Hi Ulla! 🤗💐🤞🏼 indeed! This flipping Howeara... let see if it has any reserves left to come around and do something. 3 years of nada... 🤷🏼♀️ Thank you so much for watching, Ulla... I hope that you have a wonderful Sunday afternoon 🌸
Helloooo🦒🦒there, neighbour💃💃!!! They look so nice and snug, looking a lot happier. Winter? Not yet but a very nice transitioning fall!! Isn't that great? 🌞🌞 Happy productive saturday to you and everyone in your home. Sending you mingi abrazos 😍🤗🤗🤗
My dear liebe Freundin!! 🥰🤗💐 last night I slept! After a few nights on the trot with little or restless sleep, last night I slept and promptly overslept! I am thankful that Thierry finally had a good night, not restless... helped me to get some solid shut eye... but I have not got myself 'going' at all today... I feel so groggy 😅 I feel like one of the vintage cars that needed a crank shaft to get started, and then there is coughing and spluttering from the engine as it tries to get going... in my case, I have not yet gotten going, my engine is backfiring! 🤣I am so surprised about the coccinea growing roots at this time! First time seeing it do that... I am watching the cernua now in case it does the same... because, it is so nice to have the coccinea in a pot, no more moss nonsense.. the cernua moss looks yuck again, even though underneath it is fresh enough... no disturbing that one until spring, it is growing new growths at a rapid pace now ... I wish I could repot it simply because of where the growths will mature, I may need to reposition it to have the growths directed toward perpendicular light as opposed to where it lives now... 🤔 mmmhh... I had not thought of that until now... hey! Its good to talk 😅I will put it next to my victoria reginae and see if I cannot train the new growths to come up away from the mount 🤞🏼 Thank you, my friend for letting my thoughts free flow and come to this option 🙌🏼😃 I appreciate you taking the time to watch this video... I have no words as to how much your support means to me! One day, when I am not around, and this channel does what I hope it will for my daughter, then... it will be because of you being here, helping with a view and like and comment!! Thank you so much for your time, meine liebe Freundin thank you so much! ❤️🌸
@@NinjaOrchids My dearest Nina, sometimes all we need is put thought into words to have a brain storm 😂 I am not sure, maybe I did not quite understand what your idea is but, anyway, I was thinking you could place the mount laying down flat instead of being hung... It would give it a reason to change direction and grow upwards... I am so glad your Sophronitis is doing well. Wish mine would do too. It has a very tiny growth, I don't know if it will have the strengh to continue but what I have noticed is that some orchids seem to be more comfortable with less hours and now they are growing new roots. and new growths. They did the same last year but it still amazes me. My lucasiana (the other one I asked your help sometime ago) is going slowly. The only root it had colapsed but the new growth is taller at the cost of the reserves on the older psb but I see a green tip at the bottom of the new growth, I wish it is a root. Guess what... My health care refused to pay for my surgery, they wrote me an email saying I could get the same surgery at more reasonable charge in their premises (clinic and hospital). I called them back and asked why, considering the rules have been: I can go to any other hospital and they pay expenses partially and I pay the rest, exactly what they do in their clinic and hospital. Turns out, they said they do not include aesthetic surgery in those rules. WHAT???? who says this is an aesthetic surgery? At this point I hardly can keep my right eye open to read or work with my desk top or even watch videos on my phone. At times I have to hold up the eye lid with my fingers. So they said, ask your doctor to send us a detailed report and we will re-evaluate the situation. I suspect, not only my doctor sent the eyes photos late but she did not send a report either 😣 I want to do this surgery with this doctor because she was reccommended to me by my ophthalmologist and also a friend went with her and she seems to be the best. She is not good clearly with paper work. But then, what is her assistant there for ? I will do it anyway, paying in full or not (over 2000 euros, auch !!!). I am not rich but health is more important than anything else. Anyway, I got another email from the assistant saying the surgeon was going to talk personally with her colleague in the healthcare. So, I am waiting. I find the whole situation ridiculous !!! Sleepless nights are terrible for our minds, no wonder you feel groggy, too much worries and responsability over your shoulders. Hope your daughter is giving you a hand, she seems to be a bright young woman with a lot of potential. Nice talking to you, my lovely friend, I hope you will have a restful sleep again tonight and eveynight. You need your strengh but more than anything you need not to feel so responsable. Soon your daughter will get herself a job, that would be great for you and herself as well. Love you to bits my wonderful friend🤗🤗🤗
