Easy Orchid Care: Repotting a Phalaenopsis with Rotten Roots / Steps to save an Orchid with no roots
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I'm glad you took time to go through the visuals as I am a visual learner. I need to be able to SEE what looks good and bad and not just by passing through it quickly. I knew nothing about Orchids. My granddaughter asked for help and it was very interesting to me to see what looked 'iffy' as well as hear what it should look like. Too long? Me, that is? OK, but the length of your video HELPED this old lady. Thank you so much! I'm sure the complainers are folks who already know a lot, or at least the basics of, caring for house plants...
I repotted a Phalaenopsis a couple years ago and it had 67 blooms the next time it bloomed. My biggest problem here in S TX is we get so hot and dry in the summer. I always wait for sales like yesterday I went to my local HEB (grocery chain in TX) and Phalaenopsis that were selling for $23.99 on Saturday (Valentine's Day) were on sale for $9.99.
Extremely interesting. Thanks
Well, I found you again. Use to watch your carnivorous plant videos. Now that I am getting back into Orchids again, I have 2 reasons to watch.
TH-cam cancelled my parrotbill channel by mistake, and 3 hrs later th eff y put it back up. But in the mean time, I made the tallybeaverman so I wouldn't get behind on my favorite channels, and now I use this.
Just bought 6 beautiful Phalaenopsis this week, and had to do a crash course on saving them. All the CV troubled ones were root bound in small cups, packed with soaked Sphagnum Moss. They were losing flower buds anyway, so I had nothing to lose by repotting them in coconut husks chunks. I soaked them in a bloom food fertilizer for an hour, then drained the clear plastic pot insert well before I put them back in the decorator pot they came in.
The coconut husk chunks hold moister & nutrients better. Doesnt break down as fast as tree bark, and it give the best aeration of anything except a plant mounted on wood boards.
This video made me feel better about my plants. Mine weren't as close to the brink as the one you just saved.
Oh yea we had a good winter dormancy for my VFTs and Pitcher plants. One of my VFTs das 2 keikis growing off the flower spike along with a bunch of babies around the roots. Just fed them their first cricket feeding of the year. We have the same growing zone North Carolina has, so leaving them outdoors all year round is perfect for them.
The tutorial starts at 3:37 in case you don't have much time...
And at 5:07 to see where he actually starts taking apart the pot
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After searching for videos on how to repot my orchid that I got as a house warming gift 10 yrs ago that was suffering, I followed your instructions and it was easier to do than I imagined it would be. What I thought I was going to see was a ton of rotted roots and very little to work with. What I did see was a lot more oversoaked roots and a lot of potential for healing. Thank you so much for making this video, you have saved my plant.
This is my first time visiting your channel. I'm only around the halfway mark, and I know I will be subscribing. It is obvious how much you care & respect your plants. So happy I found you, and thank you I learned so much!
I just bought 2 Phals 3 weeks ago. I didn't know how to care for it until I saw your video here. You were very detailed. Now, I am not scared anymore if something went wrong in the future with my phals. Thank you so much, it's very helpful. And yes I took all that some kind of dirt that was on the roots and repotted it with barks that came with it. Much thanks!!!☺️
My orchid sat for about a year in potting soil with absolutely no TLC. The leaves stayed green and healthy. Unbelievable. I’m now showing it some love following your directions and wallah! It’s back.
I have gotten 4 Phalaenopsis in the last few months and they all came in the clear plastic pots like this one came in. I punched more holes in the sides all around and then placed them in heavier pots with room all the way around the plastic pot so the roots can breath. So far they are doing great and all have new growth.
Here is an update on how it is doing now, it is the purple one in this video th-cam.com/video/6diVon89fmQ/w-d-xo.html
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thanks for update video!
It would be so interesting to see a follow up video on some of your rescue orchids.
Just bought my first orchid! Wanted to get a little education so I can take good care of it.
Wow, I was watching this for fun but then I realized that my mini orchid is in the same exact situation! I bought it only a few weeks ago so the roots are healthy. I'll wait for the flowers to drop, cut the stem to the node, and repot it. Thanks for the great information.
Hey brad don't give up on it i believe its destiny is to be one of your best orchids . :) amazing video
Thanks Zach, I hope it is a good color!
Thanks for the pointers in this video. I just purchased my first phalaenopsis orchid from the supermarket and I need to repot it. I'll keep you posted on how it progresses.
