Nelson I so appreciate that you try to keep this channel positive! When I started watching this video I immediately gave it a Like and I actually had the thought “This is the only channel whose videos I “like” before watching them because he’s always so kind and cheerful”. It is such a nice corner of TH-cam when there is so much fear mongering and hate mongering out there.
Happy New Year to Luis and yourself (plus your kitties and other critters on the ranch). Thank you for providing us orchid addicts with so many fun videos! If I might submit a request for a future site visit... how about a visit to Motes? Bart mentioned that they haven't had an open house in a long time, and I imagine us folks who are big fans of their vandas would love to see their greenhouses. Thanks!
Thank you! Motes is a great suggestion. I'll definitely look into it for a future visit. I know that after the pandemic he stopped the open house and any other public visits. I will talk to his son Bart and see if he is willing to do a home visit I and interview. That would be a great episode.
I love watching your videos and seeing all your blooms. It makes me want to move to Florida so I can have more orchids and keep them outside year round.
Your place is a Paradise! Beautiful Blooms! Love all your cats, I adore the wildness of Savannah 😹 The concrete pathway is art! Best Wishes for a wonderful 2025
Another great video. Love the Cats making appearances. They are adorable. Can't wait to see the new walkway in a future video. Thankyou for all your time making videos and all your knowledge. 2024 had challenges. Wishing you and your partner a very happy and healthy 2025 ❤🎉
Thanks so much! We will be working on the walkway very soon. We took a rest for the remainder of 2024. Next year will be phenomenal. Super excited! It’s a mess around the yard but 2025 we will clean it all up nicely.
Sr Nel siempre disfruto mucho sus videos ,tiene una bella colección de Orquideas ,le deseo un Feliz año nuevo , muchas bendiciones .Abrazos desde Miami FL
Ive never seen you come off as anything but lovely, respectful, genuine, positive, and generally very enjoyable to watch and listen to. Thanks for your wonderful videos. And happy new year!
I just found out the Redland festival was moved to October, so I changed my plans and now I will be able to attend the Tamiami festival (my first time too). Looking forward to it! Thank you for all your bright, fun, and informative orchid videos. Hope to see you there!
Your orchid collection is beautiful and the kitties are adorable! Thank you for sharing and your time to make encouraging videos 😊 The Future looks Bright, happy 2025🎉
Hi Nelson. Thanks for the video. Beautiful blooms again. Have a great change of the year with lots and lots of shows and more beautiful blooms. Enjoy your time ❤🎉😂
Bring on 2025! 🎉 You’re absolutely right, this has been a crazy year! But thank you for momentarily taking us away from the craziness with all of your beautiful blooms, gorgeous guppies, orchid adventures and most of all, your genuine, wonderful self 💚
Thanks! It’s been a wild ride. Let’s stay positive in 2025 no matter the murmurs and rumors. Stay away from the things that don’t serve you and push gossip away. Do what you love this way your focus remains in your peace. Love you Kelly. Thanks for being a wonderful friend throughout 2024. Talk to you soon in 2025! 🫶🏼
Good morning Nelson, I would like to thank you for showing their beautiful and the ugly site of growing orchids, I was starting to believe that it was only me with those yellow leaves😳 I hope 2025 will be better for all of us ❤❤❤❤💚💚💚💚💚
Hi Nelson, thank you so much for another great video and for taking us to wonderful shows and orchids growers houses, you are an inspiration, very enjoyable to listen and to watch and I want to wish you and Louis a great New Year. Love your kitties 🐈⬛ . Thank you again and see you next year. 💚Keep it green!💚
What a beautiful video but I expected nothing less!!! Amazing blooms as usual and YES Nelson what you said about Leos are the truth as I have 2 brothers and one great friend who are all Leos and they rake over just like Luis but there's a but they're always so dependable and are so giving and will do whatever it takes to make us happy. Have a Great 2025 to both you and Luis and I wish you all the amazing orchids on your wishlist.
