How to get an Orchid collection on a budget! - New Orchid seedlings, repotting & Care Tips!

[@NicoleDeanna]

I bought a bunch of seedling cattleyas when the pandemic began and many are blooming this year, it's so rewarding!

[@Incognita421]

Where can I buy the seeds?

[@mayastoyanova3020]

I love how you chose baby pink decorative pots for baby cattleyas 🥰 There's nothing wrong with your hair style - like the kitty ears. 🙃

[@elizabethmersereau186]

I agree and I agree.

[@Menthepomme]

coming back to ur channel YEARS later and I luv that ur content still feels the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SciTeF]

Acclimatise is generally preferred in british and australian english while in the USA acclimate is used more often. I think Canadians use acclimatiZe (Z in caps to highlight the difference).

[@lisatodman3338]

Crazy heat and huidity here too. Far too hot to be out unless absolutely necessary. Your new babies look so cute. I know under your care they will grow on and be beautiful. Keep us posted. Stay cool and safe.

[@godisincontrol32]

I'm new to Orchid but I love them 😊 they're so touchy..

[@MattbyNature]

I love Cattleyas and my collection is almost exclusively made up of Cattleya/Laelia species. I purchased almost all of them as seedlings or young plants as well and while there is always some turnover 8let's just put it that way haha), it's so rewarding to watch them grow root by root, bulb by bulb. Schokoladenprinz is German and means chocolate prince haha.

[@woowooone]

You look adorable in a pony tail! It highlights your beautiful face and that glowing skin

[@aliciadiazdevivar4313]

Danny, great haul! Here is Miami, Fl temperature is in the 95-100, very hot. I have to water often because I grow my orchids outside. They are growing beautifully thanks to all I leaned from your videos 😍😍

[@Mochi-wf3ys]

talking about kitties with a cat ear headband is just *chef's kiss*

[@capblap]

Great video :) Thank you so much for all that you do!! In the U.S. I have purchased 3 of what they call "baggy babies" from a company called Better-Gro. I would say that I am very satisfied with each baby, and when I purchase more babies, it will surely be from Better-Gro. Just thought I'd pass the info along for any of your subscribers that might be in the U.S. :) p.s. The baggy babies are really cheap too!! I just paid $8 for a yuan dung sweet dragonfruit pink w/spots. And on an amazing side note, this was the first orchid I have every purchased that I didn't have to repot straight away :) such a joy

[@beverlygroom8912]

So informative, thank you. i’m a newbie to orchids, I’m not doing seedlings yet, but I have experimented with a few different ways of showing them off. i’ve got bark, one in clay balls but my favorite is on oak branch I took from property. I treated it and prepared it a few weeks ago. I’ve used Sphagnum moss and chips at the root system and I just love the way it looks. I've bought a small humidifier to help with the roots since their “aerial" I love seeing the roots that’s one of the things I love most about this beautiful plant. I'm in Oklahoma USA. Fixin to move to Arkansas so hot/humid in summer but snowy & cold in winter. Love it❤❤❤

[@mrsjanhannah]

My orchid has a baby, it is staying attached to mummy until it's air roots are well established. So excited.

[@Happy8Kind]

Orchid Garden ships to USA at owners risk so without certificates. I’ve ordered from them multiple times and received orchids within a week, beautiful all around.

[@wandashaw3551]

Such a wonderful haul and they look so adorable in the pink pots, and I am looking forward to watching them grow. In my part of the world, it's about 105F and I am ready for the Fall!!

[@faeryegrrl777]

I'm excited to see the new growth and flowers! I have a Maxima Coerulea that's finally blooming size! I can't wait until I see spikes! I also have a Peter Lin hybrid (Slc. mini Fantasy) that was a seedling and had 5 buds! One sheath was ruined by moth caterpillars and one is blooming! It's an orangey yellow, but mine is dark pink and yellow. I'm so excited. Thank you for this video.