Hi Brad! This video was really informative. I followed it when I repotted my Phalaenopsis Equestris, and Doritaenopsis "Euro Star", which both were drowning when I got them. The Equestris was simply soaked when it arrived in the mail. The roots were in rough shape, but I expect full recoveries now that I have them in my mini-greenhouse to grow.
Amazing that you could save it at that point. Gives me hope for grocery store bought orchids.
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They're not so bad if you give them the right care and know what's going on with the roots. I purchased a orchid from a nursery, and the potting media started breaking down and it started affecting how the roots were looking. I didn't know as I am still fairly new to orchids but as I have been researching when to repot I came across this problem and noticed there was a real problem. Watered it once a week when all the roots were silver and I tried really hard never to leave them in standing water or anything when I noticed the mold I tried watering less so that the mold could die off as it's not getting favorable conditions but didn't work. After it finished blooming I removed the media and put it in fresh media and the bark looked really broken down and had a smell or it was the roots. Mold was mostly on the bark chips. Some roots were affected but not many some had rotted as it had a moss plug in the Centre so it has probably been in that media way too long. It had a lot of roots though it had overgrown the pot think it was just starting to show signs of stress from the old Media and being cramped. But cut the affected roots Off and repot it not sure of it how it will do. It's been since Sunday.
Thanks Brad; I am a care giver for elderly people, so many times people give them orchids and when the flower dies the people just leave the plant to die. Recently I took a plant that one of my clients no longer wanted. Your video was very helpful. Now to find a place to buy the medium you used in the repotting videdo.
Thank you very much for this video! You may have saved my orchid. I got it as a present after my father's passing a couple months ago, and I became concerned when the flowers of only one of it's flower spikes dropped and soon after that spike yellowed. I decided it was time to repot, despite the fact that it's other flower spike was still healthy and in bloom. When I got a good look at it's roots I saw it was in a very similar condition as the plant in this video was, with it's roots tightly bound in a flexible pot exactly like that one. Over half of it's roots were rotten and had to be trimmed off, but after all was said and done my plant has six leaves and one flower spike remaining out of it's original two, and a decent number of yellowed but otherwise healthy looking roots and a couple of normal grey air roots.
Now all I have to do is wait and hope the plant will recover well from this ordeal.
WyrmsRoost happy to help! my most recent video show this one in bloom, it's purple
***** I'll be sure to check that out. :D
Hi Brade very beautiful all the orchids which are inside of your house. Awesome
Nice video. I have grown orchids over the years with nothing but luck on my side! I just recently started to get into having them reboot. A trick I had, was when the blooms were gone, I would repot it, and add a small faux silk orchid the same type as the original type of orchid... I have had new shoots come right up against it and bloom...then I take out the faux one. Pretty all year long!
thanks for providing such clear and informative tips. you are a good teacher.
WOW! Such a beautiful display of oechids
So glad that this poor little orchid save by you Brad! Hopefully she makes a fast recovery under your care and love :D Keep us update with her recovery progress :D
Thanks Will, I'll let you know what color it is... Someday, hopefully soon.
@@BradsGreenhouse is there an update on this orchid? 🥰
This was so informative! Thanks! I have to repot both my orchids now. They are both in bad shape like this was but with new growth too so I’m hopeful!
Just repotted my very first Phalaenopsis. Hoping for new growth. Thank you for all the great tips! Ps Loved seeing your puppy in the video I have a white French Bulldog :))
Hi Brad, I loved your presentation. I felt sad to see how badly packed the plant had been. Plants feel and it must have been suffering. I have a phalaenopis and didn't know how to care for it. I appreciate your knowledge and your caring for the plants. I love your greenhouse.
Just curious how this particular orchid turned out. Did it survive and thrive as expected? It would be nice to see a follow up video if possible, thanks.
Why would you bother with the old flower stalk?
@@蛋與妹妹的生活扎記 I had w flower stalks that grew extra branching with flower buds and one grew a kki. I was going to chop the both too but some things came up keeping me too busy, forgetting all about my plants. Came back to all that growth. Also pretty sure I'm getting another baby.
You are an orchid angel. I have had a few orchids planted just in this way and I thought it was normal. I'm very happy to be educated on proper orchid care.
I'm an orchid newbie. Thanks for your helpful videos!
