HI Linda 😍💐 thank you so much for your feedback, I appreciate it very much. Also, taking the time to watch, thank you 🫶🏼 I wish you a wonderful start to the new week ❤️🌸
I want cry!!! I spent the last two months researching in internet which could cause the spot on my phal leaves. I was desperate, as the roots were healthy and growing. I sent pictures to sooo many persons and i asked to facebook orchid group with nooo result. I also waked up in the night to go and check my plants, then I saw the picture in this video regarding magnesium deficiency and the spot on my leaves are exactly like those! Plus I never gave magnesium but only calcium. Thanks is not enough! I,m learning a lot from you. ♥
Dania 🥹🙏🏼 noooo!!! 🥰💐 I am so glad that you found this video, that it answered your concerns, that you know what you are dealing with and how to correct the situation! You have no idea just how much your feedback encourages me 🙌🏼 I am saddened to hear that you have been sharing pictures with so many people... asking on facebook and no one gave you a sound answer. That ... wow, I have no words! I am so so glad that you found this video 🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🙌🏼 IF you want to share videos like these on facebook, please do so... let's see if anyone comes out of the woodwork that can benefit from these kinds of videos, because, clearly... as you did not have any answers for so long, maybe someone else needs the same help? Thank YOU, for watching, for your feedback and for your support, Dania!! I hope that you are now looking forward to applying some of the tips this video has in it and watch your orchids grow grow grow!! 🌱❤️🌸 wishing you a beautiful Sunday 🌸
Thank you for this very timely info. I’ve been trying to diagnose problems for awhile and I think this information should help. Very clearly and concisely explained.
Hi Debra 😍💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before so a warm warm welcome and a big thank YOU for being here, for watching and leaving a comment with positive feedback letting me know this video was helpful. I really appreciate that 🫶🏼 it can be very confusing to diagnose all the different things we see on our leaves, so, this makes me happy that you found a source that can serve as a guideline! Wishing you a wonderful day, Debra! Once again, welcome ❤️🌸
Debbie 😍 hello lovely lady 💐 thank you, for your time and due diligence when it comes to this deficiency video! I am so relieved to hear that you still find a new tidbit! Nothing worse than going back to a video and feeling as though time has been wasted, so, thank you ever so much for your time and for watching 🫶🏼 I hope that you are having a beautiful day ❤️🌸
Julia, hi 😍💐 thank YOU for watching this video as well and for your positive feedback!🙏🏼 I really appreciate it! I was hoping that the charts would make a great screen shot for any quick reference and a baseline. 🤞🏼 hope your day was fabulous, Julia and, I wish you a wonderful Wednesday already 🌸
😍Paige! Hi! 😍💐 thank you for your feedback!! I revamped my notes, and brought them back to life 😬 I am glad that you found this interesting, and thank you so much for letting me know, for watching and all that good stuff! So good to see you again, Bella 😘 hope you are doing well! I am so ready for spring, and today was the first nice day after 2 weeks of yuck, but tonight the temps dropped again, so... we are getting a tease here and there, but we are not there yet. 😩 ❤️
🌸🥷🏼 Bob San 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️🥰💐 good afternoon, from a sunny but windy day in S'ern Spain! We got some much needed rain last night, I just hope it fell where the reservoirs are 😬 I call these winds 'the winds of change' which means that the weather is trying to switch but mother nature isn't quite ready yet. It is going to get really cold in the coming days, but mid March is also not far away 🥳 you are so appreciated 🌸🥷🏼 you are finding the nugget videos that are, as you say, worth watching over and over, I am so grateful for you that you are seeing them! It's hard to describe. These videos have such low views but we all have these issues. So, your presence here... priceless!! Thank you so much for watching! I hope your week is off to a great start 🫶🏼 have a wonderful rest of your day ❤️🌸
HI Ingrid 😍💐 thank YOU so very much for your feedback and letting me know that it was interesting 🙏🏼 I wish you a beautiful Sunday, Ingrid! Thank you for watching 🌸
oh gosh, Walter Jr. is looking leaps and bounds better than the last time we saw him. Poor little fella almost bit the dust because of colomi lies. There is one other thing that can look like a nutrient deficiency, and it really only applies to those growing under lights. An excess of the blue spectrum (red lacking) will cause yellow patches on the leaves that will look very much like a nitrogen deficiency. No amount of nutrient supplement or pH adjustment will correct it, moving the plant to a more balanced spectrum will correct it in short order (or moving it from under the lights to a windowsill will work as well, so long as it doesn't get burned). Conversely, a lack of blue light will cause an overall yellow color to the leaves. Neither are especially common as most lights have a sufficient balance, but I have seen cheap cheap "grow" lights that will cause one or the other. (the same will apply to any plant, not just orchids) No new discoveries on my end to report today. I did bid on a blooming size division of Laelia crispa but I didn't win. Oh well, I still have my little one. But you are right, it is SLOOOOOOW. It was working on that new growth when I got it and it is just now opening the leaf. It probably ranks up there with Cattleya violacea with slowness.
