Mines is in a black flower pot with holes on the bottom living in Orchid Moss it looks like it’s dying what should I do? I just got it for Christmas 😟😢

I just bought an orchid that was sitting in water inside of a pot with no drainage holes. The plastic pot liner that the roots are in is so tight I can’t pull the root system out. I think I’m going to have to cut the thing off. I got a ceramic pot with holes in the sides and orchid bark medium. I’m going to attempt to repot it. This video was very helpful. Thanks.

Thank you. Vey real advice, not complicated with eggshells, coffee grounds and no voice.

Thank you for your excellent video. My Phil orchid has many roots now. The old stem is very black, but I think it may be trying to put out some new roots too. It was also able to grow 2 new leaves a few months ago. Is it possible it can not do both at the same time? The larger older leaves have firmed up again. There is also a slight tear in the new leaf. Do you recommend cinnamon as a bacterial defense. I don’t know if it will bloom. It is 11 years old, I really want to save it. Any other advice? Thank you again. Have a Merry Christmas. 😊❤

This was a great class.

I have a phal that I've been rehabbing in water for about a year now. It lost most of its roots from root rot that it had when I got it. It has about 5 healthy roots now but only one of the roots is pretty long while the others are shorter still. I found one of your videos several months ago and started to only give it distilled water for 24 hours and then dump the water out and repeat that each week. I don't know if I need to be more patient or if it needs fertilizer? At what point do you fertilize orchids you have been rehabbing?

Danielle, Thank you so much for all this helpful info. I have had good luck for several years ( I buy from an orchid grower) but have had several smaller plants with wilting leaves recently. Now I feel confident that I can save them . (I hope!) Diane

Thank you for the update! It's always nice to visit your orchid room and your kittens are adorable! ❤❤❤

Great info Thank you! 😊

I'm really glad I came across your Video! I have an orchid I've had for 6 years and it started loosing leaf after leaf after I re-potting it and almost all the roots had rotted. New roots are emerging so I think there's hope. I'll use some of your tips to bring it back. Thank you!

I was given an orchid with small very pretty flowers about 6 years ago, and since then it never flowered for 5 years, then just before we moved house it decided to bloom again. I packed it very carefully in a large box to protect it during the move, and it survived - so successfully that it has been in constant bloom for over a year now, so never despair, orchids frequently surprise me!

I was so encouraged when you said one had not bloomed in 8 years. I have had many for over 4 years without a bloom and I was worried that I did something wrong. This year I finally have 7 plants out of 27 that have flower spikes. Nothing on oncidiums.

An alba Victoria Reginae?! That’s super awesome! A lovely update. Thanks for sharing!

My orchids continue to bloom so when do I re-pot so they stay healthy? Can I re-pot during the blooming phase?

Do you ever migrate the orchids rescued through water culture into a bark medium?

Hi new friend Thanks for sharing this beautiful video

hi danielle ! i have a dendrobium, and it lost all its leaves. is this normal for hibernation or should I be worried? love ur vids :))

Ty for sharing, wanted to try my Latouria Dendrobium in water culture, glad to see it does work, will try, they love water.

Danielle, thanks for posting. Always good to hear from you and your fur family too ❤❤❤

Always a pleasure to visit your collection. The anceps flowers are stunning ❤❤❤

Hello you wonderful lovely lady 🥰 thoroughly enjoyed watching this. It is good to see your beauties again, as well as hear you. Hope you are doing well ❤

Id be questioning your kitty liter, what chemical are in the liter, or if just clay , the clay dust is toxic and affecting the leaves, regular dust does not turn the leaves, just a thought

Den. aggregatum. It’s been awhile since I left comment in general. I haven’t really been a good orchid friends to all here. Lol I haven’t had time to watch and comment anybody’s videos. But you caught me in the best timing today! Glad to see you doing well and the kitties! Happy Holidays!

I used the same online orchid grower that you did in this video and it was terrible. It came soaking wet and it smelled very moldy. One of the leaves had a huge cut in the middle. 😢I ordered from them because you had ordered from them.

I have a phelonopsis that wasn't doing well in it's media.. I took it out, cleaned up the roots and set on some damp moss in a fish bowl that I covered with plastic wrap with vent holes ... 2 days later i noticed white fuzz. I pulled it out and sprayed plant with peroxide and water..I let it dry for a day..now Am trying semi water culture...I placed in clear vase like you use and added inch of water. I dropped a couple roots in for a couple hours and removed them..plan to drop in roots for a couple hours 2 times a week...any suggestions?

So sorry to hear about your dogs...i am an avid animal lover and sympathize for your loss

people make too big a deal out of fertilizer, it boils down to what you can afford and what you find works for you. So long as it has N-P-K-Ca-Mg, it will work itself out. MSU is fine, although newer research has shown that an NPK ratio of 3-1-2 is best for many different plants, including orchids (MSU being 3-1-5 ratio). It is also being shown that nitrate nitrogen alone is not the best metabolically and plants benefit from ammoniacal nitrogen as well. I'm currently testing the Dynagro Foliage Pro, which is a 9-3-6 formula with 3:1 nitrate nitrogen to ammoniacal nitrogen. I cannot say I have noticed anything yet on the orchids, but on my aroids (which grow a hell of a lot faster) there is a difference in growth speed, leaf size and flower production. For the orchids, I will probably alternate between the jack's 2 part and the Dynagro when spring arrives, simply because the Dynagro is rather expensive by comparison because it is a liquid. But I have also used the Better-Gro orchid plus and they did just fine. My main issue with it was that it didn't dissolve completely (so something was being left behind) and it would absorb water from the air and turn to mush rather quickly.

