Easy Tips & Tricks on Growing Summer Blooming & Novelty Phalaenopsis Orchids

[@KanemiX3]

Hi Nicole this is my first time commenting on your video after 3 years of following you. I just want to let you know that I started my Orchid journey watching videos and now I am getting addicted to Novelty Phals because of you! thank you for everything, hope you have a wonderful day.

[@NicoleDeanna]

@@KanemiX3 how exciting! Gotta love the novelty phals and their fragrance :)) They are so wonderful ♥️ Thank you for watching my videos, appreciate your comment 🤗

[@MSgrismelda]

Sooo beautiful!!! Can't wait to get a bellina!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Yes yes thanks to you ❤

[@NicoleDeanna]

@@MSgrismelda 😘❤️

[@Yesi.Planting]

Love watching your videos. I’m new to orchids and I have learned so much from watching your videos! 💓 For the mic 🎤, there’s one called Rode wireless mic that sounds great :) just saying in case you get tired of leaning into the mic you currently have 💕

[@NicoleDeanna]

Thank you ❤️❤️

[@TheOrchidSaGa]

Very nice Phals! Mine love semi hydroponic. I really like the gigantea crosses, I bought a few more this year. ❤

[@NicoleDeanna]

Nice! You like the big ones ❤

[@shirleyholt898]

Hi Nicole. I like the summer bloomers also. Mine are in spagnum moss and clay pots. Two are in bloom. I’ve heard that tree fern is great to use also. Mine don’t need repotting yet but I’m thinking of trying out the tree fern in plastic pots. Thanks for sharing your experience and gorgeous orchids. 🤗🥰👏

[@NicoleDeanna]

I hear great things about tree fern! Moss and Clay pot sounds great! Good moisture, but very wicking, hard to stay soggy👌

[@rickl.orchids]

....a great video Nicole.....you always provide so much really good environmental, ...and basic growing, information in your videos.....and great potting tips.....Phals are one of my favorite orchids.......and as much as I prefer ID'd ....tagged/named phalaenopsis..... if the bloom catches my eye.....ID or not.....I'll take it home......Your Phal collection has some outstanding genetics in it........beautiful blooms and your fragrance descriptions made me smile.........well done.........and thanks for that generous hoya offer........best Rick L.

[@NicoleDeanna]

I'm so glad you enjoy the videos Rick! Phals are wonderful :) Completely understand keeping the collection manageable. Have a great week!

[@hillbillyorchids]

Great Video! Yea i think Pink Bellina and Phal violacea are my current favorites. My LD Bears queen didnt make it. 😢 it was free cold damage plant so no harm no foul! 😂 i have some new novelty phals that may take 1st place after the 1st bloom. 😂

[@NicoleDeanna]

I'm sorry to hear about your LDs Bear Queen! My Violacea died! It actually just stopped growing all together for a year so I think it was sick, then finally, had a slow long death lol. Happens. Bellina is so goooooood.

[@hillbillyorchids]

@NicoleDeanna Aww yea that sucks! My violacea had a hiccup and now seems to be back on track. 😂

[@racheldizonvideos]

Love your videos! Literally wait to see them in my subscriptions! ❤️

[@NicoleDeanna]

@@racheldizonvideos thank you so much ❤️😘

[@erint5373]

I love phals, what I like most about the summer bloomers is the waxy flowers- much prefer them to big frilly flowers in general. ❤

[@NicoleDeanna]

I agree! And those waxy flowers last a long time too!

[@kat1984]

I'm waiting for my fragrant novelty and species to get big enough to bloom. I did find a few in the supermarket that bloom twice a year and are fragrant. I have one that smells like roses, one that smells like citrus, and another that smells like the "orchid" fragrance used in lotions and perfumes. I have a seedling Samera × LD's Bear Queen that I'm looking forward to. Hausermann's is a dangerous place when you love summer bloomers.

[@NicoleDeanna]

You have some nice ones! OMG yes, Hausermann has good ones. Thats where I got Bellina and Ld's Bear King. My amboinensis too now that I think of it!

[@anndriggers6660]

Oh my goodness, Hauserman should be illegal! My retirement is invested in orchids from there mostly...😂😅

[@renatecormick7399]

Hi Nicole. I have what I think is a small novelty phal which arrived in spike about 4- 5 months ago (late summer here) and already has another spike in full bloom in middle of winter. It's definitely a mystery to me but I'm not complaining, the blooms are perfect in every way.🪴😃

[@NicoleDeanna]

@@renatecormick7399 amazing! Yes! Sometimes they'll keep going through winter if the conditions are warm enough ❤️

[@eloina17]

A couple days ago my mounted phalaenopsis black Sentra bloomed for the first time and the fragrance is amazing smells like a spicy sweet lily and I have been seeing a lot of fragrant phals lately in Walmart and Home Depot. I love summer phals

[@NicoleDeanna]

That sounds so lovely! A sweet spicy lily! 🥰

[@annatydniouk5739]

Thank you for a wonderful video! I love novelty phals. I have tetraspis and bellina blooming now. However, sometimes I am not sure whether a hybrid can be considered a summer blooming phal or a standard phal that requires seasonal cooling down. I am also not sure whether a spike should be treated as sequential and left after blooming or it can be cut down as for standard phals.

