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You have an amazing collection of orchids! That vanda is huge!! Thanks for all the care tips. And if you ever want to gift any of your orchids, I'll be happy to receive them. 😂😍😃

Thanks Dave! Personally I love your neighbor-guy folksy approach to your channel. So many RUclipsrs just want to show off what they know, but you are humble and realistic. Thanks for making orchids approachable and fun! From a fellow North Central Florida Floridian.

healthy is the word for your orchids and happy.

Fun and educational video. Is that a bowringiana in the background at the beginning of the video? What a phenomenal plant!

What about RepotMe orchid food (slow release)??

To make it more confusing, there are natural hybrids also.

Enjoy your videos tremendously!!! You’re orchid charismatic!!!

I semi flunked the test.

I am 1. Very pleased with myself. As an orchid novice, I only got 3 questions wrong 2. Very thankful for your quiz. Adult learners learn best when they are challenged ! So keep them coming Dave !

Best to use elastic ties. I use strips cut from stockings. They work the best.

Very nice video

Fun video! Great idea for something new 👏🏼

I’m loving this. Watching right now ❤❤🙏🙏

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If you cut the vanda spike once the blooms start to wilt where do you cut it? Close to the plant or just under the last bloom or does it not matter?

I got 90% of the questions right apart from your sentimental question and I consider myself a novice. Regarding vandas needing the most light, I think you should look into eulophia petersii orchids, you'll be surprised what you'd find... Im still learning and I'll always be a novice with the amount of stuff to know. The more we know the less we realize we know. Thank you for this, it's different, relevant and fun. Cheers!

😂😂 I love thecatering comment atthe end 😂😂😂😂

I mount so many hard cane dendrobiums on my Robilina Palms. They are all doing exceptionally well and bloom frequently when fertilized or not. Remember Mother Nature takes care of her plants. I am borrowing them for the time I have on earth to enjoy the splendor of green foliage and exquisite flowers. Respectfully,

Hello Dave, Where do you purchase your cedar for Cattleya mounts and how thick are the pieces? The last few moments of your most recent RUclips video is critical for placement in the beginning of the video; in case your viewing audience doesn't stick around for the entire episode. Each grower should consider: the RIGHT PLANT, FOR THE RIGHT PLACE.Select orchids that are best-suited to your area weather conditions. Watch the summer and nighttime temperatures. Finally ask the vendors you purchase your orchids from where in the world the plant naturally grows so you can make the best decision to purchase or maybe not purchase if that plant doesn't fit in your growing climate.

Nice orchids garden...❤😅😊

ah wow I didn't know you could get a lux meter for $35. I'll have to go look for one. I know I like to be critical with my commenting but it's nothing personal, I just do not trust the internet when it comes to orchids. It's basically just the collective knowledge of hundreds of beginners. And people that really know the most about orchids get drowned out by the beginners copying what other beginners have told them. So sometimes collective knowlege is not always the right answer. Like no offence but I have followed many other youtubers with supposedly 30 years of experience and they do things wrong. Don't even get me started on what makes phalaenopsis flower. You will never get the right answer to that one when it is so simple once you have figured it out and it's fairly simple to figure it out but again collective knowlege kicks in - beginners get told in their first year growing that you have to crack a window in autumn to get them to flower when that does nothing at all in my experiments and although the right answer can be found online you really have to search long and hard through scientific papers to get the right answer. One further point, again just what the internet says vs what I have found: You can grow phalaenopsis and vandas under the same light level under LED lights... Right, that doesn't make much sense to an outdoor grower right and outdoors you could never get away with that. But in doors you can because LED lights give off very little heat. So phals can handle a lot lot more than 1000-2000. Ok I've never tried as high as 6000 but they can easily handle the same as cattleyas. Outdoors the heat would make their leaves burn but indoors growing them under more light is fine and actually makes them grow faster. Sorry if I keep trying to come off as a know it all. I hate people that do that to me and I know it seems that way when I comment. I don't mean to. I just wish others would care about knowing the right answers instead of the first answer they find on google and call it a day at that. I so wish we all had the same answers and I could agree with other growers. Sometimes I suspect people prefer to believe the most popular answer even if they know it might not even be the right one lol. Who knows. It does drive me bonkers that like said once you have grown for 10 years you should figure out the answers you were told in the very first year will not match up with the things you learn growing them over the years. That is just my experience I guess. I have often attributed it to me being an indoor grower under LED lighting and I was one of the first ones to grow under LED lighting. The technology is very new still and finding good orchid LEDS (you know ones that don't completely blind you) has been challenging in the past. I still wonder how much orchids do photosynthezise via their roots vs their leaves. I know they do it but how much is it done? Who knows. I think people discovered it mainly because there are certain completely leafless orchids one can buy that are just bundles of roots. Again, I must point out though, if you have grown orchids long enough, you would discover that not all leafless orchid species are actually leafless in master growers collections. Some growers are able to grow their "leafless" orchids to produce leaves. So beginners will tell you "it is leafless so the only way it can photynthesize is through its roots" But it might just be that they are just so difficult to grow hardly anyone can get them to grow leaves successfully. I'll admit I won't bother with such a tricky variety myself, I have just seen what can be done in some peoples collections. And logic just tells me if an orchid has a few leaves it will photosynthesize and grow better than one that has no leaves. Once again thank you dave for keeping it fun and honest. Like said I know I tend to be over critical when other youtubers bring out a video saying they have all the answers when all they did was google the answer instead of figuring out the right answer from decades of trials and errors themselves. Nobody does the trials and errors cause nobody likes losing an orchid doing so lol.