Thanks! Luis is a great guy and super dependable too. I agree with your statement. They did whatever it takes to make others happy. Specially the ones they love. The price of stubbornness. 😆 We all have our own ying and yang. Thank you Curlene for being such a great supporter of this channel. You have graced the comments section throughout the year. I hope to see you in 2025 in Miami at a show. One love 🙏
@naturenel it was a great pleasure as you made my 2024 exciting and a very rewarding experience with your amazing blooms and taking us your loyalviewersalong to those amazing shows ! Thank you thank you thank you
I sat down to watch this video uninterrupted. What a beautiful and exciting end of year gift from you to us, your viewers. Blessings to you and Luis for the New Year. Health, happiness, and of course growing green. Thank you for being such a devoted orchid enthusiast and kind person. Respectfully,
Thank you so much. You guys are my driving force to continue on with the videos. This has become an incredible loving like- minded family . Have a wonderful New Year. See you in 2025. 🫶🏼
Can’t join the contest BUT I am able to join the gaggle of orchid fam and aficionados to wish you, your loved ones which include the fur babies and the chlorophyll family, a wonderful and happy 2025 🎉❤ while I struggle with keeping my orchids alive during these months, I get to grow vicariously here 😘
I didn’t try to cheat. When you mentioned at the beginning of this video that we had to put our name and a 💚 and not just write a comment, I realized that, in the previous video I had written a comment😍. Gorgeous, gorgeous new cattleyas😊
Gracias Nelson por tu video me encantan tus plantas y tus gatos que Dios siempre te acompañe y te de paz y armonia y que tengas un 2025 lleno de alegría y salud para seguir disfrutando de tus videos 💚💚💚
As always, your orchids are gorgeous and I love your Christmas presents 🥰 Thanks for giving us the sneak peek at your walkway and I look forward to seeing the grand unveiling when you finish the project. Wishing you a new year of health, happiness, prosperity and of course loads of beautiful blooms 💜❤💚
Nelson, I received your confirmation of my entry, but I need to cancel my entry as I realized now I will be working that weekend, I wish I could go, but as you said, I don't want to steal this opportunity to somebody that can go. Thank you. Nelly.
Hi Nelson thank you again for all you do for us viewers. You are amazing and the best. wishing you and Lewis and those cute cats a wonderful rest of the year and I cannot wait to see what you have for us in 2025. My garden of orchids is growing bit by bit and I have learnt so much from you. Thank you and Happy 2025 with awesome Orchids! Suroj 💚💚💚
Blessings Nelson lovely haul your orchids are so healthy and beautiful. Great video thanks for sharing.Best wishes for 2025 looking forward to more exciting videos.
Thank you Nelson for all those wonderful videos of this year I started my addiction I the beginning of this year and is been a blessing to found you you don’t even imagine what your videos do to me. Wishing you both a happy new year! And thank you again !😊🎉💚🥂😍
I love the beautiful little mini orchids they sell around here. They have really great plants at the grocery and home and garden stores around here. I’m going to see if there are any orchid growers in Central New York.
Loved this video, especially the yellowing leaves, YIKES, it’s awful. You have your work cut out for you, keeps u young or will kill you🥵. Have to say the cats are a hoot, jumping on that tarp, have me LOL. Hope to see u at Tamiami . HAPPY NEW healthy YEAR to you and Luis. 💚💚💚💚🎉🎉🎉
Nelson, you can put holes in the plastic pots easily with a blow torch and a pointed screwdriver. I do it all the time. Just heat up the end of the screwdriver with the torch and poke it through the pot where ever you want a hole. It'll melt right through it.
You have a surprise with the color of your bougainvillea, I had a surprise with my bird of paradise. For years, the flowers were "normal" (single flower on each stem). 3 or 4 years ago, we had a huge "cloud" of dust from the Sahara (we call it el calima). The air was literally orange (I remember my protective mask that day was ochre when I reached home). Anyways, with the rain, even our walls were orange. The goodness of this rain was in the gardens: we had an explosion of growth and my bird of paradise gave me 2 years in a row double flowers instead of a usual ones. Maybe we should rethink how we fertilise our plants 🙂 I wish you and all your viewers a colorful, meaningful and loving Near Year 2025 🙏💕
Nelson has echo que este año sea mas entretenido viendo nuestras Bellezas el proximo año espero sea mrgor para todos feliz año nuevo para ti y tu familia desde canarias 😊❤
Those baskets are just like the pool or pond baskets. And ive been using them! Got them from lowes in the pool section. Forget what they are called. Maybe pond strainer. Vut they are awesome and pretty cheap at lowes as well. And dollar tree has wire baskets for like 1.25$ of course. Haha Beautiful flowers as usual and i love Savannah!
