Rupicolous Laelia Update | Summer Bloomers | Summer Care Tips

[@NinjaOrchids]

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[@LauraStansfield-tw7xb]

I love their little chubby bulbs! Omg I never realized how adorable these plants are as I normally only see the blooms but have always loved their blooms. So cute indeed! *^^*

[@NinjaOrchids]

Laura, hi 😍💐 they are just adorable! I cannot tell you how much they captured my heart when I got my first order! I stopped looking for other orchids and made a list of all the species of rupicolous laelias... I feel as though I need them all 😂 some blooms do not last long, but some last months! The colors are out of this world when they come with colors. The lip is mesmerizing... yes, these little orchids, they have truly become something that I fuss over like mama bear 😂 thank you so much for watching, Laura!! 🫶🏼❤️🌸

[@robertforrest7956]

Listening to you will I putter around in the kitchen. Today is Mike's surgery, so trying to stay busy till I hear something. Interesting vid and I hope they all decide to stop playing games with you and Grow!! 😅 You give them the utmost of care, the least they could do is grow and reward you with blooms. 👍🏻. Hope your day is awesome, and I'll catch you next time. 😁

[@NinjaOrchids]

HI Robert 🥰💐 I hope that, by the time you read this, that you have heard some news and that it is good news! 🙏🏼🤞🏼 I know the feeling of having to wait and 'there is nothing I can do at this point' / staying busy to make time go faster! Some of these little ones are behaving and qu'elle surprise... blooming for the first time! Then there are the others which are just not sure if they want to stick around or not! I have to convince them that the former is the best course of action! 😬 my day was ok-ish. I felt as though I didn't get much done but that is not the case. I have done a lot of editing on individual clips, got one video filmed that was important because we got the blooms. But am not able to upload a finished video today because the edited videos are not complete! Not finishing a video makes me feel as though I have not accomplished much, but that is just a mental thing that I have. One day I am going to be uploading 3 videos because there are only little bits and pieces missing. I could not be having these clips waiting to go into a project anymore. It was getting messy and driving me crazy! Meanwhile, I found a surprise spike on my Vanda Chao Praya on the top of the main stem where it cracked the first time 😃 no roots up there, but it seems to be getting energy from somewhere 👍🏼 wishing you a peaceful and calm rest of your day, Robert!! Thank you for listening to me while you have other things on your mind! Really appreciate you 😘🥰🌸

[@marjoriedelapena5293]

I'm loving rupiculous Laelias because of your videos about them, they look so interestingly tiny and I love the chubby peusodobulbs and of course cute flowers! Love it!😍

[@NinjaOrchids]

Hi Marjorie 🥰💐 they are such a pleasure to grow! Definitely worth getting a few to experience them in person! Some say that growing orchids that bloom with tiny blooms, makes no sense, ... well, that is fantastic! It reduces the competition in finding the ones I am missing 😂😂 the blooms are cute though! Many similarities amongst the varieties but ... all of them are cute! Thank you so much for watching, Marjorie!! Looking forward to hearing what rupicolous laelia could make it into your collection. P.S.: the kettiana has bloomed out 🙌🏼 3 blooms!! They are the daisies for us orchid growers!! Adorable 🥰

[@marjoriedelapena5293]

@@NinjaOrchids awesome! I have 1 right now, enjoying all those growing roots.and watching something coming out from a new growth, I don't know what that is, i don't want to expect too much, it's too soon, but I'll just wait and see😀I'll keep an eye on your post regarding the kettiana blooms😀

[@NinjaOrchids]

something coming out of a new growth... ooooohhhh Marjorie!! 🤩🤩 could it be?? 🤞🏼🥳

[@belzakim]

Really nice video, nice to see a fellow rupicolous laelia lover. My collection is growing and growing

[@NinjaOrchids]