Don Miguel 🥰💐 hola jefe! little Walter... looking mighty fine, considering what he has been through! Feels as though the little guy is desperately playing catch up 'don't do that to me again!!' 😬 Thank you for that added nugget about what artificial lights can do 👍🏼 back in the olden days, I bet those signs were much more predominant. I wonder if anyone has had that happen to them within the past decade. I have never heard anyone mention this intel on the tubes. I wonder if my crispa is even going to grow a new growth this year 💅🏼 for a whole year, it has not shifted in any way shape or form. The only thing that comforts me that it is possible a crispa (mislabelled is always on the back of my mind) is the fact that it was slow to mature the new growth it came with, and then spent the past 12months+ checking out the scenery and possibly wondering if it should bother producing another growth. As it is Sunday and another dull day, I have the lights on, and it is under the blurple lights, just to give it a nudge... low temperatures won't help with that nudge, but yeah, its behavior is making me hopeful that it is in actual fact a crispa. I don't like how squat the little seedling bulbs are, but I am hoping that they are just like that because they are seedling bulbs. 🤞🏼 I saw a violacea on Grossräschener Orchideen ... blooming size apparently, for 65€. No, I didn't buy it, nor did I buy anything else either, but to see a blooming size violacea available, that did surprise me. I really want to wish you a great Sunday, but would feel bad doing so, considering the circumstances you are finding yourself in 😘😘 man... I have PTSD from my lack of water supply last summer!! Hang in there, my friend, hang in there! I hope you have a good wall of rain come down to be able to maybe collect some water 🙏🏼🙏🏼 thank you so much for watching ❤️🌸
Hi Kazeme 😍💐 Welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and a big thank you for being here, for watching and your kind feedback on the video! The support is truly appreciated 🫶🏼 I hope you are having a great week and look forward to seeing you again ❤️🌸
HI Kara 🤩💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and a massive thank you for being here, I so appreciate that! Also, thank you for watching and for your feedback 🫶🏼 hope your day was fabulous 🌸
This is just what I needed!!!! I’ve got massive new growths on 95% of my orchids right now. I’ve recently homed/ bought a specimen size Leila that was infested with scale. I couldn’t pass up a $10 price tag!!! She’s huge, gorgeous, and now pest free. I couldn’t understand why the tips of her leaves were yellowing and drying out. It looks like it’s a nitrogen deficiency. On top of having 3 new growths, I’ve had to bump up my fertilizing and frequency of watering. Hello spring. Thank you so much for this video Nina! As usual, you’ve knocked this one out of the park!!💕💝💕
Nicole, hi 😍🥰💐 wow! Thank YOU so much for your feedback, and for letting me know that it was what can be of guidance 🙏🏼 that laelia sounds divine and $10 ... I'd take it and deal with the scale as well. Fantastic purchase... the best, when they come like that 🙌🏼 Hello Spring indeed! I still don't see it happening here, the weather is terribly cold! The jasmin is blooming but that is about it. Unfortunately with the cold front that we have had for the past week and supposedly for the coming week, there is no fragrance to enjoy. I hope that the weather breaks soon... this is a nightmare for my orchids. Feel free to share this video around, if you think that it could help someone else. I appreciate any kind of broader audience in any way shape and form 😘 have yourself a beautiful day, lovely lady!! Thank you, for watching and your support 🌸
Hi Fran 😍💐 it is so good to see you in the comments! Thank you so much for watching and commenting on this video, also, with a comment that provided feedback as to the fact that it was helpful to see different deficiencies! That makes it worthwhile to actually have had candidates displaying them, even though at the time, it is OH NO!! 🙄 really appreciate the feedback, thank you so so much 🫶🏼 I hope you are having a great day, lovely lady ❤️🌸
