I'm glad you took time to go through the visuals as I am a visual learner. I need to be able to SEE what looks good and bad and not just by passing through it quickly. I knew nothing about Orchids. My granddaughter asked for help and it was very interesting to me to see what looked 'iffy' as well as hear what it should look like. Too long? Me, that is? OK, but the length of your video HELPED this old lady. Thank you so much! I'm sure the complainers are folks who already know a lot, or at least the basics of, caring for house plants...
Well, I found you again. Use to watch your carnivorous plant videos. Now that I am getting back into Orchids again, I have 2 reasons to watch. RUclips cancelled my parrotbill channel by mistake, and 3 hrs later th eff y put it back up. But in the mean time, I made the tallybeaverman so I wouldn't get behind on my favorite channels, and now I use this. Just bought 6 beautiful Phalaenopsis this week, and had to do a crash course on saving them. All the CV troubled ones were root bound in small cups, packed with soaked Sphagnum Moss. They were losing flower buds anyway, so I had nothing to lose by repotting them in coconut husks chunks. I soaked them in a bloom food fertilizer for an hour, then drained the clear plastic pot insert well before I put them back in the decorator pot they came in. The coconut husk chunks hold moister & nutrients better. Doesnt break down as fast as tree bark, and it give the best aeration of anything except a plant mounted on wood boards. This video made me feel better about my plants. Mine weren't as close to the brink as the one you just saved. Oh yea we had a good winter dormancy for my VFTs and Pitcher plants. One of my VFTs das 2 keikis growing off the flower spike along with a bunch of babies around the roots. Just fed them their first cricket feeding of the year. We have the same growing zone North Carolina has, so leaving them outdoors all year round is perfect for them.
I repotted a Phalaenopsis a couple years ago and it had 67 blooms the next time it bloomed. My biggest problem here in S TX is we get so hot and dry in the summer. I always wait for sales like yesterday I went to my local HEB (grocery chain in TX) and Phalaenopsis that were selling for $23.99 on Saturday (Valentine's Day) were on sale for $9.99.
My orchid sat for about a year in potting soil with absolutely no TLC. The leaves stayed green and healthy. Unbelievable. I’m now showing it some love following your directions and wallah! It’s back.
After searching for videos on how to repot my orchid that I got as a house warming gift 10 yrs ago that was suffering, I followed your instructions and it was easier to do than I imagined it would be. What I thought I was going to see was a ton of rotted roots and very little to work with. What I did see was a lot more oversoaked roots and a lot of potential for healing. Thank you so much for making this video, you have saved my plant.
This is my first time visiting your channel. I'm only around the halfway mark, and I know I will be subscribing. It is obvious how much you care & respect your plants. So happy I found you, and thank you I learned so much!
I just bought 2 Phals 3 weeks ago. I didn't know how to care for it until I saw your video here. You were very detailed. Now, I am not scared anymore if something went wrong in the future with my phals. Thank you so much, it's very helpful. And yes I took all that some kind of dirt that was on the roots and repotted it with barks that came with it. Much thanks!!!☺️
Wow, I was watching this for fun but then I realized that my mini orchid is in the same exact situation! I bought it only a few weeks ago so the roots are healthy. I'll wait for the flowers to drop, cut the stem to the node, and repot it. Thanks for the great information.
I have gotten 4 Phalaenopsis in the last few months and they all came in the clear plastic pots like this one came in. I punched more holes in the sides all around and then placed them in heavier pots with room all the way around the plastic pot so the roots can breath. So far they are doing great and all have new growth.
They're not so bad if you give them the right care and know what's going on with the roots. I purchased a orchid from a nursery, and the potting media started breaking down and it started affecting how the roots were looking. I didn't know as I am still fairly new to orchids but as I have been researching when to repot I came across this problem and noticed there was a real problem. Watered it once a week when all the roots were silver and I tried really hard never to leave them in standing water or anything when I noticed the mold I tried watering less so that the mold could die off as it's not getting favorable conditions but didn't work. After it finished blooming I removed the media and put it in fresh media and the bark looked really broken down and had a smell or it was the roots. Mold was mostly on the bark chips. Some roots were affected but not many some had rotted as it had a moss plug in the Centre so it has probably been in that media way too long. It had a lot of roots though it had overgrown the pot think it was just starting to show signs of stress from the old Media and being cramped. But cut the affected roots Off and repot it not sure of it how it will do. It's been since Sunday.
Thanks for the pointers in this video. I just purchased my first phalaenopsis orchid from the supermarket and I need to repot it. I'll keep you posted on how it progresses.