Belzakim, hi 🤩💐 welcome! I have not seen you here before, so first of all, a warm warm welcome and thank you so very much for being here, I really appreciate it 🤗 you collect them as well? Woohooo!!! I am a little crazy about them tbh... I am looking for the ones that I do not have, and it is getting harder and harder to source them. Unfortunately, I lost some that were really small, and others that I could not grow to strength, so they collapsed. Such a shame. So... I am really focussing and fussing over my collection because... LOVE them! So good to know that you saw this video and maybe we can go gaga over these cuties together in the future 😂 thank you so much for watching and once again, welcome 🤗🌸

[@stephenorchids4943]

Nice update Nina they are defo cute hope the other ones make it for you I'll keep my fingers crossed for you I know how much you love them and 😘👍

[@NinjaOrchids]

Hi Stephen 🥰💐 thank you very much for your feedback, Stephen!! This video took a long time to edit because half of it is based on photography and to get the commentary to match the images... sheesh!! 😅 your feedback is really appreciated! I hope that those that cannot decide whether to stay or go, will choose to stay! 🤞🏼 hope your day was fabulous, my friend! Thank you for your time watching 😘🌸

[@joshriebsomer7820]

They are so cool I love your Ripicolous collection.

[@NinjaOrchids]

Hi Josh 😍💐 they really are!! I don't want any sad ones though 😣 I feel so bad for the poorly ones and really hope that they will pull through 🤞🏼 thank you so much for watching, Josh! I hope your day was fabulous 🤗🌸

[@MattbyNature]

NINA!!! Completely missed this video! Thank you so much for showing your rupicolous Laelias. They're so beautiful. Both my angereri and milleri are sulking beyond measure. Also my ghilanyi... Boo! But many others are doing really great and filling their pots (no breaks yet either haha). I just need to create more very high light areas for all of them. This summer has been rough for them... :( But the sanguiloba bloomed beautifully. Others have attempted that - let's see. So glad to see the vasconcelosiana is doing that well for you. Mine is kinda unhappy. I would be very very interested to see your list of plants you're missing. Maybe we can all keep our eyes pealed...

[@NinjaOrchids]

MATT!!!! 👻🤣😍💐 hi!! I figured that, one day, you will stumble across it and wasn't going to point you in it's direction! You have been so busy with your paper getting even more smarts into your system, that I figured you went all out this summer to have yourself a fabulous time... and here you are, so, thank you so much for watching 🤗 I lost my angereri! What an orchid! So much hope for over a year, and then poof... collapse. My milleri got hit with thrips but I got to them in time, and the new growth is still clean. Seems like those are in the category of divas in the rupicolous laelias? 🤔 I have hope for my milleri, yet! Blumenscheinii, though... that orchid is just insane! Even the little single bulb is now growing a new grow again 😃 gotta embrace the survivors to not get really upset. I am glad to hear that your sanguiloba bloomed beautifully! That is awesome! Mine is growing a new growth, which is much needed as the rest looks like the leaning tower of Pisa 🤣 I can send you my list in a PDF file if you want, also for your reference in case there is something that is of use to you as far as information is concerned. I am hoping to get the xanthina and vasconcelosiana potted up soon here. Then they can settle in during the less stressful time of year for them. Soooo happy with that new growth coming right after the one that kinked off! Amazing 🙏🏼 thank you so very much for watching, Matt... or, should I address you as Dr. now? 🎓👍🏼👍🏼

[@andreaallum8859]

You have some nice clothes just coming which makes you feel happy when you see that and roots of course but your plants are still good

[@NinjaOrchids]

Hi Andrea 😍💐 they make me happy when I see new growths and roots! The blooms, some are unexpected, are a bonus! The ones that are struggling really .... 😣 I hope they pull through! Really appreciate you watching, Andrea, thank you so very much 🙌🏼 hope your day was fabulous, lovely lady ❤️🌸

[@PlantarEColher]

Lindas Laelias rupícolas. Parabéns por estar cultivando essas espécies lindas do Brasil.

