repotting issue, I started looking for vendors who were selling basketed plants that were already acclimated to my Florida climate. Well, in January, I found even better than that. I went to an orchid sale hosted by a major nursery that included multiple vendors. One of the guest vendors was Pow-Pow orchids from Germany. Since the plants were coming from another country they were all bare rooted and yes they had didieri for sale. Yay! Didn't have to worry about disturbing the roots.😄 From my research I learned that it's suggested that you wait a week to 10 days before watering after potting didieri up which is what I did. It seems to have adapted well to the basket and is growing new roots. From my experience this little fellow can get sufficient moisture from the air in high humidity environments. I just watch the roots. If they look plump, scaly and white then I know it's good 👌😄
Hi Darcy 🦩🤗💐 I would need to know more in order to help troubleshoot. Airy but humid mix....basically, access to humidity without the roots not having air circulation around them. Seaweed and a bit of CalMag to begin with, and seeing as I over did mine when it arrived, I would suggest 100ppm in total ... 60ppm of CalMag and 40ppm of seaweed and that every 2 weeks with plenty of flushing in between. From what I understand, they do like it wet but the wet is humidity wet and not wet around the roots , no air wet, if that makes sense. I am reaching, because I am not sure what your set up was. It is possible that your's was also a weak plant. Possibly a recent import and maybe received at the wrong time of year, transport shock etc. If you would like me to pinpoint other possibilities, let me know with a few more details. When did your's arrive into your collection, time of year? What media was it in when it arrived? How was the root system on arrival? Where the leaves dark green and plump? etcetc.... what media did you pot it up in? Thank you for watching, Darcy! If I can be of any help... you know the drill 😘🌸
Janet... perfect comment! I LOVE IT! That is what I call success and I am so glad that you shared that 👍🏼👍🏼 thank you so much... really happy to hear that your's is doing well 🙌🏼
Good to know about the fertilizer burning! I'm starting to ramp up the feed and will be watchful and careful. As always, it's lovely collaborating with you! Love seeing your perspective and learning from it. Considering long term possibly moving to lava rock! I'd hate to set this one back!!
Hi Nicole 🥰💐 oh boy... I thought I was going to convince it that I love it and it was welcome in my home... 😒 errrrmmm yeah, I got away with that, thank goodness! Less is more with this one and you know why? I did not mention that in the video... because it is a slow grower, so, what is it supposed to do with all that 'junk food' it doesn't need? D'oohh!! 🤦🏼♀️ LOVE your bloom! 😍 GOALS!! 🙌🏼 lava rock... I know that it is not forgiving when it comes to repotting any orchid, but, then again, who wants to repot an angraecum on the regular, not me! 😅 😬 Thank you for hopping over and taking the time to have a look see at my video! And thank you so much for reaching out and giving me a heads up that your's was going to bloom so that we could get this CareCollab done with a bloom so see 😍 have a wonderful evening, Nicole! 🌸
Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this orchid. Hopefully it has aclimated. Looking forward to future updates. I've always been interested in getting one, but I always hesitate. I don't think I'm ready for it. Maybe one day.
Hello there 😃💐 how can I help to clear up any doubt you have for not getting one? If I made the care sound a little too complicated, please let me know, because... apart from lots of time and patience, it should do well. Let me know what your doubts are, your grow conditions are etc, and see if I can help remove the hesitation 😍 thank you, so much, for watching. Wishing you a wonderful day 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids Thanks. I tend to not do well with warm growers. I have a hard time blooming them. I live in Texas but I mainly grow my orchids indoors. I keep the temp in the 60s. I have recently been using heat mats and stronger grow lights. So perhaps I may be able to try it one out.