So glad that this poor little orchid save by you Brad! Hopefully she makes a fast recovery under your care and love :D Keep us update with her recovery progress :D
Hi Brad! This video was really informative. I followed it when I repotted my Phalaenopsis Equestris, and Doritaenopsis "Euro Star", which both were drowning when I got them. The Equestris was simply soaked when it arrived in the mail. The roots were in rough shape, but I expect full recoveries now that I have them in my mini-greenhouse to grow.
thank you, Brad. Good quality video, good story and explanation.Sure, you will be reworded by this new member of your orchid family with beautiful flowers and great pleasure seeing recovery of the resquid plant
Just repotted my very first Phalaenopsis. Hoping for new growth. Thank you for all the great tips! Ps Loved seeing your puppy in the video I have a white French Bulldog :))
You are an orchid angel. I have had a few orchids planted just in this way and I thought it was normal. I'm very happy to be educated on proper orchid care.
Thank you very much for this video! You may have saved my orchid. I got it as a present after my father's passing a couple months ago, and I became concerned when the flowers of only one of it's flower spikes dropped and soon after that spike yellowed. I decided it was time to repot, despite the fact that it's other flower spike was still healthy and in bloom. When I got a good look at it's roots I saw it was in a very similar condition as the plant in this video was, with it's roots tightly bound in a flexible pot exactly like that one. Over half of it's roots were rotten and had to be trimmed off, but after all was said and done my plant has six leaves and one flower spike remaining out of it's original two, and a decent number of yellowed but otherwise healthy looking roots and a couple of normal grey air roots. Now all I have to do is wait and hope the plant will recover well from this ordeal.
Nice video. I have grown orchids over the years with nothing but luck on my side! I just recently started to get into having them reboot. A trick I had, was when the blooms were gone, I would repot it, and add a small faux silk orchid the same type as the original type of orchid... I have had new shoots come right up against it and bloom...then I take out the faux one. Pretty all year long!
Thanks Brad; I am a care giver for elderly people, so many times people give them orchids and when the flower dies the people just leave the plant to die. Recently I took a plant that one of my clients no longer wanted. Your video was very helpful. Now to find a place to buy the medium you used in the repotting videdo.
Very good ! even your substrate composition is exellent , a very good standart substrate not only for phalaenopsis.I have no doubt that this plant will bloom in the next 6 months.
Hi Brad, I loved your presentation. I felt sad to see how badly packed the plant had been. Plants feel and it must have been suffering. I have a phalaenopis and didn't know how to care for it. I appreciate your knowledge and your caring for the plants. I love your greenhouse.
Hi I'm very new that Orchids growing. So this video has help me to understand growing orchids. I have friend that asking me if i'm crazy to start doing this now. It is toooo costly. Like i have my own saying one life to live do what make you happy. Thank you so much for this video.
I came back to this after having bought phals at the big box stores with worse roots than this one. The orchid mix they sell but for one at lowes was dreadful as well. So live and learn, I need to find a better phals supplier here in my town! A couple that I repotted in the basic bark medium have survived, better than none!
80 degrees ahhh the days of spring and summer how nice and how luck y for you Brad. One of the pahls I rescued from the big box store was just like that I did everyting you have done except I used rooting hormone on the tips of the cut roots just to sterlize and stimulate new root growth
I have a soft spot for them when I see they are in dire need . I just got back from the vets office and I saw an Oncidium on the desk with shrivled pseudo bulbs and proceeded to tell the secretaries how to save it and what to do with it , they thought it was a lily lol
Thank you for such a big help. I think one of my plants (I only have 2) is in this kind of shape, though it's in the original clear plastic pot, so that's at least one good thing. I am a true newbie with all this and have learned a lot.
TY for this very in-depth video!!!!!!!!!!!! I picked up 2 (experimental/my first orchids!) $1 rescues, and I'd like to try to take good care of them XD Your video gives me hope!!!!!!!
Ahhh Suke Suke I did the same, picking up a $29 Phalaenopsis in a decorative outer pot for $5, and nursed it back to health. The vendor gave a plastic shot glass (actually a double-shot) to water it with weekly to help prevent over-watering, a key to keeping them alive. I water once per week with the shot glass and once a month give the plant a good soak, per other watering instructions I saw on RUclips. See details below. Good luck with your plants!
Hi! I loved the video! I recently got an orchid as a gift. It is in a plastic liner with a hole on the bottom and it is packed with moss. I am trying to let it dry out but it is in bloom and beautiful! Do i leave it in the liner until after the blooms are done? Or should i go ahead and repot and risk loosing all of the blooms? I want to pot it in bark. Thank you for your guidance. One last thing, halfway up the flower stalk there is a leaf. Its just random. What should i do? Cut it off or cut it when the stem dries up or leave it there? Help! Thank you!!
I'm a total newbie with orchids (or any other plant for that matter) but I was given a phal for Valentine's Day last year and managed to keep it alive long enough to bloom again this year. It has a ton of aerial roots and leaves (new and old) but is packed very tightly into a flexible pot just like the one here. I can see that the majority of the roots inside the media are rotted. It's definitely time to repot but after watching this video I'm a little scared of what I'll find. Thanks for the tips and wish me luck!