[@NicoleDeanna]

Thanks for watching! The hybrids that have waxy fragrant flowers are usually called novelty phals and usually the parents are the summer blooming species. I find that the flowers are usually sequential if they have less blooms but have waxy flowers. The more thin floofy flowers are usually from orchids that are not sequential. I hope that helps ❤️

[@annatydniouk5739]

@@NicoleDeanna Thank you. It is helpful.❤

[@robertlukacevic1811]

Great video. Where do you purchase these phals?

[@NicoleDeanna]

@@robertlukacevic1811 I got most of mine from Hausermann as seedlings

[@aam0702]

Hi Nicole. You are my very favorite KZbin channel. I want to be successful with these novelty warm growing phalaenopsis orchids. Yours are SO gorgeous, this video makes me want more of them, but this summer I lost (killed?) my bellina and my violatea. 😢I want to try again. I think they dried out, the light and the fan might have contributed. Can you help?

[@NicoleDeanna]

Thank you so much :) I find that the summer bloomers like to be moist. I water them as they approach dryness, and I use fluffy moss. With that said it depends on your environment if moss will work for you. Sometimes in some environments it may stay soggy! I prefer for them to dry out faster vs. stay wet longer but if yours dry too fast you can use moss and use a plastic pot vs. a clay pot (clay dries out fast). they don't need light that's super bright like cattleya level could be too much so if you back them off from the light a little it should help them dry a little slower since it's less hot. With that said they do like warm / hot conditions so it's a balance of trying out more moisture retentive set ups and pot types and seeing what works best for you. Bigger pots will hold more water, but they can get soggy try to get them moist without letting them stay soggy too long you'll find the right balance :)

[@aam0702]

@@NicoleDeanna Great suggestions. Thank-you very much for your reply. I am very determined because you claim that their fragrance is wonderful! My environment is similar to yours. They were young and small. I had them in fluffy sphagnum in plastic pots with holes and a decorative pot, but they dried out for sure from the fan and grow light. Roots were dead, leaves dehydrated. Since the loose sphagnum dries out so fast, and they need moisture more often, do they necessarily need fertilizer every time I moisten the sphagnum? (Thinking I may have burned their roots?)

[@NicoleDeanna]

@@aam0702 I give mine weak fertilizer once a week and back off in the winter ❤️

[@f.dangerfield3549]

Have you tried New Zealand tree Fern Fiber. It's getting good review for growing orchids. What do you think?

[@NicoleDeanna]

I haven't but I've heard really good things about it.

[@paulasevan8350]

Hi Nicole, I wanted to ask you why some of the novelty Phalenopsis leaves curl under, and some leaves are small and others larger? I have a Phal. violacea var. coerulea indigo double. I got it last year. It hasn’t bloomed yet, but it’s growing tremendously. If you can, please respond then I will send you a photo in the email response. Thank you so much, Nicole. I love watching your videos. How do you handle 200 orchids oh my God I have 21 and I’m overwhelmed. Do you keep all of your orchids even different species all Sphagnum moss? ❤️ Thank you in advance. Hope to hear from you soon. Paula 💚

[@NicoleDeanna]

Thanks so much for watching my channel. I think the leaf curling comes down to the specific species or hybrid. I notice it happens to some of my phals to, whereas, some specific types downt curl under, they just flop down. Provided the leaves are plump and look hydrated it shouldn't be an issue :) I'm not sure how I handle 200 lol, i have to cut corners sometimes with things like flushing the collection and I water very quickly - and try to have a little moss in most of the mixes (not all) but I love the hobby and it's so rewarding. I'll do a video on this topic soon - on how to manage a large collection

[@paulasevan8350]

Thanks for responding Nicole❣️ I am anxiously waiting for a spike on that novelty phalenopsis 🍀

[@Joe-nj3bb]

My young violacea is only 6" wide and it's trying to make double spikes. 😅

[@NicoleDeanna]

@@Joe-nj3bb summer bloomers tend to bloom young :))

[@RenegadesDozer]

Is there an ideal time for repotting these?

[@NicoleDeanna]

I say whenever they are pushing new roots! Sometimes that's when they are in bloom and if they don't stop blooming I just repot and it's usually ok

[@wandashaw3551]

Summer phalaenopsis ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊.

[@NicoleDeanna]

Yeahhhh :))

[@wandashaw3551]

I absolutely love them. I have quite a few in my collection, too.

[@lidiajimenez2728]

👍😊

[@NicoleDeanna]

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