This channel will highlight some great instructional videos from Motes Orchids and some behind the scenes fun stuff!
"Motes Orchids is one of the most renowned orchid nurseries in the world." -- The Boston Globe
One of the "best orchid nurseries in the country" -- Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief
Martin Motes is widely regarded as the foremost expert on vandas in the world.
Motes has created hundreds of hybrids, many award winning, and has recently discovered or been involved in the re-discovery of multiple orchid species. He is the author of the best selling series of books: Florida Orchid Growing Month by Month, which includes Florida Vanda Growing Month by Month available at redlandpress.com. In 2009, the species Vanda motesiana was named in his honour.
Motes Orchids sells unique hybrid seedlings online at its website. Motes Orchids hosts the Tamiami International Orchid Festival every year in January.
I know that this video is seven years old, however, there is another individual. I believe a doctor that states that the MSU information is not valid for orchids. Any feedback on this if you’re still on RU-vid?
This master class was so informative. I learnt so much about everything relating to simple sustainable orchid care. Explaining the reasons behind do's and don'ts were the highlights for me. I found Martin's down to earth and practical approach to sharing his wellspring of knowledge very effective. Even though I am watching this 7 years after its initial posting, all the information shared is still applicable. Thank you for sharing.💖💖💖
Finally! Love, Love, Love! I have finally got some straight information on what to do about diseases! I have spent weeks, months researching, getting a million different answers. Could Be this or Could be that, Use this or this or not that, if...! I was petrified on what to do with a certain disease my orchids might have. (Ha!) I am so Thankful for all of your info on how growing orchids (or any other plants) in Florida is so different. I even went to Amazon, ordered 3 books on southern orchids and and information wasn't appropriate for here. I'm going to return them and buy your books!! Again, I thank you, and my orchids thank you too.
My mentor in the early eighties Jack Wood, would bring back orchids from around the world an his wife Marie would climb a ladder and use a staple gun to put them in the trees. Their back yard was spectacular and responsible for my love of orchids.
and speaking of Florida, I've been keeping 1000s of houseplants my past 50 years and never had a thrip, not a single one til I bought a plant from a Floridian on eBay lol
enjoying your videos... interesting that you only care about Florida growers but refer to Michigan state statistics haha as if you don't care about northern growers... but only their info lol AND I'm not getting a cat and I water my orchids with a watering can cuz I don't have anywhere near as many orchids as you do watering with a huge hose in a greenhouse
Orchids need to dry out! Water with magnesium (tbsp per gallon) smallest ceramic pots are good for keeping that dryness, stableness, coolness, and fungi free. Bright lighting. Cat spaced. Tie them down. Learned so much. I feel like I am attending Orchid college of Florida💗 🙏🏽 thank you.
Since so many of the pesticides in that category (ins) are derived from from chrysanthemums, I wonder does chrysanthemums planted around the yard have any benefit innkeeping thrips and other bugs at Bay? I intuitively want to go with things that makes sense to me like that but have found that citronella did no good repelling mosquitoes and society garlic failed to do anything to repel bugs as best I could tell so apparently logic cannot solve every problem without some experimentation and observation
Potassium nitrate stump remover my Staghorn loves that stuff but I had no idea my Orchids would too, but maybe I should have as they're both epiphytes which I'm sure probably isn't just a coincidence
Everybody used Bloom booster because the marketing team had done their job and nobody questioned it that's why it's so important to question everything and more importantly than that learn to think for yourself. Never believe something you heard just because the person sounded confident that's also the sign of arrogance, looks very much like confidence but very different (in my opinion confidence is often opposite of competence and though they sound alike they're actually mutually exclusive. Charles Darwin 1809-82 Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
I just needed to point out an error in your cork analogy a bottle does not get ruined when the cork is wet it gets ruined when the cork dries out (and stays that way even if you rewet it later). That is the reason why they store wine bottles on their side so that the wine is always in contact with the court to prevent it from drying out. If not as the cork begins to dry out it begins to shrink allowing air to seep inside which then causes the wine to go bad (it's called corked) and it doesn't matter if you try to rehydrate the cork after it's gone dry the wine will still be ruined "similarly you can't fix roots that ruined from drying out by rehydrating, the damage is done" (I know you knew that last part I was just offering a suggestion for modifying the analogy without having to find something new) I'm not critiquing your Vanda growing methodology, you know more about them than I ever will I'm sure. I'm just correcting your analogy so you can choose another or modify the existing one for accuracy sake. Great looking orchids by the way, I love vanda's. A few years back when I lived over in Bradenton and Anna Maria they would grow right on the bark of yellow tabebuia trees that have bark that feels like cork and they required no Hangar Cedar box or anything else. I saw one one time completely covered from ground-level up to about 10 ft and starting to creep out along the branches and they really like the horizontal even more than the vertical. It was beautiful and looked completely natural one of the best displays of Vanda orchids I've ever seen
Help!!! I bought a a Den Lindleyi from you a couple of years ago that has a fungus infection now. Can you please recommend a fungicide for dendrubiums so I can save it.??? Thank you so much!!!