Just curious how this particular orchid turned out. Did it survive and thrive as expected? It would be nice to see a follow up video if possible, thanks.
@@蛋與妹妹的生活扎記 I had w flower stalks that grew extra branching with flower buds and one grew a kki. I was going to chop the both too but some things came up keeping me too busy, forgetting all about my plants. Came back to all that growth. Also pretty sure I'm getting another baby.
Recieved an orchid not too long ago from a coworker who grows them, had nice media and made me inimidated to touch it as I had known nothing of orchids. I have left it alone for about 3 months now and the last two flowers just fell, the media looks to be rotting. But thanks to you I can have some confidence in reviving this orchid and hopefully expanding my garden to contain clones and more elaborate orchids, like vanilla. This may be tedious for you but could you do an update on how much better it did? I just love seeing the flurry of roots that you have carefully cultivated.
Mr. Brad, I still add charcoal to that same media mix you’ve got there. Why don’t people like to use charcoal for phals? My phals are lovely... tons of blossoms on strong plants, but the roots are not as robust as I think they should be. This year my phals went insane! Thanks to your help!!! ( ...and a few other RUclips Orchid channels.) I was shocked to see that most of my 12 phals have TWO bloom spikes and those spikes have spikes! Totally cool. Sorry, I just HAD to brag a little to SOMEBODY!🤭 Thanks for the great videos as usual! Please, if you possibly could find time, let me know about the charcoal use... or maybe someone else can comment about their feelings on charcoal. I’ve been using it in everything & I would say that everything is looking pretty happy, but I don’t want to jinks myself. 😁😙🤓. Thanks Again & Best Regards from Clearwater, Florida.
Thanks Brad, your tutorials are really informative, I have one Phal which was given to me as a gift so I'm very much a novice, I've had some lovely blooms this summer and I would never have been brave enough to prune the stems without watching your previous video and now I know how to repot when the time comes, I'm in the UK so have to allow for our different temperature here but so far my lovely Orchid seems to like it's home, lots of natural light but out of direct sunlight, I'll be sure to keep watching to pick up more of your helpful tips
just wondering if it's necessary to use an outer pot that has those slots or holes in it to let light in. I like the look of the clay pot. thanks for this and for rescuing that poor little orchid. how is it doing now?
hi,yesterday i went to repot my orchid.i had it for a week or two.and after watching this video, i had a feeling something wasnt right about my orchid.when i bought it (i am still a rookie) it had somany roots..but didnt look at what was between the roots,so ive potted it like that.so,yesterday i went with my guts and removed the orchid frommy potting mix...and guess what..all the roots were rotten,like yours.i removed all the rotten roots and i saw that there was coconut bark in it..that was completely wet...i removed that..there were even micro insects living in it...so,hopefully,after repotting it now,it will grow nice for me... alot,thanks for the info...
You are more than likely feeling like we do. My dad grows award winning phalaenopsis just as a hobby (awards won at orchid club meetings held every month). I wish I'd seen this video a month ago. We go to garden centres SAVING these poor plants, wrapped in cellophane, drowned with so much water, with nowhere to run. Then they have the cheek to charge $40! For an almost dead plant. Thank you for this video. I agree about those cheap pots. I also think they need to quit drowning these poor plants and smothering them with sphagnum. Cheers 😀
Sarah Le Moignan The key is to wait till they discount almost-dead plants. See my story, above. I bought a phalaenopsis at a Kroger grocery store, discounted to $5. The outside container it was in was worth $5, so I figured I couldn't lose. I nursed it back to health. Here is what you do: Ask to talk to the manager of the store, and tell him he has a bunch of dying orchids that you would like to make an offer on. Shoot low on the price, because he might ask for more. Say maybe $3 or $4 each and if he comes back with a higher price, settle somewhere in between. Good luck!
I do the same thing....All most all of time it works and the manager takes my offer and I would just buy all of them....Managers just want to get rid of them. And that way it save them the time in asking an employee to just throw then in a dumpster....It just breaks my heart to see so many plants just being neglected and throw away when you know they could have been saved....
Hey Brad, Thanks for sharing this video. I'm curious to know how the plant is doing now. Can you share a link if you have another video on this same plant?
i have always just used sphagnum moss to repot but i do tend to water every 3 weeks or so mainly when they are bone dry the roots have never gone spongy and they always have multiple flower spikes on. i found with me when i added bark they would dry out real quickly on me and the leaves would dehydrate but it is very dry and hot where they are.
Ellen Stamey i wouldn't orchid get infected very easily. also it is good to have roots both in the air and the potting medium. the leaves will die back at the bottom of the orchid anyway the best way with orchids is not to cut into them if you don't have to.