😉😅 you picked up on that!! You are the only one Michelle 🤣 Thank you for humouring me... I couldn't help myself, I had to add that 😅 Have a wonderful day, and thank you so much for watching! 🌸
This summer I treated myself with a Howeara, it was a large mounted plant with 4 spikes and 70 cm long roots. I knew I couldn’t keep mounted orchids and I already decided to repot every orchid I had into SH with leca so the Howeara did undergo the procedure. The long roots, twisted into a bun went into the pot, it doesn’t look attractive I must say. Now I’m not sure I made the right decision although the roots still look green. I think this one might need extra attention this winter. I’m glad you made the video with the Howeara, thanks Nina 👍🏼🍀
Hi!! 🤗💐 your Howeara sounds like a dream!! Keep it in the set up! I may have a dud on my hands here! Look at it after 3 years, and 2,5 years of which in a net basket with sphagnum moss to encourage growth. Don't change your set up. Keep an eye on new growths and subsequent roots... those are the future for your Howeara in the set up. As long as the old roots are functioning throughout the transition, and your growths are looking ok, even if the bulbs may shrivel due to some 'stress'... keep it in that set up... sounds like you have a beauty there! Keep it as it is! Thank you for your feedback and for taking the time to watch. Have a wonderful Sunday afternoon! 🌸
I am all for a good bargain, Stephen 😂😂 was going to film another Orchid PotPourri today, but I had a viewer that is dappling with the idea to start an orchid from bark to leca, so... changed my mind and potted up a single candidate instead. Hope that the little quick vids on the subject will help and not be too much info and feel overwhelming 🤞🏼 turns out I lost the coccinea 🤦🏼♀️ dumb dumb!! Now I am nursing 2.0 and hoping that it will survive 🤞🏼 thank you so much for watching this video, Stephen 🙌🏼🌸
I forgot, what does the sand do for the orchids when you plant in self watering? I think you told us but I forgot. Fingers crossed all these will take off and show that they are now happy how you changed these small orchids. Have a great weekend.
Hi K P! 🤗💐 for the little guys, with limited roots, I add sand to fill in the large airpockets that the seramis or lava rock creates. I do not jiggle or tap the pot to settle the media, because I am not comfortable with that movement against new root tips that I desperately need to continue growing when transitioning an orchid. It also retains more humidity around the top and with every spray or watering the top layer will disperse into the crevices, bit by bit. I add another layer 6 months after the potting up and then stop. By that time, I am hoping that any new roots that grew will be established in the pot, and I do not want to saturate the pot with sand. Added benefit, for these little guys, sand has silica in it, something they can benefit from during the months that I am not applying silicone as part of the watering routine. I hope that makes sense 😬 Thank you for watching, K P... I hope that you have a wonderful day! 🌸
🌸🥷🏼 Hi Trish! I look at my collection a lot and wonder how can I make the set ups match better for the orchids in question. I really like my tiny white little pots, and back in the day, I bought the 10 that were on the shelf, and my daughter was ... really mom?? I guess she didn't understand that when I said I am starting with orchids again, what I really meant by that! 😅 Now, I wish there had been more on the shelf of the little white pots... but every time I went back after that one time, they never showed up again. Meanwhile, the sophronitis ... started out well in the pot, but it is now rapidly declining... I am living in hope that it will have energy to push new roots. The one root that was growing there was a one off,... and yeah... that was too much too soon and now it is in full on rescue mode 🤦🏼♀️🤞🏼 thank you for going back and watching this video, I really appreciate it. Hope that you are having a great weekend and wishing you a wonderful Sunday 🌸
My Howeara is doing really well, old spike branching and a new spike about to open, it’s my popcorn that I don’t think is really happy. You have yours mounted right? Perhaps I should try something with the popcorn. 🤔 Also thank you for you positive vibes on my schilleriana, it worked! She just started a spike!!! I want a dowiana so badly! Seriously my favorite Cattleya to date.