Heat mats are great if you have your orchids in cooler temps! That will help a lot and the humidity can be maintained well as well. I look forward to hearing that you have one and how it will do in your environment! Love that cute kitty cat in your pic 😻
🌸🥷🏼 Trish San! HI! YT erased almost all of my comments from earlier in the day, so I am so sorry for this very late reply! I did not say anything controversial 😅 when I went to update something in Studio just now, I saw how many comments I had not responded to and 😳 no way!! As if I had never written anything today, but some are still there! Thank you so much for having watched this video, Trish! I look forward to seeing what it does now, after having watched Ed's video... his spiked a little earlier than mine, so... suddenly I have more hope than I did yesterday 🤞🏼 Have a wonderful evening 🌸🥷🏼
Steven, hi! 🤗💐 do you know that I replied to many comments earlier in the day, and none of those comments stuck in YT? Including your's, so, I am sorry for this late reply! Seems like YT did not like what I had to say and erased my comments? 🤔 thank you for your kind comment and taking the time to watch this video, I really appreciate you 😘 hope you wake up to a great day tomorrow 🌸
Good morning! I just love those roots. They almost look like they have scales, small lizards :) It's great to see it doing so well! And it's exciting to see a first spike, even if it doesn't bloom. It's a nice sign for the bright future :) But that's one slow growing orchid. It's almost discouraging with those that they seem like they're not making any progress, but in reality they are. Fingers crossed it continues to do as well if not better in the future! And I hope you'll have a great day :)
Hi!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼😍 they are the most unique roots, that is for sure! Fully agree with you... a first spike is a great sign for the next stage of maturity of an orchid, so I am happy to see it, and super curious to see what it will do. My leonis grew a first time spike over the winter but it never bloomed, blasted the first bud, and is now absorbing the spike, so... until it doesn't do it again, I won't know if it wasn't ready to bloom or if I was doing something wrong. But... again, first spike 🙌🏼 thank you so much for being here again 😍 you have yourself a wonderful day as well 🌸
Hi Matt 😃💐 when I got mine it was half the ⅓ the size of what it is now.. every year, 2 leaves and well, I am so glad that I have roots going down into the tray... now I don't have to worry so much as to what is going on on the surface to keep it hydrated. But yeah, they are super slow... as per usual with orchids... patience is key and then hopefully nothing goes wrong in the meantime 😅 thank you so much for watching, Matt! Have yourself a wonderful day 🌸
Wow, that spike is taking its time, hope to see the bloom in the next update... I am happy to see that plant doesn't need to be too large to produce the spike. I have a keiki, but maybe it is not as hopeless as I thought :)
HI! 😃💐 I will be happy if it blooms, this much I can tell you 😅 I have had mine 3 years, and no... after seeing your's, I believe that you are one year off to blooming. Mine was half the size of your's when I got it, and well, they are slow... one year, is my guess with your's 🙏🏼🙌🏼 thank you for your time to join in! And for coming to have a look see as to what is going on here 😍 have a wonderful day 🌸
Hi 😃💐 thank you so much for your kind feedback 😍 I have as many as I dare to have... I am always hesitant with them because of my colder winters, but yes... love angraecums and would have more if I could keep them cozy enough during the colder months, of provide enough humidity during the hotter months. I have to tight rope with the ones I have, and supposedly those are the easier ones to have in cultivation. 😓 thank you for watching, lovely lady! I really appreciate it and wish you have wonderful day 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids HI NINA I DO LOVE WATCHING YOUR CHANNEL BECAUSE YOU SHARE GREAT INFORMATIONS. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH MT FRIEND : ) HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY STAY SAFE AND HAPPY GROWING 😊
I can confirm some datapoints that were spoken of. I just lost an Angrecum didieri. It was growing in a skylight in my bathoom (so it would get more humidity). It was doing great while I was watering it solely with RO and rainwater. When I switched over to tap water, there was a slow and steady decline, where leaves turned brown and shed due to too much calcium being present in my tap water. Additionally, the skylight got quite hot in the summer time and burned up the leaves, so it definitely doesn't like it too hot. After obtaining my new Ang. didieri, I'm going to try a new growing spot for it (and all my other angrecoids) under a grow light, and I'll only use RO/rainwater. Thanks for the helpful advice! A lot of my issues with my poor late Angrecum now make perfect sense!
Hi Sid 🤩💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and thank you so much for being here 🤗 I appreciate you sharing your experience with this orchid. It certainly seems to hate anything that remotely resembles fertilizer or supplements, at least with how I am attempting to grow it! As you addressed the subject of water, maybe this video in my Orchid Lingo series is of interest to you th-cam.com/video/ShINQgrZqvc/w-d-xo.html its about water, and I address the tap water subject in it. I find it interesting, although sad, that your tap water caused a problem... I mention that in the linked video, but I am glad that you figured out what happened, also with the sun influence being to strong. Since this video aired, I have as yet to bloom mine, it appears to be growing well, slow, but well, and it tried 3 spikes in one go, which are still green... the one in this video dried up eventually. So, I am anticipating the 3 that have not moved beyond showing themselves, to also dry up. As long as I manage to get the leaves to grow without fertilizer burn, that is a great start... then I can focus on more light, without direct sun. Certainly a challenging little orchid, considering that I can get other angraecoids to bloom 😬 well... I will have to exclude the leonis 🙄😬 thank you so much for watching! Once again, welcome!! 🌸
Nina, I love this Care Collab!🤍 I don’t have a didieri but I do have an elephantinum. I received it as a bonus orchid from OrchidWeb. It was, and still is very tiny. All I knew about it was it was from Madagascar and the flowers are large compared to it's small size. Based on the size of your didieri, my elephantinum is several years from blooming.🤷🏼♀️ Have a great week, Sherrii San🥷🪷
🌸🥷🏼 Sherrii San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰💐 thank YOU for watching and I am glad that it gave you some pointers for your elephantinum!! Because my set up was geared to my dry climate, I lost one of my didieris this summer to stem rot! Too much moisture around the roots, which was great for my dry climate, but this year I had 70% humidity and higher for the longest duration, so everything was too wet and stem rot set in! Upsetting, but I learned from that and am slowly adjusting other orchids to a less water retentive semi hydro set up, just in case this trend continues. YOU, however, enjoy growing that gorgeous elephantinum! Love me anything angraecoids, big, small, medium... they are all amazing orchids 👍🏼👍🏼 hope you are having a beautiful day 🌸🥷🏼🫶🏼❤️🌸
Hi Raf! 🤩💐 no! It took months of doing nothing to fail and remains a brown nubbing along the stem. Now, I have 2 spikes trying again and I hope that I get it right this go around. Unfortunately, I messed up with the fertilizer dose, I think, and a leaf is dying back fully even though I cut the tip off before it spread too far, well... my didieri will look a little lop sided, but as long as it is alive, I will take a lop sided didieri 😅Thank you so much, Raf, for watching! I hope that you had a great Friday and wish you un buen fin de 🌸
I have struggled to transition these orchids to semi hydro tried 3 times and all died. The leaves just goes yellow and dropped off. Not sure if it was over watered ir fertilizer. Really would like tk be successful with one.
