Love seeing your nobilior and walkeriana collection. It totally inspires me to keep trying. Right now I am just happy to be able to grow roots. The blooms will come later .... maybe next year. My nobilior v. amaliae has finally started to grow well. It has taken me three years and was an import from Floralia. 🤞🏻Hopefully it will be worth the wait when it blooms.
You are so good with these orchids. My Picotee Passion cross that I purchased from SVO is putting out a spike. It will be wonky at best as the sheath came out weird looking and the single bloom had trouble releasing from the sheath. But I count myself fortunate to get a bloom this soon so I will let it continue. Thanks for all the good info.
@@SVKLOrchids mine is still tiny in a 2 inch pot. Will be at least 3 years from blooming size, hope I don’t kill it before then. I have it potted in loose medium size bark. Is that a good choice? It’s what the orchid came in.
I keep mine together with my other Catts full sun with Clear UV GardenPlastic and 50%shade net my cattleyas are blooming crazy during summer time and my Walkie is just there doing nothing 😅
I love your plants Stephen and I am sure Iterested in a division from you!! My hubby still has to put the boards up on the fence to block the neighbors porch lights 🙄....
Beautiful walkerianas etc. If you wash the roof wouldn’t that give you more light or do you have it to keep it from getting too hot. You are in Texas right. Doesn’t it get cold where you are in the weather, how do you keep it warm and nice and moist ie humidified? Plus circulation and ventilation. I’m in Virginia. I did a gorilla grow tent this winter, it’s been quite a learning cure - usually send out to be boarded, around 60+ plants. Use a KIND led light,,had to turn it almost way down and turned the Red Ir almost off too, etc. have to look it up but it had the plants all blooming it was crazy. Way too powerful a light but it’s what they said came with that kit. I know I want a GH so wanted the light suitable for it. Lost a couple plants - Vandas, could keep most enough, have to figure that up, can’t wait to get outside. Using a humidifier 6L it sits outside the tent which is 5x5 with the sensor handing inside and it comes on and off by itself set for 70%. It’s usually around 65-70% it varies not sure why. But it’s better than when I started. The tubing is run through and has two sets of tubing pointed over the plants. The plants don’t get wet or anything, kinda like fog, do have to keep a bucket inside under where the tubing sits above so it can drip a little into it. I will be interested to see how they will be affected since they have been blooming so much. I have it almost off the light is up in the ceiling. Has 2 circulation fans and an inline filer for ventilation, it’s outside too. Light and tent and inline came as a kit from Gorilla Grow Tent manufacture in CA. Came with 8 grow buckets 5 gal I believe was like what the heck will I do with these, ended up sitting Vandas in them and spraying in the bucket, the deep saucers that came with buckets catch the water. Need to fix some things for next year. But the plants got in bad shape because I went the first 4-5 months of winter with too much light, too much blooming, and not enough humidity. They won’t go out until mid May to June 1 before night temps are safe. Sitting on shelving unit. Great tent and light too. The company makes and sells mostly medical cannabis companies. I could easily grow tomatoes, eggplants etc in there, plenty of light. A friend said we need to throw the orchids out, put some lawn chairs in there, some tropical drinks, beach music and chill. 🤣
As usual, it is very educational, and motivating listening to you, l have 3 walkies from seedlings,in plastic pots , do they prefer clay pots, lsee yours growing in clay pots, mines are 2 years old,
Thank you! I prefer clay because it dries more quickly than plastic and I prefer to water every day in the summer. Many growers have great success with plastic!
Hi, Stephen! I just love your entire Cattleya species collection. You’ve inspired me so much as I increase my own. I just purchased a TLC bare root, blooming size C. nobilior. The seller explained that they had been working on the orchid for a while with bare root regeneration. It was doing well but then it fell and new growth broke off. The Catt now has new roots and new growth forming. I expect that it has been greatly setback. Do you have any specific environmental or cultural advice I should consider as I try to rehabilitate this new orchid?