[@daniels8297]

What a timing! Order with Cattleya seedlings is on the way 😁

[@renatecormick7399]

I bought three seedling phals about 6 months ago that they said were 1 year from flowering. We are in the middle of winter now and they have spikes already which should start blooming in another month or two. My other phals which are mature plants don’t look like they are going to bloom this season, must have had a set back of some kind. I look forward to seeing my new phals have their first flowerings. Very exciting!

[@jessicagothie2951]

Thanks! These are such helpful and friendly videos. You do great work.

[@kat1984]

I just got some young Sharry Baby varieties. They're 2 years from blooming according to the orchid nursery

[@joanray6897]

I enjoyed your video on your 'Kiddies'. I have a few and am interested in seeing how they are going to progress so your advice is very valuable to me. I think our climate is very similar to yours (East Coast of South Africa). Thank you for sharing.

[@bobmorris9240]

My favorite so far has been catasetum midnight special black pearl❤

[@plantreviewsuk1204]

I also lost rare some baby Cattleya seedlings when I cultivated them in semi-hydro, worst of all, they were some variaties of dowiana, warscewiczii and Hardyana, which are really among my favourite Cattleyas !!! Now I only cultivate seedlings in bark and the results are a lot better!!! You got beautiful baby Cattleya hybrids!!!

[@TammyWorley-p8x]

Hi Danni😊 This video has made me want to buy some phal 'kiddies' and grow them myself! Thank you for sharing. Ponytail look is very flattering, btw 😊

[@anipie7142]

i also hail from a colder more northern climate and i didnt adjust well to heat either. however i did get a routine and mix for my espresso orchids thank you so much.

[@ministore817fmi7]

Hi I’m new here and learning how to take care of them last year i got seedlings 40pcs and all are dead cause of over watering And now I got seedlings again and they’re fine and growing well my orchids dendro,phals and catleya its cheaper than bigger one

[@elenitaestaris8387]

Awesome topic, my purchases are all seedlings. Good info

[@checkenginelightison8317]

I have four Vanda seedlings and one Dendrobium seedling. Most are staked on top of bark, only one has the roots IN the bark. I only have six months experience with Phal. Orchids.

[@klairigun]

We experience heat wave here in Greece to. Today it is supposed to reach 42 degrees and tomorrow 45 Celsius degrees and I live in a suburb of Athens where is 2-3 cooler than the center of Athens. So no I don't handle the heat also.not to mention all the fires....

[@Carmen161595]

I just purchased two phalaenopsis scheleriana seedlings online a couple of months ago (one spare just in case!). Thankfully I got the repotting almost right! I did add a small amount of slow release fertiliser after repotting, which I know I can skip next time around. Can you please do a video on reading the tags? What do all those abbreviations mean?

[@navin7633]

Please make a series on seedlings potting only ,, thanks in advance

[@nmatheis]

Another great video, Dani! I'm new to orchids and have 2" pots with Oncidium Gold Dust, Howeara Lava Burst, Bl Yellow Bird, and Arthurara Sea Snake on the way from an orchid grower here in the Pacific Northwest to add to my lonely grocery store phal, so this video was helpful for me!

[@MrPhanhphanh]

I have Paph Rothchildianum seedlings! Wish me luck lol

[@katb6974]

I just got a couple of these too

[@anniketaljaard2280]

Interesting that you guys in the northern hemesphere are so over summer. Here in the south (of africa at least) we are experiencing really cold winters, and I am so done with it all. Cannot wait for summer to start

[@drikonrokon852]

I originally bought 4 for 35 USD and the nursery sent me a freebie and one of them was 2 in 1 so now I have moth orchid, 5 vandas, dendrobium and ludisa jewel

[@kalliopipapadogeorgopoulou5215]

I have a few of them as well! Some grow really fast, some quite slow....I collect as well by name😊🎉❤ Wish you luck!