HI! 🤗💐 I have never dared to put this one into SH... that is why I opted for an airy but humid mix to make sure that whatever roots grow won't die. The interesting part will be to see how the one root is going to 'behave' once it reaches the saucer that always has water in it. I would like to have a water root on this one, because then I can stop with the risky misting around the base. I would hedge a guess that maybe it was the fertilizer that was too much for yours'. The brown leaf tips at the bottom of mine are proof that I was trying too hard to establish it quickly and it resulted in fertilizer burn. Thankfully I caught it in time and stopped the process and thankfully, it did not progress to the point of loosing the leaves. Perhaps, if you try another one, start with an airy mix in a pot that is not enclosed completely and see how it performs... hopefully getting a root to seek out the water. Thank you so much for watching this video!! Have a wonderful evening 🌸
Hi! That is a great video! I have recently acquired my own Angraecum didieri after first getting an A elephantinum. I love it! It's very wee and mounted on cork. So far, so good, but it's only a couple of weeks with me. Your advice is really helpful. Did she bloom??
Hi Helen 🤗💐welcome!! 🤩I have not seen you here before, so, thank you so much for watching, and leaving me a comment... and a warm warm welcome! I appreciate your feedback regarding the information in my video 🙌🏼 unfortunately the spike did not amount to anything... it took almost all summer, just stagnating as in this video, but... recently went woody. However, it is going to try again 👍🏼👍🏼 I see another nubbin starting in the opposite leaf joint, so I am hoping that this time it will have the will power to bloom 🤞🏼🤞🏼 Hope you are having a lovely Sunday 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids aw, thank you for replying. That's made my day. We live in hope - seems to be the maxim of orchid growers, however experienced they may be.
Hi Nina. I also have a didieri with two spikes that are taking forever to develop. Seems like it is normal for didieris to do this. I've seen posts on reddit with this issue as well as another youtube video with a guy saying the same about his didieri. He said it took about a year for the spike to finally bloom. How is your spike doing at the moment?
Hi there 🥰💐 thank you so much for going back and watching this video! Well, the spike in this video never continued to develop and turned brown. Now I have 3 bumps on my didieri... it is trying again 🙌🏼 the question is, will any of them progress, because I have some seriously adverse conditions in my grow space. It may be another situation of the spikes aborting because of the situation this orchid finds itself in. I am not giving up hope though, and the orchid is still alive 🙏🏼 that, is the most important thing. A year, huh? I know that they take ages... and if the one year mark is something I can take into account, then, I have hope that the temperatures will rise before they abort once again. 😬 really appreciate your time, and thank you so much for your comment! Have a wonderful evening 😍🌸
Someone has a thing for African orchids, why is that? 🤣 😉 😘 At least the Angraecums have decent foliage, unlike those Aerangis, the foliage on those always looks iffy even though it is perfectly healthy. I'm crossing my fingers it still decides to bloom even if it is out of season. I think it is important to remember that how we grow them in cultivation isn't the same as the wild and some orchids are capable of blooming well "out of season" in cultivation without it being a sign of a problem. So any time frame on the AfriOrchid arrival? You've got me excited to see what you got. And totally unrelated, that one orchid that was supposed to be a Catasetum that might be a Lycaste, what's going on with that? If it is a Lycaste, one would expect to see bloom spikes on it around now. After not killing the one I got from Fred Clarke I bought a no ID single bulb, it has two "somethings" developing. One I believe is a bloom, one I know is a new growth. And I have a Sudmerlycaste locusta coming from Ecuagenera. Not sure how that one will do, worth a try. Green bloom that supposedly smells like apples, yes please.
