Combination show & tell for Brassavola along with general care. I also show off a spiking Rhyncholaelia glauca and detail care for that genus as well.
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@MyGreenPets3 жыл бұрын
looking forward to seeing glauca bloom. I feel slight pangs of regret from selling my Aristocrat 😆 Merry Christmas Stephen!
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
That’s the worst! I have so many plants I regret selling! 🤣😂
@alanwild31903 жыл бұрын
Happy Christmas Steven. Enjoy your videos and thanks for posting them.👍
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you as well!
@charlesmckemie72743 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas!! Thank you for brightening up 2020 with your orchid videos.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Ha! Thank you so much! May 2021 be amazing for you and your family!
@charlesmckemie72743 жыл бұрын
And the same for you and your family.
@hillbillyorchids3 жыл бұрын
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! 😁
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
I’m glad to help and chat! It’s always fun! Have a great holiday!!
@aBeekeepersLife3 жыл бұрын
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 🌸🎆
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
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.
@peterthomson77733 жыл бұрын
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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Ah, you live in such an amazing place! Very cool!!
@arielzelaya91703 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite genus! I really love the fragrance of all the brassavolas.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
They're pretty great! How's your new home?
@halohalo7425 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I hope your plant bounces back! Any idea why the roots aren’t doing well?
@patriciasorchids39993 жыл бұрын
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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Very cool! What a great gift!
@oleksandryanivskyi25473 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas, Stephen ! Greetings from Ukraine. Great video, as always :)
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you too!
@StefanNeher3 жыл бұрын
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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Orchids thrive on benign neglect!!
@FernandaNascimentoOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to your glauca blooms. In the meantime hope you are having a fine Christmas ❤️
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
You as well!
@beckyconnor7903 жыл бұрын
Great looking orchid ❣ Thanks , and I hope you had a wonderful holiday 😊😊
@MattbyNature3 жыл бұрын
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
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
It should bloom on the newly matured one!!
@toddstropicals3 жыл бұрын
Odoms usually always has subulifolia. I find Brassavola pretty easy growers. I almost got a couple rhyncholailea the other day.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
I really need to do an Odoms order one of these days. He’s a few great speaker too.
@anamourao29833 жыл бұрын
Happy Xmas Stephen.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! Same to you!
@michaelmccarthy40773 жыл бұрын
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).
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
I actually wrote an article about digbyana in AOS magazine published in August!
@Narut77773 жыл бұрын
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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Do you mean plants on blocks as a mount? Unfortunately my summers are too hot for mounts!!
@Narut77773 жыл бұрын
@@SVKLOrchids yes, without pot
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
@@Narut7777 Ya, unfortunately that wouldn’t work in Texas. Too hot!
@Muffin218143 жыл бұрын
Thank you Stephen for another informative video!! Hope you had a nice Christmas.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
I had a great Christmas! I hope yours was fun as well!
@stevenali38293 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you as well!!
@tikigeorgejones38173 жыл бұрын
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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Ha! Very interesting! I had no idea!
@thaillling93693 жыл бұрын
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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Is there a small light coming into the room?
@thaillling93693 жыл бұрын
@@SVKLOrchids perhaps street lights outside very faintly but I'm not sure that would have changed from past blooms.
@woowooone5 ай бұрын
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
@SVKLOrchids5 ай бұрын
They’re on Amazon! Just look for “fertilizer baskets” on that site and they should pop up!
@woowooone5 ай бұрын
@SVKLOrchids thank you!
@ResQuetzal3 жыл бұрын
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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
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!
@ResQuetzal3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
@@ResQuetzal Nice! Sounds like you’ve got quite the tropical assortment in the frozen north!!
@eduardocampos42023 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you as well!
@orchiddreamdelight50163 жыл бұрын
Happy holidays to you from Jamaica
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Happy holidays! Such s great orchid growing place! I’m jealous you can just pop over to Hamlin’s whenever you want.
@miche70323 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎆
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Same to you!
@loho11253 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas!
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you too!
@2702foxy3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas 🎄
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you as well!!
@sheries53633 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Stephen from Kapolei. Thank you for posting a video today.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Mele Kalikimaka! There is a lot I miss about living in Hawaii!!
@sheries53633 жыл бұрын
@@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?
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
@@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!
@sheries53633 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
@@sheries5363 Good luck! I bet you’ll find good stuff on the mainland! Maybe you can make your way down to Texas🤞🤞
@thaillling93693 жыл бұрын
Flashback to me trying to wash the white off my digbyana leaves because I thought it was salt stains haha oops
@SVKLOrchids3 жыл бұрын
Ha!! It’s an honest mistake!!
@BBQNBLUES3 жыл бұрын
*note to self* Buy Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice for the Nodosas :)