HI Dee Dee 😍💐 thank YOU, lovely lady, so much for your positive feedback! And for taking the time to watch 🙌🏼 I hope you had yourself a wonderful Saturday and ... I wish you the same for tomorrow 🥰🌸
HI Alise 🤩💐 so good to see you again, thank you so much for watching and leaving me a comment, I hope that you are doing well 😃 I really appreciate your comment, very much Alise! so encouraging and motivating, thank you 🙏🏼 I hope you had yourself a wonderful day.... thank you for carving out time to watch this video 🌸
Hi 😍💐 thank you so very much for also watching this video and your feedback AND for sharing it 🙏🏼 wow!! I really appreciate it!!! Back in the day, I made these cards for my own records and fell back on them often. They needed a revamp 'anyway' so, I figured, if they helped me, then hey... maybe someone else will benefit from the format! And here you are 🙌🏼 and you shared the video! Thank you so so much 🥹❤️🌸
🦒🙌💖👏👌!!!! Those are wonderful cards, easy accessable information. I would say, everything spoon fed. Great video, Nina, It's all there for a quick and correct diagnosis. Thank you very much for putting all this useful information together. I hope your weather has improved and that you are already having a lovely warm SUNday. It was not bad over here yesterday and the day before, quite warmish, some clouds but mostly sunny. But temperatures are dropping this week 😕. Much love to you and yours 🥰😍🤗
FFF 🙌🏼🤸🏼♀️😍🥰💐 good evening, meine liebe Freundin! I dusted off my old archives, and modernized the look 😅 much needed! Thank YOU for your kind feedback, I really appreciate your comment! It is encouraging 🙏🏼 The weather here?? Its pathetic! Today I tiptoed around watering my tolumnia and mounts. It reached 14ºC ... only! It's gross! It looks like Tuesday is the day when I can take them all outside and flush them through.... then the day temperatures may be a little higher, which will be a relief, but overcast again. So... from what I can tell, the coming week is grotesque and no favorable conditions are in sight. BUT... that sun is rising higher behind the clouds... I am keeping the faith 💆🏼♀️ its getting harder and harder to do so, but I don't have any choice! I think I am going to cry the first sunny warm day 😬 your support is so very much appreciated! I feel as though I am fighting a battle here... Joan of Arc, but with the climate as my enemy, loosing the fight. So, thank you so much for lifting me up on a daily basis, with your watching my videos, and with your comments! Thank you for being a friend ❤️ hope you had a beautiful Sunday. We shall be moaning about the weather together the coming, week 👎🏼😓 much love to you, amiga! 🌸❤️
Hi Franco 🤩💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and thank you so much for being here, for watching the video and your positive feedback on this presentation! I appreciate it very much 🫶🏼 Also, that it was helpful and you can work with the information from here on in 👍🏼 I hope you are having a fabulous start to the week and once again, welcome! 🥰🌸
HI Jose 🤗💐 thank you very very much for your feedback, once again, Jose! I really appreciate it 🤗 I hope that your Sunday evening is a blessing to you 🌸 thank you for watching 🌸
HI! 🤩💐 thank you so much for your feedback!! Always feel free to share videos that you may find useful for your community. Even though, mine are always in English, but, pictures... they may still help and the numbers / recipes etc. they are universal. You are welcome to share them 👍🏼 once again, I appreciate your feedback! And thank you so much for watching! Have yourself a wonderful evening 🌸
I LOVE this video and took many photos for future reference! Will watch again as it is one of the clearest and most understandable explanation about nutritional deficiencies, the why and how to treat, that I've seen. The charts are wonderful. Thanks! And ATB - have a lovely week!