Don Miguel 😍💐 howdy doody! I do have a thing for anything Out of Africa 😁 you are so right that the aerangis always look a little dodgy... and I will include my Plectrelminthus caudatus in that category... despite starting to grow well on the root front, the leaves look like they have a fungus, and now that my air is drying up, it seems to be spreading. It is growing new leaves, but they are now showing that sign of stress as well, and no amount of copper fungicide or garlic water is helping to stop it from happening. I think that my lack of humidity is making those cells collapse and then slowly the leaves die off. What I need to have happen is, for it to grow faster than the current trend 😕 I have no idea about the ETA of AfriOrchids... they do not state that in any correspondence, if I were to guess, 4 weeks, but it all depends on how other orders are being paid for, and where the bottleneck for that is. I don't want to ask, when I get an invoice from the german nursery that is supervising the EU distribution, then I will know approx 1 week to go. My so called Catasetum / Lycaste has matured the new growth into a massive bulb, same as the ones prior, but it still has the leaves on it, so.... I still have no idea what I am dealing with. atm it is indoors on the floor by the glass in the dining room. If I am dealing with a Lycaste, I am hoping to keep the roots cooler by it staying on the marble floor. I am expecting the leaves to drop, but they are still lush and green. LOVE green blooms, LOVE the smell of apples... that is a winner!! 🙌🏼👍🏼 Have yourself a wonderful day, Michael! Thank you so much for watching 😘🌸
@@NinjaOrchids my Lycaste kept its leaves through the entire winter, they didn't yellow and fall until the bloom spikes appeared. The new growth on it is off to the races, I don't remember it being this big this early last season. Of course, my FDK After Dark is also HUGE and it is only May.
this is very interesting to read! Lycaste keeping it's leaves... well... I would like to see a new growth but a possible bloom would be nice too, then we know what is going on and what it is! Right now, it is needing more water than it ever did before, despite the bulb being fully matured. Roots are nuts and growing into the reservoir 😅 My FDK... lagging behind your's.. only just starting to split the lower leaves. I am so behind the trend on other collections 😅
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So beautiful!!! Can't wait to see that bloom!!!
Rey!! 🤗💐 thank you so much for coming over to have a look see and leave a comment! I hope that you are having a good evening and enjoying your plants 😃🌸
Nice video Nina, i like you show where these pretty orchids and where they grow in the wild. Definitely one that I would like to have in my collection. Nice informative video.
Hey Justin 🤗💐 thank you very much for your encouraging comment, Justin, I really appreciate it! This one would do well for you in your climate, you don't have the dryness to combat. When you get one, you, Sir, are going on The List! 🙌🏼 Have a wonderful evening, and thank you so much for watching 🌸
Nice Video 👍👍
Heeey!! Amigo! 🙌🏼🥰💐 YT erased my reply earlier in the day... I am sorry that this is now so late to reach you! You are probably having breakfast now, so... hope that you have a wonderful day and thank you so very much for watching 🙌🏼🌸
Hopefully it will bloom 👍🏻
HI Ian 😃💐 I thought the Murasakikomachi with it's 4 month developing spike was long.. if this spike decides to bloom, then, it will be the longest to grow in the history of my collection. Watch this space, is all I can say 😅 thank you for watching, Ian! Have yourself a wonderful day 🌸
I have a liones which I bought with spike and kept for long time with no movement and it dried after 8 to 9 months. Good observation to figure out their reason to bloom. Hopefully yout spike will bloom. Thanks for sharing and happy growing.
Mary, hi! 🤗💐 first of all, let me apologize for such a late reply! 50% of the comments I replied to earlier... my replies were erased... gone! So, I do apologize for being so late in getting back to you! My leonis spiked for the first time during the winter and into early spring, but nothing ever continued. One small bud started to develop but it blasted and now the spike is being absorbed. So... first time bloomer woes or am I getting something wrong. I will only know the answer to that question when it tries again. The didieri, I have a little more hope now that I have seen Ed's video, because his spiked sooner than mine did, so... seeing his bud form... I have a little more hope for the same to happen to mine, just a little later. Thank you so much for watching, Mary! Again, I am sorry... I was not aware that YT had this reply glitch until I went to check Studio one more time! 🌸
I have Angraecum didieri. I bought it on a mount, but took it off because it didn’t seem to be doing well. I have it it a clay pot with seedling potting mix. It’s really doing great now. We learn by doing and paying close attention to the orchid. You do a fantastic job of knowing your orchids. Thanks for sharing.🤗🌴🥀
Hey Shirley 😃💐 I can just imagine how your didieri is loving that set up 👍🏼 has it bloomed for you yet? do you keep the clay pot in a saucer of water to keep the root tips from desiccating on the dry clay? or is that not a problem? Curious to know, and if you have the time, I would appreciate it if you could let me know. I have wondered about having angreacums in clay pots, if one day I get more little ones, but cannot afford the pricey orchitops anymore. Thank you so much for watching, Shirley 🌸 have a wonderful day 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids I have had it a year,and it really was very unhappy mounted. It’s doing great in the clay pot, and has bounced back. Has not bloomed yet. I have it in my fish tank right now, so it’s getting plenty of humidity. No problem with roots sticking on the pot. There’s no catch pot under it. It sits on pebbles. It’s still a baby plant, and got set back when on the mount.
hello shirley! 😊 is your didieri good now?? curious that is it bloom??
@@planplantlee sadly I couldn’t save it. But I bought a more mature Didieri which was already in a pot, it bloomed and is doing great 👍.
