Let's Talk: Phalaenopsis Care | Advanced Discussion & Tips | Watering, Fertilising, Light & Growth
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Hi everyone, it's Annabel, welcome back to my channel! (Time stamps below)
Today I am emerging from my behind-the-camera hiding place to talk about Phalaenopsis! When I talk about Phals or Orchids in this video, I am referring to more complex hybrid phals, but I give my species Phals the same care, some with a bit more light. This is just my take on Phalaenopsis care and an explanation of why I think my Phals do well in this routine.
I wanted to do this as a relaxed video just to share how I am growing mine, my thoughts on care, and touching on some more 'advanced growing' principles- mainly because that's the stuff I find fun to discuss! But I hope it's still accessible info, please let me know if you have any questions!
Time stamps:
Introduction 00:00
How I keep my Phals: 01:36
Wet/Dry cycles : 02:18
The need for air pockets: 03:09
Temperature: 06:40
Lighting: 08:14
Nutrients: 09:35
Growth Patterns/Flowering: 14:55
Previous videos I have done that may help cover some of the principles I have discussed here in more detail:
My Nutrient regimen, pH adjusting, nutrient mix and discussion: • Let's Talk : Orchid Nu...
This is my 'basic recipe', I do however tend to vary this depending on what the plants are doing. Warmer months = more growth = more nutrients!
A few videos discussing Semi-hydro:
In-depth discussion, pros, cons, troubleshooting with different materials: • Let's Talk: Semi Hydro...
Semi hydro vs organic phals: • Phalaenopsis Update: S...
Converting orchids to Semi-Hydro: • Converting Orchids to ...
Lighting setups: • My Orchid Lighting Set...
Recent orchids in bloom video:
Lots of novelty hybrid phals blooming if you want to see a few different kinds of phal: • Orchids In Bloom Febru...
I'll be following with a novelty/species phal video soon! I hope you enjoyed the video :-)
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Temps- 18-30C
Humidity 60-75%.
Artificial lighting supplemented with daylight.
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Quick note, I keep shortening to 'orchids' in this video, but I mean complex hybrid phalaenopsis and warm growing phalaenopsis orchids (I also keep my Polychilos and Novelty hybrids the same way, separate video to follow 🙂). More info and time stamps in the description, but I'll pop time stamps here too:
How I keep my Phals: 01:36
Wet/Dry cycles : 02:18
The need for air pockets: 03:09
Temperature: 06:51
Lighting: 08:14
Nutrients: 09:35
Growth Patterns/Flowering: 14:55
Thanks for watching! 💗🌼
Your phalanopsis are stunningly gorgeous and very well cared.
Learning a lot from you.
Thankyou!!
I have just watched your video for the third time.😉 My ears are a bit older and they listen more slowly so I need to hear the same thing several times so I can “absorb” the info. 🙃
Just found you and loved your video! Thank you.
Great video 😃 I’ll replay it to my phals, maybe they’ll listen because I’m trying to do the same with mine and they are NOT listening to me. Well, I go easy on the fertilizer on the ones not so well established, but seaweed they get all the time. I’ll just point the video at mine, ... see?! See, this is what you are supposed to do!! 😂
I don't understand your phals at all!! Yes, they need to get their act together! I do also to be honest, they get a giant dose of fert and seaweed when I first get them, then normal doses but often I will notice salt building up on the top of the leca when they aren't established, so I dial down on fertilizer until that stops. But usually they just kick right into growth, even my mum's rescue one is doing well and no build up! 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ What's going on with your phals? Maybe they will perk up in summer 🤞🤞🤞
The Orchid Room if not, then that’s fine as well. I stopped using heat mats this winter, seeing as I was paying horrendous electricity bills & it made no difference in them performing better in winter ... we shall see. I’ll show you one day 😉
Thanks for a lot info...you are the best!!!
learning so much from you on how to grow in semi hydro! Thank you sharing, please don't stop.
Very informative video, thanks Annabel! Your orchids are beautiful as always!!!🙂🌞
Thanks Ildiko! 🙂 Glad you found it useful!