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12:15 Hopefully no orchids that I really liked this year got thrown out because of the cold! 12:36 Den. Happy Family was my favorite orchid this time. 33:30 Very interesting bonsai blooms. Maybe it was the colder temperatures that affected the bloom colors?🤔 35:01 This has been me for the past two hours trying to see if I can get a centipede out of a newly repotted psychopsis pot! 😤 I noticed it running around inside the pot after flushing and then I spotted it at the top but then it went back down! I have neem oil, tea tree oil, insecticidal soap, and Sevín. 😁
I’m still ridding of orchids. 😒 Unfortunately orchids react slowly to the weather. It’s not right away that the effects begin to show. It’s mostly Vandas and some novelty phals. My Dendrobiums are all doing well thank God. My Happy Family is in full bloom and looking amazing. I’m actually going to spray today calcium and Magnesium. It’s wonderful for the yellowing of leaves. Our weather now is perfect. In the mid to high 70’s.
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We have the same thing with the shipments here in Finland and I’m waiting for some cacti from a vendor. They stated on their webpage when the last shipment day was for them before Christmas and when they’ll continue again (in January). They also state that if it’s too cold, they’ll postpone shipment until it’s warm enough. So I might end up waiting for my plants for months. But that’s ok for me. The plants probably are thriving in the greenhouse. I have purchased them already and I know I will get them in due course. 😊
During the holiday season shipments get delayed. We are living in an age where everyone is ordering their goods by mail. So there is so much delivery traffic around the world. We have become a society of instant gratification due to technology. I remember when I would order by mail in the 80’s and expecting time was always 4-6 weeks. Imagine doing that nowadays. lol!
@ I think I faintly remember those from my childhood. The catalog and ordering using order form, that came with it. 😄 It’s like horses and trains before: speed is the key. They actually started using clocks at that time, when trains started to be much more common. There’s always multiple sides for development.
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@@naturenel It’s not a correction. It’s not common knowledge :). That said a lil extra info never hurt anyone. You do fantastic videos. In general. Most hybridizers collaborate and sell hybrids that are created by other nurseries. This helps offer diversity. Some buy the plants smaller and grow them out to a larger size. Even the Taiwan growers , they often bring plants in bulk to shows and vendors in the US often buy off many of the plants , that’s why sometimes you see a vendor selling but with the tag of another. More established growers would print the new tag with their name with the cross. Sometimes they keep the cross numbers , if you pay close attention to the tag. Everything on a tag means something. I’ve been growing orchids for about 15 years and a bit accustomed to the different hybrids that most nurseries offer. Many orchids are resold by vendors are from Thailand as well. Some buy hundreds of plants , grow them to flowering size and present/sell them. They may not be the hybridizer , but certainly are excellent growers to offer the finished product. There are times that some persons create pods and have them sent to labs to be flasked and some nurseries buy a few flasks from these are grow them out. There are both clones and new seed crosses. SVO in particular specializes in the latest Hybrids. Each year they do hundreds of new hybrids in cattleyas and catasetums. Seed crossed plants are unique as most do not flower like their sibling offering diversity. Not sure it’s common knowledge by most as most assume the person selling is the hybridizer , grower and seller. That said, Krull Smith are exceptional growers who offer a perfect end product or well grown out plant and also do their Hybrids and clones. One notable is the Rlc. Heavens Gate ‘ Crystelle’ FCC/AOS which was cloned so all will look the same. This is often done when a really good plant is created , it’s cloned. Sometimes you will see persons with the most beautiful Cattleya and never see it again , it’s because they bought an unbloomed seed crosses seedling , grew it out , flowered it and it was one of a kind and it was not cloned. This brings us to another two notable hybridizers Miranda Orchids and Orchid Eros. They don’t sell plants with blooms , what they sell are often times the seed cross from very select awarded plants chosen because of award quality , shape , color , excellent segments , plant vigor and ease of growth and bloom creating stunning hybrids, they also do line crossed species using the finest species. For those who know , they would buy these plants ( me particularly). To put it simply. Hybridizing is like a litter of pups. Both from the same parents but all look different with similar traits, similar enough for you to know the parents, but different enough that makes them unique.
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Hey, Nelson, I'm going to the orchid show down there in Tamiami. I'm up in Orlando originally from Miami. What's a good time to actually make it to the doors? There should we park off site like maybe across the street in one of the shopping centers or if there's a parking area near f I u. I kinda wanna avoid traffic. Cause you know how it gets with the youth fair in March? As far as parking and the lines along the roads and whatnot, what options do we think there are. I'm so excited. I can't believe I never went to this, or let alone knew it existed since I spend most of my weekends at crolith smith or orchids in bloom or ecuagera lol. I'm definitely gonna stop by all the orchids. Nursery's down there and familiarize myself. So now I have a reason to go visit my family.
