Brassavola Orchid Genus Care | 26 Care Cards Characteristic Cards Brassavola Care

[@NinjaOrchids]

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[@woowooone]

Wonderful information! Thank you

[@NinjaOrchids]

HI 😍💐 woohoo!! thank you! I am glad that it was helpful! Of course, you know the drill... if you ever have any questions, N.I.N.J.A. Never In Need, Just Ask 😉 I appreciate you taking me up on my offer to watch this video 🫶🏼❤️🌸

[@BlaisZeroni]

Wow Nina, this is absolutely perfect and you are amazing! These care cards are wonderful and I will print them out to put in my notes. I will probably not be the only one to find these care cards very useful :) This must have taken so much research and time, and I super appreciate it! I find it especially impressive you found information on the rhizome growing habits as well, that will be very useful for me for sure! A lot of good information and I love it. Feeling a lot more equipped to start making choices. Thank you so so much 🧡🍀 loved seeing you show off your own beautiful collection as well, really showed off the differences :) Hope you find some good rest and de-stressing now that this is done! Can’t thank you enough for this!

[@NinjaOrchids]

Blais, hi 🥰💐 well, I am so glad that this is going to be of help for you to start your shopping! That is the most important thing and thank YOU so much for your feedback!! I appreciate knowing that there are nuggets of intel in the video that will make your shopping experience so much more fun, in the knowledge that you know what you are up against with size etc. And... if you would let me know, when the time comes, which ones you are going to get ... I can be excited vicariously 🤪😅 I had 4 rudimentary cards from back in the day when I started to research this collection, but for videos like these, it is nice to get them looking all snazzy and screenshot worthy. And, it refreshes my grey cells as well, so win win, and that is the best part of having a channel where I actually get to answer direct questions, personalized and such! My thanks go to you for your support and your trust in me that the information I will provide can serve as a reliable guideline! I hope that you had a great day and that you enjoy the shopping 😃😍🌸

[@robertforrest7956]

What a wonderful group of Orc-kids 🤣🤣. Highly used in many crosses and such a heavenly scent to most of them. After awhile Ninadile 🐊. 👍🏻 🦇

[@NinjaOrchids]

😍🦇🥰 hi 💐 they really are, and.... if I had the right climate, I would have more of the species. Much like rupicolous laelias. Even though the blooms pretty much resemble each other with some exceptions, of course, but yeah, the species not being as broad and high in numbers as rupicolous laelias, I would think that I could grow the lot of them. But... I am more comfortable with them being mounted, than in a pot. I have 'mastered' keeping their roots happy in the pots, but... it is always dicey with these root divas 😅 thank you so much for your support, for your time 😘❤️🌸

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

🦒👌🎉 Absolutely brilliant, thourough and useful 👏 Happy sunday amiga mia, hoping you are drier than we are this side of the border 🌹😘😘😘

[@NinjaOrchids]

FFF 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 good evening, meine liebe Freundin! thank you! So much! For your kind and positive feedback 🙏🏼 I cannot tell you how many hours I spent with these care cards 😆 I had mine from years ago, but only for the orchids that I have... this was an exercise of endurance, avoiding going cross eyed, allowing myself to walk away and the continue etc etc etc. So, I really appreciate your feedback, and the time you took to watch 🙏🏼 we got hammered today, amiga mia!! Absolutely hammered!! I was using a squidgy at the door, instead of mop, because I realized that the mob was slowing me down. Every hour, I went and pushed the water out and exchanged the towels after wringing them 'old fashioned' style with my daughter 😅 talk about a bonding exercise!! It stopped raining just as she was heading out the door. Great timing. Now the water has receded enough that the next deluge has to be extensive before it comes in through the front door. This afternoon I sat down 🦦 and told the world what I thought of it and it was nothing that I would say in public! 😆 p.s.: more is coming if the forecast is to be believed 🔌 I hope that your water influx is contained to where it should be and not within your walls. 🤞🏼😘 thank you so much for watching, vecina favorita!! much love to you, your support... here and as a true friend is greatly appreciated!! ❤️🌸

[@josejkoonthanam]

Buenas tardes Nina ! Very useful and highly informative video.

[@NinjaOrchids]

Jose, 🥰💐 buenos días, amigo mio! ¿como estas? 😃 how are you? 😉 thank you so very much for being so generous with your time and watching this video as well, te agradezco mucho! I so appreciate it! Have a wonderful start to your new week. We are getting hammered with rain 😬🌸

[@josejkoonthanam]

Hola amiga Nina ! Hele also t is pouring and pouring. Unusual climate.

[@ilaklion7045]

So very helpful, thanks Nina!