Hi Ann 🤩💐 I am so glad that you took advantage of the screen shot form! It is nice to know that someone took me up on that 👍🏼 I have found these cards to be so helpful in the past, for me anyway, simply because, time flies, I get into a routine, and well, suddenly something is going awry. These have helped me as reminders, so... very happy that you took lots of images, and I hope that they will be as helpful to you, in the future, as they have been for me! Your feedback is very much appreciated, Ann, and thank you so much for watching 🌸 You have yourself a lovely week as well 🥰🌸
Hi Elen 🥰💐 thank you so much for this feedback, Elen! I very much appreciate it and that you watched the video 🙏🏼 I hope that you are having a great Sunday 🌸
Hi Robert 🥰💐 I have to watch my nutrient applications this winter ... and I am seeing deficiencies, but, it is all part of the information that I can provide for the channel in future videos. Next winter, let's see if there is anything I can do differently. I doubt it, because, cold is cold... unless I have a job by then to afford the lights, it will be pushing strength into my orchids during the growing season, so that they have what they need during the months of 'starvation'. I will assess the situation when they are all outside again, and I can go gung ho! This coming week 👎🏼👎🏼 but, its getting closer.., every day, I tell myself that, like a broken record... every day its getting closer! 👍🏼👍🏼 really appreciate you watching, Forrest 😘😃 thank you so much for your invaluable support! Hope you are having a fabulous Sunday 🌸
Matt 🤩💐 I love the rabbit holes that deficiencies take me down. I have learned not to get too confused though, because, the downside of that is that one can become a bit of Dr. Google with every spot on an orchid 😅 years later, I have learned to chill out 😅 thank you so much for watching!! Have yourself a well deserved relaxing Sunday 🌸
Hi Stephen 🥰💐 thank you so much for your feedback! I am glad that you see the cards as something useful! I hope that you are having a great Sunday 🌸 thank you for watching 😘
Well done Nina, that was really useful information. I remember Rick L first explaining things many moons ago but my poor old brain needs help to remember things. It's good to be able to go over the video again as it all went by so fast 😄 and I will try and find a way to save the cards so I can refer when problems occur. Another helpful video would be on what different infections look like ie what infections cause the black spots or cell death or black rot etc. Why do Zygos seem to get rot so easily?