I wouldn’t worry about parking. It’s not that crazy as when the fair is going on. It is a $5 charge. It’s too long of a walk to park outside the establishment. I’m sure you are going to end up buying orchids. Why stress yourself walking for blocks with orchids when you can just park inside.
What does "jim clarkson" smell like?!! No one ever talks about that and im always like... Man thats such a cool flower ... But it probably stinks.. And you mentioned that one doesn't. In your opinion, what does it smell like? Its beautiful!
Olá meu lindo que lindo demais beijinhos noca Brasil 🇧🇷 Botucatu ❤❤❤
Obrigada pelo seu carinho! 🇧🇷🥰
Nelson I so appreciate that you try to keep this channel positive! When I started watching this video I immediately gave it a Like and I actually had the thought “This is the only channel whose videos I “like” before watching them because he’s always so kind and cheerful”. It is such a nice corner of TH-cam when there is so much fear mongering and hate mongering out there.
You have no idea how much that means to me. Thank you so much. 💚🙏
Happy New Year to Luis and yourself (plus your kitties and other critters on the ranch).
Thank you for providing us orchid addicts with so many fun videos!
If I might submit a request for a future site visit... how about a visit to Motes? Bart mentioned that they haven't had an open house in a long time, and I imagine us folks who are big fans of their vandas would love to see their greenhouses. Thanks!
Thank you! Motes is a great suggestion. I'll definitely look into it for a future visit. I know that after the pandemic he stopped the open house and any other public visits. I will talk to his son Bart and see if he is willing to do a home visit I and interview. That would be a great episode.
I love watching your videos and seeing all your blooms. It makes me want to move to Florida so I can have more orchids and keep them outside year round.
Come on down! The more orchid people in Florida, the better!💚
@@naturenelwhat area is the best area to look for a house so I’m close to all the orchids happenings?
Oh Nelson, late I know but wishing you a merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy new year. 🍾🍾🥂🥂🌏🌏🇦🇺🇦🇺
Merry Christmas to you too! Have a Happy New Year 2025. 🥂 Thank you for the blessings. 🙏🎆🎇💚
Your place is a Paradise!
Beautiful Blooms!
Love all your cats, I adore the wildness of Savannah 😹
The concrete pathway is art!
Best Wishes for a wonderful 2025
Thank you! We do call it our little paradise. 🤗
Would never think you worked for any of the vendors you visit . Keep up the good videos.
lol! Some people seem to think so. 🤷🏻
Another great video. Love the Cats making appearances. They are adorable. Can't wait to see the new walkway in a future video. Thankyou for all your time making videos and all your knowledge. 2024 had challenges. Wishing you and your partner a very happy and healthy 2025 ❤🎉
Thanks so much! We will be working on the walkway very soon. We took a rest for the remainder of 2024. Next year will be phenomenal. Super excited! It’s a mess around the yard but 2025 we will clean it all up nicely.
Sr Nel siempre disfruto mucho sus videos ,tiene una bella colección de Orquideas ,le deseo un Feliz año nuevo , muchas bendiciones .Abrazos desde Miami FL
Feliz año nuevo para ti también! 🥂 Gracias por tu apoyo y dedicación a mi canal. 🙏
Your greenhouse and orchids are absolutely gorgeous!🤩Thank you for sharing, Nelson. You're an inspiration to all of us. ☺
Thanks! It makes me happy to inspire. 😊
Ive never seen you come off as anything but lovely, respectful, genuine, positive, and generally very enjoyable to watch and listen to.
Thanks for your wonderful videos. And happy new year!
That means a lot to me. Happy New Year to you too! 🙏🏼
@naturenel :)
I just found out the Redland festival was moved to October, so I changed my plans and now I will be able to attend the Tamiami festival (my first time too). Looking forward to it!
Thank you for all your bright, fun, and informative orchid videos. Hope to see you there!
I’m so glad you’ll be able to make it! I’m looking forward to it too! 💚 I hope to meet you there. 👍🏼
Your orchid collection is beautiful and the kitties are adorable! Thank you for sharing and your time to make encouraging videos 😊 The Future looks Bright, happy 2025🎉
Thanks! The kitties are my little helpers. 😉
It’s in the low twenties here. Snowy and cold!
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Hi Nelson. Thanks for the video. Beautiful blooms again.