[@NinjaOrchids]

Olá Rogério! 😍💐 Bem-vindo! Eu não o vi aqui antes, então uma recepção calorosa e um enorme obrigado por estar aqui. Eu agradeço muito! 🫶🏼 Tenho uma obsessão por laelias rupícolas, e gostaria de ter todas as espécies e híbridos naturais se algum dia conseguir encontrá-los. Mesmo se eu tiver duplas, eu amo muito essas orquídeas. Uma viagem a Minas Gerais seria a realização de um sonho. Eu me inscrevi no seu canal. Apesar de eu não falar português, isso é google translate, as plantas têm uma língua internacional e bem.... você está no país de onde vêm meus pequeninos. Estou com inveja 😅 Muito obrigado por assistir! Espero que você esteja tendo uma ótima sexta-feira e... mais uma vez, seja bem-vindo 🥰🌸

[@PlantarEColher]

@@NinjaOrchids Oi, tudo bem, Ninja? Eu gostei bastante de saber que você gosta das Laelia rupícolas. São realmente lindas! Vi que você adquiriu algumas aqui do Orquidário Florária, que fica no Rio de Janeiro. E você tem muito bom gosto para espécies. Eu também não falo inglês muito bem, então não me arrisco..hehehe.. Eu me inscrevi no teu canal e ficarei ligado nos teus vídeos. Seja bem-vinda!

[@NinjaOrchids]

@@PlantarEColher Estou bem, Roger, obrigado por perguntar e muito obrigado por se inscrever no canal. Parei de comprar na Florália porque o atendimento deles não é nada bom. Eu costumava encomendar todos os anos por 3 anos, muitas orquídeas e bem... Eu gostaria que eles pudessem ter tratado um pedido e comunicação de forma diferente. Então, estou sempre procurando nos sites de viveiros europeus, quando sei que chegou um pedido da Florália na Europa, apenas no caso de 😉 há mais vídeos de laelias rupícolas na minha playlist chamada 'Laelia Look Book'. No ano passado, até tentei recriar o habitat natural com gramíneas, etc., enquanto tinha flava e alvarenguensis em flor 😂

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

🦒🙌💖🌺 Oh yes, those blooms are so graceful and cute. The name gracilis, how graceful a name is that🤣 The short chubby structures are so adorable. I love it so much when a psb cracks the sheath as it is getting fatter and fatter, love it, love it 🤗 Laelia reginae, how smart of her, not dumb dumb as some we happen to know 😬 as unlike Stan she is mindful to avoid the edge of the pot 😂 Yours is the most wonderful collection of rupiculous Laelias I've seen and I always love these updates. Fingers crossed for the ones in rescue mode 🤞🤞 and the best of days to you amiga mia 😘😘😘

[@NinjaOrchids]

FFF 😍🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🥰💐 good evening, meine liebe Freundin!! I got your email, just did not have the time to respond yet, but I will before the 'day' is done! 😘 oh I am so relieved that reginae is growing into the pot this time around! What a relief!! 👍🏼👍🏼 clever girl! thank you for keeping your fingers crossed for my struggling ones! Much needed 🥺 thank you so much for watching, amiga mia! Hope your day was fabulous and wait... you have a leafless vanda stem growing roots?? 😅 I have not had time to watch your video, but judging by your title... I cannot get a vanda with leaves to grow roots, and here you have a leafless stem growing roots! 🙆🏼‍♀️😅 can't wait to watch the video 🤩 thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video 😘❤️🌸

[@desiregrace6701]

Like share and subscribe! Last update on those orchids was 2 years ago if I'm not mistaken? Thank you!!!🌺

[@NinjaOrchids]

Hi Desire 😍🙌🏼💐 thank you!! Yes!! Everyone reading Desire's comment, please do, it would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏼 thank you for that, Desire 😘 as comprehensive as this, yes... it was a long time ago! 😅 I have been sporadically showing one here and there but not a focus like this! It was fun ... clearly 😆 thank YOU so much for watching and for putting that Call To Action out into the universe! I hope your day was beautiful and everything, I mean everything (!) went your way ❤️🌸

[@josephrapp]

Hi.wondering if your climate is causing difficulties for some laelias. I am going to wait before I try them since I do not know enough yet.will follow to see what you have to say in more videos about them.