Tough to say without knowing your exact conditions! Generally, I’d say grow them alongside your other Cattleyas but with slightly brighter conditions. Maybe a bit drier rest in winter than your other Catts.
Hi. I’ve watch your videos. Thank you for the time you put into making them. How many hours of darkness do Walkeriana needs to trigger it to bloom and for how many months? Thank you
I don’t know that those metrics have been quantified. Natural daylength changing through the year works wonders! Changing daylength under lights throughout the year to provide 10 hour winter days and 14 hour summer days works well also.
Beautiful! I got a walkeriana from Fred Clarke…very small 3 in pot. I am thrilled to say it is sending a growth out. Once I see roots I can repot, right?
Stephen -- would you like to sell any of those. I have been looking for some more colors. Just have one small one. Where do you buy yours? I have a terrible time finding them.
Gorgeous blooms! Do you know off-hand if primary hybrids of walkeriana are also sensitive to nighttime light? I have a C. Love Knot that has been growing well for several years but has yet to bloom. Could the issue be living room lamps being on in the evening?
It’s very possible that the night light aversion might transfer to progeny, though I am not aware of crosses that maintain that trait. My general recommendation for plants that don’t bloom is higher light intensity during the day. Does your plant get bright conditions?
I recently just got a coerulescens x coerulea nobilior from Bela Vista, that's why I'm here rewatching your videos! The newest growth on mine is maturing right now, so when, could you say normally, one can expect to see nobilior spiking? Is it early winter? I'd love to know. Thank you!
If the plant is mature and has a large root system, they usually start their bloom spikes from January to March and then bloom February to April. How large is the plant?
@@SVKLOrchids Thanks for the reply! Its size is about what your smallest blooming one is, with the latest one having 15 cm leaf span. I haven't repotted it so I don't know about its root situation but it thanks for the heads up!
@@SVKLOrchids just sits there. it is small. last year it produced a new leaf but nothing since. I am going to lie the mount on its back as somepne told me that can ge them going.i mist it daily in summer
On hot, sunny days we can get over 90 degrees. My heater turns in around 55, but I’ve had several times where the heater didn’t turn on and temperature got to low 40s.
Thank you! LECA I’m clay certainly can work, especially in very humid conditions. Drier conditions (like mine) require bark and clay pots. I prefer to water every day in summer.
Beautiful plants!
Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure!
Beautiful flowers!!!
Thanks! 😃😃
So nice to see a side by side comparison!! Thanks so much!
No problem!!
Love seeing your nobilior and walkeriana collection. It totally inspires me to keep trying. Right now I am just happy to be able to grow roots. The blooms will come later .... maybe next year. My nobilior v. amaliae has finally started to grow well. It has taken me three years and was an import from Floralia. 🤞🏻Hopefully it will be worth the wait when it blooms.
Amaliae is the best of the nobilior types! I hope it blooms soon!
Very nice! Love your collection! 😍
Thank you! 😃😃
Beautiful 😍 😊
Thanks!
So nice...just when I want to give up, you post-as someone else said-a 'motivational' video!
Trust me, the scent alone is worth the wait for walkeriana!
👍🏼 beautiful 👍🏼
Thank you!!
The fragrance must be out of this world 🤩
It’s wonderful!! I wish I could send scent through the Internet!
謝謝~♡♡♡
😃😃
Nice video with interesting information. I appreciate that you share what works for you.
😃😃
Sill babying my Cerulea walkeriana... keeping fingers crossed it'll "Snap Out of It" in my Cher voice.
🤞 😃😃
You are so good with these orchids. My Picotee Passion cross that I purchased from SVO is putting out a spike. It will be wonky at best as the sheath came out weird looking and the single bloom had trouble releasing from the sheath. But I count myself fortunate to get a bloom this soon so I will let it continue. Thanks for all the good info.