Hi Danielle, my fellow orchid lover!! 🥰💐 I do have my popcorn mounted, because it is a climber and I can just about forget potting it up. I still have sphagnum moss around the bases but have already sewn on a patch of scouring pad, because, once it has finished blooming, I will be repositioning it down to where the scouring pad is. How incredible, the opposite is true for me, the Howeara... well, you saw that one, and the popcorn, is growing it's best spike ever, with branching going and the previous spike is still 'in shape' ... those blooms might drop soon, but it has been over 2 months that I could enjoy the first spike.. the second one is sensational! Maybe my howeara is a dud! 🤷🏼♀️ either way... its been 3 years, it has had time with sphagnum moss, and if that stuff doesn't do it to get it to recover, then, last chance saloon on a mount where I will be able to spray it and if it then goes down hill... I am over it. Don't like, but will take it in stride if that were to happen! I hope that you enjoy your visit with you nan!! Stay safe! A long journey, but such a nice reason for it!! ❤️🥰🌸
All are looking good 😁 I think i really should get me some sophronitis, perfect size for my place 😊 I can buy seramis at the garden store, i could send you some bags? I will show when i put my nelly in seramis next week, after your next video of course 😁
Hello Makel!! 🤗💐 Seramis at a garden store, oooohhh the luxury!! Wow... I may take you up on that offer... and I look forward to YOUR video about the Nelly Isler. The video is up next! and then if there are any further questions, we can discuss with good time before you repot! I am looking forward to hearing if you are satisfied and your questions have been answered to a degree of satisfaction, so that you can make a decision either way! 🤞🏼 Have a wonderful day, Maykel... I hope the weekend gives you a little down time, here and there! Thank you so much for watching! 🌸
Hi D'ina 🤗💐 yes, I can u deratand that space is a problem... i have space but it still feels very limited ... we don't 'have' a dining room anymore because that is where I have the orchuds during g the cold days & nights ... if I didn't have the liberty of using that space, I would not be able to have so many. Thank you so very much for watching 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids if I wish to have a big garden enough for orchids.. 🤗 I have 5 mini orchids and I love them all.. Thinks to buy more but where to place them..
I saw this video ... I love the idea, but I cannot afford it, ... thought I would share the link, in case you get an idea of what pretty options you may be able to consider ruclips.net/video/NKH_dBXF85g/видео.html
Yoshi San!! 🤗💐 In general, most sophronitis are easy to grow, it is just that they like it a little cooler (which you can easily provide) and once they are established, the heat will not affect them at all... as in my case! It took mine over a year to agree to my hot months, but now, they are behaving just like they would in their natural habitat. the coccinea is an 'easy' growing one as well, ... I used to have them mounted because that is what the majority of the culture guides advise, but now that I know them better and see how my rupicolous laelias are performing in their set up, potting up is much more convenient and less dangerous for the new growths to get stuck on a mount and fail. The blooms on the coccinea also last over 2 months. All have been reclassified to cattleya, but when you see that, make sure to remember that they were sophronitis, because that very name gives you an idea as to their culture. As in Cool to intermediate, as opposed to intermediate to hot. I hope that you can find some downtime and relax this weekend. Thank you so much for watching! 🌸
😬🤣 Michael!! 🤗💐I went for a walk with my gimbal, took it for a test 'drive' to my other garden centre... I took a seramis sample with me and asked them if they had anything similar, or if they could source it for me... they showed me Akadama for bonsai, which I had been eyeing for some time when considering getting more rupicolous laelias a few years ago... but Grossräschener Orchideen doesn't have seramis, and Wichmann, only had the pricey little laelias at the time (which I now have) ... anyhooo ... I bought me some Akadama to see what it is all about, have rinsed it, and it can be pinched to create a powdery 'paste' like consistency... which I am nor sure is very conducive to using in conjunction with lava rock. It could eliminate the need for sand... I am not sure... I was thinking of using it for a bulbophyllum that has not been given the set up it needs, but I thought, live and I shall do you better, or die, then... oh well... (bad approach to take, but that is what I went with for a few years) I am hesistant to place another order with Wichmann, this time of year, ... so... 2 questions... how big does that Propetalum get... and can it live outside? In my climate? I have looked it up, but cannot seem to make up my mind if it can live outside here. I would love to get it, 'for you' and in your name, take care of it, bloom it, and you can consider it your's, but there are few considerations I have to take before buying it. 