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Being thrifty, I buy post-blooming phals for cheap just before stores are ready to toss them out. I re-pot them in leca, which usually works pretty well. I've three currently in flower.

Hi Billie US here. Patience is the word of today etc. You know the best. Don't cut air roots. I don't watch any other utube. You know more than any other. I won't waste my time on any other channel. Thank you for all your plant tips.😆

Perfect timing! Just brought home a half dead orchid, she's looking better and these tips might help me get her to flower. The bloom color will be a surprise!

Grats on 100k! I love my orchids so much its always the best parts of the year when the come back into bloom!

I lived in Singapore for a few years, where Orchids are plentiful. I would buy them and tie them to the trees in the garden. It was a beautiful sight!

My mother was given an orchid a couple years ago, it flowered, died back, then it was in the garbage. I picked it out of the trashcan and repotted it. I do bottom water, and a few months later, it was blooming again. I still have it, and it's lovely.

A Phaelenopsis in between blooming periods is not in a resting period, it is in active growth and will produce a new leaf. These orchids have no resting period and are active all year round. Also using a normal fertilizer for orchids will cause over fertilizing issues, since they require les nutrients then plants that typically grow in soil. If you want to use a household fertilizer you should use a half (or even quarter) strength dose

I love my orchids!! I have one flowering now with two spikes of beautiful purple and white flowers. They sit in my east facing kitchen window which they love, I have had them for about 3 years now. They are absolutely beautiful flowers and highly suggest for everyone to give them a try!!! Thank you for the sharing your videos!

Amazing video as always over this last year! I can’t believe your at 100k already! I remember watching your first video when it came out! You deserve the 100k so much and I hope one day you even might get to 1mil

I heard about keeping orchids in water all the time and… it’s working! For the first time I’m able to keep 2 of them alive (don’t talk about number I’ve started with) but still there is room for improvement, thanks for tips!

Good video, thanks. You might want to mention that Phals have a habit of crawling out of their pot precisely because they want to grow hanging off the side of a tree. Or the pot, they're not fussy; that trait makes them great for mounting.

I’ve had my phal for a few years now, and it loves it in my big SW facing window. It definitely gets some direct sun. I move it away from this spot while it’s in bloom, and I had one massive and branched bloom stalk on the plant for almost 5 months last year. And I mean that one stalk had flowers on it from mid January until early June. I like experimenting with lighting, even if it goes against most recommendations. Sometimes you get nice surprises!

Congratulations on the 100K!! Your channel is fabulous 👍💚

So glad I looked at this! I had potted my orchid in MOSS. I quickly pulled it out and saw root rot, so Ive trimmed it up and repotted in plain bark.

Mine started blooming last month!! It's always great to learn more 😊 p.s. my best spot is my north east facing window. My orchids love it!

Luv your sense of humor

The bad thing about regular fertilizing is that salt and other minerals can build up and burn the roots and destroy the plant matrix. I fertilize mine every couple of months and water in between feedings with rain or distilled water so I can rinse away any potential build up🥰👍

I have 11 orchids❤ Never threw them away♡

100K is amazing and so well deserved!!

I love orchids so this video was helpful in how I can look after them. Well done for reaching 100,000 subscribers Mr Sheffield 😊

A friend gave me my 1st orchid today and I couldn't wait to come here and see how to 'properly' take care of her :)

I only grow dendrobiums. My neighbor had hundreds of vandas and she gave me a few to start but I killed it. This was 25 years ago and never ventured to buy any orchids other than the ones I can grow ever since. Your phalaenopsis usually have longer flowering days compared to dendrobiums. I am happy that I can have them flower several times a year. Useful tips. Thanks.

Yay, tips on Orchids! Thank you!

Never have I ever brought home an orchid for fear of screwing up such a beautiful plant. Perhaps I shall venture a try at one now!

I can’t believe this I just gave my three orchids new soil just for orchids traded pots on two of them and your video was first thing I see how coincident is this❤❤ I’m learning so much!!!!! I really thank you for all your videos 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank god I watched this video! Just bought an orchid and put it into a snug fitting decorative pot. But I’ve now ran and put it into a more spacious one for the light. Thank you for your informative videos!

Hi there! Been following you from across the pond for a while now. Especially like that we are in similar zones, fortunately for me minus your rain 😄 I've had an orchid for a year now; the first one I haven't killed. What I'm doing different is sitting it once/week in a bowl of water for 15 minutes. Those are the instructions that came with it and it seems to work as it's bloomed a few times in an east facing window as you suggested. My sister, however, is the best orchid grower I know. She's planted them in potting soil as they got so large and they are thriving. She also waters with 2 ice cubes each week. Won't get any arguments from me as she always has something blooming. You have a great channel.

