Thanks for showing the orchis that didn't make it no matter what you tried. I think some people new to growing orchids experience similar failures and assume that they are not capable of growing ANY orchids. Most videos imply that you will have success if you just do what is recommended by their video. Obviously, that isn't always true. Some plants will die or fail to thrive no matter what you attempt. My practice is to simply replace any orchid that does not positively respond to treatment. Why waste months on a sickly plant? For less than most people spend at Starbucks each week you can buy a new, healthy orchid that will delight you.
For me, the subject of anthocyanins is very timely. I have a dendrobium (philanopsis type) and a young cattleya that I have placed under a grow light. I noticed that both orchids developed anthocyanin pigmentation on the leaves. The pigmentation is very subtle on the cattleya but more pronounced on the dendrobium along the edges of its lighter green leaves. I’m glad the plants are protecting themselves but is this a sign that I should ease up on the light a bit? It’s winter here in the northeast US and short dreary days which is why I’m using the light. I read the wiki link you provided. While it was very interesting, it didn’t answer my question. Thank you 🙏 and thanks for all of the brilliant content you consistently put out! 💚😊Debra
Caitlyn Frankum I’m hardly an expert but I think that in Phals, if the flower is purple or dark- you may have some purplish collation on leaves and its normal. If you have other phals near it with same lighting and they are ok- I wouldn’t worry about it and just assume that it’s the norm for this plant. That’s a guess.
Hi, I just purchased a fully loaded budded Meltonia from our local Safeway here in Enterprise Oregon and I was wondering, if/do I repot her or do I wait? I fell upon your channel and have been loving all of your informative informative. I, also went and bought media and the clear pots, cause I have a soddering iron that I use to make holes into the clear pots. I would love to know what to do :-} I purchased the orchid yesterday. The weather here is/has been 44-35 degrees, so have to runner heater to keep warm, and at night turn down to 63/64. Thanks you Peace Love your channel
@@rosaduquette6029 I mostly have experience with phals, but I would say it depends on if you'd want to risk losing the buds. If the orchid is healthy there's probably no reason to rush repotting and it could wait until after the flowers have dropped. I personally re-pot immediately after purchase, but on a couple of occasions, this has contributed to the buds falling off (shock from both environmental change and re-potting). I hope that helps!
I have a phal that has a new leaf coming, but its brown and dried up and doesn't seem to grow very good! I'm afraid it is sick. Ive had it for 4 years and it has bloomed and looked well, until this summer. The old leaves looks alright, one had a lot of sap this summer and got discolored. Rigid, dark green leaves, but no growth at all. I even cut the old flower spikes to try to promote growth. Help?
Hallo miss OG i hope you Can help me! I have a phalanopsis i just bougt and it had a keiki atatch to it but i discovert that the keiki just Fall off.. becaus the base of the keiki ( with no roots) was rootend on the base! Can you pleas help me what to do about it, how to stop the base Crown Rot and how to get som roots on This littel guy. (Whit only 2 leavs) soo small guy. Please help❤️ From long time subscriber from Denmark BTW sorry about the bad english😁
My aliceara looks almost exactly the same. 😢After the spike, the pseudobulb slowly shrivelled up and now doing nothing. I really like the blooms, so I hope it will survive.
I have a catasetum (fredclarkarea after dark) that has splits on 2 of the newest pseudobulbs. Thet don't seem to hurt it, and they're callousing over, but I'm wondering what I might have done to cause it. It's never happened before for me. I continue to water my catasetums during their dormancy just enough to make sure they don't shrivel. Any advice?
I’m so worried about my phelaenopsis. It was a gift to our office after everyone swore it would die I decided I was taking it. I managed the watering regime. We started losing leaves then I noticed it lost a bloom closest to the tip of the stall way before it should have. I then realized it was drying out too quickly so I finally took it home. It lost now 3 leaves. I’m down to 3 leaves and I’m praying I will get a new leaf soon. Now I don’t know it seems healthy enough the blooms have all dried up. Do I cut the stalk to encourage it to grow leaves and roots or try for another spike. Help
Hi Dannie! I am six months into nursing orchids and been following your videos as learning materials. Is it possible to have a keiki and a flower growing from the same node from an old spike? If possible, I can send you some photos.