😬 I hope that your Saturday is going your way!! Thank you for watching 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids I'm not sure on the Propetalum, I believe it is the reverse cross of Mathina, which is a medium sized Zygo that prefers cool to intermediate. It probably isn't really suited to your summers but, then again, they aren't supposed to be suited to mine in Florida either but they march along. Probably a spider mite magnet though. I'm just playing, though, I don't really expect anyone to buy a plant for me. I have this dream that some of these yellow Zygo hybrids will show up here, but I'm a realist (some would say pessimist). I suppose I could just try to find a Promenaea xanthina and make my own crosses. If Ecuagenera had had the Promenaea sylvana in stock when I ordered, I'd have gotten that.
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Fingers crossed 🤞
Hi Ulla! 🤗💐🤞🏼 indeed! This flipping Howeara... let see if it has any reserves left to come around and do something. 3 years of nada... 🤷🏼♀️ Thank you so much for watching, Ulla... I hope that you have a wonderful Sunday afternoon 🌸
Helloooo🦒🦒there, neighbour💃💃!!!
They look so nice and snug, looking a lot happier. Winter? Not yet but a very nice transitioning fall!! Isn't that great? 🌞🌞
Happy productive saturday to you and everyone in your home. Sending you mingi abrazos 😍🤗🤗🤗
My dear liebe Freundin!! 🥰🤗💐 last night I slept! After a few nights on the trot with little or restless sleep, last night I slept and promptly overslept! I am thankful that Thierry finally had a good night, not restless... helped me to get some solid shut eye... but I have not got myself 'going' at all today... I feel so groggy 😅 I feel like one of the vintage cars that needed a crank shaft to get started, and then there is coughing and spluttering from the engine as it tries to get going... in my case, I have not yet gotten going, my engine is backfiring! 🤣I am so surprised about the coccinea growing roots at this time! First time seeing it do that... I am watching the cernua now in case it does the same... because, it is so nice to have the coccinea in a pot, no more moss nonsense.. the cernua moss looks yuck again, even though underneath it is fresh enough... no disturbing that one until spring, it is growing new growths at a rapid pace now ... I wish I could repot it simply because of where the growths will mature, I may need to reposition it to have the growths directed toward perpendicular light as opposed to where it lives now... 🤔 mmmhh... I had not thought of that until now... hey! Its good to talk 😅I will put it next to my victoria reginae and see if I cannot train the new growths to come up away from the mount 🤞🏼 Thank you, my friend for letting my thoughts free flow and come to this option 🙌🏼😃 I appreciate you taking the time to watch this video... I have no words as to how much your support means to me! One day, when I am not around, and this channel does what I hope it will for my daughter, then... it will be because of you being here, helping with a view and like and comment!! Thank you so much for your time, meine liebe Freundin thank you so much! ❤️🌸
@@NinjaOrchids My dearest Nina, sometimes all we need is put thought into words to have a brain storm 😂 I am not sure, maybe I did not quite understand what your idea is but, anyway, I was thinking you could place the mount laying down flat instead of being hung... It would give it a reason to change direction and grow upwards...
I am so glad your Sophronitis is doing well. Wish mine would do too. It has a very tiny growth, I don't know if it will have the strengh to continue but what I have noticed is that some orchids seem to be more comfortable with less hours and now they are growing new roots. and new growths. They did the same last year but it still amazes me. My lucasiana (the other one I asked your help sometime ago) is going slowly. The only root it had colapsed but the new growth is taller at the cost of the reserves on the older psb but I see a green tip at the bottom of the new growth, I wish it is a root.
