New World Orchids is a family-owned business in Manchester, Michigan. We specialize in miniature orchid species from around the world but with special emphasis on orchids from Japan. We ship to US addresses year round. Check out our website at www.newworldorchids.com, and if you would like to visit, please let us know--we would love to see you!
As soon as you said greenhouse, I have to know how you do that in Michigan? Is it attached to your house? I suppose you have to heat it for much of the year, living there? Please explain to me.
Hi, I also love dendrobiums, brought 2 monofilormi from you at a January show in NJ. They are doing great. Can you do a video on the care, and how to manage the keiks. That would be so helpful.
Hey Clint! Thanks very much for your suggestion. Do you find that the hook gets caught up in the roots? That would be my concern, although I haven’t tried it. I have a lot of crochet hooks that I could try, though! Thanks very much for watching :)
Do you recommend this in very humid environments? I use inorganic mounts with sphag for my mounted orchids and I HAVE to keep it away from the stem on any species, from Odorata Retrocalla, to a seedling 'S.J. Nagoran' seedling. I wonder if super glue gel actually works???
Hi Lindsay! Thanks so much for watching. I have talked to a number of people who have used various glues successfully. I have used E6000 which is a super thick adhesive, and there’s something called “Tilly Tacker” made specifically for attaching tillandsias to mounts. It looks an awful lot like E6000 to me…. I don’t know why you couldn’t use super glue! It definitely dries faster, but it might be harder to get it to work with the plants because it’s runnier/thinner. As for problems with humidity, the obvious question is whether you have enough air circulation. I’m sometimes bad about turning on my fans, and that leads to fungal and bacterial problems. I generally have about 60-90% humidity in the greenhouse, so I would call that humid. I think that even in that environment, mounted plants need water daily in the summer and every 2-3 days in the winter (low light/cooler). But if you have problems with over watering (like I do), then mounting is a much safer way to grow. Baskets are another great option for plants that are hard to mount. I hope that’s helpful! Thanks again!
That was amazing. Thanks for the tour! I'm so glad you're making videos here -- I've browsed your online shop many times. I'm also a den fan, especially of the little guys, and would love to learn about more of those kinds of orchids. I'm currently growing a Den. bellatulum and Den. parishii. The bellatulum has been tricky for me because I had to dismount it and the roots don't seem to have adjusted well. Anyway, I look forward to more of your videos!
Hi there 🙌🏼... wonderful collection! Love it 😀 new here and happy to have 'found you' ... my encyclia garciana is also a beast! A very thirsty orchid in my climate
Hey Kiddo. Another great tour de jour. Learned a new expression "Totally Dinkers" I know you are saying "cool" however...... too close to Bonkers. Plan to buy Den. Rosellum, very cool. What is culture as a mounted plant???? Love Cary.
Hey Cary! It was “total dinkers” which means “super tiny.” Sorry for the confusion! And I’m growing the Den rosellum just like my other mounted Dens: moderate light, water them every day or two depending on your humidity. I’ll tell you, once I got that guy mounted, he really started taking off. Much love back!
@@newworldorchids Interesting. On the other concerned about lack of air flow. Placed them both where my misting (fogger) setup is pointed. trying to maintain 65% RH.
Thanks, and a great question! Most of the mounted plants are hung on hardware cloth that is zip tied to metal poles running across the support beams of the greenhouse. You can really use any kind of mesh or even (I use this too) repurposed shelving-the kind that has the coated metal wire? You know the type? I have some of those standing on the floor which gives me some portable hanging areas. The more orchids I get, the more I want to mount, and I’m running out of space for everything!
The KING is at the end of the one part of the greenhouse I haven’t filmed yet! He looks amazing, and he’s covered in flower spikes. It’s gonna smell unbelievable when it opens, which is great because it’s close to a Maxillaria pulla which smells like nasty fish water. Anyway I will send you a picture of the kingianum! And I guess I know where I’ll be filming next!
Kristen what an awesome tour you have alot of cool things growing in your greenhouse! The Cattleya Orpetti cross was really nice ...the flower presents itself very well. That Tolumnia Sylvestris was amazing! I remember you buying that dendrobium Tenellum lol How do you grow your dendrobium Kuniko?
Do you really remember that? So funny! I have two Kunikos-one growing mounted like you saw in the video, and another one that’s around the corner in a 3” mesh pot with moss (I don’t intend to change that moss, by the way). The mounted one is in the Death Valley row that you saw where the propane heaters blow on it whenever the heat kicks on. The ambient temp in the greenhouse is around 60 unless it’s a sunny day. Because of the heater, though, that guy you saw is growing pretty darn dry. I do NOT believe in the “dry winter rest.” I believe that you should let the plants dry between waterings. That’s good enough. Nobody dies. Weeks of no water is insane (in my opinion). Mounted stuff dries so fast in the winter, they spend most of their time dry anyway! In the summer, it will get moved outside again to enjoy the humidity and rain. I generally keep the Dens a little wetter in the summer. There’s my long answer!