I think your Q & A video was a great way to help us learn. Thanks. PS What did you break?

Wire basket from dollar tree

Those plants look really nice, you should see some of the ones I’ve received but I have no choice 😢. I live in Hawaii on the island of Kauai and there is NO WAY to get orchids beside Etsy, Ebay and Home Depot. It helps to read the descriptions Dave they usually tell you what size pot they’re sending .Oh and I just subscribed and liked all your videos 😂😂😂

Your advice is amazing...hope u saw the SHORT that I tagged you in

😆Got a little repetitive towards the end, but good info. "Liked and subscribed'. 😀

Seven powder works great on scale bugs.

Love your channel! So informative and yes, funny too. Keep it up! Beautiful orchid oasis. And yes, how do you dispose of the bucket of “Banrot” solution?

Your plants are absolutely AMAZING in blooms😍

If your orchids could talk, they would call you " Daddy". 😂 i can see your love for them. How do you dispose off the Banrot ?

"You look marvelous!" Keep up the videos. Love your pool enclosure orchid house.

🙋🏽‍♀️Hello, from Columbus, Georgia! I never heard of 'Banrot,' so thank you for leading off with that piece of advice.🙌🏽🫶🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽🙌🏽🇺🇸

Thank you for a good tips! Would you please let me know how to get those great hurricane proofed shutters? My pool is very similar to yours. Thanks.

Lowes is my orchid hack!

Your Orchids are Beautiful ! Your mother in law will be dancing when you will give her that especial Orchid!😍

Cholla - pronounced "choy-yuh". It's the dried skeleton from a cactus commonly found in far west Texas and New Mexico. 40 years ago, I used it for crafts. I hung strings of seashells from it to make seashell mobiles - I still have 2 large ones. I see small sections of cholla at Hobby Lobby but never see the long pieces like I used years ago. I've mounted orchids on the natural fiber loofahs - not the nylon loofahs you find in drug stores. They do okay but must be watered frequently. I live in Central Texas, where it is hot and dry in the summers. Just wasn't too practical in this climate.

And I wouldn't speak so generally about all orchids as some are naturally exposed to constant precipitation

The phyt in Epi-phyt-ic is pronounced as "fit"

very nice, its true orchids grower is like a addict that keep on buying even your place are full of orchids.

Thanks again you have some beautiful blooms

Hi Dave😌🙌Amazing, huge brassavolas🥰👏I have 3, and nodosa got a little black, deep spots, so I cut them off. I did get a lot of growth this year. They're indoors now as we expect temperatures to go way down. The nobile types and native orchids put up with Winter temperatures down to 17.6°F somehow. I've seen nobiles time and time again endure it. Yeah, cattleya black rot got one of my cattleya. Another I just hung out on the shady breezy side of the house and it actually put out two new canes🤔🙄I can safely say it's rescued. I let my new cattleya hang on mounts these days and yeah, the rot issues are in the past now hopefully🙏

love your honesty dave. Much appreciated.

Inland NW Florida .I have very profuse flowering Dendrobium nobile.leave it out in upper 30s. But not below.Have a blue vanda that stays in cold but not freezing.only vanda I have .It has vanda coerulia in it which helps a lot..Most Vandas defoliate and croak below 60. I've heard.. Most of the Orchids I grow are subtropical not tropical .no greenhouse. They come in house during cold waves .often. But stay in chilly room sunny. Heating stresses them a lot. Causes humidity too low.Good luck with oncidium. And trying Encyclias probably best on boards as Cattleyas like you said! I have Dendrobium loddegesii. Which was left outside by mistake when it got to 16 . 2 years ago .I t was OK.! Really like your videos! Best to you.

Very informative video. Thanks 😊

Welcome back we miss you.Thanks for sharing

How are you wintering anything when it's still hot where you are? Are overnights cold??

Hey Dave, it's always great watching your videos, thanks for the tips they are greatly appreciated. I have to mention that I mounted in cork a few Dendrobium Nobiles over the weekend and now watching your video I don't know if I did the right thing since this time is their dormant time. What do you think about it? Thanks boddy. 👍

This was a very interesting video. I find the list of the types of orchids you have in each micro climate especially helpful.

Good morning Dave, I also live in Florida, but I have so little space to grow my orchids. I am Jealous.😮 you do something right because you have so many blooms and everything looks so healthy. I love it. Enjoy. Have a great day. Thank you for the video.😊😊

I never stop watering my dendrobium nobiles, I just give them less water and no fertilizer during winter rest, they bloom every spring 🌸