Can we get an update 🤩!

Are you watering from top or in reservoir?

Good afternoon, which country do you live in

Wow! That is a bright color scheme! Fantastic blooms 🌺

Orchids in water... What the water using? From the bottles or special?

I’m sending all my positive vibes to your collection 🙌🏾 Hang in there, you’ll win the war. Spider mites just hit my collection pretty heavy but I’m a hard person to battle haha I’ve ordered 30k predatory mites, so fingers crossed 🤞🏾 I love seeing your Miltoniopsis, I bet the fragrance is divine 🌺🌺 Have a great weekend and good luck 😁

What pest? Is it spider mites? If there's one pest I would rather throw the plant away than try to deal with, that would be the one. My Onc. Tiny Twinkle had spider mites and I threw it away. Not sure if I should try again this winter when they'll again be available. 👀

I tried the Ardap and was inititally really happy with it, certainly works for 3 months to supress the pests but then they'd all come back with a vengeance every time so it was not eliminating them ever completely. It's happened to me too. Like I like to think we get one chance at growing orchids, it either goes well or it doesn't. We learn from our mistakes and try not to repeat them. Like if you look at the leaves of your miltoniopis, you can see it has grown the leaves folded, like a harmonica. This is as far as I am aware always caused by pests and a symptom of pests, certainly most of the time. Wheas others that have had this happen do not want to believe such a grim prognosis and will rather it be something easy to fix like underwatering. All one has to do is water more. But it doesn't help the orchid much if at all. It helps to know the symptoms to look out for to prevent them going unnoticed for a really long time. Roots are a really good indicator for me, leaves and yellow streaks, often mistaken as a magnesium deficiency, the amount of happy sap produced, abnormal leaf growth, how long flower sheaths remain green before turning brown and many more signs are things I keep an eye on to judge the health of my orchids. It's the time it takes from when we first spot the pest till we eliminate it completely that affects how sick an orchid becomes so the sooner we treat and spot the symptoms the better. But saying all this I don't think I can save my Herr Alexander myself sadly. I kept it quite humid to promote new roots and the top leaf has gone brown as a result.

I got a rhynchostylis gigantea red as a seedling. I heard it as slow growing. I have it in Bark and Charcoal under grow lights. I water it once a week.

Your tiny noid Phal looks like Phal. Tiny Melissa

Wow. What orchid species is it?

The pot looks too small, which is probably to keep the price low. But if you want to keep the Cymbidium healthy for a long time, it will need larger pot with new soil.

The noid Phal is very pretty. I have one that looks similar, wish I could find an id. That's so cool, the Aerides blooms do look like elephants!🤩

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I have been looking for this! Do you still have the extra plant?

Lol the title ZygoPestalum. Hopefully it doesn't have pests again and it can fully recover 🤞🤞

Great blooms 😊 Thank you for the video 😊

Gorgeous blooms 🤩. Love the Phals... Congrats on rooting the plumeria. The flowers are very pretty on it.

So beautiful. I love the yellow phals in particular. Also, the plumeria isn't something I often see. I've been trying to grow it from seed several times as a kid, and it did fine but I had to get rid of them due to spider mites. I think I would like to try it again, but main issue is I don't have space for such a shrub/tree-sized plant.

Which of the Tiny Twinkles do you recommend? Does any of them not have problems with leaves freckling/yellowing? Which has the best fragrance?

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Very nice bloom nonetheless!

Very nice results. The bloom displays are fantastic! You have pretty Phals.Hope that last one recovers. Looking forward to see how they do in Pon in the long run.

It's a very pretty Phal!

So gorgeous

Use open air pots/containers with holes,gaps and slits. In this case the ariel roots are suffocating for air.

Any small zygopetalum recommendations?

Nice! Looks like it's recovering well.

Very pretty inflorescence. The blooms are really nice. 🤩

How many times bloom within a year?

It looks great! Do you have any suggestions for fragrant orchids that bloom in late spring to early fall? From what I see most bloom from late fall to early spring.

so gorgeous 😍

13 spikes is still a good show! It looks very pretty. :) I killed mine during my neglect period last year. I might get another one.

You have a nice collection of Rhynchostylis. I love the leaves on the gigantea Spots.