HI Carole 😃💐really appreciate your feedback, Carole, thank you so very much! Rick L ❤ You can screen shot teh info cards, that is why I make them in this format, because it is easy to save them into the phone or computer by taking a screen shot. 👍🏼 I will look into the different infections and see if I have any footage. I always like to show examples with some images, at a minimum, but I have not had any infections for such a long time, with the exception of some stem rot that just took the orchid out. Let me see how I go about making an interesting video that displays examples. 👍🏼 thank you for your suggestion, Carole! Grrrr Zygos! I find that, any orchid that has a leaf structure similar to zygos, are prone to rot, unless they are given plenty of Calcium. It is easier for us to recognize Cattleyas needing a lot of calcium because their leaves scream structure / strength which need support, but maybe when it comes to our perception of the thinner structured leaves, we don't think of them as needing Calcium in higher quantities. Just a thought 👍🏼 hope you are doing well, Carole. I wish you a wonderful Sunday and thank you so much for watching 😍🌸
HI Chantal 🥰💐 I have to thank YOU, Chantal, for watching and for your kind feedback! Zygo leaves are a pain... actually, all orchids that have the 'flimsy' structures, they really are so prone to anything and everything. Look away, and there is another spot. Some are normal... just because the environment cannot be perfection all the time. They will be the first to react. Oncidium leaves, the same. Flimsy structure and boom.... 💆🏼♀️ I have settled for the fact that I cannot give them perfection, so am accepting the imperfections, just so long as they can make it in my climate, and bloom. Thank you, once again, for your feedback and for watching, Chantal! I hope that you had yourself a great weekend 🌸
HI Shirley 🥰💐 many years ago.... I went down all the rabbit holes of deficiencies, like a woman possessed! It was not doing me any good because I side eyed many things my orchids were 'looking like' instead of just seeing it for a process they were going through. So, for my own sake, I broke it down into the most common deficiencies! Focus on those, try to avoid them etc... the rest will then not fall into place. From then on, I relaxed and didn't go gaga over black spots 😅 I had to dust off my notes, revamp their appearance ... so, I am glad that you stuck through the video and thank you so much for your feedback 🙏🏼 really, very much appreciated! Wishing you a beautiful Sunday, Shirley ❤️🌸
Hi Harald! 🤗💐 welcome!! I have not seen you here before, so first of all, a warm warm welcome and thank you so much for being here, for watching and for your comment 🙌🏼 I am glad that this video was of help... at least to get a heads up as to what we are looking at when it comes to black spots. Thank you for letting me know, I appreciate the feedback. Hope you are having a great Sunday and once again, welcome! 🌸
HI Valarie 😍💐 thank you very very much!! Really appreciate your feedback and thank you for letting me know / for watching 🙏🏼 wishing you a beautiful Sunday, Valarie ❤️
After watching this video I think what I said in my last comment on your previous video I’m thinking I need to at least add the equal amount of rain water again, or probably tip it out and start over. The TDS just seems too high and can only get better by adding more water. As far as the PH goes of my mix, it’s a bit too low, although I did nothing to make it so low, no additives or anything but feel that at the rate it is, the plants may not be able to take up a lot of the nutrients. It’s all getting too complicated for me to understand, but I’m trying.
Hi Renate 🥰💐 oh.. here is another comment, which clarifies things for me 👍🏼🙌🏼 thank you so much! I should have started at the top, so that I did not have to bombard you with a novel 🙃 adding more water is the best course of action so as not to waste fertilizer. It is what I do if I get too heavy handed, and the left over is good for the next day as long as no seaweed was added. Orchid specific fertilizers will reduce the pH automatically if the dosage is done in such a way as per manufacturer's label. If we go over that because we want a higher ppm, then the pH will keep dropping, which is not a problem, but we then need to compensate that with a pH up product to raise the level to the acceptable amount ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fw7e8jMBxFc.html here is a video where I address pH a little more. Not sure if you have seen it, but just in case, I thought I would link it. I am hoping to make things as simple as possible. For that reason I made the Recipe Cards video as well. At the beginning, the understanding may fluster, but at the beginning it is important to get the nutrients into the plants and the understanding will fall into place gradually. I hope that I can make that happen for you, so that you can see results, without having to have all the other intel in place all at the same time. It will happen, I promise you! 😘
