Brassavola & Rhyncholaelia Care

[@alanwild3190]

Happy Christmas Steven. Enjoy your videos and thanks for posting them.👍

[@SVKLOrchids]

Thank you! Merry Christmas to you as well!

[@MyGreenPets]

looking forward to seeing glauca bloom. I feel slight pangs of regret from selling my Aristocrat 😆 Merry Christmas Stephen!

[@SVKLOrchids]

That’s the worst! I have so many plants I regret selling! 🤣😂

[@halohalo7425]

Thanks for the info. I think I have a lavender colored one of the second plant. It's not quite the cattleya but it does look a lot like yours. The root info is very true. She hasn't bloomed and is dying off slowly. I hope she recuperates for it was given to me as a friendship gift and it was already 20 years old. Keep up the good work

[@SVKLOrchids]

I hope your plant bounces back! Any idea why the roots aren’t doing well?

[@charlesmckemie7274]

Merry Christmas!! Thank you for brightening up 2020 with your orchid videos.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Ha! Thank you so much! May 2021 be amazing for you and your family!

[@charlesmckemie7274]

And the same for you and your family.

[@arielzelaya9170]

One of my favorite genus! I really love the fragrance of all the brassavolas.

[@SVKLOrchids]

They're pretty great! How's your new home?

[@hillbillyorchids]

Merry Christmas Stephen to you and your family! I do so very much appreciate talking with you! You have helped me out tremendously this past year. Happy New Year my friend! 😁

[@SVKLOrchids]

I’m glad to help and chat! It’s always fun! Have a great holiday!!

[@aBeekeepersLife]

Great video! Love brassavolas, haven't got them to bloom for me yet though. Great talk about the differences between brassavola and rhyncholaelia, didn't know they are called that since 1918. I will start calling them by their true name from now on 😁 Happy holidays 🌸🎆

[@SVKLOrchids]

Ya, it’s crazy how long these genera have to been separated! To be fair, Kew only accepted the name change in 2007, which i forgot to mention in the video.

[@beckyconnor790]

Great looking orchid ❣ Thanks , and I hope you had a wonderful holiday 😊😊

[@patriciasorchids3999]

I have a Rhyncholaelia glauca, hasn't bloomed yet but it seems to be happier now that I am supplementing its light. My son came over for dinner he gave me a Bublophyllum eberhardtii (my first Bublophyllumwhichseparate plants. I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas. Stay safe.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Very cool! What a great gift!

[@peterthomson7773]

Merry Christmas from a very hot North Queensland Australia. I enjoy your videos so keep them coming. Bought my first Catasetum. Hoping it will grow well here.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Ah, you live in such an amazing place! Very cool!!

[@oleksandryanivskyi2547]

Merry Christmas, Stephen ! Greetings from Ukraine. Great video, as always :)

[@SVKLOrchids]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

Looking forward to your glauca blooms. In the meantime hope you are having a fine Christmas ❤️

[@SVKLOrchids]

You as well!

[@StefanNeher]

Merry Christmas!! Truest point about watering you made. Once I switched all my Brassavola (about 5 species) to cork mounts, they took OFF! And they only get watered when I remember, because the mounts are tucked close to the window but blocked by things in pots. Some are still seedling size but they have definitely put up with a lot of abuse.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Orchids thrive on benign neglect!!

[@MattbyNature]

Merry Christmas! I have a Rhyncholaelia glauca as well. It’s still a young plant with only one direction of growth but it has a new pseudobulb maturing. Let’s hope it will bloom for me as well even though it looks like it’s not the new growths that spike for you

[@SVKLOrchids]

It should bloom on the newly matured one!!

[@Muffin21814]

Thank you Stephen for another informative video!! Hope you had a nice Christmas.

[@SVKLOrchids]

I had a great Christmas! I hope yours was fun as well!

[@Narut7777]

Merry Christmas! Very fat plant! Thank you for video! Very interesting! Please keep going to show you huge plants! Don't you have any plants on blocks? It would be very interesting to see.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Do you mean plants on blocks as a mount? Unfortunately my summers are too hot for mounts!!

[@Narut7777]

@@SVKLOrchids yes, without pot

[@SVKLOrchids]

@@Narut7777 Ya, unfortunately that wouldn’t work in Texas. Too hot!

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

Do you know for sure why Rhyncholaelia has been so widely used in Cattleya hybridization? I have always assumed it is because a number of the large flowered species Cattleya are reluctant to produce multiple leads while the Rhyncholaelia is prolific at producing multiple leads. By combining the two, you can get a hybrid that produces multiple leads without sacrificing flower size or shape (I believe Rhy. is recessive for color as well).

[@SVKLOrchids]

I actually wrote an article about digbyana in AOS magazine published in August!

[@tikigeorgejones3817]

I have nodosa 'Susan Fuchs' x 'mas mejor' that I bought as a bag baby. I've found that it often blooms twice off the same spike as long as I don't cut it.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Ha! Very interesting! I had no idea!

[@anamourao2983]

Happy Xmas Stephen.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Thank you!! Same to you!

[@stevenali3829]

Merry Christmas to you

[@SVKLOrchids]

Merry Christmas to you as well!!

[@sheries5363]

Merry Christmas Stephen from Kapolei. Thank you for posting a video today.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Mele Kalikimaka! There is a lot I miss about living in Hawaii!!