I came back to this after having bought phals at the big box stores with worse roots than this one. The orchid mix they sell but for one at lowes was dreadful as well. So live and learn, I need to find a better phals supplier here in my town! A couple that I repotted in the basic bark medium have survived, better than none!
thank you, Brad. Good quality video, good story and explanation.Sure, you will be reworded by this new member of your orchid family with beautiful flowers and great pleasure seeing recovery of the resquid plant
Brad, you are amazing. Thanks so much for your tutorials
Thank you for such a big help. I think one of my plants (I only have 2) is in this kind of shape, though it's in the original clear plastic pot, so that's at least one good thing. I am a true newbie with all this and have learned a lot.
Judith Byrd
Awesome video for a new orchid owner like me! thanks!
Nicely done! It will be a happy plant very soon.
Thanks Andrea
I just bought an orchid today and it had some rotten roots too! Now I know what to do thank you so much! What's your update? Has it bloomed yet?
Hi I'm very new that Orchids growing. So this video has help me to understand growing orchids. I have friend that asking me if i'm crazy to start doing this now. It is toooo costly. Like i have my own saying one life to live do what make you happy. Thank you so much for this video.
Dawn-Marie Thomas thanks for watching!
Very good ! even your substrate composition is exellent , a very good standart substrate not only for phalaenopsis.I have no doubt that this plant will bloom in the next 6 months.
Is there an update to this orchid? Would love to see how it's doing now!
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TY for this very in-depth video!!!!!!!!!!!! I picked up 2 (experimental/my first orchids!) $1 rescues, and I'd like to try to take good care of them XD Your video gives me hope!!!!!!!
Thanks and good luck!
Ahhh Suke Suke I did the same, picking up a $29 Phalaenopsis in a decorative outer pot for $5, and nursed it back to health. The vendor gave a plastic shot glass (actually a double-shot) to water it with weekly to help prevent over-watering, a key to keeping them alive. I water once per week with the shot glass and once a month give the plant a good soak, per other watering instructions I saw on TH-cam. See details below. Good luck with your plants!
alan30189 LOL, thankyou!!!! I didn't think of that-- using a small measuring container to limit overwatering, LOL. You're the best :D
Ahhh Suke Suke No problem. How are your orchid rescues doing?
Recieved an orchid not too long ago from a coworker who grows them, had nice media and made me inimidated to touch it as I had known nothing of orchids. I have left it alone for about 3 months now and the last two flowers just fell, the media looks to be rotting. But thanks to you I can have some confidence in reviving this orchid and hopefully expanding my garden to contain clones and more elaborate orchids, like vanilla.
This may be tedious for you but could you do an update on how much better it did?
I just love seeing the flurry of roots that you have carefully cultivated.
Thanks Brad! I have just watched this video and hoping my orchid will make a recovery. It was nearly as bad as the one you're saving!
Best video that I've seen dealing with my beloved Orchids. Brilliant, so good and well explained that I subscribed. Bravo
thanks alot for your advice no sales person has ever given me that advice !
OMG thanks for rescuing that poor lil Orchid.
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Hi, you have taught me so much. Glad you helped this poor plant.
Shaded Moon, Sphag. moss holds lots of moisture. When you find some, (Garden Centres or online) divide it into plastic clip-lock lunch bags or similar and hang in a fairly bright place, not sun. In a couple of months you'll have much more moss. Sphag moss is expensive where I live so this method helps.
I'm a total newbie with orchids (or any other plant for that matter) but I was given a phal for Valentine's Day last year and managed to keep it alive long enough to bloom again this year. It has a ton of aerial roots and leaves (new and old) but is packed very tightly into a flexible pot just like the one here. I can see that the majority of the roots inside the media are rotted. It's definitely time to repot but after watching this video I'm a little scared of what I'll find. Thanks for the tips and wish me luck!
Thanks for the comment, good luck!
Oh MY Thank You I just repotted (orchid) Mrs. Orchid boy was she in BAD SHAPE so we watched this video and I repotted Her and she watched her By the time we were done she looked happy We will let you know how she does
Thank you! Going now to search for a update on this beauty.
Hi Brad. very new orchids owner here.loved your video .thanks for sharing. Moira Australia
Thank you for you in put on how to Repot the Orchids.It was very helpful. Hope I will be able to keep mine going for a very long time.
Thanks for good instructions & information .
Thank you for this very helpful video!
Thank you for this video. A few months ago I bought a ton of orchids from my local hardware store. Over the last few months they've appeared lush with green leaves, even growing more leaves. But one by one they've just died, dropping all leaves suddenly. I've found your video, and I've done as you've said. Hopefully the remaindered will survive and revive. (they had very few live roots).