Hi Annabel, glad the see the face with the voice. So love your Phals, They inspire me with mine. You are the reason that I am slowly transferring over to S/H with the pumice and gravel. I made more sense to me than straight leca. Keep up the great posts.
Thank you for this detailed description of how you care for your Phalenopsis!
Thanks Trish, hope you enjoyed it! 🙂
Annabel...some great info here. Thank you for your time...
Thanks Ron! 🙂
Video for Cattleya and vandas 😊😊
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try and get them up soon! 😀
Enjoyed this video...it was a good recap of all the right things to do.
Thanks Elaine! 🙂💗
Thank you for this informative video. I am learning a lot about growing orchids. For now I am keeping around 18 degrees and during the day the temp is around 24 degrees. The orchids are growing under grow lights and some time I will give them bright light and morning sun. Have a great day.
So glad I found your channel ☺️... Love your scientific approach to growing!
Aw thankyou! 🙂 I'm happy you enjoy the nerdy content- And welcome! 😀 Thanks so much for watching!
Loved everything about this!
Thank you!! 💗😀
What wonderful plants, enjoyable & informative.🤗
Thanks Helen 🙂
The MOST beautiful video set-up I have seen to date.👍
Thanks! 🙂💗 I tried to make a nice setup with lots to talk about, but they did end up hitting me in the face a few times 😂🤦♀️
Very extremely interesting! You have really peaked my curiosity!😉
Excellent tutorial Annabel, really interesting.
Thanks Margaret! 🙂💗
thank you , very informative ...wait for next ...
Thanks! 🙂
Such value and so much to consider. Thank you!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! 🙂
I have made some changes to my set-up and routines for phalaenopsis. They are now getting adequate moisture through evaporative action (a bit of water in the bottom of the pot). Improvements to root color and leaf thickness have been remarkable. Your logical approach to care has released me from the wet-dry-wet-dry way of thinking for these plants, and I appreciate it.
Very well explain, thanks!
Thanks Joel!
Great video👍🏽
Excellent video....your phals look great!
Thanks! 🙂 Glad you liked it!
You’re amazing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You are right everyone’s environment is different. I live in Mexico (Lake Chapala area) whether seams to be changing, it is colder then it use to be, semi tropical, papyrus, avocados, bananas, example. There are no inside heaters. It is warm now 60’s at night & 80’s day. (May & June are the hottest, 90’s) In winter months, (Dec. To Feb.) 40’s night & 70’s day. I notice in winter they don’t handle too much watering. Two weeks and still wet. The summers it never gets hot in the house. They start flowering in Sept., some are still flowering. I am learning. Hot mat sounds good, I will have to find one.
Hi, great informative video. Thinking to try phals. Can you please share what is maximum temperature that phals can survive in semihydroponics.
Thanks
wow very beautifullllll phals.like you ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍stay safe and take a bunch ov care ☺️☺️
Thank you! 🙂 You stay safe also 💗
plants look great, i dont feed that high, but will try higher ppm. thanks, emerge from beyond the camera more often.
Thanks! 🙂 I guess it all goes hand in hand with lighting and how they're growing 🙂 since I'm giving artificial light and 12 hour days, they probably want a lot more nutrients than if I didn't have the extra lights. But try it and see how your plants respond, maybe it will surprise you, maybe they don't need that much in different setups 🙂
Best phalaenopsis care video ever. Thank you. I grow my phals in bark. Do you recomend watering dry roots before the nutrience water to prevent root burn? Thank you so much if you can answer. 😊
Thanks! 🙂💗 So I suppose it depends what you're feeding and how high, I can see the logic in soaking first, it will dilute the nutrient solution and make salt burns less likely. However, on the other hand if you have already saturated the roots and bark with pure water, the nutrient solution you then add would be diluted by that pre soaking... If it helps, my systems involve just adding the pure nutrient solution straight into the pot, so the roots are immediately and always in contact with the nutrients. And when I used to grow in bark/moss I'd just soak straight in the nutrients. Never had any issues with root burn with either method 🤷♀️ So I suppose it's really a personal preference thing at the end of the day, I suspect it doesn't make much difference either way if you're feeding at a good concentration for the orchids 🙂
nice!