Shaded Moon, Sphag. moss holds lots of moisture. When you find some, (Garden Centres or online) divide it into plastic clip-lock lunch bags or similar and hang in a fairly bright place, not sun. In a couple of months you'll have much more moss. Sphag moss is expensive where I live so this method helps.
Hi Brad I was wondering if you would be able to show this rescued Phalaenopsis in your next Greenhouse Update. I would really love to see how it is doing.
Thank you for your well explained video, I just got two Miltoniopsis orchids (it says Miltonia on the sticker). They have a wonderful fragrance, I learned a lot from you just now.
Oh MY Thank You I just repotted (orchid) Mrs. Orchid boy was she in BAD SHAPE so we watched this video and I repotted Her and she watched her By the time we were done she looked happy We will let you know how she does
great vid Brad, just what I needed to see, they do the same thing here in AU too with display pots of Phala's , better get out and do what you have just done, but its 43c here so probable just a bit to hot to do it now. they actually died off and now growing back again :)
Glad I could help, still that hot over your way wow! Oh I just mailed you something last week, so it should get to you shortly. I was a little later dropping by the post office.
I have an orchid that was planted in one of the wood slat boxes. I would like to repot as it is several years old. What do I do with all the routes that I've grown out and around the wood slats how do I remove the plant safely?
I have had my orchid for awhile, a few years, and it's in the same pot. I have gotten it to bloom twice but what I did was above ground, I wanted to see what the roots should look like. I have rotten roots. I don't have the media you have so I have to reuse some of what it came with. I microwaved the bark part to disinfect it and I'm going to add rocks. I do have a old coffee can lid with rocks that I pour water into, it won't hold much water. So, I'm going to give my orchid a drying period, (the roots,) but still let it "breathe" water from the rocks underneath. I will try to give an update later.
@@BradsGreenhouse I gave the orchid a week to dry out after the repot. It is growing roots, (probably air roots,) and the stem that the flowers pop out of, I have two buds. I gave the orchid some water in the pot but I gave it more in the rocks that are around the pot. I am nervous about two leaves, they are looking sickly but getting more water may make they perk up. I think it's going to live.
Will this be helpful for one that is suffering from being dropped on the floor? The entire pot was broken.. all the leaves are wilting horribly, except the new growth leaves in the middle..
Extremely interesting. Thanks
I'm glad you took time to go through the visuals as I am a visual learner. I need to be able to SEE what looks good and bad and not just by passing through it quickly. I knew nothing about Orchids. My granddaughter asked for help and it was very interesting to me to see what looked 'iffy' as well as hear what it should look like. Too long? Me, that is? OK, but the length of your video HELPED this old lady. Thank you so much! I'm sure the complainers are folks who already know a lot, or at least the basics of, caring for house plants...
Well, I found you again. Use to watch your carnivorous plant videos. Now that I am getting back into Orchids again, I have 2 reasons to watch.
RUclips cancelled my parrotbill channel by mistake, and 3 hrs later th eff y put it back up. But in the mean time, I made the tallybeaverman so I wouldn't get behind on my favorite channels, and now I use this.
Just bought 6 beautiful Phalaenopsis this week, and had to do a crash course on saving them. All the CV troubled ones were root bound in small cups, packed with soaked Sphagnum Moss. They were losing flower buds anyway, so I had nothing to lose by repotting them in coconut husks chunks. I soaked them in a bloom food fertilizer for an hour, then drained the clear plastic pot insert well before I put them back in the decorator pot they came in.
The coconut husk chunks hold moister & nutrients better. Doesnt break down as fast as tree bark, and it give the best aeration of anything except a plant mounted on wood boards.
This video made me feel better about my plants. Mine weren't as close to the brink as the one you just saved.
Oh yea we had a good winter dormancy for my VFTs and Pitcher plants. One of my VFTs das 2 keikis growing off the flower spike along with a bunch of babies around the roots. Just fed them their first cricket feeding of the year. We have the same growing zone North Carolina has, so leaving them outdoors all year round is perfect for them.
I repotted a Phalaenopsis a couple years ago and it had 67 blooms the next time it bloomed. My biggest problem here in S TX is we get so hot and dry in the summer. I always wait for sales like yesterday I went to my local HEB (grocery chain in TX) and Phalaenopsis that were selling for $23.99 on Saturday (Valentine's Day) were on sale for $9.99.
My orchid sat for about a year in potting soil with absolutely no TLC. The leaves stayed green and healthy. Unbelievable. I’m now showing it some love following your directions and wallah! It’s back.
After searching for videos on how to repot my orchid that I got as a house warming gift 10 yrs ago that was suffering, I followed your instructions and it was easier to do than I imagined it would be. What I thought I was going to see was a ton of rotted roots and very little to work with. What I did see was a lot more oversoaked roots and a lot of potential for healing. Thank you so much for making this video, you have saved my plant.