Guess what... My health care refused to pay for my surgery, they wrote me an email saying I could get the same surgery at more reasonable charge in their premises (clinic and hospital). I called them back and asked why, considering the rules have been: I can go to any other hospital and they pay expenses partially and I pay the rest, exactly what they do in their clinic and hospital. Turns out, they said they do not include aesthetic surgery in those rules. WHAT???? who says this is an aesthetic surgery? At this point I hardly can keep my right eye open to read or work with my desk top or even watch videos on my phone. At times I have to hold up the eye lid with my fingers. So they said, ask your doctor to send us a detailed report and we will re-evaluate the situation. I suspect, not only my doctor sent the eyes photos late but she did not send a report either 😣 I want to do this surgery with this doctor because she was reccommended to me by my ophthalmologist and also a friend went with her and she seems to be the best. She is not good clearly with paper work. But then, what is her assistant there for ? I will do it anyway, paying in full or not (over 2000 euros, auch !!!). I am not rich but health is more important than anything else. Anyway, I got another email from the assistant saying the surgeon was going to talk personally with her colleague in the healthcare. So, I am waiting. I find the whole situation ridiculous !!!
Sleepless nights are terrible for our minds, no wonder you feel groggy, too much worries and responsability over your shoulders. Hope your daughter is giving you a hand, she seems to be a bright young woman with a lot of potential.
Nice talking to you, my lovely friend, I hope you will have a restful sleep again tonight and eveynight. You need your strengh but more than anything you need not to feel so responsable. Soon your daughter will get herself a job, that would be great for you and herself as well.
Love you to bits my wonderful friend🤗🤗🤗
Not a human...... I love it
😉😅 you picked up on that!! You are the only one Michelle 🤣 Thank you for humouring me... I couldn't help myself, I had to add that 😅 Have a wonderful day, and thank you so much for watching! 🌸
This summer I treated myself with a Howeara, it was a large mounted plant with 4 spikes and 70 cm long roots. I knew I couldn’t keep mounted orchids and I already decided to repot every orchid I had into SH with leca so the Howeara did undergo the procedure. The long roots, twisted into a bun went into the pot, it doesn’t look attractive I must say. Now I’m not sure I made the right decision although the roots still look green. I think this one might need extra attention this winter. I’m glad you made the video with the Howeara, thanks Nina 👍🏼🍀
Hi!! 🤗💐 your Howeara sounds like a dream!! Keep it in the set up! I may have a dud on my hands here! Look at it after 3 years, and 2,5 years of which in a net basket with sphagnum moss to encourage growth. Don't change your set up. Keep an eye on new growths and subsequent roots... those are the future for your Howeara in the set up. As long as the old roots are functioning throughout the transition, and your growths are looking ok, even if the bulbs may shrivel due to some 'stress'... keep it in that set up... sounds like you have a beauty there! Keep it as it is! Thank you for your feedback and for taking the time to watch. Have a wonderful Sunday afternoon! 🌸
3 for the price of one repot nina great video 👍 😘
I am all for a good bargain, Stephen 😂😂 was going to film another Orchid PotPourri today, but I had a viewer that is dappling with the idea to start an orchid from bark to leca, so... changed my mind and potted up a single candidate instead. Hope that the little quick vids on the subject will help and not be too much info and feel overwhelming 🤞🏼 turns out I lost the coccinea 🤦🏼♀️ dumb dumb!! Now I am nursing 2.0 and hoping that it will survive 🤞🏼 thank you so much for watching this video, Stephen 🙌🏼🌸
@@NinjaOrchids defo like a bargain to Nina lol sorry about you lost that orchid Nina we all make mistakes I've lost a few in mine time Nina 😘
I forgot, what does the sand do for the orchids when you plant in self watering? I think you told us but I forgot. Fingers crossed all these will take off and show that they are now happy how you changed these small orchids. Have a great weekend.
