Ludisia discolor (Jewel Orchid) Houseplant Care - 217 of 365
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Ludisia discolor, which is the 217th spot of"365 Days of Plants", is one of the more prolific jewel orchids, and has become a hot houseplant-known for its velvety almost black leaves. I periodically see it at plant shops and garden centers, but it's not always that common, so if you find one, you may just want to give it a try.
In this video I'll discuss where it is originally native to, where I'm growing it in my home, and basics like light, watering and fertilizing.
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Featured plant:
Ludisia discolor
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Mine flowered and I found them beautiful. If someone doesn't know it was so pretty. White with a touch of yellow
Hi Summer Rayne,
Discolor means: separation of different colors. This applies to plants where the leaf on the underside is noticeably differently colored from the top or where old leaves or flowers differ in color from the young ones, this can be more than two colors.
Bicolor means: two-colored
I hope you don't mind me reporting this.
Nice specimen plant - so big and full. Love it when orchids get the spotlight on your channel :D
On a good sized plant the flower display can be quite nice. A wide, shallow pot accommodates this guy’s sprawling nature nicely.
I love this plant!!!!! I've had this plant several times throughout my life and have always enjoyed it!!! Easy to grow and very very beautiful too!
I love this orchid. I got one in the summer time and it is growing very well. I have it in a very large jar under a regular LED light. It's a very interesting plant.
That is a gorgeous plant, I have never seen it in person or I'm sure I would have picked it up by now. One more plant to add to my wish list, lol. Thank you so much Summer for sharing, looking forward to tomorrows video, really enjoying this series.
Glad you are enjoying!
Lol, Housemouse damage. One year I had a housemouse come through and eat an entire seed flat of heirloom tomatoes from in the growroom. Welcome to the club. Great Video.
Wow this is such a lovely plant💜✨🌟👌👍😊
I had similar marks in my sansevieria and found a beetle happily chomping at it. I evicted it and the marks discontinued.
Thank you very much for the video and also for encouraging me to try growing it in light shade - I was always put off from growing any kind of orchid because I was always convinced they needed tons of light!
I love mine, awesome foilage color and very healthy. I've had it about 3 years, it's the only orchid I grow.
I just ordered one, cant wait to get it
I ve known this plant when I was a kid and I just knew that this is orchid. Yes it grows so well in very shaded area, like very shady veranda..
because lately another foliage type of jewel orchid, the green and silvery ones that is on hits
Yes, do an episode. I have been having the same problem. It/them decimated my Thanksgiving cactus
Mine didn't touch my christmas cactus. Ferns, Peperomia, and Maranta were the main dish d'jour
perfect timing! i just bought one the other day
One of my most favorite
How do you get your plant so bushy? Mine is straggly and leaning towards the light out of the pot. I keep mine indoors
Me too, did you fix this? Mine has barely produced new leaves but had such a long trunk
Mine flowered, it was beautiful 😍🥰❤️.
beautiful plant, I didn't know mice like this plant (my cat probably scares any potential mice off). Thanks for the video Summer.
You're most welcome. And it looks as if they only tasted it. They really ate down some of my Peperomia and Maranta however
Just got one of these and I can’t wait until she is as magnificent a specimen as your’s.
My ludisia has grown a lot this year, it has many branches going every direction, not bushy like yours, and it's going downwards. It's also blooming for the second time
This bloomed last year but no blooms this year!
Mine is in a pot on the edge of a plant stand and it's branches hang down pretty far over the table's edge also.
Summer Rayne Oakes it will!
I would assume this needs a well draining mix for soil?
Hello! What medium did you use? :)
I have this beautiful Orchid in my office in its original nursery pot. What kind of dirt mix should I eventually use for it? Asking for help!
My husband has a small collection of succulents at his studio. A mouse tasted every single one and found the lithops to be most delicious and proceeded to make a meal out them :(
I put this plant in a terrarium. Today, I noticed white spiky growth jutting out of the stem. Is it a fungus? I left it for now, because I thought I saw somewhere online that that's how a new stem grows in .. but I am skeptical. Any thoughts?
where did you get the planter from ? if you don't mind sharing
I just bought one of these. So pretty. But you seem to forget how to water the plants you talk about in these videos. I’m like wait...when and how often should I water?? Lol
I was recently gifted this plant and I absolutely love the look of the foliage. Wondering how long it takes to propagate and whether it's better to do in water or soil?
I've yet to see one surprisingly, I'll be happy with my silver squill , kind of like a bulbous orchid, great specimen
They do have a similar pseudobulb
The mice wants some salad 🥗 😂
Very cool!!!
Having problems with mine! 🙈 some leaves turn red & just become a mush, I have one piece left… any tips?
😍😍😍 where did u buy the purple vas? Sooo cool!
Searching for some advice from the community - my jewel orchid looks like is rotting from inside out (I can see a couple spots on the stems). I am definitely not overwatering and it doesn't look like experiencing any root rot. Any advice about this situation?