[@NinjaOrchids]

Joseph 😍💐 hi! you have a good point with your thoughts on my climate! It may be that those that are struggling are not ready for the temperatures and conditions at the moment! I need to give them light, but not expose them to the harsher temps. I will walk around tomorrow and see where I can make some adjustments! Thank you, Joseph! 🙌🏼 I appreciate your consideration, as I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video, thank you so very much 👍🏼 hope your day was nothing short of fabulous 🌸

[@KarinsOrchids]

Nice little collection lovely arranged,, but boy are they difficult to grow! I had L briegeri x aclandiae for many years but eventually after 7 years growing well ahe rotted off at the base didn't like semi hydro very well. Interesting info about the lenght of the flowering spikes , l regentii.. to the right looks fabulous. 💗 Thank's for this interesting video,, I didn't know much about these guys

[@NinjaOrchids]

Hi Karin 😍💐 they are not easy, that is for sure! Well, some seem to have no issues, and then there are others that just 'poof' collapse or don't get going at all. Still have a lot of figuring out to do. I am so glad that most of them are progressing though 👍🏼 briegeri x aclandiae!! What an interesting cross! 7 years and then... how strange and I am sorry to hear that 😣 that one regentii from Lucke, it looks so good that I feel as though the others may not be regentii 😅 thank YOU so much for watching, Karin and for your comment! I hope that your day was bearable and not too unpleasantly hot! I think most of Europe is experiencing higher temperatures that we are down here. Or, there is something wrong with me, because I don't feel the heat at all 😒 that is why I am such a pansy when I see temperatures of 17º 😒

[@KarinsOrchids]

@@NinjaOrchids Gi there thus hot evil evening..sweat everywhere don't have the energy even to follow my planned filmning schedule...to hot...again.. this country is either rain and 15 degrees or hot humid 34 degrees 😁😁 well I recognise me spending my summers in Spain every summer until I turned 16... it was no higher than 36 degrees and not humid so it didn't feel all that hot. But I shouldnt complain,, look at Germany,,,UK...they are struggeling right now,, we folks in Sweden always seem to just float our way through every hard time theres ever been. For good or bad. The briegeri cross really inherited nothing at all from the aclandiae it seems it looked exactly like yours 💗

[@NinjaOrchids]

you are right about the lack of humidity here making the temperatures not feel hot at all. When I was in Germany and it was 20º with high humidity I felt as though I was in Kenya and it was only 20º 😵‍💫 when I was in Vegas for work it was 45º-50º and dry heat... I did not feel it to be that hot, but if you sat on concrete, you got up really fast! 😆

[@KarinsOrchids]

@@NinjaOrchids Ahh yes the same thing goes with the black leather seats we had in that old little car in spain...back home from the beach... screaming children every time with red buts. 😁😁

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

Only thirty minutes? I would expect at least an hour talking about the stocking stuffers. 😉 I'm ever so glad to see gracilis blooming for you, hopefully next year she will grace you with more of those adorable little blooms. And I'd like to see the strugglers pull through since replacing them won't be easy. I've got the little Laelia aurea, which isn't a rupicolous Laelia, but it is somewhat similar in appearance. But you know what would have been really funny, if you started the video with a Phalaenopsis, just to mess with Matty's brain.