Hi K P! 🤗💐 for the little guys, with limited roots, I add sand to fill in the large airpockets that the seramis or lava rock creates. I do not jiggle or tap the pot to settle the media, because I am not comfortable with that movement against new root tips that I desperately need to continue growing when transitioning an orchid. It also retains more humidity around the top and with every spray or watering the top layer will disperse into the crevices, bit by bit. I add another layer 6 months after the potting up and then stop. By that time, I am hoping that any new roots that grew will be established in the pot, and I do not want to saturate the pot with sand. Added benefit, for these little guys, sand has silica in it, something they can benefit from during the months that I am not applying silicone as part of the watering routine. I hope that makes sense 😬 Thank you for watching, K P... I hope that you have a wonderful day! 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids Thank you for the info. Yes it makes sense. Now I understand why it is applied. Have a wonderful weekend.
I love to fiddle! To me it is soooo relaxing
🌸🥷🏼 Hi Trish! I look at my collection a lot and wonder how can I make the set ups match better for the orchids in question. I really like my tiny white little pots, and back in the day, I bought the 10 that were on the shelf, and my daughter was ... really mom?? I guess she didn't understand that when I said I am starting with orchids again, what I really meant by that! 😅 Now, I wish there had been more on the shelf of the little white pots... but every time I went back after that one time, they never showed up again. Meanwhile, the sophronitis ... started out well in the pot, but it is now rapidly declining... I am living in hope that it will have energy to push new roots. The one root that was growing there was a one off,... and yeah... that was too much too soon and now it is in full on rescue mode 🤦🏼♀️🤞🏼 thank you for going back and watching this video, I really appreciate it. Hope that you are having a great weekend and wishing you a wonderful Sunday 🌸
My Howeara is doing really well, old spike branching and a new spike about to open, it’s my popcorn that I don’t think is really happy. You have yours mounted right? Perhaps I should try something with the popcorn. 🤔
Also thank you for you positive vibes on my schilleriana, it worked! She just started a spike!!!
I want a dowiana so badly! Seriously my favorite Cattleya to date.
Hi Danielle, my fellow orchid lover!! 🥰💐 I do have my popcorn mounted, because it is a climber and I can just about forget potting it up. I still have sphagnum moss around the bases but have already sewn on a patch of scouring pad, because, once it has finished blooming, I will be repositioning it down to where the scouring pad is. How incredible, the opposite is true for me, the Howeara... well, you saw that one, and the popcorn, is growing it's best spike ever, with branching going and the previous spike is still 'in shape' ... those blooms might drop soon, but it has been over 2 months that I could enjoy the first spike.. the second one is sensational! Maybe my howeara is a dud! 🤷🏼♀️ either way... its been 3 years, it has had time with sphagnum moss, and if that stuff doesn't do it to get it to recover, then, last chance saloon on a mount where I will be able to spray it and if it then goes down hill... I am over it. Don't like, but will take it in stride if that were to happen! I hope that you enjoy your visit with you nan!! Stay safe! A long journey, but such a nice reason for it!! ❤️🥰🌸
All are looking good 😁
I think i really should get me some sophronitis, perfect size for my place 😊
I can buy seramis at the garden store, i could send you some bags?
I will show when i put my nelly in seramis next week, after your next video of course 😁
Hello Makel!! 🤗💐 Seramis at a garden store, oooohhh the luxury!! Wow... I may take you up on that offer... and I look forward to YOUR video about the Nelly Isler. The video is up next! and then if there are any further questions, we can discuss with good time before you repot! I am looking forward to hearing if you are satisfied and your questions have been answered to a degree of satisfaction, so that you can make a decision either way! 🤞🏼 Have a wonderful day, Maykel... I hope the weekend gives you a little down time, here and there! Thank you so much for watching! 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids they got seramis but a terrible selection of orchids 🤣
I'll beat you on that one,... no seramis here, AND a terrible selection of orchids 😬😅
🤣🤣but we got most nurseries relatively close by 🤪
Looking forward to your video 😁
Going for a spanish tapas restaurant tonight 😊
Have a nice weekend 😁
Great sharing thanks, I really love orchids but I have so limited spaces..