[@NinjaOrchids]

HI Ila 😍💐 so good to see you again! I hope that you are doing well 🤗 thank you very much for your feedback, I appreciate that and the time you took to watch the video! Thank you 🙏🏼 hope you had a wonderful Sunday 🥰🌸

[@joshriebsomer7820]

This is awesome but I am very affectionate towards the Bassavolas. I love all the cards that must have taken some serious time and study thank you for that you are amazing!!!! I’ve been catching your live videos but after the fact. It’s been a crazy time here on my end so I’m always catching up. That Talk I think with Julie about the seedings was very interesting!

[@NinjaOrchids]

HI Josh 😍💐 so good to see you!! Hope you are doing well and the holiday preps are fun sans stress. I love Brassavolas as well. Even all the hybrids that they have. I have to learn how to handle the roots of them in a pot though. Mounted, no issues, potted, my set up, it has a set of challenges that I am figuring out with each growing season. It took me a hot minute to add to the cards that I already had. The revamping is not time consuming, but the research into the different growth habits etc. synonyms... people not agreeing with each other, that was mind blowing. But, the lady needed specific details as she cannot get to a place where she can see the plants she wants, soooo with that in mind, it was a fun scavenger hunt. Besides, it updated my grey cells 😬 win win!! I am so glad that you enjoyed the talk with Julie. It was fun to listen to someone who considers themselves a novice, explain her process. I had a few light bulb moments 👍🏼👍🏼 thank you for watching the replay, Josh! I appreciate your time 🙏🏼 and thank you for watching this video as well. Your support is invaluable ❤️ hope your week started out great 🌸

[@sandrag8656]

Great video, Nina. 👍 "Brassavola roots have a mind on it's own."😂😅 I've got only one cross, BC jairak finch, which I cultivate bare rooted hanging in a pot for humidity, (like some do it with their vandas). Until now she is doing fine, though stading above the central heater. She seems to like the warm temperature, wich drop to 18° in the night. Generally I dump her into water for about 15 min each day (1 time with fertiliser, 3 times with pure water), she dries up until next day. In summer I let her soak longer, in winter I sometimes only spray her. She produces the third flowerspike for me now. All old roots looked bad, but as you explain she made several new ones with this teflon effenct.Think the old roots are still able to absorb water. I'm exited to see how she will do over the next years. 🤗

[@NinjaOrchids]

HI Sandra 🥰💐 they really do have a mind of their own, and if someone is wondering why they are loosing brassavola roots, if they think they are doing something wrong, then... well, I hope that this video gives peace of mind. But yes, it has taken me a hot minute to figure them out and why any brassavola orchid, even a hybrid, has issues with growing in a pot... especially self watering, seeing as this genus LOVES the wet / dry cycle!! The warmer the better and your positioning is ideal, especially seeing as you water her every day. Fantastic! Mine are currently outside being rained on at the very lower end of their comfort zone. I think they would prefer to have something a little warmer, but they have to be tough cookies to make it in my climate, and if that means continuous rain at 15ºC... well, talk about testing the limits 😅The roots that are older than 3 years will be dead, but anything in between, not including the new roots of the season, will still work perfectly. 👍🏼 really appreciate your feedback, Sandra! Thank you so much, also for watching 🤗 I hope that you had yourself a great weekend ❤️🌸

[@justinsorchidsandmore4398]

Brassavola orchids are some of my favorite orchids to grow. I love the species and the many crosses that are out there for sale. The night time fragrance is really nice and they are easy growers. Nice video and thanks for sharing.

[@NinjaOrchids]

HI Justin 😍💐 I love brassavolas! I wish I had the conditions to be able to grow them to their maximum potential. I would have more of them, if that were the case. They truly are beautiful, simple in design, but complex in their existence. LOVE this genus! Thank YOU so much for watching, Justin! I hope that you had yourself a fabulous weekend 🤗🌸

[@shirleyholt898]

Hi Nina. Great video. Full of good information. I have Brassavola nodosa and Brassavola little stars. Nodosa has two spikes right now but little stars has none, although she has bloomed for me in the past. Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it.🥰❤️🎄

[@NinjaOrchids]

HI Shirley 😍💐 thank YOU so much for your time watching and leaving me an encouraging comment, I really appreciate it 🙏🏼 I will one day own both of those brassavolas, that is for sure! My Little Stars died ... it came in a box with an orchid that had confirmed fusarium, so... little one got that too. Nodosa was not available during the time that I was building this collection. Also the cucullata, etc etc etc 🤪😅 hope your Sunday was beautiful, lovely lady ❤️🌸

[@maxrice7917]

Wonderful video from last season! I hope your collection is doing well the same time this year? All the best, Max (NE USA), growing indoors in cabinet.