Congratulations on the 100K subs 👍🏻 I wish you and yours a nice weekend

I’m subscribed to Miss Orchid but you give a much clearer concise explanation on caring for an orchid - thank you 😊

What an awesome video. Now I’ll definitely add orchids to my plant collection 🎉

great, now i want an orchid ;)

Thanks! I used to have a couple of orchids and had little success getting them to re-bloom. Maybe it's time to try again.

Wayyy too complicated for me, but great video! 😂❤Maybe oneday…?

I pick up reduced orchids with dead flowers and they flower again on my landing windowsill every year 😊

I’ve been making the mistake cutting my spikes down to the bottom after each bloom cycle ends, I always ask friends why their orchids always bloom and they told me they just cut it above the last node growth, I have learned my lesson! 🙈🙈

Thankyou excellent comprehensive information love orchids looks like you do too

I know it's quite specific, but I keep hoping you'll do a video about plant shops around Sheffield that you recommend.

Ive got an announcement to make! If you have bromeliads, i found the easiest way to keep them. Forget soil, you wont need it here (soil sucks!, ok not really). first grab literally anything that has nooks and crannies in it that could hold up the heavy bromeliad. i use a tree branch. then GENTLY take the bromeliad out of soil leaving the roots intact. then wedge the base of the plant into the crack of whatever your using, and (optional as the roots will cling on over time) tie the roots to the log. This is a much easier way to keep bromeliads as their roots dont need to be wet, just fill the central cup with water every week or two and forget about root rot, overwatering, or other problems. this is how bromeliads grow in the wild, and its also how they grow in my home. (if you do this to a bird nest fern keep the roots in sphagnum moss and ONLY water the moss every week or two).

This guy is out of this world, love him 👍

I grow phals and cattleyas. I killed a few when I started. Then I learned that they are a lot tougher than they look and thrive on neglect. They really are easy once you get the hang of bark and your own watering habits. My phals are in sphagnum; catts are in bark. I have a couple of orchids that like to be evenly moist. They struggled until I put them in self-watering pots.

Hi! Just wanted to let people know that there are other types of orchids with different needs too! There are those that naturally grow on rocks which have a similar but slightly different care style than these that grow on trees. There's even an orchid that grows naturally floating on water! There are direct and indirect like orchids too. The easiest starter orchids, in my opinion, are terrestrial orchids because they are happy planted in the ground like other plants. I recommend an African violet soil mix for those!

I leave my orchids in a decorative pot with a amall rock on the bottom to keep the plastic pot elevated. I also use plastic pots for thr orchid that have holes all along the sides and length to allow for aeration. I use clay potting balls, so I fill the decorative pot holding the plastic pot full of water and let it stand for 5 minutes then drain it. This gives time for all the roots and the clay balls to absorb water keeping the pot moist but aerated until the next week's watering.

Omg. I learned so much. I just rescued an orchid. He was in moss so compacted that it was hard to remove. I didn’t know about clear planter. Guess I’ll be repotting!!

I always feel like I learn a lot from your videos. They're chock full of good information, so thank you!

I actually love the green leaves of the orchid😻😽

Aquarium water works wonders for me.😊

❤Awesome video! I won’t give up on my next orchid…I’ll refer back to this amazing resource.

Great video sir! I've never had any luck with orchids because of my lack of knowledge. Your information was quite edifying, thank you!

Billie,US. Keep up the great work. You will be a legend. Best channel ever. Thank you😄

Here in Sweden i get around 25-30% humidity during the winter and my orchids still thrive year after year 🌞 my oldest turn 10 this summer

This is a great video with loads of amazing tips, well done! Orchids are so misunderstood, I hate to see them go to waste. I buy them from B&Q for £2 once they’ve finished blooming. I’ve got 2 in flower at the moment and they make me so happy.

Thank you so much for the amazing tips! Now I have a great understanding of orchids❤️

Awesome! Just bought my first one. Love your videos. Have learnt so much. Thank you! ❤

I admit, I've done it too. Now that I know, I regret doing it. 😢😢😢

That's so funny. My orchids are directly on my south east window sill, thus getting the most amount of direct sun you can get in my flat and they are thriving, producing flower stems galore, with flowers that are lasting for months. I stopped fussing about them and that worked wonders for me. I don't cut off the stems after the first round of blooming is over as they will usually restart a fresh batch of flowers. I only cut it if it's withering and clearly done with the world.

100 K subscribers, congratulations!

I give my orchid's bark a 10-minute soak every 5 days, and ignore the card that comes with the plant. How many flowers are naturally watered with ice cubes??? I can count then on the fingers on one knee. Anyway, attending a plant in the manner that it naturally would experience in nature keeps it happy. Thanks for your great insights! Know your plant's native environment and do the work needed to raise them properly.