Hi! I have a dendrobium nobile with two keikis on it. The two keikis appear to be alive and well, but the mother plant has died. Unfortunately, there are no roots on either of the keikis, and I'm assuming they won't form since nothing happen for months and there's no mother plant to help them. Any ideas? My only thought was to buy keiki root paste from repotme.com, but it's a little expensive. Thank you for any advice you can give me!
Hello, everyone. Miss Orchid Girl, I have a big need of help. My first Cambria ( Odontoglossum) orchid I bought recently on a sale hapened to be with very bad root system. All the roots were mushy and degrading. The phseudobulbs are very shrivled, some of the leaves needed to be cut because of discoloration ( it was plased in a very small container and it had 7 phseudobulbs) Since I cleaned and desinfected it I put it in big flower pot with very little media and a lot of sponges and styrofoam. I did not have sphagnum moss in my town and now I am waiting for a delivery (the weather is very bad here and it will not be until tuesday) Please tell me how to help her survive?!
About the natural selection thing, I would also argue that we just don't know everything! We don't know everything about why a plant wouldn't be a Thrive Plant, we don't know everything about how to help certain conditions. We don't even know how to fix everything about human bodies, and there's a lot more reason for us to study them. It's always possible that there's something wrong with the orchid that we just dont understand yet. Or some better way to do Orchid care we haven't figured out yet! There's nothing wrong with that. Just do your best, understand we don't have full control or knowledge, and be kind to yourself if the growing doesn't go right!
Thanks for showing the orchis that didn't make it no matter what you tried. I think some people new to growing orchids experience similar failures and assume that they are not capable of growing ANY orchids. Most videos imply that you will have success if you just do what is recommended by their video. Obviously, that isn't always true. Some plants will die or fail to thrive no matter what you attempt. My practice is to simply replace any orchid that does not positively respond to treatment. Why waste months on a sickly plant? For less than most people spend at Starbucks each week you can buy a new, healthy orchid that will delight you.
I really enjoyed this video. I have had orchids since the mid 1990's yet you confirmed many things for me. Thank you.
Very useful seminar. Learned some new orchid information. Thanks for your videos.
Good tutorial for beginner. Thank you miss orchid girl.
For me, the subject of anthocyanins is very timely. I have a dendrobium (philanopsis type) and a young cattleya that I have placed under a grow light. I noticed that both orchids developed anthocyanin pigmentation on the leaves. The pigmentation is very subtle on the cattleya but more pronounced on the dendrobium along the edges of its lighter green leaves.
I’m glad the plants are protecting themselves but is this a sign that I should ease up on the light a bit? It’s winter here in the northeast US and short dreary days which is why I’m using the light.
I read the wiki link you provided. While it was very interesting, it didn’t answer my question.
Thank you 🙏 and thanks for all of the brilliant content you consistently put out! 💚😊Debra
Caitlyn Frankum I’m hardly an expert but I think that in Phals, if the flower is purple or dark- you may have some purplish collation on leaves and its normal. If you have other phals near it with same lighting and they are ok- I wouldn’t worry about it and just assume that it’s the norm for this plant. That’s a guess.
Natural Selection, of course. None of us is perfect. 😘🙏🏼❤️🥀🎋
Hi, I just purchased a fully loaded budded Meltonia from our local Safeway here in Enterprise Oregon and I was wondering, if/do I repot her or do I wait? I fell upon your channel and have been loving all of your informative informative. I, also went and bought media and the clear pots, cause I have a soddering iron that I use to make holes into the clear pots. I would love to know what to do :-} I purchased the orchid yesterday. The weather here is/has been 44-35 degrees, so have to runner heater to keep warm, and at night turn down to 63/64. Thanks you Peace Love your channel
What do you think I should do?
@@rosaduquette6029 I mostly have experience with phals, but I would say it depends on if you'd want to risk losing the buds. If the orchid is healthy there's probably no reason to rush repotting and it could wait until after the flowers have dropped. I personally re-pot immediately after purchase, but on a couple of occasions, this has contributed to the buds falling off (shock from both environmental change and re-potting). I hope that helps!