Thank you! I look forward to seeing blooms on that Picotee Passion!
You've inspired me to try a C. walkeriana, got it from Francisco Miranda. Thanks for the tips on growing this orchid. May try nobilior soon.
I hope they do well! Let me know if you have questions!
@@SVKLOrchids mine is still tiny in a 2 inch pot. Will be at least 3 years from blooming size, hope I don’t kill it before then. I have it potted in loose medium size bark. Is that a good choice? It’s what the orchid came in.
@@MamasOrchids Certainly could work! I don’t know your specific conditions tho!
Woooow The Walkerianas 🥺😳😲
I love the scent!!
Mine is just sitting around for years keeps on giving me bulbs and yes 5years I haven't had any luck
@@orchidwanderer is there any night time light that could be preventing it from blooming?
I keep mine together with my other Catts full sun with Clear UV GardenPlastic and 50%shade net my cattleyas are blooming crazy during summer time and my Walkie is just there doing nothing 😅
Yes, I live in the Philippines and we only have 2 seasons so no big shift or change when it comes to Temperature 🤒
I love your plants Stephen and I am sure Iterested in a division from you!! My hubby still has to put the boards up on the fence to block the neighbors porch lights 🙄....
Ha! Well, it’s only got one tiny new root. You mind if I hold onto it for a few months to make sure it lives?
@@SVKLOrchids that's awesome 👌.
@@kathleenhoughton6129 What's your email address?
Beautiful walkerianas etc. If you wash the roof wouldn’t that give you more light or do you have it to keep it from getting too hot. You are in Texas right. Doesn’t it get cold where you are in the weather, how do you keep it warm and nice and moist ie humidified? Plus circulation and ventilation. I’m in Virginia.
I did a gorilla grow tent this winter, it’s been quite a learning cure - usually send out to be boarded, around 60+ plants. Use a KIND led light,,had to turn it almost way down and turned the Red Ir almost off too, etc. have to look it up but it had the plants all blooming it was crazy. Way too powerful a light but it’s what they said came with that kit. I know I want a GH so wanted the light suitable for it. Lost a couple plants - Vandas, could keep most enough, have to figure that up, can’t wait to get outside. Using a humidifier 6L it sits outside the tent which is 5x5 with the sensor handing inside and it comes on and off by itself set for 70%. It’s usually around 65-70% it varies not sure why. But it’s better than when I started. The tubing is run through and has two sets of tubing pointed over the plants. The plants don’t get wet or anything, kinda like fog, do have to keep a bucket inside under where the tubing sits above so it can drip a little into it. I will be interested to see how they will be affected since they have been blooming so much. I have it almost off the light is up in the ceiling. Has 2 circulation fans and an inline filer for ventilation, it’s outside too. Light and tent and inline came as a kit from Gorilla Grow Tent manufacture in CA. Came with 8 grow buckets 5 gal I believe was like what the heck will I do with these, ended up sitting Vandas in them and spraying in the bucket, the deep saucers that came with buckets catch the water. Need to fix some things for next year. But the plants got in bad shape because I went the first 4-5 months of winter with too much light, too much blooming, and not enough humidity. They won’t go out until mid May to June 1 before night temps are safe. Sitting on shelving unit. Great tent and light too. The company makes and sells mostly medical cannabis companies. I could easily grow tomatoes, eggplants etc in there, plenty of light. A friend said we need to throw the orchids out, put some lawn chairs in there, some tropical drinks, beach music and chill. 🤣
I had a southern burner heater and I wrapped it in plastic in the winter! I also had a fan running, pointing at the roof.
As usual, it is very educational, and motivating listening to you, l have 3 walkies from seedlings,in plastic pots , do they prefer clay pots, lsee yours growing in clay pots, mines are 2 years old,
Thank you! I prefer clay because it dries more quickly than plastic and I prefer to water every day in the summer. Many growers have great success with plastic!