Thank you for this lovely very informative collab! The best Ive seen this far Nina! Including mine 😉, now I have some vital new tools in order to get mine going on for real! And congrats to the spike!! Cant wait for the update with it in vloom! Have a lovely day! 🥰🥰
Hi Karin 🤗💐 thank you so very much for your kind comment, Karin, so very much appreciated and very encouraging! Keeping fingers crossed that mine will bloom! After I have seen Ed's and that it is starting to form a bud, my hopes are a little higher than they were yesterday 😬 Have a wonderful start to the morning! YT erased many of my comments earlier in the day, 🤔so I do apologize for the late reply 🌸
🦒🙏🌺!!! It will be interesting to find out what that spike is telling you. Too bad they "speak" so sloowwly... Three years should be enough to aclimate but with her slow metabolism it is hard to know. Watch and obserse... yeah !!! Looking forward to developments. Very cute Angraecum though!!!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience.
Thinking of Alexandra here🤞🤞, good luck girl 🌷!!!!
Hope you are feeling a lot better today. Sending you mingi abrazos 🤗❤️😍
FFF 🙌🏼🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰😘💐 take 2! Half of my comments from this morning were erased and only an hour ago, when I went to Studio to upload a video, I checked to see if there had been any further communication from my replies and I have this whole list of comments that I 'had not responded to' 🤔 your's was one of them, and I know I replied to everyone before starting to film etc.! I am so sorry for this! I was a 'good girl' in my comments, nothing offensive, but 50% did not stick in YT ?? So very strange! I will email you to tell you about Alexandra... but... in a nutshell, it went really well and they asked her to come for the weekend 🙌🏼🙌🏼 😃 I thought 3 years is plenty as well, but who knows with these slow growers! Ed's video gave me hope, because his spike sooner than mine and seeing his bud swell, maybe mine will too and then we know where we are at 🤞🏼 Thank you for watching, thank you for your kind comment and thank you for being patient with me (YT!) 🤬 much love to you, meine liebe Freundin, and have a good night's rest! 🥰❤️🌸
Hi Nina, great video. I had a didieri once, it decided it would not live with me, it turned all yellow and brown after I repotted it and I haven't tried again yet. I have leonis and sesquipedale var. augustifolium (supposedly smaller narrower leaves) idk. Those are doing fine after repotting. That didieri was the fussiest orchid I've ever had. At least I know what I did wrong with my phal. schilleriana but I have no clue what the didieri needed or didn't need. I don't think I fertilized it even. I want to have another one in the future but I want to make sure I'm not gonna kill it first. Lol. Thank you again. Take care lovely lady🌞🌿🌺🦸♀️🌻
Got my first didieri last November. It was a beautiful specimen, blooming size. I promptly repotted it into a wooden basket and it died in 2 weeks😱! The leaves just fell off and that was that. Since I really liked the plant and my pride was hurt because of it's rapid demise I was determined to find another one after I did more research. I already knew that it should thrive in my environment. I also knew that it would do best for me in an open basket. So, in order to avoid the whole repotting issue, I started looking for vendors who were selling basketed plants that were already acclimated to my Florida climate. Well, in January, I found even better than that. I went to an orchid sale hosted by a major nursery that included multiple vendors. One of the guest vendors was Pow-Pow orchids from Germany. Since the plants were coming from another country they were all bare rooted and yes they had didieri for sale. Yay! Didn't have to worry about disturbing the roots.😄 From my research I learned that it's suggested that you wait a week to 10 days before watering after potting didieri up which is what I did. It seems to have adapted well to the basket and is growing new roots. From my experience this little fellow can get sufficient moisture from the air in high humidity environments. I just watch the roots. If they look plump, scaly and white then I know it's good 👌😄
Hi Darcy 🦩🤗💐 I would need to know more in order to help troubleshoot. Airy but humid mix....basically, access to humidity without the roots not having air circulation around them. Seaweed and a bit of CalMag to begin with, and seeing as I over did mine when it arrived, I would suggest 100ppm in total ... 60ppm of CalMag and 40ppm of seaweed and that every 2 weeks with plenty of flushing in between. From what I understand, they do like it wet but the wet is humidity wet and not wet around the roots , no air wet, if that makes sense. I am reaching, because I am not sure what your set up was. It is possible that your's was also a weak plant. Possibly a recent import and maybe received at the wrong time of year, transport shock etc. If you would like me to pinpoint other possibilities, let me know with a few more details. When did your's arrive into your collection, time of year? What media was it in when it arrived? How was the root system on arrival? Where the leaves dark green and plump? etcetc.... what media did you pot it up in? Thank you for watching, Darcy! If I can be of any help... you know the drill 😘🌸
Janet... perfect comment! I LOVE IT! That is what I call success and I am so glad that you shared that 👍🏼👍🏼 thank you so much... really happy to hear that your's is doing well 🙌🏼
Good to know about the fertilizer burning! I'm starting to ramp up the feed and will be watchful and careful. As always, it's lovely collaborating with you! Love seeing your perspective and learning from it. Considering long term possibly moving to lava rock! I'd hate to set this one back!!