This is my first time visiting your channel. I'm only around the halfway mark, and I know I will be subscribing. It is obvious how much you care & respect your plants. So happy I found you, and thank you I learned so much!
I just bought 2 Phals 3 weeks ago. I didn't know how to care for it until I saw your video here. You were very detailed. Now, I am not scared anymore if something went wrong in the future with my phals. Thank you so much, it's very helpful. And yes I took all that some kind of dirt that was on the roots and repotted it with barks that came with it. Much thanks!!!☺️
Hi Brade very beautiful all the orchids which are inside of your house. Awesome
Wow, I was watching this for fun but then I realized that my mini orchid is in the same exact situation! I bought it only a few weeks ago so the roots are healthy. I'll wait for the flowers to drop, cut the stem to the node, and repot it. Thanks for the great information.
It would be so interesting to see a follow up video on some of your rescue orchids.
I have gotten 4 Phalaenopsis in the last few months and they all came in the clear plastic pots like this one came in. I punched more holes in the sides all around and then placed them in heavier pots with room all the way around the plastic pot so the roots can breath. So far they are doing great and all have new growth.
Hey brad don't give up on it i believe its destiny is to be one of your best orchids . :) amazing video
Thanks Zach, I hope it is a good color!
Amazing that you could save it at that point. Gives me hope for grocery store bought orchids.
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They're not so bad if you give them the right care and know what's going on with the roots. I purchased a orchid from a nursery, and the potting media started breaking down and it started affecting how the roots were looking. I didn't know as I am still fairly new to orchids but as I have been researching when to repot I came across this problem and noticed there was a real problem. Watered it once a week when all the roots were silver and I tried really hard never to leave them in standing water or anything when I noticed the mold I tried watering less so that the mold could die off as it's not getting favorable conditions but didn't work. After it finished blooming I removed the media and put it in fresh media and the bark looked really broken down and had a smell or it was the roots. Mold was mostly on the bark chips. Some roots were affected but not many some had rotted as it had a moss plug in the Centre so it has probably been in that media way too long. It had a lot of roots though it had overgrown the pot think it was just starting to show signs of stress from the old Media and being cramped. But cut the affected roots Off and repot it not sure of it how it will do. It's been since Sunday.
thanks for providing such clear and informative tips. you are a good teacher.
Thanks for the pointers in this video. I just purchased my first phalaenopsis orchid from the supermarket and I need to repot it. I'll keep you posted on how it progresses.
WOW! Such a beautiful display of oechids
So glad that this poor little orchid save by you Brad! Hopefully she makes a fast recovery under your care and love :D Keep us update with her recovery progress :D
Thanks Will, I'll let you know what color it is... Someday, hopefully soon.
@@BradsGreenhouse is there an update on this orchid? 🥰
Just bought my first orchid! Wanted to get a little education so I can take good care of it.
Nicely done! It will be a happy plant very soon.
Thanks Andrea
Hi Brad! This video was really informative. I followed it when I repotted my Phalaenopsis Equestris, and Doritaenopsis "Euro Star", which both were drowning when I got them. The Equestris was simply soaked when it arrived in the mail. The roots were in rough shape, but I expect full recoveries now that I have them in my mini-greenhouse to grow.
I'm an orchid newbie. Thanks for your helpful videos!
thank you, Brad. Good quality video, good story and explanation.Sure, you will be reworded by this new member of your orchid family with beautiful flowers and great pleasure seeing recovery of the resquid plant
Awesome video for a new orchid owner like me! thanks!
Just repotted my very first Phalaenopsis. Hoping for new growth. Thank you for all the great tips! Ps Loved seeing your puppy in the video I have a white French Bulldog :))
You are an orchid angel. I have had a few orchids planted just in this way and I thought it was normal. I'm very happy to be educated on proper orchid care.
Thank you very much for this video! You may have saved my orchid. I got it as a present after my father's passing a couple months ago, and I became concerned when the flowers of only one of it's flower spikes dropped and soon after that spike yellowed. I decided it was time to repot, despite the fact that it's other flower spike was still healthy and in bloom. When I got a good look at it's roots I saw it was in a very similar condition as the plant in this video was, with it's roots tightly bound in a flexible pot exactly like that one. Over half of it's roots were rotten and had to be trimmed off, but after all was said and done my plant has six leaves and one flower spike remaining out of it's original two, and a decent number of yellowed but otherwise healthy looking roots and a couple of normal grey air roots.
Now all I have to do is wait and hope the plant will recover well from this ordeal.
WyrmsRoost happy to help! my most recent video show this one in bloom, it's purple
***** I'll be sure to check that out. :D
Brad, you are amazing. Thanks so much for your tutorials
This was so informative! Thanks! I have to repot both my orchids now. They are both in bad shape like this was but with new growth too so I’m hopeful!