[@LukeSWErrthing]

I myself have mostly seedlings and lemme tell you... It has been a learning CURVE (more like a learning 95° sudden and unexpected turn which would otherwise lead to a cliff). I have lost one seedling so far, of 19. I almost lost another two, but cattleyas are so resilient. (The one that died is a dendrobium, which broke my heart.) Thank you for this video! It helped so much

[@tinasachs8688]

Very nice assortment of seedlings! Schokoladenprinz = chocolate prince, German yes. I have the Ayrton Senna catt on my list as well. That tragic race in Imola 1994, was the very first Formula 1 race I've ever watched. There's also a paphiopedilum with his name. I'm a huge Linkin Park fan, so when I found the laeliocatteya Chester, I was over the moon. I actually fell in love with the bloom before seeing its name. I found a tiny seedling in 2018 but sadly it arrived with only one good root and shortly followed his name sake and is no longer. Been trying to find another one ever since. I know it's been by now renamed to cattleya Chester but I guess it will be another few years - if ever - that this one will be available again.

[@Marvel170]

A true blue orchid that I have found is Cleisocentrum Gokusingii. It is the most blue orchid I have ever seen.

[@elizabethmersereau186]

So happy you mentioned about roots don't need light. I just repotted in larger grow pot then put inside glass pot. It's about 3 years old. Almost immediately lost the two bottom leaves. I also like the way you do your potting mix. How long do I have to wait before I can repot like you do? I've only gotten one flower spike/flower in three years.

[@nadiaandrusca8479]

Almost the same temperature here ( Astipalea Greece). Already lost four phals due to the heat wave. Missing winter too!

[@sunnymelbourneplants]

Seedlings are super cute and very rewarding indeed! But the wait sometimes is excruciating, especially with paphiopedilums. After 3 years, I am still waiting for my seedlings to mature 😅 but they are pretty

[@DollinMawahlal]

Beautiful pots.❤

[@CoqiBori]

Heya Danny! I just wanted to ask if you had a list saying which seedlings are hardest/slowest to grow? I just scooped up a few of almost all families of orchids and want to manage expectations 😅

[@jhowardsupporter]

Hard to grow is relative to your climate. If you lived in the area where the hardest to grow orchid is native you can just put it outside and it will grow by itself. Generally local sellers will have notes saying if a species is hard or easy to grow but of course you can always ask them which ones are easy to grow.

[@Miles_Hoffman]

Thank you for such good advice! I’ve been sending orchid friends your way 😊

[@Cynosapiens]

This video comes at the best time. I received young Phalaenopsis hybrids from seeds and I was wondering about the possibility of repotting them, because there is a lot of algae on their substrate (sphagnum moss + pine bark).

[@kristineimperial4571]

Can you make a video of your plants in your stand?

[@lindagrohmann3022]

Hi Danny, those seedlings are so cute! I have only ever successfully "raised" one Paphiopedilum, two Asconcentrum miniatum (or Vanda miniata) and a few Phalaenopsis seedlings, and it really is so rewarding when they finally bloom after years and years and years. I just wanted to say that I recently came upon an orchid that - in my opinion - is truely blue, at least in comparison to the coerulea varieties or the blueish hybrids; it is Thelymitra crinita (blue lady orchid), and it's native to New Zealand and parts of Australia. I saw the crinita in a botanical garden and it did seem genuinely blue to my eyes, similar to the blue of Myosotis sylvatica (forget-me-not). Btw, the ponytail looks good on you imo. I go insane as well with my hair down on hot days.

[@wandafel6403]

Here in AZ (USA) has been brutal with many days over 110+ degrees, so I'm feeling your pain. It's horrible 😭

[@christineflygirl]

I wish seedlings in Canada were cheaper, the one nursery I checked sells them for $15, so about 10-11 euros. You are lucky in Europe to have all this choice of orchids...

[@maribelreyes5151]

I don’t like the heat either, even though here in California is been in the 90’s only til now. !!

[@OrchidboyTroy]

Thank you! This video was perfect timing as my second round of seedlings are in transit!!!

[@michaelpeace1201]

We have 2 blue orchids in Australia

[@yihou5536]

Thanks

[@anonymunicorn9288]

Did you ever try to grow your own seedlings? (beginning with a seed) I know its very complicated with the special agar medium, keeping everything sterile, but i've seen some videos from other youtubers already, where it seemed to be working well 😊

[@dorrettbrown5644]

Danna you look so nice with that hair style, it made you look so nice, soo younger 😂🎉❤

[@crystalpetitt1063]

where do you get those cover pots? love the kitty babies and your channel Dani!