Great video. I missed seeing ur videos but I know you are fostering kittens & cats & are very busy. So thanks for taking the time to make this video. Hope all is going good with ur cats. I am a cat lover & a dog lover & live with a 14 year old Lab. We are two old ladies! Thanks again.

This is the best video. I thought I killed my orchid and almost threw her out. Thank God I did not. I actually was doing pretty good. My root system looks really crowded. When should I transplant to a new pot. There is bark but it’s looking fuzzy. Should I remove the old & add new bark? If so is there a video you did on this.

❤❤❤ thank you Danielle 🌺

A pH of 7.0 is in fact neutral rather than basic. I will be referring to this video as I learn more about orchids. Thanks for posting.

.......this was a great explanation of what and how.......you hit on so many great points, and explained it very well......I love to hear nutrient talk.......Like you said, research research ........great nutrient chat!

Do you put fertilizer in the water?

Hello, I am using water culture to rehab a phalaenopsis orchid and it has just a few good roots. I've been rehabbing it for close to a year now. I''ve only been using distilled water so far, should I fertilize it too?

This was a fascinating video. Not boring at all. Thank you for all the great info!

This is such a good video. A lot of orchid videos tell you what you have to do but don’t tell you why. Danielle explains the reasons behind everything i.e. if you need to grow a better root system the plant can’t have access to water constantly as then it wouldn’t have to put out new roots to look for water. Might be common sense to some people but I’m a complete novice and therefore appreciate the clear explanations please keep these videos coming !!

Where could I find your info about journaling for your orchids? I am just starting to watch your videos and I’m really enjoying the information!!! Thank you for sharing.

Can you change to semi water culture on a healthy plant that lost its flowers but has a bloom? I'm curious if I can't change to no soil

I was going to say the ice cubes not good for the orchid. Now my stem is dead so I need to cut it down and that what I wanted to know Thank You

Do u put pebbles in the bottom

What kind of water do u use

How about a healthy orchid you just bought from the store, how's the watering? do I need to let the plant get used to its environment first before I can transfer it to a jar and do the semi-water culture and how often is the watering?

HEEEELP Im overwhelmed 😞 i bought 3 phals and i dont know what going on and i have watched sooooooo many, days or weeks, at this point, worth of time. 1 phal: i have it about 5 months now and all this time it bloomed, now the flowers one by one are falling, thats normal okey, it has 3 spikes, i cut 2 down to the base cause all the flowers were gone but one spike continues to bloom. I noticed thag the leaves begin to drop, i looked from outside and the roots seemed okey, i repotted it when i bought it because it is a very large one with so many roots. I didnt give it water because the roots werent silver and also one leave had on one side a Wave and in all the videos i watched, it said it was because of overwatering but i only water when the roots are silver, till i noticed thag my new one had it also and found out thag this wave wasnt created by overwatering but because when it was wrapped up, the stem was in the middle and beeing for some time wrapped up it created this ttype of wave but what im worried are the dropping leaves??? 2 phal: i bought it a month and a half ago and repottet it cause i only did see at home that it wasnt doing well with the roots but i let the flower on. In this short time i noticed more and more roots dying of, so i took her out another time and cut away the dead roots and also the flowerspikes so she could concentrate on the vegetive growth but instead the leaves are hanging much more as my first described phal, i found other roots that are rooting but within this little time i did repot 2 times, so now what? What should i do next, i see those roots that arent good and i think its because of that that the leaves hang because she has no opportunity to hydrate herself. 3 mini phal: bought about 2 months ago, she had 3 flowers, 2 wilthered of and the buds that were on also fall but it created other buds so im giving it a cool down but i noticed that she is trying to grow new roots, i see green roottips coming from the stem. What should i do now? Cut the flowerspike away allthough it has created new buds and let her grow vegetavly or let the flowerspikes on with the bhds and continue with the cool down? I know its a lot im asking but i really dont know what to do at this point. Please somebody help, i really appreciate it, thank you so much ❤

I want to thank you. I have about nine store box orchids and one of them was really small with two leaves and she was the first one. I tried with your method. Within three weeks she is sprouting new roots. She actually has two new leaves and loves semi water culture. Now all my orchid’s are using the semi water culture methods , and every single one of them but one has new leaves. The one that does not like the one in your video that’s taking a little bit longer than tha others It’s had the wrinkly leaves like yours. Now that I see that this really works. I’m on a orchid rescue mission. Thank you.❤

What if all they have is air roots? Do you put those roots in the water or just the tip of the stim? And how long...then how long between watering?

What is the best hydrophilic fertilizer to use and how often do you use it?

THANK YOU! I'm really new to orchids, receiving a beautiful one as a housewarming gift. Yours is the most comprehensive and compact instruction video I've watched. 4 months ago my 2 stalk orchid had at least 6 blooms each. As I had been told, I gave it 3 ice cubes weekly. 🙃 Now the blooms are gone; the 12" stalks are brown about halfway down but the leaves are firm and perky. So, do I treat it as a sick girl and un-pot, removing dead roots and leaf remnants? Also, with newly purchased plant that appear healthy, do you inspect their root system immediately? Thank you in advance for addressing my questions and for your really helpful video.

Do you fertilize these plants and if so, how?

So you use tap water or rain water or distilled water?

Even though I am the “plant master” according to my friends and family, Phal orchids have put my ego where it belongs. I killed more of those boogers than I care to admit before finally getting them to thrive. The key, as with all plants, is to mimic their natural environment as much as possible. My number one tip for all my peeps is to research every new plant. You might be surprised at how different their temperature ranges, lighting and water needs are compared to what we might imagine.