Nice video. I have grown orchids over the years with nothing but luck on my side! I just recently started to get into having them reboot. A trick I had, was when the blooms were gone, I would repot it, and add a small faux silk orchid the same type as the original type of orchid... I have had new shoots come right up against it and bloom...then I take out the faux one. Pretty all year long!
OMG thanks for rescuing that poor lil Orchid.
Thank you! Going now to search for a update on this beauty.
Hi Brad. very new orchids owner here.loved your video .thanks for sharing. Moira Australia
Thanks Brad; I am a care giver for elderly people, so many times people give them orchids and when the flower dies the people just leave the plant to die. Recently I took a plant that one of my clients no longer wanted. Your video was very helpful. Now to find a place to buy the medium you used in the repotting videdo.
Love your channel thank You!!!! Your green house aweee
Thank you for this very helpful video!
Thanks for good instructions & information .
Hi, you have taught me so much. Glad you helped this poor plant.
Did you ever update this one?
fantastic thorough explanation and repotting thank you. thank you for sharing
Best video that I've seen dealing with my beloved Orchids. Brilliant, so good and well explained that I subscribed. Bravo
'Just saw your new video. You do an awesome job....always lots of good information. I love your traffic cone pots.
+Donna Forget Thanks!
thanks alot for your advice no sales person has ever given me that advice !
Very good ! even your substrate composition is exellent , a very good standart substrate not only for phalaenopsis.I have no doubt that this plant will bloom in the next 6 months.
really helpful video to rescue my orchid that is in the same situation
Hi Brad, I loved your presentation. I felt sad to see how badly packed the plant had been. Plants feel and it must have been suffering. I have a phalaenopis and didn't know how to care for it. I appreciate your knowledge and your caring for the plants. I love your greenhouse.
Grandtastic Video!
New SUBSCRIBER!
Thank You for sharing your knowledge!
thank you so much! you have a lovely gentleness.... plants love you!
Love -Reiki
Thank you for you in put on how to Repot the Orchids.It was very helpful. Hope I will be able to keep mine going for a very long time.
Really great segment!
thanks Brenda!
Your green house is beautiful!
Hi I'm very new that Orchids growing. So this video has help me to understand growing orchids. I have friend that asking me if i'm crazy to start doing this now. It is toooo costly. Like i have my own saying one life to live do what make you happy. Thank you so much for this video.
Dawn-Marie Thomas thanks for watching!
I came back to this after having bought phals at the big box stores with worse roots than this one. The orchid mix they sell but for one at lowes was dreadful as well. So live and learn, I need to find a better phals supplier here in my town! A couple that I repotted in the basic bark medium have survived, better than none!
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Hi Brad i Like ur medium mix, seems very appropriate in singapore weather :)
Brad..your videos are very informative and you give lots of valuable information...thanks for sharing your knowledge.
80 degrees ahhh the days of spring and summer how nice and how luck y for you Brad. One of the pahls I rescued from the big box store was just like that I did everyting you have done except I used rooting hormone on the tips of the cut roots just to sterlize and stimulate new root growth
You went above and beyond! I'm sure it will recover just fine.
I have a soft spot for them when I see they are in dire need . I just got back from the vets office and I saw an Oncidium on the desk with shrivled pseudo bulbs and proceeded to tell the secretaries how to save it and what to do with it , they thought it was a lily lol
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Thank you for such a big help. I think one of my plants (I only have 2) is in this kind of shape, though it's in the original clear plastic pot, so that's at least one good thing. I am a true newbie with all this and have learned a lot.
Judith Byrd
Thanks Brad! I have just watched this video and hoping my orchid will make a recovery. It was nearly as bad as the one you're saving!
Here is an update on how it is doing now, it is the purple one in this video ruclips.net/video/6diVon89fmQ/видео.html
Brads Greenhouse & Gardening and
Oh, good! :)
YAY!
Brads Greenhouse & Gardening
thanks for update video!
Great explanation step by step. Thanks!
Is there an update to this orchid? Would love to see how it's doing now!
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The tutorial starts at 3:37 in case you don't have much time...
And at 5:07 to see where he actually starts taking apart the pot
@@jcfarrell2652 :D
TY for this very in-depth video!!!!!!!!!!!! I picked up 2 (experimental/my first orchids!) $1 rescues, and I'd like to try to take good care of them XD Your video gives me hope!!!!!!!
Thanks and good luck!
Ahhh Suke Suke I did the same, picking up a $29 Phalaenopsis in a decorative outer pot for $5, and nursed it back to health. The vendor gave a plastic shot glass (actually a double-shot) to water it with weekly to help prevent over-watering, a key to keeping them alive. I water once per week with the shot glass and once a month give the plant a good soak, per other watering instructions I saw on RUclips. See details below. Good luck with your plants!
alan30189 LOL, thankyou!!!! I didn't think of that-- using a small measuring container to limit overwatering, LOL. You're the best :D
Ahhh Suke Suke No problem. How are your orchid rescues doing?