Great video! Gorgeous phal blooms! I particularly liked the mini phal with lots of blooms on it. I have few phals tht I'm thinking of converting to self watering setup. When is the best time to do thiß? Also for phal species do you do semi hydroponic or selfe watering method?
Thanks Mary! Best time to convert any orchid is when new growth and new roots start. Semi hydro and self watering are nearly identical methods. Self watering may be a bit drier/more airy depending on the type of container you use and how many wicks you put in. My phals are all in mixes of both methods depending how fast they drink, self-watering allows for larger reservoirs.
omg i never realized the liodoro was so huge
Hey Anabel, I truly enjoyed your video. I'm not a big phalaenopsis orchid growing, but I do have a few. Most of mine are in organic medium, but I notice that some of their roots rot when the medium is constantly moist. Nevertheless they sends out aerial roots. It makes me wonder the preferred medium for my situation. I've still not figured it out. Lol. Thank you so much for sharing.
Hi there! Thanks, I appreciate it, hope it was useful in some way! What's your climate like if you don't mind me asking? Just a thought, but very high humidity clmates seem to have issues with things staying a bit too wet for too long with some organic media. In these cases it may be worth playing around with different media a little to get the right balance in the pot- if you like to water lots you could even go for river pebbles, like Rick L orchids, or lava rock without a reservoir. You can't overwater with things like that because they have a really high air ratio, and with the pebbles don't really hold onto water. Just a thought, but if you are finding one medium a little 'off' sometimes it's worth playing around with a few others, and seeing how you like them 🙂 Have a great day!
@@TheOrchidRoom Thank you so much for your response. I really appreciate it. I will play around with other medium to see what works best for me. Where I have them is humid and lighting is natural, our climate is tropical. Temperature ranges from 13oC to as high as 31oC. I like to water and so I will try planting some in larva rock. Thanks again. Cheers!!
I'd say if you want to keep them constantly moist try and keep them to the natural environment as possible since in tropical rainforests it's hot right so the water can evaporate quicker ive actually traveled to mexico and the Dominican republic and I've seen what happens in the natural habbitat no rain all morning when it gets to about 1pm very heavy rain sometimes hail and this does cause small localised floods and then after about 30 to 45 minutes later if you didn't see the rain you wouldn't of believed it tipped it down. So just think about that since in cooler climates water won't evaporate that quickly. Also keep them mounted I prefer to keep all orchids and other epiphytes mounted!
Good for you 🙂 Big difference between growing them in tropical climates and growing them in a spare bedroom in the UK though. I've found a method that works really well for me, glad you have a method that works for you, not all of us can keep hundreds of orchids mounted though, keep up with watering and working full time etc. We all have to find ways that work for us in our climates, maybe you can think about that too? As not all methods apply to all individuals or all climates. All the best!
@@TheOrchidRoom yes I do understand I keep mine in a greenhouse over in the south west of the UK so I can keep humidity up high. It was just a thought.
Good for you 👍 We all have different ways of growing, I've found a way that I prefer over several years of trial and error. I can't keep up with mounted orchids, so I dislike growing that way. Doesn't mean it isn't a great way to grow, it's a perfectly valid way 👍 and of course it is more true to epiphytes, but it gives me poor results because I physically cannot water the way a mount requires, let alone 400+ mounts. So I have tried to find a way to grow them potted that gives them the same moisture to oxygen levels they would recieve in nature, boosting growth with constant access to moisture and nutrients, as they would recieve in nature, with constant oxygenation around the root zone through inorganic media gaps. This works for me, I'm not saying it will work for everyone, which is why I don't think it's right to generalise or tell people 'how to' grow. It's all about finding ways that work for us in our numerous and varied home environments with our wide range of lifestyles and availability. I completely agree with you about researching the varied habitats that each species has evolved in and adapted to, and taking cues from that on moisture to air ratios and culture 🙂
@@TheOrchidRoom you hit the nail on the head there
I have been slowly adding things into my growthspace, while seeing how my plants react to them. I know I have fed with lower levels and didn't have extra lighting before. Now I've introduced those too. I would agree on the moisture level. I have orchids in constant moist environment in my paludarium and they just thrive. So judging by that experience, I added the lights to be able to feed them properly throughout the year.