[@amandasolomon7130]

Love your hair pulled up!

[@jadest6831]

Maybe for your myth or truth but should we cut the flower spikes off the phalenopsis seedlings to help them grow quicker? Put more energy into leaves? Or does it not slow them down?

[@MissOrchidGirl]

Hi, seedlings don't bloom, they're too young to do that. Phalaenopsis bloom when they are young, but not seedlings anymore, so no worries about the flowers 😊

[@viivi_kp]

I wish I can grow so much Cattleya like you Dani. My Cattl only have 1 week of sunshine this year 😅. It's 17°C in Scandinavia. Plus, I made a mistake of potting the them in leca 🙈. Hopefully they can bounce back soon.

[@minniemouse2742]

You can use grow lights and heating mat.

[@suzettepowell2848]

❤sydnee. I love your show

[@lindamarx1256]

Schokoladenprinz means chocolate prince!

[@grannyfranny3661]

I have a cattleya type orchid (I think it says slc) anyway, it gas grown well and as I am about to repot I realize there were 2 orchids placed in the nursery pot. Should I leave them together or pot separately? Thanks in advance for any help. Love your videos!

[@koreybove970]

I have 2 mature Phals that are totally potted in spagnum moss. Do I let it dry out before trying to repot it?

[@frankchuah1583]

Maybe using hydrogen peroxide at 3% is too strong as it will oxidize the roots sensitive outer layer. Perhaps other form of anti fungal solution will be better.

[@orchidquest]

Will the count as one of you seasons we follow over the years? 💜

[@kristineimperial4571]

Can I put slow release fertilizer in all of my orchids?

[@LizE2654]

I would find it so hard to wait!😂

[@woowooone]

How long can you use the really good new Zealand moss?

[@michelmushroom4700]

"Schokoladenprinz" actually means Prince of Chocolate or Chocolateprince

[@elenitaestaris8387]

You look beautiful with your hair up.

[@aureasmortem]

Not sure of any reputable places to buy orchid seedlings in the US :( Most listings I saw are shipping from overseas, and one was for 100 seedlings. Any recommendations from others living in the US for good places for seedling purchase?

[@aureasmortem]

OlympicOrchids is a good place in the US for cheap seedlings! I just bought 9 of them, they're on the small side but looking great

[@chelseasorrell6363]

@missorchidgirl are you saying 3 or 30 percent hydrogen peroxide?

[@MissOrchidGirl]

3!

[@chelseasorrell6363]

@@MissOrchidGirl thank you. I bought my first orchid after discovering your channel the other day. Thank you for being so helpful 🙂

[@ZeepeX_Zee]

where can i buy named phalaenopis in norway? i can only find unnamed hybrids :/

[@Ian-pf2pw]

I love your new tattoo on the inside of your arm

[@zoricadachevska7817]

Where to buy orchids i am two countries above you Danny in north Macedonia everywhere i asked they said no shipping

[@deborahfanning3504]

I have had my cattleyas for about 6 years and they have never bloomed for me what am i doing wrong?

[@deemaxwell4172]

Light, light and more light! My orchids are on tiers and once I added lights between the tiers, voila - bloooooms!!

[@keepsmiling704]

I love watching but at my age I wouldn't live long enough to ever see😉 them bloom

[@solarwinds-]

Hey Danny, you look very nice, you look good in a pony tail and I love your T-shirt.

[@pamstrauch4372]

I'm going crazy over trying to get my Fitch izumi to root! I'm so OCD over it, trying this and that! Anyone have or had one of these?? HELP

[@svenjoar3791]

You actually pronounced the Schokoladenprinz quite good, not even knowing it was german

[@koolkol009]

Nissorchidgirlm Can you please tell me your vendor's name in Poland please?, thank you. where do you live?..

[@carolgunn6527]

Your hair is good! What?