Hi there lovely lady 😻💐 that is so true! In preparation for this video, I dusted off my old journal and it was a good exercise for me as well. It also dusted off the memory bank ... there was a lot of dust 😅 thank you so much for watching 😻 and your kind feedback! I have modernized my notes, and those charts are filed away .... they look revamped. Glad you like them 👍🏼 Wishing you a relaxing rest of your Sunday 🥰🌸
My young violacea is growing next to my young schilleriana and bellina, but the new leafs keep getting dieback. The potting mix and watering/fertilizing are the same so I'm kind of confused as to what it is. The violacea is the only one in spike currently. I have uploaded a video showing what it looked like before I trimmed the leaf and applied cinnamon. I use two drops of lemon juice to lower the pH, but I found rain water to be naturally acidic (4ppm, 6.1pH). The tap water I have is 86ppm, 8.6pH. 200th like here. 😁
Hi Joe 😍💐 thank you for rounding off the like count 🤗🫶🏼 how much calcium are you giving your phals? It is possible that they need a little more than they are getting while in active vegetative growth. I know that, my schilleriana grows much better if I focus on the calcium supply as opposed to fertilizer. I was about to loose a leaf when I ran out of calcium nitrate and did not give her any other than calmag and fertilizer, and the moment I got calcium nitrate again and got it into her system, she stopped aborting the leaf. I am assuming that the roots are doing well in the pot. IF not, then calcium will also promote the root growth 👍🏼 rain is slightly acidic yes...it picks up a lot of debris (microscopic) that lowers the pH of rain. Its great though... I wish I could collect rain water or even have rain during the warm months of the year to let the orchids just get the best that mother nature provides. Hope you are doing well, Joe! Thank you so much for watching and have a fabYOUlous Sunday 🫶🏼❤️🌸
Salut!! Bilgehan 🤩💐Tellement bon de vous revoir! Waouh... ça faisait longtemps ! j'espère que tu vas bien 🙌🏼 merci beaucoup pour vos commentaires positifs! j'apprécie vraiment cela 🙏🏼 et pour avoir regardé, merci! Je vous souhaite un excellent début de semaine 🥰🌸
@@NinjaOrchids Coucou ! C'est vrai que je ne commente pas souvent mais je t'assure que je regarde presque toutes les vidéos. Elles sont souvent, agréables et très informatives. J'aime beaucoup
Great presentation! I think information like this is best served dry so we can refer to it without distraction when the babies get sick. I know/knew much of this but still forget and a 20 minute refresher is very nice to have(My citrus and coffee trees are also consistent reminders of deficiencies). Hopefully there will be a playlist on nutrition at some point (including the previous videos on PH and water quality). P.S. There is the greatly debated topic of foliar feeding but it would be interesting to hear if you have had any experiences with it especially for those immobile nutrients.
HI jjdawg 🤗💐 my apologies!! I have never seen the double 'j' in your name, and always referred to you as jdawg! 🤦🏼♀️ sorry about that! Many years ago, I was going down rabbit holes on deficiencies and just loved the subject, and then found myself side eyeing my orchids with any new spot I saw, or a different curl of the leaf etc etc I had to protect me from myself 😅 so, I broke it down for myself into the most common deficiencies and with those covered, many others would not appear ... never easy videos to just talk about the subject, but.. I really appreciate your feedback! A nutrition playlist.... mmmmhhh... I am tempted 😅 I will give it some serious thought, though, now that you mention it 😉 I have never used any immobile nutrients in my spray bottle that I go around with during the hot months of the year. Only ever seaweed. I have shied away from doing that, not because there is something wrong with it, but because I do not have any humidity to help the water stay on the leaves long enough for the nutrients to be absorbed. The water evaporates so fast here, the mineral build up on the surface of my pots, from the run off, would be a real thing. So, I cannot really speak to that subject, but, trust me... if I were in a climate that had humidity of 70%+, I would be adding Ca Nitrate to my sprayers, in low quantities, but for sure, I would do that 👍🏼 I hope that answers what you were getting at? let me know! Once again, my apologies for not seeing the double jj in my previous replies! Thank you so much for watching, jjdawg! Have yourself a great Sunday 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids Thanks for the detailed answer. I forgot about the dry winds where you are. The mineral deposits would definitely be a problem. And I should apologize since I just changed my account name from jdawg to jjdawg so you didn't get it wrong(just too many notorious jdawgs out there). In any case its just a nickname so jj, jjd ,jdawg etc are fine. No worries and have a great day!