Hi Nicole 🥰💐 oh boy... I thought I was going to convince it that I love it and it was welcome in my home... 😒 errrrmmm yeah, I got away with that, thank goodness! Less is more with this one and you know why? I did not mention that in the video... because it is a slow grower, so, what is it supposed to do with all that 'junk food' it doesn't need? D'oohh!! 🤦🏼♀️ LOVE your bloom! 😍 GOALS!! 🙌🏼 lava rock... I know that it is not forgiving when it comes to repotting any orchid, but, then again, who wants to repot an angraecum on the regular, not me! 😅 😬 Thank you for hopping over and taking the time to have a look see at my video! And thank you so much for reaching out and giving me a heads up that your's was going to bloom so that we could get this CareCollab done with a bloom so see 😍 have a wonderful evening, Nicole! 🌸
Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this orchid. Hopefully it has aclimated. Looking forward to future updates. I've always been interested in getting one, but I always hesitate. I don't think I'm ready for it. Maybe one day.
Hello there 😃💐 how can I help to clear up any doubt you have for not getting one? If I made the care sound a little too complicated, please let me know, because... apart from lots of time and patience, it should do well. Let me know what your doubts are, your grow conditions are etc, and see if I can help remove the hesitation 😍 thank you, so much, for watching. Wishing you a wonderful day 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids Thanks. I tend to not do well with warm growers. I have a hard time blooming them. I live in Texas but I mainly grow my orchids indoors. I keep the temp in the 60s. I have recently been using heat mats and stronger grow lights. So perhaps I may be able to try it one out.
Heat mats are great if you have your orchids in cooler temps! That will help a lot and the humidity can be maintained well as well. I look forward to hearing that you have one and how it will do in your environment! Love that cute kitty cat in your pic 😻
@@NinjaOrchids Thank you!
KEEP ON VLOGGING MY FRIEND..GOD BLESS
Hello lovely lady 😍😍💐 thank you so much for your encouraging comment!! You are so kind to take the time to watch 🌸 have a wonderful day 😘
Oooo fingers crossed that you have a spike to bloom. Even if it is out of season!
🌸🥷🏼 Trish San! HI! YT erased almost all of my comments from earlier in the day, so I am so sorry for this very late reply! I did not say anything controversial 😅 when I went to update something in Studio just now, I saw how many comments I had not responded to and 😳 no way!! As if I had never written anything today, but some are still there! Thank you so much for having watched this video, Trish! I look forward to seeing what it does now, after having watched Ed's video... his spiked a little earlier than mine, so... suddenly I have more hope than I did yesterday 🤞🏼 Have a wonderful evening 🌸🥷🏼
Yes I too saw Ed’s and there is hope. This will definitely take patience if it takes 5-7 months for the blooms after seeing the spike start.
Hi Nina great video beautiful orchid 😘😘
Steven, hi! 🤗💐 do you know that I replied to many comments earlier in the day, and none of those comments stuck in YT? Including your's, so, I am sorry for this late reply! Seems like YT did not like what I had to say and erased my comments? 🤔 thank you for your kind comment and taking the time to watch this video, I really appreciate you 😘 hope you wake up to a great day tomorrow 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids no worries Nina feeling under the weather had my second vaccination yesterday hope your feeling better Nina 😘😘
Hang in there, Steven!! Take good care of you and keep me posted, if you don't mind 😘
@@NinjaOrchids well do Nina 😘
Good morning! I just love those roots. They almost look like they have scales, small lizards :) It's great to see it doing so well! And it's exciting to see a first spike, even if it doesn't bloom. It's a nice sign for the bright future :) But that's one slow growing orchid. It's almost discouraging with those that they seem like they're not making any progress, but in reality they are. Fingers crossed it continues to do as well if not better in the future! And I hope you'll have a great day :)
Hi!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼😍 they are the most unique roots, that is for sure! Fully agree with you... a first spike is a great sign for the next stage of maturity of an orchid, so I am happy to see it, and super curious to see what it will do. My leonis grew a first time spike over the winter but it never bloomed, blasted the first bud, and is now absorbing the spike, so... until it doesn't do it again, I won't know if it wasn't ready to bloom or if I was doing something wrong. But... again, first spike 🙌🏼 thank you so much for being here again 😍 you have yourself a wonderful day as well 🌸
Oh my. My little ones are definitely seedling and have a LONG way to go haha
Hi Matt 😃💐 when I got mine it was half the ⅓ the size of what it is now.. every year, 2 leaves and well, I am so glad that I have roots going down into the tray... now I don't have to worry so much as to what is going on on the surface to keep it hydrated. But yeah, they are super slow... as per usual with orchids... patience is key and then hopefully nothing goes wrong in the meantime 😅 thank you so much for watching, Matt! Have yourself a wonderful day 🌸
Wow, that spike is taking its time, hope to see the bloom in the next update... I am happy to see that plant doesn't need to be too large to produce the spike. I have a keiki, but maybe it is not as hopeless as I thought :)
HI! 😃💐 I will be happy if it blooms, this much I can tell you 😅 I have had mine 3 years, and no... after seeing your's, I believe that you are one year off to blooming. Mine was half the size of your's when I got it, and well, they are slow... one year, is my guess with your's 🙏🏼🙌🏼 thank you for your time to join in! And for coming to have a look see as to what is going on here 😍 have a wonderful day 🌸
Hi Nina you seem to have a few different Angraecum species? Great video : )
Hi 😃💐 thank you so much for your kind feedback 😍 I have as many as I dare to have... I am always hesitant with them because of my colder winters, but yes... love angraecums and would have more if I could keep them cozy enough during the colder months, of provide enough humidity during the hotter months. I have to tight rope with the ones I have, and supposedly those are the easier ones to have in cultivation. 😓 thank you for watching, lovely lady! I really appreciate it and wish you have wonderful day 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids HI NINA I DO LOVE WATCHING YOUR CHANNEL BECAUSE YOU SHARE GREAT INFORMATIONS. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH MT FRIEND : ) HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY STAY SAFE AND HAPPY GROWING 😊
you are soooo encouraging! Thank you so much 😘
I can confirm some datapoints that were spoken of. I just lost an Angrecum didieri. It was growing in a skylight in my bathoom (so it would get more humidity). It was doing great while I was watering it solely with RO and rainwater. When I switched over to tap water, there was a slow and steady decline, where leaves turned brown and shed due to too much calcium being present in my tap water. Additionally, the skylight got quite hot in the summer time and burned up the leaves, so it definitely doesn't like it too hot.