THank you again for this video and fingers crossed for my orchids.
Love your channel thank You!!!! Your green house aweee
really helpful video to rescue my orchid that is in the same situation
thank you so much! you have a lovely gentleness.... plants love you!
Love -Reiki
Hi Brad i Like ur medium mix, seems very appropriate in singapore weather :)
Thank you so much for helping me learn how to care for my orchid's root system! Now to find info on what to do about yellowing leaves...
Thank you so much, I learned a ton of great information! I appreciate your time!
fantastic thorough explanation and repotting thank you. thank you for sharing
Thanks Brad, your tutorials are really informative, I have one Phal which was given to me as a gift so I'm very much a novice, I've had some lovely blooms this summer and I would never have been brave enough to prune the stems without watching your previous video and now I know how to repot when the time comes, I'm in the UK so have to allow for our different temperature here but so far my lovely Orchid seems to like it's home, lots of natural light but out of direct sunlight, I'll be sure to keep watching to pick up more of your helpful tips
I didn't have much root that was salvageable, but it still looks very healthy. I'm allowing the bottom to air dry, then I will follow these instructions. I may just drill into a tree limb I've been saving, and put the medium and orchid in that.
Mr. Brad, I still add charcoal to that same media mix you’ve got there. Why don’t people like to use charcoal for phals? My phals are lovely... tons of blossoms on strong plants, but the roots are not as robust as I think they should be. This year my phals went insane! Thanks to your help!!! ( ...and a few other TH-cam Orchid channels.) I was shocked to see that most of my 12 phals have TWO bloom spikes and those spikes have spikes! Totally cool. Sorry, I just HAD to brag a little to SOMEBODY!🤭 Thanks for the great videos as usual! Please, if you possibly could find time, let me know about the charcoal use... or maybe someone else can comment about their feelings on charcoal. I’ve been using it in everything & I would say that everything is looking pretty happy, but I don’t want to jinks myself. 😁😙🤓. Thanks Again & Best Regards from Clearwater, Florida.
Brad..your videos are very informative and you give lots of valuable information...thanks for sharing your knowledge.
hey, I tried buying the orchid mix but the website says it won't ship organic material outside of Canada. :/ that's a bummer.
Thank you so much for the video, because of you I was able to take proper care of my orchid before it was too late.
Great video. I'm about to transfer several to the same colored design pots and now I know what to do. Thx
I do appreciate your time efforts. Thank You. However as a novice, you loose me with unnecessary and repeated information, bad pots etc. . Its obvious that you are very learned in this topic, and in the same span of time could, more detail on care , and cause. etc Greatly appreciate the quality of the audio and video.
Really great segment!
thanks Brenda!
80 degrees ahhh the days of spring and summer how nice and how luck y for you Brad. One of the pahls I rescued from the big box store was just like that I did everyting you have done except I used rooting hormone on the tips of the cut roots just to sterlize and stimulate new root growth
You went above and beyond! I'm sure it will recover just fine.
I have a soft spot for them when I see they are in dire need . I just got back from the vets office and I saw an Oncidium on the desk with shrivled pseudo bulbs and proceeded to tell the secretaries how to save it and what to do with it , they thought it was a lily lol
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Hi! I loved the video! I recently got an orchid as a gift. It is in a plastic liner with a hole on the bottom and it is packed with moss. I am trying to let it dry out but it is in bloom and beautiful! Do i leave it in the liner until after the blooms are done? Or should i go ahead and repot and risk loosing all of the blooms? I want to pot it in bark. Thank you for your guidance. One last thing, halfway up the flower stalk there is a leaf. Its just random. What should i do? Cut it off or cut it when the stem dries up or leave it there? Help! Thank you!!
Thank you!! I was able to bring my almost dead orchid back after almost killing it... Thanks for this explanation!!
That's awesome! Im so glad to hear that
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Hello Brad is there any update video for this orchid would like to hear from her. Your video are so usefull to me thank you very much.
Great explanation step by step. Thanks!