Mine are on a north facing window sill in bathroom flower for ages. I very rarely water them, think the humidity from baths and showers seems to suit them. Also if you remove the flap that covers the buds with tweezers you get a great chance of it producing more flower spikes.

So helpful thank you. 😊

I've had orchids bloom for months. One of my current ones has been blooming since before Christmas. That's like 5-6 months now. :) Probably more, tbh. XD Also, they do live for a long time. My oldest orchids are more than 15 years old. I don't know exactly how old, but they're old.

As far as misting, I don't mist all of my plants (I have a bunch) to increase humidity, I do it for the ones that would normally expect some rain or dew. It doesn't rain too much in my house, so I try to oblige. -_^ Again, good advice - know your plants.

Great comprehensive content. I struggle getting mine to rebloom.

This has been very helpful.

Great stuff👍🏼 Thank you!

Good job. Thanks.

My mom's orchids were blooming whole year round without any breaks.

yes i have

Congrats 💯K

I am trying out growing one in an aquarium at the moment. It seems to be quite happy at the moment

This has been helpful. I had my orchid flower on a yearly basis but I might of accidently killed it when I repotted it in normal potting soil not realising the plant grows on trees. I also didn't know about the clear pot thing. I might put my next one in a glass vase to allow for a little more light.

I must be weird but when they aren't blooming I love the long creepy roots growing out of pots.

i know you hate the calathea zebrina. But i think i found a way to keep it alive, here is what i do. i keep this plant in a low light zone for a few hours of the day, but it will get son bright indirect light for about 4-5 hours. it also gets some dappled direct light for an hour or two but i dont think that part is important. One thing i also do is keep a fan humidifier running all day, i like these humidifiers because they dont make your room too humid but still humid enough. i also occasionally turn on a regular humidifier for a few hours on high power. i dont know if this helps but i keep it bunched next to other plants. ive also noticed this plant can barely go a week without needing water so water it often. the last thing i will mention is, its impossible to not get crispy leaves but mine doesnt have bad crisps because of my way of growing it. also these plants dont like to be bothered so dont prune or touch them to often. :)

funnily enough, i almost do nothing like you described in your video XD I water my orchids by letting them sit in water for 10 minutes (or 4 hours cause i forget about them) and then dont water them for 2 weeks. I have never used any kind of fertilizer on them and in my earlier home they had about 60% direct sunlight a day. Also i do keep them in decorative pots, so the roots dont really get any light, only the ones on top. They still bloomed every year and still do, no signs of any problems (just the occasional leave being lost cause i forgot to water them). I dont know if im either really lucky or orchids are thougher then what some might think. Great video, ill maybe try some of the things you said

Love your enthusiasm! I am so curious how the monsteras doing w/ the miracle gro orchid bark & potting mix. I had a disaster using that orchid bark w/ a store bought potting mix bcuz both the bark & potting mix contain fertilizer. Good luck on your journey.

Inspired by your ideas ⭐️;)

I mist my flowers & they seem to love it.

I've got two white phalaenopsis orchids and they turn 7 years old this year. They bloom atleast twice every year. I guess I'm doing something right then.

Really informative, I have however noticed there was a lot of repeated points. Thank you for this video though

It still gorgeous even if there is no flowers

My orchids are blooming almost non stop throughout the year. I do not understand it cuz I feel like I don't really take care of them much. I just water them every now and then when I remember, most of the time their roots are dry with a tiny humidity trapped in their pots. Also I always leave them in a see through pot, not cover their roots cuz they also photosynthesise through roots. I also never prune them, I only cut off a stem if it completely withered away and dried out, never before. And that doesn't happen often cuz they grow new flowers and new buds on the same stem many many times before it starts to suck back the nutrients and wither. Not a professional advice, but I accidentally had my orchids bloom for years almost non stop (sometimes blooming periods overlap on the same plant so while some flowers are just falling off, others are just blooming, and at the same time new buds are growing).

فيديو رائع ومعلومات قيمه جدا ، لكن أود أن ترد عليا انا اوركيد تعب واحضرت له لحاء جديد وقصفصت الاجزور القديمه واعدته للجديد هل يمكن أن يتحسن أن شاء الله ، وايضا هناك اوركيد بها ٢ جزر وهى الان تحمل غصن ازهار كان بها ٢ ورقه صفر نظفتها وقعت ٢ الصفر وضعتها فى التربه وقعت ورقه خضراء الأولى وأصبح بها ورقه واحده مع الغصن وضعتهم جميعا مع الوحاء ، وتوكلت على الله ان يرعها ،هل ما فعلته جيد

فى حاله النقل الجديد انت تحدثت أن اسقيها كل أسبوع بالماء هل هذا جيد ، وهل استمر فى ذالك الاسبوع طول الاشهر المقبله ؟

Try to set the ork in banan water in 30min is an super for them and grow faster 100%

I can not remember a moment when I looked at my pink orchid, which is sitting directly at a south-west facing window, when it was not blooming. It gets shined on by the sun almost the whole day but seems to like it, so I don't change anything. EDIT: I have it for about 4.5 months now and only fertilized it once.