Congratulations, beautiful blooms!I bought 4-different colors a couple years ago that haven’t bloomed yet. I bought them because they were supposed to have a good scent. 😮. Darn

congrats mate. I lost my gigantea in the end unfortunately. By the time I realize why it was too late sadly. Like you not wanting to try lecca again I will also not try my luck with the gigantea again. They get too big anyway. I don't know if you are interested in my theory on why lecca did not work out for you as for lots of others that have tried lecca over the years. Many peopl end up complaining about lecca and ironically it has nothing to do with the lecca at all. At least that is my theory if you are interested in hearing it. I am sure you will dismiss it but I want to tell you anyway, then you can ignore it at your choice. So theer is absoutely nothing wrong with lecca, it is practically as good as bark but so why does it not work for people. Well the answer is the roots. More specifically the root color. Now the reason I am fairly sure you say that they did not like lecca is because the roots struggled. They probably developed black tips and brown salt damage in places right? This led you to conclude the lecca was damaging the orchids which would not happen as much in an organic media like bark and especially moss. Now many just conclude lecca is no good and to never use it again. My theory will sound far fetched to you but I swear it isn't It's what I discovered trying lecca on orchids myself. I also experienced problems and it made no sense to me as I have 30 years experience using lecca and I'd never experienced the problems some orchids were giving me. I obviously wasn't just going to give up, I had to figure out a way to make it work. For that to happen I had to figure out what was going wrong. Why did some orchids love lecca and others did not. Many growers at this point conclude some species are more sensitive than others and can only be grown in moss or bark. But it has nothing to do with that. I haven't found a single sepcies yet that could not be adapted to lecca. Even my mexicoa ghiesbreghtiana grows in lecca. My cattleya walkeriana and schilleriana love lecca. Literally all my orchids are in lecca. Ok so get to the point. Why did the lecca fail? Ok so again just my theory and what I discovered. But it seems it has to do with the orchid, not the lecca! What I discovered was that orchids grown in moss very often have moss mites living on them. If moss mites have moss to feed on they will leave thick leaved orchids alone, they'd prefer a softer plant material to eat. But when we repot an orchid that has moss mites into an inorganic media like lecca the moss mites go crazy. They are so tiny you don't see them unless you really go looking for them and even then sometimes they are only noticeable in the middle of the night. So anyway, one repots the orchid, the moss mites haven't got anything to eat anymore. They have two options. Go hungry and die or eat the orchid instead. You might think moss mites can;t damage orchids. You;d be wrong. Take away their food source and they will feed off the orchid instead. They won't like it but they won;t just drop dead. Within half a year the orchid will become dehydrated. The roots will look terrible, some might even start rotting. You repot back into moss. The moss mites rejoice and leave the orchid alone again. The end... I know it won;t convince you to try lecca again, no harm there even though lecca is alot cheaper than bark but it's worth being aware of why our plants do what they do. Many times the best we can do is form theories. Like you did, lecca is no good for orchids and like I did, the orchids that don;t like lecca have moss mites living on them. So that's my theory for what it's worth. But like I said I did end up killing my gigantea. Yours do look in much better shape than mine did. Who knows maybe it was the lecca and the gigantea is the one species I found that doesn;t like it. Mine did end up dying and it was in lecca lol. But it did have moss mites too. I know because I saw them on the giantea too.

Herr Alexandre is my all time favorite Miltoniopsis! Mine has the most amazing fragrance around 7-9am. You cultivate them so well!! I don’t quite have as many as you, but I’m working on that 😅

Cute blooms. I like the size of your Dendrobium.

Please recipe againts scale infection.

Very nice! That's awesome how floriferous it is, 3xs in almost a year! It does look like the liu's berry, but longer spike. I saw there's a white with yellow lip liu's triprince.

This is the weirdest Laelia I’ve seen

congrats. I've noticed this behavior myself too. Good to see someone else make the same observation, my dendrobium parishii just flowered really late this month too. But your zygo might struggle to get in the right blooming rythm for next year. Even though I have a struggling one too they should be producing new growths this time of year that should grow over winter to get ready to flower in spring so yours has some catching up to do after it finishes flowering. What can one do. I have had to deep treat practically my whole collection. Also time for many of mine to recover or end in a sad demise.

Last plant Miltoniopsis Florence

I believe that a Miltoniopsis Bert Feild and maybe Miltoniopsis Ride Tide.

Mine just bloomed after a year of having it, it was late but still showed out for me, the flowers have this neon yellow/green blush on the lip of the flower mine doesn’t smell like anything but I hear they smell like citrus

It's so pretty. If it's flowering it's happy. leave it be

WOW!!! I think one of the orchid society members brought this one last month

It looks good in its new setup.

You have got an unique collection of Orchids!

Superb display blooming all Phals