Hi Tran 😍💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and a big thank you for being here, for watching and for your kind comment! I appreciate the support and feedback very much 🫶🏼 I hope you had a wonderful weekend and once again, welcome ❤️🌸
Hi Desire 🥰💐 I see a full fledged video coming up for this question. Give me a few days to gather my thoughts, and put them into something that doesn't sound as if I am talking as if on a merry go round 😬 Usually it is the orchid itself. Not just a single structure that attracts bugs. Decay in the pot, will attract bugs, but they are the harmless kind, they are just a nuisance, ie fungus gnats. I have taken a screen shot of your comment and will get to work 👍🏼 thank you so much for watching, Desire! And for your question!! Hope your Sunday is going great 🙌🏼🌸
HI Mary 😃💐 Thank you very much for your feedback, Mary! I have screen shot cards for the 4 deficiencies which show the ppm and frequency of application. The info card for Calcium is at 8:18 . If you would like to go back and save it to your phone 👍🏼 thank you very much for watching! Have a beautiful Sunday 🌸
Hi Richard 😍💐 what a wonderful and uplifting comment 😃 I had a wonderful day as well, yesterday and Sunday isn't looking too shabby either 🙌🏼 I hope your Sunday is just as zippity and do da 😅 🫶🏼❤️🌸
Lovely plant that you have there and thanks for the information I’ve just had a phals Given to me by my sister-in-law yellow plant with a pink centre got some lovely roots inside the pot it looks quite happy do I remove it now or wait I have water flushed it out with some water and just leave it on my windowsill
HI Andrea 🥰💐 welcome to your new plant! What a wonderful gift from your sister-in-law!! I would wait! Please wait! Not because of the blooms, but because of the shock it may be in while it is getting used to it's new home. The flush will be perfect, and when the media is dry again, give it a soak of CalMag at 60ppm at 6.7 pH. If the roots look good, then, keeping the roots happy at this point in time is the most important thing, and changing her set up at this point in time could cause the roots to fail. There is no rush to repot... wait it out, until the temperatures rise enough (even outdoors... not just counting on the fact that your home is warm enough) there is something to be said about phals coming into our homes new, and repotting at the wrong time even though our homes are warm enough. 👍🏼 the less stress for her for the coming 6 weeks, the better. Thank you for watching! Have a beautiful Sunday, Andrea 🌸
Thank you Nina, again 😊, for this very helpful video. I've got two "summerbloomer"- phalaenopsis with these signs of magnesium deficiancy in the old leafs. Can you please advise, in which concentration I can offer them a soak with epsom? My tab water is about 300 microsimens. It seems to high to add magnesium to it. Maybe 1/2 tab water 1/2 destilled water and then add epson up to 300 microsimens? I am frightened to burn the roots. What do you think?
Hi Sandra 🤗💐 I fully agree that the tap water concentration is already high and you are right not to add Epsom salts into that. The following timestamp, has the Magnesium deficiency card, which you can screen shot 10:42 on that card I have 2 options for correction, incl. pH and how many ppm. I do not work in microsiemens because it is not as universal a number as ppm. If you use tap water, always let it sit for at least 3 hrs before using it on your orchids. Especially because the chlorine will be too high if fresh out of the tap. Letting it sit out, the chlorine will evaporate out of the water, making it safer. Half and half is a good option, but ... let the tap water sit in an open container before using it, even if you do go ahead and dilute it. I hope that the time stamp helps you to get the information and... in time, that deficiency will correct itself. 👍🏼 thank you so much for watching, Sandra! Have a great rest of your Sunday 🌸
@@sandrag8656 www.easycalculation.com/unit-conversion/ppm-microsiemens-conversion.php here is a link to a conversion calculator. I don't want to be spending your money on buying just distilled water, so.. check out the link and see if the 50% water & 50% distilled water will be adequate. I would suggest the Blitz absorption if you go with 50/50. This way, you can flush the pot out afterwards, the orchids get what they need and then you can supplement with CalMag to keep the correction treatment as a back up.
@@NinjaOrchids, sounds good, flushing after soaking...👍 Hopefully it works in my bark enviroment. Think, I'll try 50/50 then. This helps a lot, thanks for your time, Nina, and have a wonderful evening! ❤🙆🏻♀️🌺