I'm so glad today's video is about orchids! 1. I've made this cut you're talking about and guess what? I lost the entire stem. I'm really afraid to do it again. 2. I've been trying to save my mom's orchid. It has no stems, only leaves and she forgot it in the balcony last month so the leaves are quite soft, with brown edges and some brown spots. Any idea what can I do to save it? (PS just bought orchid fertilizer but haven't used it yet)

I've been watching this channel for a long time and your videos are helpful too👍. these are good tips for beginners, but a few things are not so correct, for example when the orchid is not blooming, it must be kept relatively warm in order to grow more and better foliage and roots. if no more leaves have grown, no more flowerspike can grow, because they can grow in certain places ( 2-3 leaves counted down from the crown)

Thanks for the great tips! My phalenopsis is going through its second blooming cycle now (with two active flower spikes!!) and is beautiful :) I was wondering though, is there a maximum humidity level orchids can tolerate? I live in a very arid climate and was thinking of moving it into a sealed mini greenhouse but I worry about the molding issues you pointed out.

For once, I don't totally agree with you on all of these. My phalaenopsis started blooming last July, over 11 months ago, and 24 out of its 26 flowers are still going strong. I always bottom water it, actually soak it completely for at least 15 minutes once a week, and I never fertilise during blooming, but only during the "rest period" when it's growing leaves. Have you tried not fertilising during the blooming to extend it even further?

Also, if you rotate your orchid, you'll get weird bendy looking leaves. They like to go back to their exact spot and direction after watering. A few of my orchids have this because it took a while before I learned this. I bought an orchid in late February with two flowers and a few buds. It's grown more buds and is still in bloom. It started growing a new leaf in June that's a little over half the size of the other leaves on the plant and new roots, both aerial and in the medium. When I cut the spike back, should I wait for more new growth to re-pot it? She's obviously very happy but definitely needs to be repotted. Her aerial roots are everywhere and there are fairly long roots growing out of the drainage holes. My other orchids seem to go with the patterns of what I've been reading but this one seems to do its own thing.

I have an orchid that's still in bloom (was in bloom 6 weeks ago, when I bought it) and is looking healthy, bar one root that's grown out the bottom of the pot and has some root rot. Can I cut this root, even though my orchid is in bloom? Thank you for this super informative video ☺

First time ive hear orchids compared to drunks!!! Lol😂

I got two of them when we moved in to our new home May 2022 and one of them I over watered right away 😢 It stod in water and I dident see it. So it lost its flowers. The other one flowered for many weeks. I also got one for my birthday in november in Norway that might have shock it so it died right away. So a couple a weeks ago I put the two from May in water. Since they had not brougt new stems yet. And now there are three new stems coming out of the «best one» and the one that was over watered had a lot of mushy roots. I peeled they all of and it looks like it is coming a long with some new roots and a new stem. This made me curios so I got and found the root system from the dead one from november. (We keep the soil compost inside in winter since the grownd is frozen until april😂) And I even put that in water too. So now I’am waiting to see if it can stand up from the dead. Like you tube thought me 😮 So now you know whats going on here in the Norwegian mouthains 😅 And yes they are placed in an north-west facing window since that is what my next door mother in law (farmers) have been doing all the time here with great success 👌

I’ve not had success with orchids reblooming I’m try again I’ve asked for Ochoa for Mother’s Day

I would like to do some after-blooming care for my orchid as the pot seems too full now but my orchid is flowering since two years solid and keeps growing new flower stems. What should I do? Just wait until the stress from the tight pot stops it flowering? Or stop fertilizing, triggering resting? It lives on an east window in winter with RT of 18*C and north in summer with RT 20*C.

I just repotted mine while it’s still in bloom…

I've found orchids ridiculously easy to care for. Ice cubes always seemed absurdly lazy to me. I've had way more success with moss than bark; the latter retained too much moisture for my liking. The former dries out perfectly for a weekly watering. I can't imagine why someone would chuck an orchid that's alive... They're practically always flowering.

😂. Did anyone of the garden tribe guess. ❤

All the leaves of my orchid went yellow and fell off. What went wrong? Is the plant done for?

Lütfen türkçe altyazı seçeneği olsun❤