After obtaining my new Ang. didieri, I'm going to try a new growing spot for it (and all my other angrecoids) under a grow light, and I'll only use RO/rainwater.
Thanks for the helpful advice! A lot of my issues with my poor late Angrecum now make perfect sense!
Hi Sid 🤩💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and thank you so much for being here 🤗 I appreciate you sharing your experience with this orchid. It certainly seems to hate anything that remotely resembles fertilizer or supplements, at least with how I am attempting to grow it! As you addressed the subject of water, maybe this video in my Orchid Lingo series is of interest to you th-cam.com/video/ShINQgrZqvc/w-d-xo.html its about water, and I address the tap water subject in it. I find it interesting, although sad, that your tap water caused a problem... I mention that in the linked video, but I am glad that you figured out what happened, also with the sun influence being to strong. Since this video aired, I have as yet to bloom mine, it appears to be growing well, slow, but well, and it tried 3 spikes in one go, which are still green... the one in this video dried up eventually. So, I am anticipating the 3 that have not moved beyond showing themselves, to also dry up. As long as I manage to get the leaves to grow without fertilizer burn, that is a great start... then I can focus on more light, without direct sun. Certainly a challenging little orchid, considering that I can get other angraecoids to bloom 😬 well... I will have to exclude the leonis 🙄😬 thank you so much for watching! Once again, welcome!! 🌸
Nina,
I love this Care Collab!🤍
I don’t have a didieri but I do have an elephantinum. I received it as a bonus orchid from OrchidWeb. It was, and still is very tiny. All I knew about it was it was from Madagascar and the flowers are large compared to it's small size. Based on the size of your didieri, my elephantinum is several years from blooming.🤷🏼♀️
Have a great week,
Sherrii San🥷🪷
🌸🥷🏼 Sherrii San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰💐 thank YOU for watching and I am glad that it gave you some pointers for your elephantinum!! Because my set up was geared to my dry climate, I lost one of my didieris this summer to stem rot! Too much moisture around the roots, which was great for my dry climate, but this year I had 70% humidity and higher for the longest duration, so everything was too wet and stem rot set in! Upsetting, but I learned from that and am slowly adjusting other orchids to a less water retentive semi hydro set up, just in case this trend continues. YOU, however, enjoy growing that gorgeous elephantinum! Love me anything angraecoids, big, small, medium... they are all amazing orchids 👍🏼👍🏼 hope you are having a beautiful day 🌸🥷🏼🫶🏼❤️🌸
Did you get the spike in flower finally? I hope so. Thank you for your fantastic exposition.
Hi Raf! 🤩💐 no! It took months of doing nothing to fail and remains a brown nubbing along the stem. Now, I have 2 spikes trying again and I hope that I get it right this go around. Unfortunately, I messed up with the fertilizer dose, I think, and a leaf is dying back fully even though I cut the tip off before it spread too far, well... my didieri will look a little lop sided, but as long as it is alive, I will take a lop sided didieri 😅Thank you so much, Raf, for watching! I hope that you had a great Friday and wish you un buen fin de 🌸
You don’t happen to have A. magdalanae do you?
I don't, no! Unfortunately! My Crestwood is going nuts at the moment, and I fear for space again in the winter 😅
I have struggled to transition these orchids to semi hydro tried 3 times and all died. The leaves just goes yellow and dropped off.
Not sure if it was over watered ir fertilizer. Really would like tk be successful with one.
HI! 🤗💐 I have never dared to put this one into SH... that is why I opted for an airy but humid mix to make sure that whatever roots grow won't die. The interesting part will be to see how the one root is going to 'behave' once it reaches the saucer that always has water in it. I would like to have a water root on this one, because then I can stop with the risky misting around the base. I would hedge a guess that maybe it was the fertilizer that was too much for yours'. The brown leaf tips at the bottom of mine are proof that I was trying too hard to establish it quickly and it resulted in fertilizer burn. Thankfully I caught it in time and stopped the process and thankfully, it did not progress to the point of loosing the leaves. Perhaps, if you try another one, start with an airy mix in a pot that is not enclosed completely and see how it performs... hopefully getting a root to seek out the water. Thank you so much for watching this video!! Have a wonderful evening 🌸
Hi! That is a great video! I have recently acquired my own Angraecum didieri after first getting an A elephantinum. I love it! It's very wee and mounted on cork. So far, so good, but it's only a couple of weeks with me. Your advice is really helpful. Did she bloom??
