Orchid Species for beginners (easy to care for!) #1 - Aeranthes, Dendrobium & more!

[@sharonmarshallswift5360]

My husband was listening while I was watching your video and when you said, "In my book...," he said, "She has a book?! Why didn't you tell me? You would be getting it for Christmas!" Haha, something to consider for the future, Danny. :)

[@sarahab6497]

I really like this series, it would be cool to do a top cool, intermediate and hot growers!

[@TheNagasa]

I've just started collecting and growing orchids this year and I have found your videos to be very helpful. I like the idea of you having an easy to care for orchid series. I myself have limited space and I also live in cooler climate. I was wondering if you were going to continue this series that you could do an episode on small, intermediate to cool growing orchids.

[@p4ul1010]

I love the idea of this series!! 💞 I really hope for more of this kind of videos with other topics also!

[@miche7032]

I love Epidendrum radicans. They are very hardy indeed. Thank you for sharing & happy growing.

[@Manny32991]

I do like this series I really enjoyed it keep it up. It was a fun video to watch I learned something new about the information of these orchids. I hope more viewers will enjoy this series as well.😊

[@tanluwils1736]

Yes! I'm very happy to see you discuss Brassavolas! I had a b. "little stars" for 5 years...it was super hardy. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get it to re-bloom since I've always lived in cooler homes here in the Northeastern US. It finally died after the cats continued to knock it over. :( I can't say it's easy to find here either.

[@kelleyireland3108]

I love this new series! Thank you Dani!

[@cilenemagnine5143]

LOVE this series. SOO happy I found your channel. You are VERY informative! Thank you!

[@florrnln6642]

This is a great series for beginners! Although I didn't have much success with the nodosa :) Are you interested to make some series for intermediate/advanced growers? It will be very interesting for us. Thanks, Dani!

[@brant5632]

Love the series! Please continue.

[@lisa97897]

HI Dani! I really enjoy coming to your channel everyday to watch and learn from your old videos as well as your new & current videos. When I first started my orchid hobby this year I knew nothing. My first orchid I have I was actually going to repot my orchid in "regular potting soil". YIKES!!! I never did that and it's thanks to finding your channel. I am so happy I found your channel and I just wanted to take the time to say thank you. I go to orchid shows in my city of Florida and now today I have a collection of 18 orchids right now and I know there will be more to come in the future. ;-) My most favorite orchid that I own is my Encyclia Pyriformis Cuban Species she has a strong vanilla fragrance that is amazing!

[@teresawiley2804]

I enjoyed this episode and look forward to more in the series. Thanks for sharing!

[@joannatheartist1004]

I would love to see more videos on species or maybe an update on these

[@karim1387]

I'd like to see a video on your fussiest, hardest to keep alive orchid

[@francesdumaliang6132]

Thank you! Brilliant idea!...please keep it coming.

[@orchidbcn8994]

Yes Danny continue that series! Love your vids and your info

[@wendykrick8897]

I like this idea. Please do more.

[@emilydewsnap]

Yay Danny! Your Brassavola nodosa bloomed! Wow she’s so lovely 😍 I have a Bl Yellow Bird (nodosa and cattleya offspring) and find it super easy to care for too. You inspired me to look for the nodosa. I love those leaf-bulbs too, they’re just so aesthetic (maybe coz they’re easier to keep compact/organized than some Cattleyas haha). Lovely vid, I always enjoy seeing your Den spectabile 😎

[@tammyreed6088]

Thank you so much for this video. I love this!!!!

[@CatherineLittle]

I love this music!!! It reminded me of the music from Super Mario! ❤️

[@TamTruong-dw9rq]

Very helpful. Thank you 😁

[@GyanVikasVikas]

Hi, you use Leca Ballston all the time Leca Ballston is the secret of good Archid growth

[@Emma-rd6ge]

Hi Dani, i am always cautious with over watering my phals, as i have a few that have lost their roots to what i imagine is due to over watering. Even though i don't water them too frequently to avoid this it still happens. Some of my phals roots keep getting white hairy/fluffy mould growing on them and the roots keep dying off. It happens even after one watering on some! And i have a few that have almost no roots so i have them in an ICU and mould keeps reappearing, how am i supposed to keep the sick orchids in a humid environment (with damp microfibre strips in an empty pot) to encourage root growth when it just ends up mouldy? Any advice? Many thanks!

[@valerieellison2483]

Maybe you could do a list of beautiful orchids for beginners that are not fragrant. I'm allergic to perfumes and strong smelling flowers.

[@brendajernigan7642]

I love this series. Have googled the dendrobium bigibbum to no avail. The only one I could find was a beautiful irritated one FOR $65. At this rate I will never possess one. Help with locating a reasonably priced one.

[@karylfriedman5788]

I like this idea. It's a great education for us newbies. I watch every one of your videos and learn something each day. Thank you! I've had wonderful success with my mini-phals with bark mixes from rePotme.com and their Feed Me fertilizer. . . . weakly weekly with the 4th week off and just flush with fresh water. Reblooming has been wonderful!

[@johnmcneill923]

Merry Christmas , Danni Best wishes to you and boyfriend. Hope your Mom doing well.