Have a great change of the year with lots and lots of shows and more beautiful blooms. Enjoy your time ❤🎉😂
Thank you so much! It’s going to be a fun year. 🎊
Happy New Year Nelson to you and your family ( and kitties). Thank you so much for your videos. Your orchids are so beautiful.
Thank you so much! Have a wonderful new year as well! 🙏
Bring on 2025! 🎉 You’re absolutely right, this has been a crazy year! But thank you for momentarily taking us away from the craziness with all of your beautiful blooms, gorgeous guppies, orchid adventures and most of all, your genuine, wonderful self 💚
Thanks! It’s been a wild ride. Let’s stay positive in 2025 no matter the murmurs and rumors. Stay away from the things that don’t serve you and push gossip away. Do what you love this way your focus remains in your peace. Love you Kelly. Thanks for being a wonderful friend throughout 2024. Talk to you soon in 2025! 🫶🏼
Good morning Nelson, I would like to thank you for showing their beautiful and the ugly site of growing orchids, I was starting to believe that it was only me with those yellow leaves😳 I hope 2025 will be better for all of us ❤❤❤❤💚💚💚💚💚
Nope! It’s happened to allot of us this year. I’m so sad about it. But it’s part of the deal of keeping them outdoors.
Hi Nelson, thank you so much for another great video and for taking us to wonderful shows and orchids growers houses, you are an inspiration, very enjoyable to listen and to watch and I want to wish you and Louis a great New Year.
Love your kitties 🐈⬛ .
Thank you again and see you
next year.
💚Keep it green!💚
Thank you Dulce. You are very kind. Have a wonderful New Years. See you in 2025🫶🏼
Happy and Healthy New Year Nelson and Luis. Thanks for all your videos
Happy New Year to you too! 🙏🏼💚🎉
What a beautiful video but I expected nothing less!!! Amazing blooms as usual and YES Nelson what you said about Leos are the truth as I have 2 brothers and one great friend who are all Leos and they rake over just like Luis but there's a but they're always so dependable and are so giving and will do whatever it takes to make us happy. Have a Great 2025 to both you and Luis and I wish you all the amazing orchids on your wishlist.
Thanks! Luis is a great guy and super dependable too. I agree with your statement. They did whatever it takes to make others happy. Specially the ones they love. The price of stubbornness. 😆 We all have our own ying and yang. Thank you Curlene for being such a great supporter of this channel. You have graced the comments section throughout the year. I hope to see you in 2025 in Miami at a show. One love 🙏
@naturenel it was a great pleasure as you made my 2024 exciting and a very rewarding experience with your amazing blooms and taking us your loyalviewersalong to those amazing shows ! Thank you thank you thank you
I sat down to watch this video uninterrupted. What a beautiful and exciting end of year gift from you to us, your viewers. Blessings to you and Luis for the New Year. Health, happiness, and of course growing green. Thank you for being such a devoted orchid enthusiast and kind person. Respectfully,
Thank you for your kind words and support. I wish you a happy and prosperous new year.🙏
Finding your channel was one of the best things for me in 2024. Regards from Budapest (Hungary) 🙂
Wow, thank you!🙏
Happy holidays Wishing you all the best and the orchids are breathtaking 🙏for sharing ❤️❤️
Thank you, Happy Holidays to you too! 🙏
All the best in 2025, Nel!
I hope you can make a video on how you care for your Den. Phals and Curly Dendrobiums and how you pot or repot them up! ❤️
Thanks, I will add that to my video list! Happy 2025!🎉🙏💚
Thank you for another year of beautiful videos and making the world a better place. Wishing you a wonderful new year in 2025.
Thank you so much. You guys are my driving force to continue on with the videos. This has become an incredible loving like- minded family . Have a wonderful New Year. See you in 2025. 🫶🏼
I look forward to your videos. Always filled with great information and positivity Thank you
I love that you appreciate the information and positive vibes! 😎
Can’t join the contest BUT I am able to join the gaggle of orchid fam and aficionados to wish you, your loved ones which include the fur babies and the chlorophyll family, a wonderful and happy 2025 🎉❤ while I struggle with keeping my orchids alive during these months, I get to grow vicariously here 😘
Awe! Thank you Nina. I wish you could enter. Would be nice to meet you in person at one of these shows. Have a wonderful New Years. 🫶🏼🤗🙏
I didn’t try to cheat. When you mentioned at the beginning of this video that we had to put our name and a 💚 and not just write a comment, I realized that, in the previous video I had written a comment😍. Gorgeous, gorgeous new cattleyas😊
It’s all good. You’re already registered. 👍🏼
Wishing you and Luis a wonderful New Year!! I love your videos Nelson. Thank you 😊
Thank you so much. 🙏 Have an amazing New Year.