Hi Helen 🤗💐welcome!! 🤩I have not seen you here before, so, thank you so much for watching, and leaving me a comment... and a warm warm welcome! I appreciate your feedback regarding the information in my video 🙌🏼 unfortunately the spike did not amount to anything... it took almost all summer, just stagnating as in this video, but... recently went woody. However, it is going to try again 👍🏼👍🏼 I see another nubbin starting in the opposite leaf joint, so I am hoping that this time it will have the will power to bloom 🤞🏼🤞🏼 Hope you are having a lovely Sunday 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids aw, thank you for replying. That's made my day. We live in hope - seems to be the maxim of orchid growers, however experienced they may be.
Hi Nina. I also have a didieri with two spikes that are taking forever to develop. Seems like it is normal for didieris to do this. I've seen posts on reddit with this issue as well as another youtube video with a guy saying the same about his didieri. He said it took about a year for the spike to finally bloom. How is your spike doing at the moment?
Hi there 🥰💐 thank you so much for going back and watching this video! Well, the spike in this video never continued to develop and turned brown. Now I have 3 bumps on my didieri... it is trying again 🙌🏼 the question is, will any of them progress, because I have some seriously adverse conditions in my grow space. It may be another situation of the spikes aborting because of the situation this orchid finds itself in. I am not giving up hope though, and the orchid is still alive 🙏🏼 that, is the most important thing. A year, huh? I know that they take ages... and if the one year mark is something I can take into account, then, I have hope that the temperatures will rise before they abort once again. 😬 really appreciate your time, and thank you so much for your comment! Have a wonderful evening 😍🌸
Someone has a thing for African orchids, why is that? 🤣 😉 😘 At least the Angraecums have decent foliage, unlike those Aerangis, the foliage on those always looks iffy even though it is perfectly healthy. I'm crossing my fingers it still decides to bloom even if it is out of season. I think it is important to remember that how we grow them in cultivation isn't the same as the wild and some orchids are capable of blooming well "out of season" in cultivation without it being a sign of a problem.
So any time frame on the AfriOrchid arrival? You've got me excited to see what you got.
And totally unrelated, that one orchid that was supposed to be a Catasetum that might be a Lycaste, what's going on with that? If it is a Lycaste, one would expect to see bloom spikes on it around now. After not killing the one I got from Fred Clarke I bought a no ID single bulb, it has two "somethings" developing. One I believe is a bloom, one I know is a new growth. And I have a Sudmerlycaste locusta coming from Ecuagenera. Not sure how that one will do, worth a try. Green bloom that supposedly smells like apples, yes please.
Don Miguel 😍💐 howdy doody! I do have a thing for anything Out of Africa 😁 you are so right that the aerangis always look a little dodgy... and I will include my Plectrelminthus caudatus in that category... despite starting to grow well on the root front, the leaves look like they have a fungus, and now that my air is drying up, it seems to be spreading. It is growing new leaves, but they are now showing that sign of stress as well, and no amount of copper fungicide or garlic water is helping to stop it from happening. I think that my lack of humidity is making those cells collapse and then slowly the leaves die off. What I need to have happen is, for it to grow faster than the current trend 😕 I have no idea about the ETA of AfriOrchids... they do not state that in any correspondence, if I were to guess, 4 weeks, but it all depends on how other orders are being paid for, and where the bottleneck for that is. I don't want to ask, when I get an invoice from the german nursery that is supervising the EU distribution, then I will know approx 1 week to go. My so called Catasetum / Lycaste has matured the new growth into a massive bulb, same as the ones prior, but it still has the leaves on it, so.... I still have no idea what I am dealing with. atm it is indoors on the floor by the glass in the dining room. If I am dealing with a Lycaste, I am hoping to keep the roots cooler by it staying on the marble floor. I am expecting the leaves to drop, but they are still lush and green. LOVE green blooms, LOVE the smell of apples... that is a winner!! 🙌🏼👍🏼 Have yourself a wonderful day, Michael! Thank you so much for watching 😘🌸
@@NinjaOrchids my Lycaste kept its leaves through the entire winter, they didn't yellow and fall until the bloom spikes appeared. The new growth on it is off to the races, I don't remember it being this big this early last season. Of course, my FDK After Dark is also HUGE and it is only May.
this is very interesting to read! Lycaste keeping it's leaves... well... I would like to see a new growth but a possible bloom would be nice too, then we know what is going on and what it is! Right now, it is needing more water than it ever did before, despite the bulb being fully matured. Roots are nuts and growing into the reservoir 😅 My FDK... lagging behind your's.. only just starting to split the lower leaves. I am so behind the trend on other collections 😅