I LOVE your greenhouse videos! I learn so much, I take a lot of notes & I also am making a shopping list! I need to catch up on any videos I have missed. We do miss you in T-town.
Hey Van!! I really miss you guys, too. I desperately want to see Kay’s greenhouse live and in person! I bet it’s amazing. Please tell everyone at the society hi for me, and tell them I’d be happy to do a Zoom presentation if you’re looking for speakers! Even your “virtual” faces would be very welcome :)
@@newworldorchids Hey Kristen, I was just over to Kay’s the other day and her greenhouse is doing so well. It’s getting pretty full and lots of blooms going on there. She switched to 40% Aluminet Shade Cloth for the Fall / Winter months and is pleased with the results. Plenty of her “Big” plants all over the place and she’s been trying to pollinate her Vanilla plant. It’s all a matter of timing & placement! :-) I will share your greeting with our society and provide a link to your videos in our next newsletter. We haven’t managed to do any Zoom meetings yet, maybe soon? If so we would love to see your smiling face at our gathering!
They grow great mounted or potted. You can see how great the potted guys are doing, but there is essentially no media in those pots--at least not anymore!
This was great! Is there anything in particular that makes Dracula lotax bloom? Mine puts out new growth and roots all the time but hasn’t bloomed. It’s in a terrarium.
Thanks, Laura! I’m a great believer that if your plant won’t bloom and you think you are doing everything right, try temperature fluctuation. Since your Dracula is in a terrarium, I assume that he’s at a pretty constant temperature. Try putting him in a window sill or even outside for a month or so when temperatures allow. That often does the trick on stubborn orchids.
Hey Cary! I ship plants all year, but this time of year I ship them with a 72 hour heat pack. Unless there are significant delays and some other abuse, that does the trick. As for taking plants to shows, usually I drive which means they just come with me. If I have to fly, I put them in the big plant coffins and bring them with me as luggage. Occasionally, I have had to ship plants in which case I still put them in the big plant coffins and ship them USPS. But if it’s not more than 12 hours, I just automatically plan to drive.
@@newworldorchids Yes, I have an orchid coffins too, except it is for the plant tags that I have killed, reason for my question about shipping NEW plants.
Haha! The orchid coffins are the enormous boxes you see me with at the shows. They’re usually tucked under the table. They’re about 48’ x 20” or so. Big enough for me to fit three trays of plants if they’re all standing up. If I super pack the boxes, I can get about 5 trays worth of plants in one box. Oh, and I hang some of the mounted guys off the side of the box (hanging to the inside, of course). It helps that all my stuff is so small. For people that carry big plants, it’s a much bigger headache to fit all the boxes in a vehicle let alone ship them!
Loved the tour Kristen!! You have a lot of gorgeous miniatures ,its ashame we wont get to see you this year at the upcoming shows. That Encyclia radiata is so nice love the shape and form ,looks like something to make a novelty cross with ..wink wink
I'm really good at coming up with ideas for crosses, less good at actually making them, and dreadful at sending them out to be flasked. I need elves...
Another great video! I love learning so I can be a better friend to my orchids. I have a couple questions... How long do mounts/ sphagnum moss typically last? Also, would you ever consider mounting a Dendrobium moniliforme on rock? Thanks Dr. Kristen ;)
Dear Lauren, Thanks so much for watching (and visiting)! Most mounts last nearly forever. The exception is that some sheet cork mounts will become flimsy after a few years of keeping them moist. Many of the orchids I have on sheet cork came mounted already, and they tend to be moisture lovers. The nice thing is that if the mount has rotted out from beneath your plant, you don't have to work at getting the plant free! The moss that you use will degrade, but its role is really to help the plant get settled into its new home on the mount. You never need to worry about replacing the moss. If you wanted to add moss at some point because you wanted some extra moisture around the plant, you could do that. Alternatively, you could drape it with a little Spanish moss. As for putting Den. moniliforme on a rock, they LOVE it! You do have to water every day or so, but moniliforme is classified as a lithophyte, so rocks are their friends. I saw a truly gorgeous specimen in Japan mounted upright on a big hunk of probably granite. It was covered in roots. So cool! And I have a number of moniliforme on cork that are growing beautifully, too. I hope that helps! Thanks again!
Oh good! Everyone I talk to has slightly different methods, but I have found this one to be the perfect combination of easy, effective, and attractive. Thanks very much for watching!
If you can keep them in a shady spot, you'd be surprised at the temperatures cool growers can tolerate. That's especially true for the masdevallia hybrids, many of which have absolutely gorgeous flowers. Mine have to take temps in the 90's to survive through the summer. Thanks very much for watching!
Aww! That's so sweet! I plan to do some videos about Neos, too. So many questions to answer. I am open to suggestions for future topics. Thanks for the feedback; it means a lot!
Thanks so much, Todd! And of course you can wait to order, but I ship with heat packs all winter long and haven't had any trouble (knock on wood!). Merry Christmas!
Hey Van! Yes, that's 18-6-8. I get it from Amazon, the Provider of All Things Tangible. And there are more videos on the way! So good to hear from you, and thanks for watching :)
