*rough cut* Florida Orchid Growing Part 2: Florida Vanda Growing

[@anniesaddictions]

I still hold the wisdom you gave me 8 years ago. Love from Sri Lanka! 🙏

[@TamingTheOrchid]

So informative and useful! I had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with Dr. Motes a few years back at Redlands. A great, genuine guy!

[@antoniocalarez9151]

Amazing information. You're knowledge helps many. Thank you.

[@Plantsfaire]

Indeed a very informative video from an expert. Thank you.

[@Freakster1859]

just received my first two plants from Motes. absolutely in love, cannot wait for blooms.

[@irisld777]

same here !!! love em !

[@jasminkapantovic6009]

Poštovani Dr Motes, Hvala na detaljnom i prelepom videu :) Do sada sam bila ubeđena da nemam uslove za gajenje vandi, ali sada ste mi dali volju da pokušam ponovo. Hvala još jednom, od srca.

[@SHARONSHORTOrchidsandGarden]

Thanks for sharing and happy growing, Dr. Motes.

[@HoangNguyen-gi1hr]

SHARON SHORT

[@CCC321]

What a fantastic video! I learned so much from that. Mine are too cold, too dry, and lack magnesium. It's no wonder I have trouble growing them.

[@kathleenmurphy2379]

I also learned a lot from the videos at Rick's orchids on KZbin. He mentions the importance of magnesium but also calcium. And I didn't know the fourth ingredient on a label of fertilizer in the United Kingdom has magnesium listed

[@tammymiles711]

I love this guy. Thank you. I will buy your book! Thank you💖

[@ElizabethNinanDr]

thank you very much for all the finer details will be put in use

[@islandgirlorchids2806]

Thank you again.

[@donnajacobs6199]

Wish I could hear him he looks knowledgeable

[@chatbud]

This person is Vanda Royalty!

[@motesorchids]

Thanks! Very kind!

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

I just needed to point out an error in your cork analogy a bottle does not get ruined when the cork is wet it gets ruined when the cork dries out (and stays that way even if you rewet it later). That is the reason why they store wine bottles on their side so that the wine is always in contact with the court to prevent it from drying out. If not as the cork begins to dry out it begins to shrink allowing air to seep inside which then causes the wine to go bad (it's called corked) and it doesn't matter if you try to rehydrate the cork after it's gone dry the wine will still be ruined "similarly you can't fix roots that ruined from drying out by rehydrating, the damage is done" (I know you knew that last part I was just offering a suggestion for modifying the analogy without having to find something new) I'm not critiquing your Vanda growing methodology, you know more about them than I ever will I'm sure. I'm just correcting your analogy so you can choose another or modify the existing one for accuracy sake. Great looking orchids by the way, I love vanda's. A few years back when I lived over in Bradenton and Anna Maria they would grow right on the bark of yellow tabebuia trees that have bark that feels like cork and they required no Hangar Cedar box or anything else. I saw one one time completely covered from ground-level up to about 10 ft and starting to creep out along the branches and they really like the horizontal even more than the vertical. It was beautiful and looked completely natural one of the best displays of Vanda orchids I've ever seen

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

Potassium nitrate stump remover my Staghorn loves that stuff but I had no idea my Orchids would too, but maybe I should have as they're both epiphytes which I'm sure probably isn't just a coincidence

[@sandradutton3997]

and speaking of Florida, I've been keeping 1000s of houseplants my past 50 years and never had a thrip, not a single one til I bought a plant from a Floridian on eBay lol

[@michaelfritts3389]

My old Vanda's roots are very dark and it's hard to tell if they are saturated. Great video's.

[@vickieescobar163]

Thank you! Great information

[@carmengomez-munoz4723]

Thank you

[@katessa1376]

Thank Yoy for sharing all Your knowledge, Mr Motes! I'd love to find Your book(s) in Europe, but I guess nobody sells it here... Have You got an e-book version? Have a nice day :)

[@msutherland59]

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers That grow so incredibly high

[@Amy-sh]

Thanks for the video-very informative! I'm in SW FL and use Jack's 12-3-15-7-2 Orchid-RO fertilizer. Is this OK? The directions say to use a half tsp./gal. Your books (which I bought and reference constantly) say to use 1.5-2 tsp/gal of 15-5-15. Is my fertilizer close enough to your recommendations and should I use more than a half tsp/gal? Thanks for any info you can supply.