Don't know if I made any sense with my explanation. :) happy growing! -M
I just saw your paludarium video, it looks wonderful 😍😍 I agree, they do respond well to moisture, which leads me to believe when we talk about the need to dry out maybe we are talking about the media as much as the Phal, and how airy it can stay when it's wet. Because it varies so much in different media in different environments it seems. Can't quite get my head around people only watering Phals once a month 😂😮 But if that works for them....
@@TheOrchidRoom thank you! It is slow process building it up. I (used to) pop by every now and then to the aquarium shop to check their woods. I'm really picky and that piece has been the first one added there. Ones I get the waterfall(s) thought through, I can start thinking about the life under the water. Obviously I'm only using fertilisers designed for aquarium environment, don't want to use anything harmful as there will be some bottom dweller fish in it as well. Now it has some algae as the balance is not right yet.
@@tropicalplantsfinland Have you considered getting some phragmipediums in there? I saw an amazing ebb/flow tank setup for phrags, many of them grow on rocks in/by streams in nature so it sounds like they would really like growing somewhere with moving water!
@@TheOrchidRoom Great idea! Need to find compact variety or just one bigger. I think I'm in for a research this weekend.
Wow your phals are absolutely beautiful
Thanks Sandie! 🙂
I think this is what is so confusing when growing Phals. I have a very hot climate in summer and then cold with single digit overnight in winter. Summer is never a problem even 40deg ( just extra watering) but winter watering is scaled back and of course intermediate seasons is a ‘play it by ear’. Very difficult for new orchid growers of which I’m one. Many thanks.
It's a minefield for sure when you are just trying to figure out what works for them in your climate, and once you've got that sorted that's the major difficulty overcome. But it really is trial and error, I'm glad you're getting used to listening to what the 'needy' phals want from you, in your different seasons 🙂
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Great Video , lot of articles and videos say that Phals need night time temperatures below say 18C . What is your view on that ?
Or if put if put in other way do your phals spike at temperatures around say 24c
I am from city which has temperate climate
Hi! 👋 No this isn't true in my experience. To be clear, that only refers to complex hybrid phalaenopsis anyway with winter blooming species in their parentage, not summer blooming species or primary hybrids in the polychilos genus. For winter blooming phals, spiking is initiated following a seasonal temperature variation. Mine started spiking in autumn, temperatures above 18C. Summer was 30C+. Complex hybrid phalaenopsis just need day night differentials and seasonal temperature drops to spike, you can see mine in bloom in my most recent bloom update tour if you are interested!
Lovely video Annabel! Do you know if a dry environment speeds up the evaporative cooling?
Good question, I would imagine it does, as water molecules change state from liquid to vapour they remove some of the latent heat from the environment (how sweat works). So you would think that this would happen faster in dry environments, speeding up the cooling effect? But then dry environments often tend to be warmer don't they? So maybe the cooling effect in a warm dry environment wouldn't matter as much to the orchid 🤔
I've just been racking my brain to figure out why one of my phals that transitioned well to SH last summer lost her roots this winter... I placed a thermometer next to her and it read 21°C so she should be fine (not too cold at least 😅) but the top layer of the LECA dried faster than the reservoir emptied and, I think, it desiccated the roots (it had done well so didn't think to add the top layer of pebbles). She sits on a shelf over an air duct so that might influence how fast water evaporates compared to other orchids 😅
I eventually pulled her from the leca to see what was happening, and now I'm trying to get her to root again...