[@maxrice7917]

I was recently gifted a B. grandiflora for the end of my radiation treatment. This baby is from Andy's orchids; being from this nursery, it's stick mounted with some green moss. I had looked for one mounted, as I seem to kill every Cattleya ally I bring under my care. I love to mist my plants, and they are kept between 65% and 95% humidity. In your experience, would you err on less or more frequent spraying? I use a spritz of varying strength between 50 and 400 ppm every day or two. I assume the high humidity and the 10 degree temp variance will allow me to skip soaks other than every week or two. I don't wish to pull them out of the cabinet daily. I add roughly 10mL / L of Physan to my mist, as I have some minor fungal issues on some Phrags and Dens. I've lost some seedlings with inorganic media, and overall have moved half my collection back to organic media. I'm learning to ignore the mites and creepers. They love the humidity, but I'm thinking the humidifier needs to be shut off before reaching 90%. Anyway, I've rambled enough. Best of luck!

[@NinjaOrchids]

HI Max 😍🎄 its been a hot minute, but it is so good to see you and thank you so much for being here, for watching! I appreciate your continued support 🫶🏼 I am so happy that you treated yourself to something so fantastic after your treatment ended and I don't know, but, is it ok to congratulate you on the fact that you are done with radiation? I don't know what would be the appropriate thing to say, so I hope I am not offending you with my ignorance. For me, I am so glad that you are done with that, and to celebrate in purchasing an orchid as a treat... that is just wonderful in many ways 🙌🏼🙏🏼 May your recovery continue above and beyond expectations 💪🏼 ❤️ Your gut feeling is proving solid. Yes, I would not let the humidity go above 90% that consistently if you are a lover of misting! You still don't have to pull your orchid out of the cabinet if your humidity goes down to 80% or 75%. That is plenty for the roots to work with. Now, if you have a fan that is blowing a mini tornado in the cabinet, then the high humidity isn't going to cause issues. It would be interesting to know if your seedlings were in the cabinet while in the inorganic set up. High humidity and inorganic media is a double whammy. Usually, the best balance for inorganic media is a lower humidity environment of around 50% (unless of course the airflow in the cabinet resembles a mini tornado) However, considering that you had health issues to deal with, the higher humidity was helpful, now that you are able to tend to the 'chiddos (I hope you are feeling much much better), drop the humidity and eventually the fungal issues will also be a thing of the past, but keep doing what you love and mist 🥰 the orchids shown in this video have found a cork mount in 2023. They were getting too big for the inorganic mounts to work efficiently. So, I have a weird hybrid looking organic / inorganic combo because I was not messing with the roots to get the white grids off. It looks odd, I am not used to it, but none of the orchids were set back because I was not fussed to leave as much of the inorganic mount attached to viable roots. I am excited for my zombie rhizome to do something in the form of blooms for 2024. That would be one heck of a comeback from nothing to blooming within 4 years. We shall see!! If you have any further questions, I look forward to hearing them and hope that I can help confirm what you already know but want a second opinion on 😉 thank you so very much for watching and know that I wish you a continued speedy full recovery 🫶🏼❤️🎄

[@maxrice7917]

@@NinjaOrchids the few that I have in inorganic setups and are doing well can stay where they are. The rest are back with bark and the rocks and such are mixed in. My best example for "LECALover" is an Odontocidium. It's unstoppable with it's seaweed supplement. I have lost all but one cattleya ally seedling which seems to be a goner at this point. It's been struggling for too long, it isn't likely to make it out of this one

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

See, I would consider B nodosa to be one of the species to grow because it is easily the most vigorous and it tends to bloom whenever, as opposed to being constrained to a particular season. If it wasn't so much more fussy, I would also say cucullata because it has the most interesting blooms. But that one is really hesitant on the root growth, easily loses roots and is very slow to get going (since it is mostly offered as a seedling). B gardneri is one for people that are space limited as it is the smallest growing of the species. It isn't a miniature, but easily half the size of nodosa.

[@NinjaOrchids]

Don Miguel 🥰💐 I did have nodosa marked as easy 👍🏼 woohoo, we agree 👍🏼 my eyes were getting cross eyed while doing these Care Cards, and I had to step away for hours at a time and continue. I only had the species in my notes that I have in my collection, but, Blais also wanted to know how big they can get, bloom differences, and the care for them because she was not sure if it is really true that all require the same care. Some being more temperature tolerant would maybe suit her conditions better, and of course the size. I based the size on gardneri to accomodate any grow space. I had small initially, but changed it to medium, because my perception of small (as it is not a miniature) may not be the same as any other viewer's perception of small. To stay on the safe side, I put medium. Now I have all these care cards... what do I do with them? 😅 keep them of course, ... ya never know. Thank you so much for watching this video as well 🙏🏼❤️🌸

[@terresturtevant2061]

Quick quest as I must be blind. looking for the vidio on the roots as you water them

[@NinjaOrchids]

Hi Terre 🤩💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so a warm warm welcome and a massive thank you for being here, I really appreciate it 🫶🏼 here is the link to the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/aofYcp-cdrmUnbc I am sorry if I missed something and will add it to the description! I appreciate you pointing that out, thank you! Also, thank you for watching 🤗 hope you are having a great day, and once again ... welcome 🫶🏼🌸