I always love seeing other collections and appreciate people opening their private homes to show their floral treasures. Thank you for your tips and hints on growing. I don't have a corridor of doom but if it doesn't look well, then a plant gets moved around until I find it's spot. This can include a progression to the green bin 😁. Thankyou for your practical guide on orchid growing.
Hello Matthew. Janet in Wagga NSW here. Thank you so much for the information you provide. Loving all the clips I've watched so far. Super useful and finally answering all those questions I have that I have not been able to find previously. I will persevere with our orchids, especially after watching this particular episode with Ally. Thank you!
My single Cattleya is a huge plant, in a large tub of very ornery orchid mix, out of doors all year round in the dappled shade of an evergreen tree, and close to a North wall in Cape Town (Mediterranean climate like Melbourne), and produces one spike of three huge pink frilly blooms faithfully every year. So Cattleyas outside can be done in your climate, Matthew. Just keep them from getting sunburnt! Similarly a Potinara produces 1 to 2 spikes once a year, all outdoors, come rain, come shine.
I really enjoyed this video, as I’m from Melbourne too. I take some of my cattleya’s and dendrobiums outside during the warmer months, but I keep my Vandas indoors year around. Three of my vanda’s are growing bare rooted in vases. I soak them weekly overnight. Another one is potted in terracotta pot filled with large pieces of scorea. I water it weekly under the shower. Two small Mikasa type vandas are in baskets filled with large pieces of bark. I water those once a week as well. All of them are blooming for me once a year. However one in the vase just threw a second for this year spike, which I’m really excited about. I don’t have much luck with Zygos as well. I read somewhere that some of them I semi terrestrial. So I think of changing medium in the pot
I used to live in Cairns, and the healthiest orchids I had were the ones that live on the trees. Cattleya even grows in the parks, almost full sun. That said, my cymbidium often bud blasted, and I killed plenty of the zygos to give them a name.
@@mikenovak6221 Sounds like you're on the right track, they might just need to bulk up a bit more? It's not that unusual for them to throw a blind sheath or two before they get big enough. Sometimes a blind sheath can produce flowers the following season, so don't remove them😀
@@justinsdutchtropics Thanks for the heads up, I've been so tempted to clean them up by removing the sheaf, now I'm happy for them to do their own thing - maybe this might be the year that it all happens?
I am so so happy to get to see another Melbourne orchid grower 🌸 thank you for sharing her account! She's got beautiful orchids but watering everyday is lot of work. She could put perlite and a bit of moss in her media. And OMG I am getting a vanda and will try to grow it, it's so exciting!
Thanks for watching! And I am literally thinking...is today the day I go to Collectors Corner and get a Vanda!!! But no....it's autumn. I might in spring though.
@@helloplantlovers I am with you, I try not to buy any plants until spring because it's too much stress. Especially without a green house ir temperature control. Plants get what they get 🌿😂 thrive die plant 😂 vanda, I'll get to you in spring. And it'll be living in my orchid mix. No daily watering 🤣
My Cats grow & flower happily inside north facing window in Melbourne. When cats bud I place it to get more sun but not excessive. Watch the appearance of the bud to gauge its need.
Hi there from Japan😌🙏💞Yeah, to make Vandas bloom they need direct sunshine😉🤲And yes, dendrobium nobiles really need a dry winter rest and only start to water when the flower buds appear. I know that cymbidiums would do magnificent. Zygopetalums need constant humidity around the roots so try layering moss round the top of the medium to keep that humidity in and increase the sunshine too. 😌🙏I enjoyed watching
I have a vanda it grows indoors in Melbourne. I've had it bloom indoors it was 1metre back from a west window. I've since moved and it missed blooming this season. I've had it for 3 years from collectors corner. It grows in bark potted and I soak it in a bucket once a week.