[@m.gregory5880]

Hello,i moved to the Philippines due to disability retirement and i am living my dream growing orchids here.I've tried many fertilizers and found that when using a sollulable its called Grow More''/a California fertilizer @ 20-20-20 ration using only a third of rec dose per gal. i can water every day w it and i get the best growth and flowers ever..

[@tammymiles711]

When water inside plants...should i use rain water? Does house water hurt them?

[@HamimChowdhury]

Can I grow vanda at my grow house under full spectrum led light ? Do you suggest to sock or spray their roots !?

[@cudjoekey2334]

I went to the Bali Botanic Garden in Ubud. They have this magnificent huge orchid growing (in the massive orchid garden that is worth visit for us plant 🌱 heads). The interesting thing is that it was grown & attached to a dead tree stump. The orchid mass was about 4'x6' at a minimum. I have a closeup of the flowers if you are interested. (I also have orchid seeds from Bali if you are interested and I would be happy to share with you if grow that sort of way). Do you have any experience growing this way?

[@motesorchids]

Thanks! We have a lab and could make use of your seed--and send you some flasks back. What do you have?

[@cudjoekey2334]

Motes Orchids because I don't speak the language, I don't know what I have. I just picked them out from the plant and flowers that I thought were beautiful. I will look through my pictures and email them to the address on your website this weekend. I would love ❤️ to get some flasks back, that would be fantastic. I brought the seeds home not knowing what was involved in making them grow. Then I did some research and realized that I was not set up properly, so they have remained as I received them and in a dark environment. I hope they haven't been damaged.

[@resilience4lyfe331]

Cudjoe Key23 what happened? Did you send the seeds? Get flasks? Discover what type they were?

[@merylc4821]

Wonderful

[@chatbud]

O M G, I can't believe this. How is it I did not discover this video earlier? Bart, were you the camera man for this video???

[@motesorchids]

Thanks! We are lucky enough to have a professional videographer. It's one of the things that your support of our business allows us to do.

[@loganthornsberry2051]

You recommended KNO3 as an additive to Epsom salt fertilizing. What about Ca(NO3)2

[@mariademurtas3942]

Please can you help me? I am obssessed by wandas orchids, how can I get them as I live in italy? Please please...can’t wait to get your answer...hopefullly ❤️

[@Everlidis1]

Fantástico como siempre!!!

[@judyperkins4509]

Do you ever soak your Vandals ?

[@meadowfrance]

I have a fertilizer question. I water and fertilize my vandas by dunking their roots in a plastic trashcan. I've been changing the water every month but I'm wondering does the fertilizer become inactive or get used up in that time?

[@kathleenmurphy2379]

Go to Rick L orchids on KZbin and he has a video if you scroll down on how long he re uses his fertilizer I don't think he reuses it for a month. But just him up. I have a KZbin channel if you put my name in the word orchids and you'll find me but it's also about houseplants I'd welcome you to join my subscribers we have a nice little group of people and I've gotten to know each other.

[@chatbud]

"Should I water my orchids b4 I fertilise them?" Ans: 15:34 "wRONG, don't ever do that again..."

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

Since so many of the pesticides in that category (ins) are derived from from chrysanthemums, I wonder does chrysanthemums planted around the yard have any benefit innkeeping thrips and other bugs at Bay? I intuitively want to go with things that makes sense to me like that but have found that citronella did no good repelling mosquitoes and society garlic failed to do anything to repel bugs as best I could tell so apparently logic cannot solve every problem without some experimentation and observation

[@wigati9357]

Would you please send me your book about your your garden or your orxhid .. I live in a village in Indonesia.

[@sandradutton3997]

enjoying your videos... interesting that you only care about Florida growers but refer to Michigan state statistics haha as if you don't care about northern growers... but only their info lol AND I'm not getting a cat and I water my orchids with a watering can cuz I don't have anywhere near as many orchids as you do watering with a huge hose in a greenhouse

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

Everybody used Bloom booster because the marketing team had done their job and nobody questioned it that's why it's so important to question everything and more importantly than that learn to think for yourself. Never believe something you heard just because the person sounded confident that's also the sign of arrogance, looks very much like confidence but very different (in my opinion confidence is often opposite of competence and though they sound alike they're actually mutually exclusive. Charles Darwin 1809-82 Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

[@kimzorza1543]

is physan 20 the same as banrot????

[@lindahartman2279]

No - Banrot is much stronger than Physan 20.

[@Friend2FriendnMA]

Hard as I tried, I could not get through this video. Way too many word whiskers. Uhhhhhh...errrrrrrr...ummm... So sorry.

[@motesorchids]

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