I just bought an orchid today and it had some rotten roots too! Now I know what to do thank you so much! What's your update? Has it bloomed yet?
Thank you so much for helping me learn how to care for my orchid's root system! Now to find info on what to do about yellowing leaves...
That was a very detailed and awesome tutorial.
Great video. I'm about to transfer several to the same colored design pots and now I know what to do. Thx
Hi! I loved the video! I recently got an orchid as a gift. It is in a plastic liner with a hole on the bottom and it is packed with moss. I am trying to let it dry out but it is in bloom and beautiful! Do i leave it in the liner until after the blooms are done? Or should i go ahead and repot and risk loosing all of the blooms? I want to pot it in bark. Thank you for your guidance. One last thing, halfway up the flower stalk there is a leaf. Its just random. What should i do? Cut it off or cut it when the stem dries up or leave it there? Help! Thank you!!
Hi Bard
ok great news, will let you know when it arrives thanks again :)
informative thanks, ihave to watch ot over and over
Great video, Thank you Brad. Every time I learn more : ) thanks to you. I appreciate it!
Thanks Hilda
Your welcome Brad : )
Awesome vid! Very informative, I think I now have a chance at keeping an orchid.
Thank you so much for that so needed repotting video, you make it seem so very easy.
I'm a total newbie with orchids (or any other plant for that matter) but I was given a phal for Valentine's Day last year and managed to keep it alive long enough to bloom again this year. It has a ton of aerial roots and leaves (new and old) but is packed very tightly into a flexible pot just like the one here. I can see that the majority of the roots inside the media are rotted. It's definitely time to repot but after watching this video I'm a little scared of what I'll find. Thanks for the tips and wish me luck!
Thanks for the comment, good luck!
Just curious how this particular orchid turned out. Did it survive and thrive as expected? It would be nice to see a follow up video if possible, thanks.
Why would you bother with the old flower stalk?
@@蛋與妹妹的生活扎記 I had w flower stalks that grew extra branching with flower buds and one grew a kki. I was going to chop the both too but some things came up keeping me too busy, forgetting all about my plants. Came back to all that growth. Also pretty sure I'm getting another baby.
Recieved an orchid not too long ago from a coworker who grows them, had nice media and made me inimidated to touch it as I had known nothing of orchids. I have left it alone for about 3 months now and the last two flowers just fell, the media looks to be rotting. But thanks to you I can have some confidence in reviving this orchid and hopefully expanding my garden to contain clones and more elaborate orchids, like vanilla.
This may be tedious for you but could you do an update on how much better it did?
I just love seeing the flurry of roots that you have carefully cultivated.
Mr. Brad, I still add charcoal to that same media mix you’ve got there. Why don’t people like to use charcoal for phals? My phals are lovely... tons of blossoms on strong plants, but the roots are not as robust as I think they should be. This year my phals went insane! Thanks to your help!!! ( ...and a few other RUclips Orchid channels.) I was shocked to see that most of my 12 phals have TWO bloom spikes and those spikes have spikes! Totally cool. Sorry, I just HAD to brag a little to SOMEBODY!🤭 Thanks for the great videos as usual! Please, if you possibly could find time, let me know about the charcoal use... or maybe someone else can comment about their feelings on charcoal. I’ve been using it in everything & I would say that everything is looking pretty happy, but I don’t want to jinks myself. 😁😙🤓. Thanks Again & Best Regards from Clearwater, Florida.
Thanks Brad, your tutorials are really informative, I have one Phal which was given to me as a gift so I'm very much a novice, I've had some lovely blooms this summer and I would never have been brave enough to prune the stems without watching your previous video and now I know how to repot when the time comes, I'm in the UK so have to allow for our different temperature here but so far my lovely Orchid seems to like it's home, lots of natural light but out of direct sunlight, I'll be sure to keep watching to pick up more of your helpful tips
just wondering if it's necessary to use an outer pot that has those slots or holes in it to let light in. I like the look of the clay pot. thanks for this and for rescuing that poor little orchid. how is it doing now?
thanks I'm new to orchids this really helped
Thank you so much, I learned a ton of great information! I appreciate your time!
That was really very helpful. Thanks
looks like orchid E.R lol.
thanks for the info...it helped me a lot...
your welcome!
hi,yesterday i went to repot my orchid.i had it for a week or two.and after watching this video, i had a feeling something wasnt right about my orchid.when i bought it (i am still a rookie) it had somany roots..but didnt look at what was between the roots,so ive potted it like that.so,yesterday i went with my guts and removed the orchid frommy potting mix...and guess what..all the roots were rotten,like yours.i removed all the rotten roots and i saw that there was coconut bark in it..that was completely wet...i removed that..there were even micro insects living in it...so,hopefully,after repotting it now,it will grow nice for me... alot,thanks for the info...