Thank you for making this year more entertaining and educational for orchid fans… may you live in Christmas all year long, all the time!!!🎄
That is so sweet! Thanks for watching! 🙏🏼💚
Nelson everything is very beautiful !Bring on 2025 🎉thanks for sharing 😍🌱🌱🥂
Thank you! C’mon 2025!
Gracias Nelson por tu video me encantan tus plantas y tus gatos que Dios siempre te acompañe y te de paz y armonia y que tengas un 2025 lleno de alegría y salud para seguir disfrutando de tus videos 💚💚💚
¡Muchas gracias! 🙏 Bendiciones para usted.
As always, your orchids are gorgeous and I love your Christmas presents 🥰 Thanks for giving us the sneak peek at your walkway and I look forward to seeing the grand unveiling when you finish the project. Wishing you a new year of health, happiness, prosperity and of course loads of beautiful blooms 💜❤💚
Thank you! I’m glad you liked the sneak peek, I can’t wait to unveil it either! 🤩 Have a wonderful New Year.
Nelson, I received your confirmation of my entry, but I need to cancel my entry as I realized now I will be working that weekend, I wish I could go, but as you said, I don't want to steal this opportunity to somebody that can go. Thank you. Nelly.
No problem Nelly! I appreciate you letting me know!👍🏼
Hi Nelson thank you again for all you do for us viewers. You are amazing and the best. wishing you and Lewis and those cute cats a wonderful rest of the year and I cannot wait to see what you have for us in 2025. My garden of orchids is growing bit by bit and I have learnt so much from you. Thank you and Happy 2025 with awesome Orchids!
Suroj
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Happy New Year, Suroj! Let’s get that garden growing in 2025! 💚 I appreciate your beautiful comment. 🫶🏼
Wish you the best of New 2025
And all the best to you as well.
Carol Kong-Quer💚
I love the furry plants.
I just got a cat from the classified ads, she’s so shy, she hides a lot.
They do that sometimes. She’ll come around. 🐈🐈⬛
Blessings Nelson lovely haul your orchids are so healthy and beautiful. Great video thanks for sharing.Best wishes for 2025 looking forward to more exciting videos.
Thank you so much. Have a wonderful New Year. 🎉
Thank you Nelson for all those wonderful videos of this year I started my addiction I the beginning of this year and is been a blessing to found you you don’t even imagine what your videos do to me.
Wishing you both a happy new year! And thank you again !😊🎉💚🥂😍
Happy New Year! I am so glad my videos have helped you on your orchid journey! 🙏
Feliz año nuevo Nelson todo lo mejor para este nuevo año, Bendiciones
Igual para ti muchas Bendiciones🙏
My dream to have an orchid collection. Its really nice to see your collection. Thank you for sharing.
It's amazing what you can do with a little patience and a lot of love! 🤩
Wishing you all the best for 2025 and beyond 🎉💕
Thank you, happy new year to you too! 🎉
I love the beautiful little mini orchids they sell around here. They have really great plants at the grocery and home and garden stores around here. I’m going to see if there are any orchid growers in Central New York.
That’s so cool to have those mini orchids available locally!
Happy New year .🎆
Happy New Year to you too! 🎉 Thank you🤗
Loved this video, especially the yellowing leaves, YIKES, it’s awful. You have your work cut out for you, keeps u young or will kill you🥵. Have to say the cats are a hoot, jumping on that tarp, have me LOL. Hope to see u at Tamiami . HAPPY NEW healthy YEAR to you and Luis. 💚💚💚💚🎉🎉🎉
The yellow leaves are a bummer, but it’s all part of the process. 🙏 This season has been brutal.
7994 is also a SVO cross and was available on their website.
I have learned so much from watching your videos. Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome! Happy to share my knowledge. Thank you for that. 🙏
Your walkway looks good
Thank you!
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Nelson, you can put holes in the plastic pots easily with a blow torch and a pointed screwdriver. I do it all the time. Just heat up the end of the screwdriver with the torch and poke it through the pot where ever you want a hole. It'll melt right through it.
I have a set of diamond head hole drills I use on my pots. Works great. I got it on Temu.
@ I find just melting holes in the plastic pots is the easiest and quickest way. Drilling is great for the clay and ceramic pots though.