Hi Bard
ok great news, will let you know when it arrives thanks again :)
You are more than likely feeling like we do. My dad grows award winning phalaenopsis just as a hobby (awards won at orchid club meetings held every month). I wish I'd seen this video a month ago. We go to garden centres SAVING these poor plants, wrapped in cellophane, drowned with so much water, with nowhere to run. Then they have the cheek to charge $40! For an almost dead plant. Thank you for this video. I agree about those cheap pots. I also think they need to quit drowning these poor plants and smothering them with sphagnum. Cheers 😀
Sarah Le Moignan The key is to wait till they discount almost-dead plants. See my story, above. I bought a phalaenopsis at a Kroger grocery store, discounted to $5. The outside container it was in was worth $5, so I figured I couldn't lose. I nursed it back to health.
Here is what you do: Ask to talk to the manager of the store, and tell him he has a bunch of dying orchids that you would like to make an offer on. Shoot low on the price, because he might ask for more. Say maybe $3 or $4 each and if he comes back with a higher price, settle somewhere in between. Good luck!
I do the same thing....All most all of time it works and the manager takes my offer and I would just buy all of them....Managers just want to get rid of them. And that way it save them the time in asking an employee to just throw then in a dumpster....It just breaks my heart to see so many plants just being neglected and throw away when you know they could have been saved....
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Very well done,
Just bought my first ever Orchid at 80 years of age, have no idea what the name of it is, already learned a lot from your video, its planted in a square glass container with no opportunity to drain, so watering will be done very sparingly, any advice would be welcome,
Edmund............Alberta
repotting it in a plastic pot with holes would be more convenient, you get to see the roots, it drains well and the roots get air circulation! congrats on your first orchid ! is it doing well?
Hello Danny,
I'm not too sure about that all the flowers were up at the top of a long stem, and we had 6 buds appear and they all flowered, but over time they fell off, now we just have the stem, when we purchased it it had 3 leaves it now has another 3 very nice healthy looking leaves with a nice deep tunnel down the centre, having no idea really what I am doing, I'm hoping another stem might appear, we have it in the kitchen window facing east, it seemed to be doing ok there, at one point my wife had to place a clip to support it, the stem actually didn't break but got a fold in the stem because of the weight of the flower cluster at the top of stem, any advise would be welcome, its still in the glass container,
Walter Maisey Hello Walter,
That should be expected usually store bought orchids tend to lose their flowers after their placed in a new environment so its okay, you should wait a while for the stem to see if it will regrow another spike ( stem ) that will flower more orchids! If not then the stem should be cut not from the bottom but 3 inches up and it will be okay :) also make sure you provide adequate watering in its roots every 7 days or when the roots have a silvery shiny appearance to them, look up orchid feeding videos but first I have to ask what type of orchid is it, does it appear to look like a moth ( the flowers have a moth appearence ) then it will be a common phalaenopsis
Danny,
I should have taken a photo, it looks very much like a Speckled Phalaenopsis, I'm going to take your advice and re-pot it, they truly are amazing plants and completely opposite to the norm, would you recommend a nice Sphagnum Moss for instance,
Walter Maisey oh great it sounds like a phalaenopsis! Sure repot it ! I do that every time a plant is done blooming, you are correct Walter orchids are delicate and require attention and work but the pay off is awesome when they bloom 😊🌼🌻🌺 I would recommend a nice mixed media for your orchid, quarter wood chips, spagnum moss, perlite, and charcoal. They usually already sell orchid soil in bags at hardware stores like home depot, Lowes or any store up in Alberta that sells orchid supplies :) also try amazon you get good deals! I hope this helped Walter I'm happy to help 😊
'Just saw your new video. You do an awesome job....always lots of good information. I love your traffic cone pots.
+Donna Forget Thanks!
Hey Brad,
Thanks for sharing this video. I'm curious to know how the plant is doing now. Can you share a link if you have another video on this same plant?
Grandtastic Video!
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Thank You for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you for your well explained video, I just got two Miltoniopsis orchids (it says Miltonia on the sticker). They have a wonderful fragrance, I learned a lot from you just now.
Your green house is beautiful!
With lopsided plants, have you ever placed a few glass marbles o top to give it stability? I like seeing the roots so I know how dry (or moist) it is. Nice pot-in-a-pot solution! Looks good!
That was a very detailed and awesome tutorial.
Great video, Thank you Brad. Every time I learn more : ) thanks to you. I appreciate it!
Thanks Hilda
Your welcome Brad : )
Great video. Builds my confidence for how I will handle my first one when it comes time to repot it. Any chance of a follow up on this one? Hope its doing well.
it is doing well. I pass it in my orchid tour videos i do every month
Great presentation, the orchid will be happy now I hope. Why is it that when purchasing growing medium...why is it usually only bark mulch?