That is strange, doesn't sound like it's external temperature related like you say. I hope you figure it out! Maybe if all the heating was on and it was below a duct the air became drier as well as warmer which caused rate of evaporation to be faster than rate of wicking? So larger dry top layer? I hope she recovers quickly! 🤞💗
@@TheOrchidRoom yes, and right now I'm not proud about how long I let it progress. Reason? She's flowering... 🙈 I'll cut the spike and see if I can push her into growth mode 💪
For seaweed extract I use KelpMax from First Rays. The instructions say to use one tablespoon per gallon no more than once a month. Would you recommend I adjust that amount so as to use it with every watering or just follow the instructions? Really great video by the way.
So with seaweed it's a little more difficult to generalise I think because different brands will be of different quality and purity and have different levels of the active hormones in. From what I hear, KelpMax is supposed to be one of the best for purity (can't get it here sadly). My feeling would be, if I could get it, to try it at a low dose every watering first, and see what happened. In nature they'd constantly have decomposing plant matter dripping around them, which would itself have freed up hormones in it. The danger with feeding too much seaweed is lots of vegetative growth, like keikis, or in cabbages they found random mutations that caused multi- headed, mutant cabbages. Or it could have been lettuce. I remember reading a paper on it when I was researching initially but can't remember the vegetable 😂 anyway, you could do a test with some plants at one teaspoon per gallon once a month, and some plants at 1/4 teaspoon per gallon every watering, and see if you notice any difference? My seaweed dose works out around 30-40ppm every watering, but that might not mean anything because of purity differences. Hope that's helpful! Sorry I can't be more exact! 🙂
@@TheOrchidRoom Makes sense to me. In my environment I find I'm watering twice a week more or less to keep the reservoirs topped off. I enjoy watering my plants so this suits me fine. I think I will divide the amount of extract by 8, so 1/8 a teaspoon per gallon. I will also have to be diligent about flushing every month to insure that the concentration doesn't creep up in the media. On another topic, how do you feel about rock wool in the media? I have some of the mini cubes and they seem to hold a lot of water.
@@reefkeeper2 That sounds like a good plan, watering twice a week sounds like the plants are drinking up the water and nutrients fast at least, I try and let them run almost to empty occasionally in the hope that this evens out the nutrient balance and pH in the reservoir so I can fully replace without having to tip reservoirs out. I'm not exacting with this though, just try it very occasionally.
I did try rockwool for my bulbophyllums and I couldnt get it right, even in baskets with layers of LECA and perlite in between to give more even airation, it seemed to rot the roots. I couldn't figure it out as a media. It has quite an alkaline pH which isn't really an issue as I pH down with LECA anyway, but I really don't know why it rotted roots. It seemed to go from very wet to bone dry all with no in between 🤷♀️ When I bought my eric young Foundation Miltoniopsis they were all in finely chopped rockwool, the roots were stained so they looked bad but actually were all really good as they branched quickly after repotting. So it can clearly work, in the right application. Mine obviously wasn't right, maybe I should have chopped it more?
@@TheOrchidRoom I think size is key. Too big = too wet for too long.
Can you make another video just like this but about Oncidiums?
No problem, will give it a go, thanks for the suggestion! 🙂
What care do you give your arial roots, sprays or anything?
No sprays, I just leave them, they have far more roots in the pot so they don't really need anything extra doing for the aerial ones. If the orchid didn't have any roots in the pot, then it would be worth soaking them to get some moisture and nutrients in. I don't spray unless absolutely necessary, as it just increase the chance of water droplets catching between leaves and causing rot.
Hi there, what's your advice on growing leaves? ?xx💕❤
Good watering practices, good nutrients with the inclusion of seaweed, good temperatures and good light. These will provide the plant with the energy and building blocks it needs to grow new leaves and roots. There is no quick fix, just good culture, and seaweed will help trigger the process but won't do much if the other factors aren't also there 🙂
Your Phals are lovely and so healthy. Do you have any tips on Algee and if accumulation in the pot should be a problem? Thanks! 🌼🌼🌻🌻🌺🌺🏵🏵💮💮🌸🌸
It's only a problem when it dies, and the decomposing bacteria create an anaerobic environment in the pot (you can look up algal blooms in lakes for more info). I don't tend to get any dead algae building up as I have a healthy springtail presence in the grow room, they like to eat dead matter. While it's alive algae is probably beneficial when it's just in the reservoir, as it will be photosynthesising and generating oxygen for the roots.