You have a surprise with the color of your bougainvillea, I had a surprise with my bird of paradise. For years, the flowers were "normal" (single flower on each stem). 3 or 4 years ago, we had a huge "cloud" of dust from the Sahara (we call it el calima). The air was literally orange (I remember my protective mask that day was ochre when I reached home). Anyways, with the rain, even our walls were orange. The goodness of this rain was in the gardens: we had an explosion of growth and my bird of paradise gave me 2 years in a row double flowers instead of a usual ones. Maybe we should rethink how we fertilise our plants 🙂
I wish you and all your viewers a colorful, meaningful and loving Near Year 2025 🙏💕
Plants will surprise you. In all the years I’ve had mine, they still like switch it up on me. lol!
Nelson has echo que este año sea mas entretenido viendo nuestras Bellezas el proximo año espero sea mrgor para todos feliz año nuevo para ti y tu familia desde canarias 😊❤
Así sea! 🙏
Those baskets are just like the pool or pond baskets. And ive been using them! Got them from lowes in the pool section. Forget what they are called. Maybe pond strainer. Vut they are awesome and pretty cheap at lowes as well. And dollar tree has wire baskets for like 1.25$ of course. Haha
Beautiful flowers as usual and i love Savannah!
I'll have to check out those pond baskets! Great tip. Great idea!!!💡
I haven’t smelled an orchid before.
They’re amazing in fragrance. Some of them mimic chocolate, rasberrry, banana, or vanilla.
Great video! Tell Luis he is doing a great job 👏🏼 looking good! Wishing you a great New Year’s! Thank you for sharing! 🤗💖🌸🎇
Thank you! I’ll make sure Luis gets the message. 🎉🙏🤗💚
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Nelson Bellas todas muchas felicidades en estas fiestas 🎈 🎄🎊🍾🪅🎉🎁 happy new year muchos mas vídeos y muchas mas orquídeas omg 😱 😍me encantan
Feliz año nuevo! 🥳 Espero que tengas un año lleno de nuevas orquídeas! 🌺
@ siii asi será 😘👍
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Very nice flowers
Thank you so much! 😊
Ready for the content. These video keeps me going
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Thank you for all the hard work you put in this year. Great video as allowed.
You’re very welcome! 💚🙏
Beautiful blooms and garden🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 thank you for sharing
Thanks! It was a great show.
12:15 Hopefully no orchids that I really liked this year got thrown out because of the cold!
12:36 Den. Happy Family was my favorite orchid this time.
33:30 Very interesting bonsai blooms. Maybe it was the colder temperatures that affected the bloom colors?🤔
35:01 This has been me for the past two hours trying to see if I can get a centipede out of a newly repotted psychopsis pot! 😤 I noticed it running around inside the pot after flushing and then I spotted it at the top but then it went back down! I have neem oil, tea tree oil, insecticidal soap, and Sevín. 😁
I’m still ridding of orchids. 😒 Unfortunately orchids react slowly to the weather. It’s not right away that the effects begin to show. It’s mostly Vandas and some novelty phals. My Dendrobiums are all doing well thank God. My Happy Family is in full bloom and looking amazing. I’m actually going to spray today calcium and Magnesium. It’s wonderful for the yellowing of leaves. Our weather now is perfect. In the mid to high 70’s.
Happy New year dear, see you on 2025❤
Happy New Year to you too! 😊
Happy New Year Nelson 🎉, well said😊
Thank you. Have a wonderful New Years.
Happy New Year Nelson !!!
Happy New Year Julie!🎉
bye the way I am from Guyana.
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Happy new year to you both from Vancouver Canada 💚💚💚
Happy New Year to you too! 🇨🇦
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Thanks for your video, I need a month or 2 to come to Florida
You’ll love it here. Born and raised and I can’t think of ever leaving. This place is an amazing vacation spot.
@ would you recommend a place to go 2 months
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I can’t go. I won’t put my name in, but I wish I could.
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We have the same thing with the shipments here in Finland and I’m waiting for some cacti from a vendor.
They stated on their webpage when the last shipment day was for them before Christmas and when they’ll continue again (in January). They also state that if it’s too cold, they’ll postpone shipment until it’s warm enough. So I might end up waiting for my plants for months.
But that’s ok for me. The plants probably are thriving in the greenhouse. I have purchased them already and I know I will get them in due course. 😊
During the holiday season shipments get delayed. We are living in an age where everyone is ordering their goods by mail. So there is so much delivery traffic around the world. We have become a society of instant gratification due to technology. I remember when I would order by mail in the 80’s and expecting time was always 4-6 weeks. Imagine doing that nowadays. lol!