Anne H because orchids don’t grow in soil they grow on branches of trees. Using bark gives it a somewhat version of living on a tree while still being “planted” in a pot
Thanks for the video Brad. Question... I'm new to phals and rescued some on close-out at our grocery store. They had the cheap plastic containers with a secondary decorative ceramic or clay pot. They were really root bound so I removed them and repotted in some new Fertilome (made by Lambert) orchid mix I got from my nursery. It is a mix of sphagnum peat moss, bark, charcoal and lava. It looked like decent material. Anyway, I searched high and low for quality plastic secondary containers with slits like you show but could not find them so here's what I did. I simply repotted in the clay or decorative ceramic pots they orchids came in. Since these pots only had a typical center bottom hole, I used some washed pea gravel I had on hand in the bottom 1" or so of the pot to help with drainage. When I water, I submerge the pot in a container for about 5 minutes. So my basic question is did I do the orchid right by all this - primarily not using two containers as I typically see on youtube videos? I'm about two weeks out now and they seem to be happy but a bit wobbly if you move them so I try and be gentle when watering or moving. Finally, since it is VERY dry here, I have set the pots in a pan with more of that pea gravel with just a bit of water to hopefully set up a bit of a micro humid area around them although I'm guessing as dry as it is here, it really doesn't do much. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for that so needed repotting video, you make it seem so very easy.
I have had my orchid for awhile, a few years, and it's in the same pot. I have gotten it to bloom twice but what I did was above ground, I wanted to see what the roots should look like. I have rotten roots. I don't have the media you have so I have to reuse some of what it came with. I microwaved the bark part to disinfect it and I'm going to add rocks. I do have a old coffee can lid with rocks that I pour water into, it won't hold much water. So, I'm going to give my orchid a drying period, (the roots,) but still let it "breathe" water from the rocks underneath. I will try to give an update later.
good luck!
@@BradsGreenhouse I gave the orchid a week to dry out after the repot. It is growing roots, (probably air roots,) and the stem that the flowers pop out of, I have two buds. I gave the orchid some water in the pot but I gave it more in the rocks that are around the pot. I am nervous about two leaves, they are looking sickly but getting more water may make they perk up. I think it's going to live.
Very helpful, please keep up the good work in posting these videos!
I would like to ask your advice on a similar problem: I received a Phaelonopsis hybrid as a gift 4 weeks ago and it seems to be somewhat scorched. The leaves were almost completely red when I received the pant but even the roots were different than normal. They werent rotten but they had some weird patches of hairs growing on them and they werent absorbing water (they kept their very pale green-yellowish colour whilst healthy roots should turn green).
I repotted the plant upon receipt, washed its leaves with distilled water and treated it with Mospilan (acetamipride). Now after some days, no improvement is seen in the plant but the leaves started to turn green-yellowish, mushy and wrinkly. 2 bottom leaves turned completely yellow and fell off with a rotten edge so I would have suspected crown rot but I do not see any rotten parts on the plant itself.The orchid is btw from IKEA and as their main expertise is not growing orchids I would suppose this was maybe caused by bad care, maybe the combination of too strong artificial light+too potent fertilizer. Do you have any advice on how to help this poor little plant?
great vid Brad, just what I needed to see, they do the same thing here in AU too with display pots of Phala's , better get out and do what you have just done, but its 43c here so probable just a bit to hot to do it now. they actually died off and now growing back again :)
Glad I could help, still that hot over your way wow! Oh I just mailed you something last week, so it should get to you shortly. I was a little later dropping by the post office.
informative thanks, ihave to watch ot over and over
just wondering if it's necessary to use an outer pot that has those slots or holes in it to let light in. I like the look of the clay pot. thanks for this and for rescuing that poor little orchid. how is it doing now?
I find it really difficult to tell if my roots are rotting or not getting enough water. so I dont know how to take care of it. My roots are kinda papery. it would be great to see a video comparing different roots and telling us if they rotted or dried up.
Awesome vid! Very informative, I think I now have a chance at keeping an orchid.
Hi Brad I was wondering if you would be able to show this rescued Phalaenopsis in your next Greenhouse Update. I would really love to see how it is doing.
It's actually in the house now, in bloom. I've had it in if you have my windowsill orchid care videos that I've been doing this winter.
Thanks will check it out. Love watching your videos.