[@NinjaOrchids]

Don Miguel 🥰💐 hola jefe! I thought the video was really long 😅 I was trying to keep it as short as possible, but yes... that was a hard ask of myself. Yap yap yap!! I can do that with almost any orchid, but who wants to hear it? 😆 I lost a subscriber today and have a thumbs down, soooo 😬 was it something I said? Anyway... I love them, and yap yap yap! I hope that the ones struggling will make a turn around as well! Angereri, really? The reason I had the issues with Floralia in 2021 was because of the one day in February when I was angry and looked at the pricelist, saw angereri and boom... bought! The headaches that followed was because of angereri... and it is not managing very well? 😤 I don't see the fairness in that! But... guess what! When filming the broll footage of the large kautskyana that I got recently, I did not see the new growth at the base 🤩 not even during editing, it is that disguised and blends in with the color of the lava rock! Only yesterday, when I moved it from under the staging area to the shady east side, did I see a new growth and it was quite large already 😅 happy days when that happens! I did not think of the phal angle at all!! That would have been amazing! 🤣🤣 *adds 10 minutes to the video going through the rupicolous growth habit with a phal as an example! 🤣🤣 that would have been too funny! I hope he reads your comment some day! Thank you, Michael, so much for watching, I appreciate it so much! Hope your humpday was fabulous 😘🌸

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

@@NinjaOrchids well, that's rude. The funny part of giving a thumbs down is that the algorithm treats thumbs up and thumbs down exactly the same. I think it was Charlie White (PenguinZ0) that talked about a video had like 3 likes and 5000 dislikes and the algorithm was promoting it like crazy. The thumbs down is for the creator, so if they wanted to hurt you, they would have been better off not giving the thumbs down. Oh well, what's one subscriber anyway. Today was visiting the optometrist. My dreams of lens replacement got shot down, I'm stuck with my horrible prescription. At least my vision only drifted a half point. It usually drifts a quarter point a year, so I was expecting nearly a point drift from the last prescription. Oh, and one bud failed on the Richard Mueller x C. labiata, but the other is growing nicely, shouldn't be too much longer until it opens.

[@NinjaOrchids]

You are right, it is a form of interaction and... thank you very much, I'll take it! 😅 well... good news wrapped in bad news! I am glad that you are ok with the result of the measurement 👍🏼👍🏼 We will be waiting with baited breath for that bud to make it 🤞🏼😅

[@sandiesorchids9387]

Why do some new growths grow so slowly? I have a few that have new growths but they are growing so slowly.

[@NinjaOrchids]

Hi Sandie 😍💐 soooo, how long has it been since you have seen the new growths so that I can understand the 'slowly' better? Usually it takes a long time from seeing the swelling at the base before the growth cracks a leaf, but after that their growth spurt increases and could be considered fast! I had a nubbin on my pabstii for the longest time, 3 months, at least! And suddenly... it opens to show the leaf structure and then boom, now we are growing! Let me know which ones you have and how long have you been watching the new growths. I may be able to be more specific. Some new growths don't mature either, for some other reasons, they just stop, and don't develop. I have one indoors like that, and one outdoors that featured in this video. One growth pulled through and on the same orchid, the other did not. That is something I have not figured out. Really appreciate you watching, Sandie! I hope that you had yourself a great day, that your ground has dried out and you are busy with setting up your greenhouse 🤞🏼❤️🌸

[@sandiesorchids9387]

My Dendrobium anosmum for example is growing new growths but that started to grow back in April and has only grown about 2 leaves and is maybe if your lucky 2 millimeters tall since April. Greenhouse foundation we will be starting on on the weekend then we will get started on the greenhouse.

[@NinjaOrchids]

My anosmum is doing exactly the same 😳 wow! I thought it was just mine! Well... that is odd, considering that you have a normal growing one, if I remember correctly? Mine has been struggling for years, so I though that was why my growth is taking it's sweet time, but your's? I have to think about that for a day or two and get back to you with some kind of rhyme or reason

[@sandiesorchids9387]

You can send me an email if you like or whatever. Like we are nowhere as warm as you are and I grow in bark and I grow inside the house year round but weather that makes a difference or not I don't know. Stay cool I know that you are pretty hot there. 🔥😊❤️👍🌺

[@NinjaOrchids]

I am enjoying the temperatures, Sandie! I think that the rest of Europe is hotter than we are down here! 😵‍💫 I never reflected on the fact that the foundation of your greenhouse is going in!! 🙌🏼 oh my!!! So happy!!! 🙌🏼