You are more than likely feeling like we do. My dad grows award winning phalaenopsis just as a hobby (awards won at orchid club meetings held every month). I wish I'd seen this video a month ago. We go to garden centres SAVING these poor plants, wrapped in cellophane, drowned with so much water, with nowhere to run. Then they have the cheek to charge $40! For an almost dead plant. Thank you for this video. I agree about those cheap pots. I also think they need to quit drowning these poor plants and smothering them with sphagnum. Cheers 😀
Sarah Le Moignan The key is to wait till they discount almost-dead plants. See my story, above. I bought a phalaenopsis at a Kroger grocery store, discounted to $5. The outside container it was in was worth $5, so I figured I couldn't lose. I nursed it back to health.
Here is what you do: Ask to talk to the manager of the store, and tell him he has a bunch of dying orchids that you would like to make an offer on. Shoot low on the price, because he might ask for more. Say maybe $3 or $4 each and if he comes back with a higher price, settle somewhere in between. Good luck!
I do the same thing....All most all of time it works and the manager takes my offer and I would just buy all of them....Managers just want to get rid of them. And that way it save them the time in asking an employee to just throw then in a dumpster....It just breaks my heart to see so many plants just being neglected and throw away when you know they could have been saved....
SarahandEmma Le Moignani)
Great video great detail
Hey Brad,
Thanks for sharing this video. I'm curious to know how the plant is doing now. Can you share a link if you have another video on this same plant?
i have always just used sphagnum moss to repot but i do tend to water every 3 weeks or so mainly when they are bone dry the roots have never gone spongy and they always have multiple flower spikes on. i found with me when i added bark they would dry out real quickly on me and the leaves would dehydrate but it is very dry and hot where they are.
Can I cut the roots off that are between the leaves that are not dead?
Ellen Stamey i wouldn't orchid get infected very easily. also it is good to have roots both in the air and the potting medium. the leaves will die back at the bottom of the orchid anyway the best way with orchids is not to cut into them if you don't have to.
hello, do you have an update vid for this particular plant? That would be great to see! Thanks for sharing!
TripleMRocks I do, I show it in a recent video. I just put a link in a new comment for everyone
Shaded Moon, Sphag. moss holds lots of moisture. When you find some, (Garden Centres or online) divide it into plastic clip-lock lunch bags or similar and hang in a fairly bright place, not sun. In a couple of months you'll have much more moss. Sphag moss is expensive where I live so this method helps.
Hi Brad I was wondering if you would be able to show this rescued Phalaenopsis in your next Greenhouse Update. I would really love to see how it is doing.
It's actually in the house now, in bloom. I've had it in if you have my windowsill orchid care videos that I've been doing this winter.
Thanks will check it out. Love watching your videos.
Thank you for your well explained video, I just got two Miltoniopsis orchids (it says Miltonia on the sticker). They have a wonderful fragrance, I learned a lot from you just now.
Oh MY Thank You I just repotted (orchid) Mrs. Orchid boy was she in BAD SHAPE so we watched this video and I repotted Her and she watched her By the time we were done she looked happy We will let you know how she does
Thank u so much! Great video very descriptive
great vid Brad, just what I needed to see, they do the same thing here in AU too with display pots of Phala's , better get out and do what you have just done, but its 43c here so probable just a bit to hot to do it now. they actually died off and now growing back again :)
Glad I could help, still that hot over your way wow! Oh I just mailed you something last week, so it should get to you shortly. I was a little later dropping by the post office.
I have an orchid that was planted in one of the wood slat boxes. I would like to repot as it is several years old. What do I do with all the routes that I've grown out and around the wood slats how do I remove the plant safely?
I have had my orchid for awhile, a few years, and it's in the same pot. I have gotten it to bloom twice but what I did was above ground, I wanted to see what the roots should look like. I have rotten roots. I don't have the media you have so I have to reuse some of what it came with. I microwaved the bark part to disinfect it and I'm going to add rocks. I do have a old coffee can lid with rocks that I pour water into, it won't hold much water. So, I'm going to give my orchid a drying period, (the roots,) but still let it "breathe" water from the rocks underneath. I will try to give an update later.
good luck!
@@BradsGreenhouse I gave the orchid a week to dry out after the repot. It is growing roots, (probably air roots,) and the stem that the flowers pop out of, I have two buds. I gave the orchid some water in the pot but I gave it more in the rocks that are around the pot. I am nervous about two leaves, they are looking sickly but getting more water may make they perk up. I think it's going to live.
Awesome tips
Will this be helpful for one that is suffering from being dropped on the floor? The entire pot was broken.. all the leaves are wilting horribly, except the new growth leaves in the middle..