Such a gorgeous collection!! Such beautiful blooms too!! That phal. apricot glow is beautiful!! And the rustic spots is so petty! Such a great cross!! Great video!!
I'm so jealous of your fragrant Phal Bellina ❤. I have a bellina x bellina coerulea cross, and so far, she's given me just gorgeous blooms but no fragrance 😢. Perhaps subsequent blooms may start kicking some out. The plant is healthy, well hydrated, getting bright and indirect light, and I keep sniffing her at various different times of the day... but so far, nothing but a very faint vanilla like smell. I should add that she gets a balanced fertiliser on a regular schedule. I just want to roll around like a spoilt toddler and cry for some strong, citrusy fragrance from her 😅. I do have another Bellina, which hasn’t bloomed yet, so I'm living in the hope that someday I'll be able to smell the gorgeous fragrance everyone raves about. ❤
I hope you get fragrance on her soon! I have had some orchids that are supposed to be very fragrant and I've gotten nothing - my Bl. Yellow Bird had no fragrance at all, and I had another cross that did the same thing. Hopefully fragrance develops on yours, but for sure your second one will have it :)
Update: She's fragrant 🎉🎉🥳. Not powerful, but she's definitely pushing out some citrusy vanilla scent when I put my nose close to the flower! Perhaps with time, she'll improve the fragrance throw 🎉🎉
Hi Nicole! I found spider mites this morning, too! I rinsed my plant off and then sprayed it down with a mixture of half alcohol, half water in 1 tsp of dawn dish detergent, and about 10 drops of lemongrass oil. That actually works wonders! It kills those little buggers on contact and melts the egg sacks. It works on thripes, mealy bugs, and scale too. After I treat everything. I'm going to rinse everything off. But I don't think you have to. You could also just use alcohol and water and that way, you wouldn't have to rinse anything at all, I guess. Thank you for the great video!
LEMONGRASS OIL!!! Omg, thanks for sharing. I was experimenting with Rosemary oil - so far it seems ok but I can't prove that it works yet. Will try with this and see how it works!! I like that it's safer for us. Thanks for watching :))
Nicole, suas plantas estão lindas! Achei muito legal você comentar sobre os perfumes das orquídeas, principalmente a híbrida com cheiro de filtro solar.
😅Wow! 🩵 Love the Phal Apricot Glow and the Bellina, which I have. Also have Phal Violacea crossed with a Bellina. Looks like a Violacea. Smells Bellina! Love your Richard Mueller orchids. Hauserman’s has Blc ‘Rustic Spots ones at the right price so definitely getting one! Also, got a Bc Yellow Bird 3 months ago. Already blooming. The nursery I bought it from said it wasn’t fragrant and you said yours isn’t. I discovered mine is, only at night. Sweet smell sorta like honeysuckle!!!
Hauserman is where mine came from I think (i think the tag said it). So nice about your yellowbird, i actually just commented on someone's post about that one - I hear so many people have fragrant ones but mine wasn't, I'm glad you lucked out :) It's a vigorous one!
Sorry your Yellow Bird isn’t fragrant. It’s nice. This is by far, the easiest orchid I’ve ever had. Got it from Carter and Holmes, which is nearby. They told me it had no fragrance. Guess they never smelled it at night lol. I let them know mine was. Fragrance can be so hit or miss. Got a Phal Pinlong Cheris, which Hauserman’s listed as fragrant, but sadly, it’s not. Still love Hauserman though
Hey Nicole! 100% the Bellina rocks my boat. I’m so into the Novelty and species phals! It’s all I buy lately. I have a couple Bellinas but if I find another I won’t be able to pass it up. I have a show this weekend so let’s see what happens. 😅😅Thanks for sharing!
Hey Nicole, I was having the same problem with my potted vandas and I have the same set up as you as far as having plastic pots with a decorative pot on the outside. I put small pebbles, pumice or LECA in the bottom of the decorative pot and put about an inch of water in each one, then I put the plastic pot with the vanda back on top of that, and it keeps constant moisture and humidity around the plant even if the vanda dries out, for a minute, its ok. It's a great set up, just wanted to let you know.
Ohh that's a nice idea. When I repot in a few weeks i'll think of this and keep it in mind, I like this! I do really like the clay pots and they work really well for them but they dry so fast that I can't keep up.
Enjoyed the update with all the beautiful blooms Thank you for sharing 👍😊 One of my favorite 🌸 is your Blc. Rustic Spots 💛🧡❤ the color combination with the spots 🥰. I just ordered ( 🇨🇦 vendor ) the same orchid 🌱last week . I'm so excited ,can wait for the plant delivery 😄. I see we got the same weekend weather conditions? ☔🌫🌧 😁🙈
That Rustic Spots is a show stopper! I'm exited that you'll have it, and there's a ton of variation on the cross so it'll be interesting to see if it's similar or different :)
3/39 of my orchids are in bud or spike right now. Two of them are under LED lights: Phal. violacea (spike) Dendrobium Hibiki (keikis with buds) My first mounted orchid, the Gastrochilus japonica is in double spike. This one gets unfiltered eastern sunshine. 6:33 The Mareeba Tiger was my favorite this time. The flower shape reminds me of a Zygo.
Hi Nicole. All your orchids are beautiful. I’m curious, I seen where you have some Hoya’s in Leca, self watering. I really don’t know anything about them and I’m still trying to get my two cutting’s to root. I’ve got them in distilled water right now, but I could easily put them in Leca and self watering. Have a great weekend. 🤗🥰💐
Hi Shirley! Thank you! I find that hoyas really like leca. Their roots are less sensitive than orchids and many do well in it! The only exception for me was my Hoya Finalysonii, that one i have in a succulent mix. I have a few others in succulent mix as well but just root the hoyas in water, and find that in two weeks I have roots - or if they are stubborn woody stem ones, I pot moist moss on the base of them and wrap it with some foil or plastic wrap and keep it moist and it usually gets roots going. Ive also had success with some of the more vigorous ones by sticking the stem right into self watering leca - it's humid enough so that they push roots and go from there but it doesn't always work. for me to get them to root sphagnum > water > leca - all work but sphagnum is the best one IMO! I hope that helped :))
Everything is looking good! We all have those ones that's not doing so well. spider Mites are driving a few of us insane! I did see First Ray's sells a reasonable priced miticide, which is what they need! A friend of mine is trying it. So hopefully we will get a good report on it! It's a mitacide but also kills thrips and such. Anyway great video as always hon. 😊 my favorite is RM x labiata ❤ but that new gold RM makes my heart skip a beat! 😂
Hi Deanna. It's hard to pick a favorite but at this time of year ,it has to be Bellina. Mine has 2 buds ..second season to bloom. I have a question about HOYA. I have a small crimson princess who is sending off new growth that is identical to Pubicalix 😮 Are Hoyas known to revert or just change like that?? So strange.
Thank you! Bellina is special :) Yes Hoyas can sometimes revert! I have a Khroniana super silver that had beautiful silver leaves that reverted to no silver leaves and just splash! They are interesting. Other points of growth might keep the variegation going though so you could probably propagate some of the older leaves. Hope that helped :)