[@TY-ob7fz]

Hi Danny. This is the weekend and is time for thoughts and a long story. Perhaps would be a good addition to your easy to grow series as I would add the good old complex hybrid grocery store bought phal that most of us have, that's grown in industrial houses throughout the world in controlled environment and how to keep them alive and thriving which I think isn't hard after the initial acclimating period. I think many times these phals are in shock being in drafty stores, transportation and overall a different environment than they had originally grow from. Further, upon simple repot seems to lead to demise from root rot no matter how fresh or strong the original had been. Perhaps put together a "how to" when taking that gorgeous plant home and perhaps how not to kill it which I have done too many times now. I have taken one guy, transplanted it into fresh spagnum moss and had the whole root system rot, and into the stem and lost the guy. Tranfering directly into leca has resulted the same if not more frequently. I'm beginning to see that these phals needs an acclimation period to get past that rotting stage, a habit seen with cattleyas where they'd toss their roots. I'm finding that if you bare root them with a daily hourly soak, for a month or two before converting to leca and self watering with microfiber the transition is more accepted. I haven't tried moss though I had had failures going from spent moss to fresh moss directly too. My mistake was being over confident and not watching the plant til losing root, stem and whole plant. Anyways I'm sure you addressing these issues and putting another fresh tutorial would benefit many new owners, and those poor guys coming out of the factories.

[@MissOrchidGirl]

Hi Thomas, I actually don't have issues with new Phals, but last week someone else commented about this issue. I responded with my guesses, but I am thinking now to start a community project and purposely try and recreate the issue. Otherwise I can only speculate what people do differently than me, so stay tuned for that ;)

[@TY-ob7fz]

@@MissOrchidGirl Danny. That would be a great idea. Perhaps for all of us to have inputs from different environment and conditions dealing with the same (almost) plant and you drawing conclusions once or twice a month from analysis from our inputs. Hmmm. Project Phalaenopsis. ...to be continued... how to keep them darn things alive !!! Sorry I was never good at naming, should ask my daughter.

[@rejeannemiron465]

For me the most easiest orchid is the onc twinkle. Year after year, no problem. Never let dry and light.

[@nataliablumke5608]

Hi Danny. Do you still have your rhynchorides Bangkok sunset? What do you think about this orchid?

[@mr.dahliaking.202]

Wow! a 107k subscribers already! Fells like you hit 100k last week. You are growing quickly Danny! Like a phal on steroids :D P.S. Where da play btton? Are getting it soon?

[@matthewcondon1985]

#MissOrchidGirl Wow! Love that Dendrobium spectabile! My one and only Dendrobium bigibbum has its top leaves on it's cane that just finished blooming. The other smaller, older canes still have their leaves. It is ok? I do have a brand new growth on the cane that has the yellow leaves.

[@danielwild3673]

Hey Danny. I have a question. I would buy for my fist time a orchid on an online store. So can you recommend me a good online store? Best wishes Daniel

[@marinalevenko55]

Орхи красоточки 👍👍👍

[@amandasteel9429]

Another video I would be interested in is a "don't buy, walk away" list of your all time worst orchids 😁

[@ethelrizarri2614]

Hi!!! Dani where can we buy this aeranthes

[@oishd6077]

I have this one question haunting me, How on earth were the first nobile hybrids prepared like was a nobile crossed with some other species or were two different varieties of nobiles crossed. Does anyone know? I even search through Yamamoto dendrobiums but sadly no . I did not find anny article. 😭 And i am really bad with B. nodosas, i have killed two very big sized nodosas, i give up! The roots just hate everything .

[@allbackiceland]

My nodosa is a weed. I have it in a plastic pot with a lot of holes in the sides and coarse bark. And I double pot that in a decorative pot. I soak it maybe once a week, and give the top of the pot a few spritzes of water occasionally otherwise. I see them mounted a lot, and they seem to really like being underwatered and neglected.

[@oishd6077]

@@allbackiceland Well the story goes-In march i recieved a black rhizome rot ridden nodosa, all i could save is a 6 cane division from the 70 cane plant. Then i asked for a replacement and the website did so. Now, it also is all shrivelled up and itty bitty, so i made 4 divisions of it, each in a different setup, and the mounted form seems to do the best. Fingers crossed the nodosa survives. It is one of my most fav orchid as i am a fragrant plant collector, but the lady of the night fails in my hands 😡.. Thanks for the suggestions.

[@YnseSchaap]

I have a Nobile species so I guess there are more and they crossed those to get the hybrids we buy in the supemarket (but you can cross an orchid with any other orchid, even from different genera) and maybe mount the Nodosa, I mount most difficult rooters.

[@oishd6077]

@@YnseSchaap yess a mounted division is doing much much better. And TBH i havent heard of any nobile varieties. Maybe there are, but i live in it's natural habitat and many people have specimens of them, even i do, but sadly i did not see any variety.

[@YnseSchaap]

There must be more species to get the standard Nobile maybe a crosses with smaller dendrobiums but that is the technical part and I haven't absorbed enough info on that 😁 In my experience Nobiles do great on mounts all but one are mounted

[@krzysztofkopaczewski4319]

I just love it:-) not like, love:)

[@j.d.8075]

I actually have Dendrobium bigibbum growing in my yard {smiling}

[@KAMJKJ]

Its is nice to hear canes than pseudobulbs from dendrobium orchids whenever I hear pseudobulb cattleya, oncidiums are coming in front of my mind. If possible call them canes Danny that sounds great.😅

[@orchidbcn8994]

Don't be that puritan, people some times didn't undestand what is the cane...so it's ok say psudobulds cause it's their function too, keep nutrients...

[@weirdangel4025]

First 😁 sry for being lame.

[@KAMJKJ]

2nd😱🧐😡🧟‍♂️😕