You guys should see my Zygos Mackayi flower spike of half a meter I kid you not. But it is 6 years and many changes of position later. Currently outside under cover east facing Pretoria South Africa. Happy growing.❤
I’m in SW Florida but still find your videos very helpful and fun. I very much enjoyed Ally’s orchid tour. I’m looking for your video of drilling terracotta pots. I haven’t found it. Please point me in the right direction. Also Mini Marc Holm is a stunner and highly sought after here in the US. Thank you for sharing your orchid experience with the world at large.
Thanks for watching! Ally's collection was very inspiring for me too! You can see my pot drilling here at 9:46: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V-FEZloiqFM.html
It's really nice to see other people orchids collection . You can grow vanda, too, Matthew. You are right , each plant grows differently for each individual , and I have tried to grow my orchids in the same media like other orchid growers in the same State but somehow , it just doesn't do well.
I really enjoyed hearing about your growing methods. Maybe Tillandsia ‘old man’s beard’ draped on Vanda roots may help keep them from drying out so much? I use it here in Qld.
Great Vid, :) and positive suggestions. Now I can sleep again as I'm doing mostly similar and sharing the same problems. On the Cat's, I have 5, 3 grown from seedlings that survived last Winter in Melbourne, all growing (albeit slowly) outside in a sheltered south facing wall position that receives morning and early afternoon sun. It's really experimental and if they survive this winter I'll be surprised but then again, it's what all of this is about. Loved the Vandas, saw the ones in Collectors Cnr. but hesitated to bring one home, thanks for the vid, now my better half can see where it can hang in the Phal corner. Looks like a buying visit on Saturday.....
Grind a couple of rooster booster pellets down put into a cup of water,let sit for a couple of days strain ,then use the water as a spray,and pop a few pellets on the pots so that they break down gradually with the watering,I'm in Tasmania and I've had some luck with this,good luck on your orchid journey.🎉😊
You just have to love an obsession that is beautiful. First time watched and very interesting and inspiring. Reminded me of the catalaya that I brought home to my mum 30 years ago from Port Douglas which was popped in a first class seat whilst I travelled cattle class. It lived a few years as mum was a wiz.
Thank you both for this video! 💐😊. Always enjoy seeing other growers collection of orchids and their favorite way of growing them. Ally, you have a beautiful home and garden 👏💚. Really like the way you display your potted orchid indoor . Thank you for sharing 😊🌷.
Congratulations on 5k subscribers!!!! I have a few bulbophyllums (medusae and longissimum) here in California with similar weather as you. I grow them indoors all year round next to my phals in small bark and moss and my trick is to let them stay moist for awhile when I water them. So a shallow pot with a drip tray that will hold a good amount of water. I don’t let them dry out completely in between. That’s it!
Thank you very much Matthew for your fantastic videos. They are really very practical for those of us who live in the Mediterranean climate, as is my case since I live in Barcelona (north coast of Spain). Many Brazilian youtubers channels are fine but they are far from the reality of the weather that we can have in other latitudes. Around here on the coldest winter nights normally around 5 degrees Celsius, a fact that limits the orchids that I can have outside, which are basically coelogynes, Australian dendrobiums, cymbidiums, paphiopedilums, masdevallias and some oncidiums.
Oh this was super! I'm here in New Jersey USA as a new subscriber. We're now in Spring but today it's in the 80's-highly unusual. Ally is adorable and you make a great team. We share many of the same plants and I also struggle with Catts and Zygos. I stress at having to throw out orchids I have no luck with but my patience is long...we'll see if that changes! Once again, highly enjoyable and informative. 🐞🍀
Love the video! Ally is so cute. This was fabulous to see. I grow my vanda in a glass vase during the cold season. Otherwise it is taken outdoors out of the vase.
Hi, do you mind sharing the name of the lady slipper orchid shows on 3:03(the tall one)? It is so gorgeous, and how this beatiful girl doing right now?
Hey Matthew, can you give me some names of greenhouses that ship parcels to the United States like Florida I’m very interested thank you so much I love your channel❤
shame neither of you do well with cattleya's. Makes no sense. The zygoptalum has not flowered for ali before because it never had enough leaves, all the older backbulbs are leafless but the latest bulb has grown bigger than the last, I think that one will flower in early spring by the looks of it.