I only have one stem is it easy for me to propagate more? if I cut the top does the left bottom still would grow new leaves and stems?
I love that purple pot!!
Bruning Pottery!
1:30 Not all mice eat plants from my observation. It is just one or a pair will selectively test a plant to see if it is useful for nesting material or as food. Like the freshwater snails that I raise, some will eat healthy plants while some only go after the decaying parts.
It is however best to "take care" of the mouse situation or those few mice will continue to gnaw all your plants. I had over ~100+ orchids before but a couple of mice gnaw most of them to death. They didn't eat them but bite each one enough to cause a fatal blow on the plants.
Some of my plants are just gnawed on and others are completely decimated. I thought it was from the standpoint of whether one was tastier than the other. I don't have any food lying around my house, so I figured they came to eat the plants.
@@summerrayneoakes That is devastating. I hope you can find a way to solve your issue.
I have so far managed to trap the mice that target my plants and so far no other mice are after my plants.
What else could you say.... Lighting? Watering? Substrate? Humidity!?
Nice plant I have 2 small orchids the less expensive ones so far I have manage to keep alive
I'm really sad - I had one a couple of years ago before the craze hit the internet but I didn't know how to care for it and it died ☹ Now I can't find them anywhere
I had no food or so I thought but I had apt mice from construction and they had nested using a reed mat I had used as mounting back for an art project stashed in a closet. They will come in through the tiniest cracks and it’s quite frustrating hope they don’t take any of your rare/special plants!
It's been human vs mice for several months now but I think I have it under control. Mine too came up through construction
I heard that this orchid often listens to MCR and watches The Nightmare Before Christmas alone wherever you plant it. It also accuses you of not understanding it's dark soul. #gothplant
Love that.
facing big time house mice problem. it ate my, cactus flower, peperomia, broke my palms and other succulents :(
i got one as a gift a year+ ago and it still looks like yours in the green pot. it has never grown one leaf. it has it's original four leaves. HELP
I have the same problem. 3 propagations, never grown a new leaf for over a year. I'm gonna try to repot it in orchid bark only when it gets warmer.. Will have some challenges keeping it moist enough but I think the roots are struggling in the current soil situation. Let me know how it goes for you if you change anything!
I need help with mine pleaseeee!🙏🏻
I got it as a gift from a friend and it was hugeeee (I couldn’t look at its roots but the branches are super bound and leaves have started to get super red and dry!)
The substrate still feels humid and the house has a 50-70% humidity and it’s doing bad both in shade and indirect light… (I kept it the first two weeks in a very bright indirect light spot). Is there anything I can do?🥹♥️
I’ve gotten a mouse eating my outdoor plants. I used a humane mouse trap with peanut butter and released it in a park. Problem solved! No more mouse poop on the porch!
I hear you have to release them over a mile away
Summer Rayne Oakes I didn’t know there was a suggested distance. I just checked and thankfully I released it 1.8 miles away ☺️
Which soil do you have her in thank
This is a regular potting medium with some extra perlite.
I really like this plant....hmm wish listed!😉
I had this ten years ago(double size above), but over watered killed it :(
What about watering
I didn’t hear you mention watering?
Its actually called dark black jewel orchid.
Just got one🙂
water needs?
Hi Summer. One of my favorite RUclipsr Danny aka MissOrchidGirl, also featured this orchid two years ago and had a charming story, wanted to share with you. ruclips.net/video/YcGSouDWzvo/видео.html. Think you're getting mice nibbles is because of the absence of little Kippee. Mice are warted away by chickens and cats. Will always miss that little guy. Thank you for this piece and all the work you did filming out of country and especially Thailand.
Thanks for sending. And I actually had the mice when Kippee was around. I had to pick up her food at night. Basically they came through the walls from the never ending construction on my building and in my home. I think I'm almost finished patching all the holes!
is your hair naturally black
This is my natural hair color. Never dyed. But it's more brown than black
How is it an Orchid if it doesn't do the Orchid part?!?!
It has orchid flowers.
oml i have so much trouble with mine, mercy me
You said "house mouse" and then house mites, and at the end say house mouse again 😂 and again say "mice"🐭
You could catch the mice and care for them
(instead of killing them)
巨人の肩 Mice in the USA can commonly carry hantavirus, which can be transmitted to humans and cause serious respiratory infection - probably not a good idea to keep them around... a nice thought, though.
I had a pet mouse growing up (named it "Big Cheese") and I have thought about having them as pets, but after catching 12, I thought....mmmm better not. The apartment building has been under ongoing construction and they had to drill holes through the walls and up through the rooms to replace heating, so they started to come up through there. Then they never finished my windows, so they started to come in through the window edges. I think I have it under control now, but there are still some trips to Home Depot I need to do to patch the holes. Steal wool and extra wood works REALLY well against mice coming in.
get a cat, no more mice.