I have a phal that has a new leaf coming, but its brown and dried up and doesn't seem to grow very good! I'm afraid it is sick. Ive had it for 4 years and it has bloomed and looked well, until this summer. The old leaves looks alright, one had a lot of sap this summer and got discolored. Rigid, dark green leaves, but no growth at all. I even cut the old flower spikes to try to promote growth. Help?
Hallo miss OG i hope you Can help me!
I have a phalanopsis i just bougt and it had a keiki atatch to it but i discovert that the keiki just Fall off.. becaus the base of the keiki ( with no roots) was rootend on the base!
Can you pleas help me what to do about it, how to stop the base Crown Rot and how to get som roots on This littel guy. (Whit only 2 leavs) soo small guy.
Please help❤️
From long time subscriber from Denmark BTW sorry about the bad english😁
My aliceara looks almost exactly the same. 😢After the spike, the pseudobulb slowly shrivelled up and now doing nothing. I really like the blooms, so I hope it will survive.
I have a catasetum (fredclarkarea after dark) that has splits on 2 of the newest pseudobulbs. Thet don't seem to hurt it, and they're callousing over, but I'm wondering what I might have done to cause it. It's never happened before for me. I continue to water my catasetums during their dormancy just enough to make sure they don't shrivel. Any advice?
At 9:48 how's that orchid in front of the middle called, it has beautiful foliage 😍
I’m so worried about my phelaenopsis. It was a gift to our office after everyone swore it would die I decided I was taking it. I managed the watering regime. We started losing leaves then I noticed it lost a bloom closest to the tip of the stall way before it should have. I then realized it was drying out too quickly so I finally took it home. It lost now 3 leaves. I’m down to 3 leaves and I’m praying I will get a new leaf soon. Now I don’t know it seems healthy enough the blooms have all dried up. Do I cut the stalk to encourage it to grow leaves and roots or try for another spike. Help
What do you do with the old growth that is removed. Do re pot those?
After I got new LED lights, I had several complex hybrids phals turn a very dark, maroon-purple color.
Anthrocyanin. I think the light is too strong
Love these videos. 🙌
i just a Phalaenopsis only a small one it has a hole in the leaf in the middle looks like its been burnt and the flowers fell off
Hi Dannie! I am six months into nursing orchids and been following your videos as learning materials.
Is it possible to have a keiki and a flower growing from the same node from an old spike? If possible, I can send you some photos.
Great ideas!
Hi! I have a dendrobium nobile with two keikis on it. The two keikis appear to be alive and well, but the mother plant has died. Unfortunately, there are no roots on either of the keikis, and I'm assuming they won't form since nothing happen for months and there's no mother plant to help them. Any ideas? My only thought was to buy keiki root paste from repotme.com, but it's a little expensive. Thank you for any advice you can give me!
Hello, everyone. Miss Orchid Girl, I have a big need of help. My first Cambria ( Odontoglossum) orchid I bought recently on a sale hapened to be with very bad root system. All the roots were mushy and degrading. The phseudobulbs are very shrivled, some of the leaves needed to be cut because of discoloration ( it was plased in a very small container and it had 7 phseudobulbs) Since I cleaned and desinfected it I put it in big flower pot with very little media and a lot of sponges and styrofoam. I did not have sphagnum moss in my town and now I am waiting for a delivery (the weather is very bad here and it will not be until tuesday) Please tell me how to help her survive?!
About keikis: "I believe this idea sprouted from the idea..."
Me: Is nobody noticing the pun there? 😁
I made friends with your channel. Good luck.
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About the natural selection thing, I would also argue that we just don't know everything! We don't know everything about why a plant wouldn't be a Thrive Plant, we don't know everything about how to help certain conditions.
We don't even know how to fix everything about human bodies, and there's a lot more reason for us to study them. It's always possible that there's something wrong with the orchid that we just dont understand yet. Or some better way to do Orchid care we haven't figured out yet! There's nothing wrong with that.
Just do your best, understand we don't have full control or knowledge, and be kind to yourself if the growing doesn't go right!
What are keikis? Are keikis roots?
Bountiful Grace By Julia: Keikis are baby plants; offshoots.
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