When I was a kid in Lauderdale, I found Butterfly Orchids growing on Seagrape trees, in Birch State Park. Never saw Orchids growing on that type of tree anywhere else. Also I never saw Orchids growing on pine trees, although many use it for orchid bark.
I have been trying to get away from repotting and spent a few weeks last spring mounting many of my orchids on cork and other mounts. Which orchids don’t like to be mounted and would prefer pots and medium?
To use the bifenthrin, do you spray like you would the soap/oil? Do you know if it is systemic? Will it hurt the orchid if it gets into the roots? Very curious about this as I’d use it for around the grow space as a preventative from here on out. But mainly to get rid of the mites and thrips I currently have. I tested one of my orchids with a soap mixture but it hasn’t yet been a day. Any help clearing this up would be appreciated but if not I’m sure it’s on the internet somewhere. Thanks for the great video!!! So glad I found this!
Please can you help me? I am obssessed by wandas orchids, how can I get them as I live in italy? Please please...can’t wait to get your answer...hopefullly ❤️
This video is amazing and i have listened to all of them in this series and they're very informative. I will be listening to them again... even though I have mostly phalaenopsis and just recently bought a few bag babies. There is not much of a selection here in Maryland. I've only had orchids for about 18 months. I've learned so very very much about orchids on RU-vid. Thank you for this video I was just wondering if you're going to produce more videos it would be so helpful because you're just such a wonderful speaker. you have a wealth of knowledge about orchids to share .... i guess that's why you write your books!!! If you do make any more videos I have one suggestion for you. The suggestion would be to repeat the question that the person just asked you because it's just about impossible to hear their questions. you give them an answer and we have to try and figure out by your answer what the question may have been. I didn't realize how important that was until a principal who observed me teaching told me that that was 1 of the things but good teachers do... repeat the question. That way everyone in the classroom can hear the question and then understand the answer. If you do more videos that would be something to think about doing... around the 17 minute Mark in this video a Man asked you a question .... he interrupted your learned... he didn't even wait for you to pause ...and brokemy train of thought and your train of thought. they should maybe could write their questions down and ask them at the end of the lecture...but if they don't have pen and paper I guess they have to ask their question when they think of their question. I hope things are going well at your Nursery! I am new 2 this wonderful world of orchids. ... thank you thank you thank you so very very much for taking the time to put these videos on the youtube for us. Please do some more videos!!! they don't have to be lectures maybe a tour of your Greenhouse or I should say greenhouses. you are a real treasure and thank you again!!! I can't thank you enough for these wonderful lectures. I started a RU-vid channel at the suggestion of a very lovely lady in Canada. We have become friends through RU-vid and I had no way to share my orchids with her. so I started my RU-vid channel to share with her My Success or failures with my phalaenopsis. So if you'd like to see mine someday just put my name Kathleen Murphy and the word orchids into the RU-vid search engine and you'll find the beginning of my journey with orchids. I'm now in my own seasoned with my phalaenopsis meaning now it's up to me to get them to bloom and I'm so excited to see the spikes coming. I found it very interesting in one of your videos where you said it's a battle with orchids fight off their Arch Enemy fungus and that's why they have to dry out. It was so interesting what you said about when they need watered... If you think your phalaenopsis needs water they should have been watered yesterday if you think your dendrobium and cattleya need watered they probably need water tomorrow thank you so very much
What is amazing about this video is I did not know orchids at war with fungus and that's why they dry out and have to dry out what a wonderful wonderful piece of information. And I like the saying if you've dendrobium looks like it needs water tomorrow if your phalaenopsis looks like it needs watered it should have been watered yesterday and if your Vanda looks like it needs watered ... water it! wow