Hi D'ina 🤗💐 yes, I can u deratand that space is a problem... i have space but it still feels very limited ... we don't 'have' a dining room anymore because that is where I have the orchuds during g the cold days & nights ... if I didn't have the liberty of using that space, I would not be able to have so many. Thank you so very much for watching 🌸
Oh wow! Thank you so much for subscribing! Welcome!! I really appreciate it 🙌🏼🤗🌸
@@NinjaOrchids if I wish to have a big garden enough for orchids.. 🤗
I have 5 mini orchids and I love them all.. Thinks to buy more but where to place them..
@@NinjaOrchids most welcome 😊
I saw this video ... I love the idea, but I cannot afford it, ... thought I would share the link, in case you get an idea of what pretty options you may be able to consider ruclips.net/video/NKH_dBXF85g/видео.html
Sophronitis is another one that I have never tried. What would you recommend as an easy growing one?
Quick reply to get you going, more later. The sophronitis cernua 👍🏼
Yoshi San!! 🤗💐 In general, most sophronitis are easy to grow, it is just that they like it a little cooler (which you can easily provide) and once they are established, the heat will not affect them at all... as in my case! It took mine over a year to agree to my hot months, but now, they are behaving just like they would in their natural habitat. the coccinea is an 'easy' growing one as well, ... I used to have them mounted because that is what the majority of the culture guides advise, but now that I know them better and see how my rupicolous laelias are performing in their set up, potting up is much more convenient and less dangerous for the new growths to get stuck on a mount and fail. The blooms on the coccinea also last over 2 months. All have been reclassified to cattleya, but when you see that, make sure to remember that they were sophronitis, because that very name gives you an idea as to their culture. As in Cool to intermediate, as opposed to intermediate to hot. I hope that you can find some downtime and relax this weekend. Thank you so much for watching! 🌸
"I need to order more seramis"
I feel like someone wise said that not so long ago. I hear that Wichmann has Propetalum Golden Bay. (cough, cough) 🙂
😬🤣 Michael!! 🤗💐I went for a walk with my gimbal, took it for a test 'drive' to my other garden centre... I took a seramis sample with me and asked them if they had anything similar, or if they could source it for me... they showed me Akadama for bonsai, which I had been eyeing for some time when considering getting more rupicolous laelias a few years ago... but Grossräschener Orchideen doesn't have seramis, and Wichmann, only had the pricey little laelias at the time (which I now have) ... anyhooo ... I bought me some Akadama to see what it is all about, have rinsed it, and it can be pinched to create a powdery 'paste' like consistency... which I am nor sure is very conducive to using in conjunction with lava rock. It could eliminate the need for sand... I am not sure... I was thinking of using it for a bulbophyllum that has not been given the set up it needs, but I thought, live and I shall do you better, or die, then... oh well... (bad approach to take, but that is what I went with for a few years) I am hesistant to place another order with Wichmann, this time of year, ... so... 2 questions... how big does that Propetalum get... and can it live outside? In my climate? I have looked it up, but cannot seem to make up my mind if it can live outside here. I would love to get it, 'for you' and in your name, take care of it, bloom it, and you can consider it your's, but there are few considerations I have to take before buying it. 😬 I hope that your Saturday is going your way!! Thank you for watching 🌸
@@NinjaOrchids I'm not sure on the Propetalum, I believe it is the reverse cross of Mathina, which is a medium sized Zygo that prefers cool to intermediate. It probably isn't really suited to your summers but, then again, they aren't supposed to be suited to mine in Florida either but they march along. Probably a spider mite magnet though.
I'm just playing, though, I don't really expect anyone to buy a plant for me. I have this dream that some of these yellow Zygo hybrids will show up here, but I'm a realist (some would say pessimist). I suppose I could just try to find a Promenaea xanthina and make my own crosses. If Ecuagenera had had the Promenaea sylvana in stock when I ordered, I'd have gotten that.