[@sheries5363]

@@SVKLOrchids I can only imagine. Did you stay Waimanalo near H&R? It looks like I will be relocating to Pennsylvania some time in 2021. Really mixed feelings about that. I will have to devise an entirely different set up for orchids. I’m sure there will be many things I miss. Do you ever get back to visit? Were you military?

[@SVKLOrchids]

@@sheries5363 I was not military! Just a biologist! I lived on the Big Island (Hilo and Kona) for 4 years and in lived in Pacific Heights on Oahu for 5 years. Moving to Pennsylvania will be a huge change! Definitely join the local society for tips!

[@sheries5363]

@@SVKLOrchids thank you for the excellent advice. I have investigated the local orchid society in central PA. I am a member of the Honolulu orchid society. There is so much knowledge and wisdom here. But each environment is different, and the knowledge may be specialized. I learn from your videos too. Thank you for posting them. I’ve been thinking about trying to buy some land around Kurtistown or Mountainview to keep me from missing this place so much. But it just doesn’t seem practical. Plus my sister has been here on Oahu for fortyish years, so I’ve got that connection.

[@SVKLOrchids]

@@sheries5363 Good luck! I bet you’ll find good stuff on the mainland! Maybe you can make your way down to Texas🤞🤞

[@eduardocampos4202]

Merry Christmas

[@SVKLOrchids]

Merry Christmas to you as well!

[@ResQuetzal]

A very happy new year to you and yours. Brassavolas for some reason strike a chord with me even though I live in Canada. I love that Little Stars x subulifolia cross. In my quest to bloom all that is brassavola, I've managed to bloom Little Stars first, then nodosa, and now subulifolia which is in spike. I have has no success with tuberculata but it lives unlike cucullata, which died, along with a few nodosas too. I think its just not warm enough for glauca and dibgyana...another 2 which died on me. Thanks for your great videos. I enjoy them very much.

[@SVKLOrchids]

I’m glad you’ve been able to grow at least some of the Brassavola! It’s tough living in an extreme climatic situation. I’ve given up on all cool or intermediate growing orchids since they die with our summer heat! I bet you can grow some amazing Masdies, high elevation plants, Sophronitis, and Laelia though!

[@ResQuetzal]

@@SVKLOrchids With my SW window, I dont have enough humidity and too much light for masdevallias. I did bloom a schomburgkia thompsoniana years ago but I probably killed it by keeping it too cool and wet in winter. Same for mule ear oncidiums. Surprisingly, I can bloom vandas and phrags more easily. I have Vanda lamellata, Perreiraara Rapeepath, vanda Pachara Delight, phrag Hanne Popow, phrag pearcei, in bloom or spike. Not what you were expecting right? I am trying to bloom a newly acquired laelia anceps, it skipped blooming I presume due to repotting. Most oncidium and Dendrobium nobile hybrids also do well here. Paph Spicerianum does well too. I have bloomed a walkeriana before it succumbed to a fast rot a few years back. I cried...my replacement plants are either too small or not well established to bloom but time will tell. Most of my cattleya hybrids are more compact, having some walkeriana in the background.

[@SVKLOrchids]

@@ResQuetzal Nice! Sounds like you’ve got quite the tropical assortment in the frozen north!!

[@thaillling9369]

Merry Christmas. My Brassavola nodosa just bloomed a week ago, probably it's 3rd or 4th bloom... but this time almost no fragrance. The flowers are beautiful and perfectly formed, better than previous blooms, but on previous blooms that fragrance would turn on the like a switch as soon as the lights went out and easily fill my bedroom, but not this year. If I get real close I can smell it ever so faintly. Not sure why.

[@SVKLOrchids]

Is there a small light coming into the room?

[@thaillling9369]

@@SVKLOrchids perhaps street lights outside very faintly but I'm not sure that would have changed from past blooms.

[@miche7032]

Thank you for sharing... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎆

[@SVKLOrchids]

Same to you!

[@loho1125]

Merry Christmas!

[@SVKLOrchids]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@orchiddreamdelight5016]

Happy holidays to you from Jamaica

[@SVKLOrchids]

Happy holidays! Such s great orchid growing place! I’m jealous you can just pop over to Hamlin’s whenever you want.

[@2702foxy]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@SVKLOrchids]

Merry Christmas to you as well!!

[@woowooone]

Thank you so much for this video. I have been failing with my nodosa. The mounted one looks better than the potted one. The potted one is in only sphagnum moss as are all of my cattleya, and the cattleya are thriving (I let the moss go crunchy before I water). Where do you get the little packets for the slow release? That sounds so nice to not have to mix up orchid food every time you need to water

[@SVKLOrchids]

They’re on Amazon! Just look for “fertilizer baskets” on that site and they should pop up!

[@woowooone]

@SVKLOrchids thank you!

[@thaillling9369]

Flashback to me trying to wash the white off my digbyana leaves because I thought it was salt stains haha oops

[@SVKLOrchids]

Ha!! It’s an honest mistake!!

[@BBQNBLUES]

*note to self* Buy Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice for the Nodosas :)

[@SVKLOrchids]

Ha!! They’ll love it!!

[@leafrigula8412]

Merry Christmas!

[@SVKLOrchids]

Same to you!