Thank You. Are you participating in the virtual online Orchid show on April 4th? I would love to see which ones you would show!
No problem! 🙂 Yes I'm going to try and get something together, love the idea by Mygreenpets!
The Orchid Room Awesome
I found 2 big lips phals on Saturday one yellow not the green yellow though and a white specled one
Oh nice, I love the big lip varieties! 🙂
Hi, Annabelle, first am I spelling your name correctly? The ppm that was on the screen is what you give your phals when they are in active growth? I have 2 phals right now that one is extending its spike and the other extended its blooms. 🤓Great video though!!!😉
Hi Mya 🙂 It's Annabel, but I'll answer to anything similar 😉 I put two different ppms up, the first was winter, then it switches to summer and that's what I give when they're growing faster. Although in winter the growth slows for warm growing phals, it never really stops so the first winter ppm is still maybe higher than some would say. I'd say go by what your orchid is telling you, it's quite easy to tell in SH because you will get salt build up showing at the top if it's too high. You can figure each individual nutrient out by taking the ppm you're feeding at, and working out the percentage of that based on your fertilizer ratio. Hope that helps! Glad to hear your phals are doing well! 😀
The Orchid Room Thank you I’ll need to go back and rewatch the video.😉
@@myataylor4807 I just checked and a popup appears during it 😂But if you pause it and click the three dots and close the popup you can see. It's tough to time the video suggestion popups!
The Orchid Room Thank you!
Where do you get your feeds from ? I’m also from the uk be curious to know !
Hi! I use a variety of nutrients, primarily Rain Mix, maxicrop and silicon. They are all linked in the descriptions of my more recent videos 🙂
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Seaweed-
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The Orchid Room thank you so much !
Where do you get your liquid silicon?
Hi, I buy my Silicon from amazon but this brand is widely available in the UK at least. It's a 6% potassium silicate solution if that helps you track it down if harder to find in your region. I use the dose for soft/rainwater (1ml/L). This is the amazon linke: amzn.to/3cP0XWy
Hope that helps
With constent most media you haven't problem like fungus or bacteria or viruses ? What to deal with this sort of issue ? Black spot on leaves who don't stop to progress for example. Thanks
No issues, healthy plants with good rhizospheres (root microbiomes) will be resistant to pests and diseases. Thing about how damp rainforests are- many never dry out. Many orchids originate from lowland borneo rainforests with humidity in the 90%s and constant moisture and dripping from the tree canopy, and would rarely if ever dry out completely. If you have fungal leaf spotting, you could spray with a systemic fungicide but may want to check and address the possible cause. Enough airflow etc or dripping water on leaves, plant stress etc. Viruses are transmitted through pests and shared water, not a consequence of moisture.
@@TheOrchidRoom so what do you ? Isolate and wait ? Or throw this one ?
What is the issue? Black spotting on the leaves? If you have fungal spotting on the leaves you could try as mentioned above with the fungicide 🙂 if it's bacterial treatment is harder. Either way, cut spotting below the area, into healthy tissue.
The best way for either would be to remove the infection physically by cutting the leaf and monitoring closely.
@@TheOrchidRoom too many black spot on the leaves...I have to cut the entire leave but it's the last one...also one flower spike have little black spot...
You phas are so big, beautiful and happy .
So nice to see a pretty face that matches her (or)" kids"....
Thanks Jane! I still find being in front of the camera awkward 😂 The orchids are the stars! 🙂💗
Unrelated to the topic, but my goodness your hair is shiny. Otherwise, good talk.
I've been doing alot of neem sprays recently, maybe I am becoming neem oil 😂
My god those phals look like they are on steroids lol
😂😂 I guess seaweed is like plant steroids, so maybe they are 😂😉
@@TheOrchidRoom can you recommend me compact cattleya that has flowers 5cm or less?