@ I think I faintly remember those from my childhood. The catalog and ordering using order form, that came with it. 😄 It’s like horses and trains before: speed is the key. They actually started using clocks at that time, when trains started to be much more common.
There’s always multiple sides for development.
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This is actually a cross done by SVO and sold by. This is grown out by Krull Smith.
Really? Thanks for the info. Did not know Krull Smith was selling other vendors orchids. I appreciate the correction. 🙏
@@naturenel It’s not a correction. It’s not common knowledge :). That said a lil extra info never hurt anyone. You do fantastic videos.
In general. Most hybridizers collaborate and sell hybrids that are created by other nurseries. This helps offer diversity. Some buy the plants smaller and grow them out to a larger size. Even the Taiwan growers , they often bring plants in bulk to shows and vendors in the US often buy off many of the plants , that’s why sometimes you see a vendor selling but with the tag of another. More established growers would print the new tag with their name with the cross. Sometimes they keep the cross numbers , if you pay close attention to the tag. Everything on a tag means something. I’ve been growing orchids for about 15 years and a bit accustomed to the different hybrids that most nurseries offer. Many orchids are resold by vendors are from Thailand as well. Some buy hundreds of plants , grow them to flowering size and present/sell them. They may not be the hybridizer , but certainly are excellent growers to offer the finished product. There are times that some persons create pods and have them sent to labs to be flasked and some nurseries buy a few flasks from these are grow them out. There are both clones and new seed crosses. SVO in particular specializes in the latest Hybrids. Each year they do hundreds of new hybrids in cattleyas and catasetums. Seed crossed plants are unique as most do not flower like their sibling offering diversity.
Not sure it’s common knowledge by most as most assume the person selling is the hybridizer , grower and seller.
That said, Krull Smith are exceptional growers who offer a perfect end product or well grown out plant and also do their Hybrids and clones. One notable is the Rlc. Heavens Gate ‘ Crystelle’ FCC/AOS which was cloned so all will look the same. This is often done when a really good plant is created , it’s cloned.
Sometimes you will see persons with the most beautiful Cattleya and never see it again , it’s because they bought an unbloomed seed crosses seedling , grew it out , flowered it and it was one of a kind and it was not cloned. This brings us to another two notable hybridizers Miranda Orchids and Orchid Eros. They don’t sell plants with blooms , what they sell are often times the seed cross from very select awarded plants chosen because of award quality , shape , color , excellent segments , plant vigor and ease of growth and bloom creating stunning hybrids, they also do line crossed species using the finest species. For those who know , they would buy these plants ( me particularly).
To put it simply. Hybridizing is like a litter of pups. Both from the same parents but all look different with similar traits, similar enough for you to know the parents, but different enough that makes them unique.
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Dan f, but I'm your Aussie mate haha
Hey Dan. Are you entering the contest?
@naturenel um will take me few weeks to get there as I'm in Australia 🇦🇺 😄, hope you have a happy new year nel
Hey, Nelson, I'm going to the orchid show down there in Tamiami. I'm up in Orlando originally from Miami. What's a good time to actually make it to the doors? There should we park off site like maybe across the street in one of the shopping centers or if there's a parking area near f I u. I kinda wanna avoid traffic. Cause you know how it gets with the youth fair in March? As far as parking and the lines along the roads and whatnot, what options do we think there are. I'm so excited. I can't believe I never went to this, or let alone knew it existed since I spend most of my weekends at crolith smith or orchids in bloom or ecuagera lol. I'm definitely gonna stop by all the orchids. Nursery's down there and familiarize myself.
So now I have a reason to go visit my family.
I wouldn’t worry about parking. It’s not that crazy as when the fair is going on. It is a $5 charge. It’s too long of a walk to park outside the establishment. I’m sure you are going to end up buying orchids. Why stress yourself walking for blocks with orchids when you can just park inside.
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What does "jim clarkson" smell like?!! No one ever talks about that and im always like... Man thats such a cool flower ... But it probably stinks..
And you mentioned that one doesn't. In your opinion, what does it smell like? Its beautiful!
It’s not an easy description to explain as a fragrance. It’s a light floral scent. A bit like Jasmin.
@@naturenel that's good enough for sure. Thank you for the response. :) enough for me to want it haha. But that doesn't take much