Hi, Stephen! I just love your entire Cattleya species collection. You’ve inspired me so much as I increase my own. I just purchased a TLC bare root, blooming size C. nobilior. The seller explained that they had been working on the orchid for a while with bare root regeneration. It was doing well but then it fell and new growth broke off. The Catt now has new roots and new growth forming. I expect that it has been greatly setback. Do you have any specific environmental or cultural advice I should consider as I try to rehabilitate this new orchid?
Tough to say without knowing your exact conditions! Generally, I’d say grow them alongside your other Cattleyas but with slightly brighter conditions. Maybe a bit drier rest in winter than your other Catts.
Hi. I’ve watch your videos. Thank you for the time you put into making them. How many hours of darkness do Walkeriana needs to trigger it to bloom and for how many months? Thank you
I don’t know that those metrics have been quantified. Natural daylength changing through the year works wonders! Changing daylength under lights throughout the year to provide 10 hour winter days and 14 hour summer days works well also.
Beautiful! I got a walkeriana from Fred Clarke…very small 3 in pot. I am thrilled to say it is sending a growth out. Once I see roots I can repot, right?
Yep! Wait for those little nubbins to form and look like little pimples. Then repot!
Stephen -- would you like to sell any of those. I have been looking for some more colors. Just have one small one. Where do you buy yours? I have a terrible time finding them.
Unfortunately I don’t have any to sell! H&R nurseries have the best ones in the USA. Sunset valley orchids has some too.
Gorgeous blooms!
Do you know off-hand if primary hybrids of walkeriana are also sensitive to nighttime light?
I have a C. Love Knot that has been growing well for several years but has yet to bloom. Could the issue be living room lamps being on in the evening?
It’s very possible that the night light aversion might transfer to progeny, though I am not aware of crosses that maintain that trait. My general recommendation for plants that don’t bloom is higher light intensity during the day. Does your plant get bright conditions?
I recently just got a coerulescens x coerulea nobilior from Bela Vista, that's why I'm here rewatching your videos! The newest growth on mine is maturing right now, so when, could you say normally, one can expect to see nobilior spiking? Is it early winter? I'd love to know. Thank you!
If the plant is mature and has a large root system, they usually start their bloom spikes from January to March and then bloom February to April. How large is the plant?
@@SVKLOrchids Thanks for the reply! Its size is about what your smallest blooming one is, with the latest one having 15 cm leaf span. I haven't repotted it so I don't know about its root situation but it thanks for the heads up!
@@sergiol114 No problem! Good luck!
The nobiliar look like they have a big shiny pearl nose. 😂
Thanks for this Stephen. What media do you use for nobilior? .My walkiana is alba
Just large grade orchiata in a clay pot. Nothing fancy!
@@SVKLOrchids I have mine on a cork mount for years and it just sits there
@@michaelpye5972 Grows and don’t flower? Or just does nothing?
@@SVKLOrchids just sits there. it is small. last year it produced a new leaf but nothing since. I am going to lie the mount on its back as somepne told me that can ge them going.i mist it daily in summer
@@michaelpye5972 I suggest heavily watering daily in summer. That’s what I do with mine and they’re in pots.
Hi Steven, how much is the temperature in your green house now?
On hot, sunny days we can get over 90 degrees. My heater turns in around 55, but I’ve had several times where the heater didn’t turn on and temperature got to low 40s.
Hi Steven wonderful collection… what do you think About LECA medium in clay pots ? I follow u from Florence (Italy)
Thank you! LECA I’m clay certainly can work, especially in very humid conditions. Drier conditions (like mine) require bark and clay pots. I prefer to water every day in summer.
@@SVKLOrchids thank you
@@SaverioPestuggia You’re welcome!
"there's a couple of great horned owls"
well, that should mean no rats or mice hanging around to chew on plants. 😉
Exactly!! Squirrels around here don’t last long either! It’s glorious.