This video is sponsored by rePotme, check them out here go.missorchidgirl.com/repotme103 They also provided products like pots, clips, some of the stakes and fertiliser I used in this video.

I had an orchid mounted and I watched one of your videos on how to demount it and guess what, IT'S BLOOMING! Thanks you so much for all you do! I love your videos! Orchid growing would be next to impossible for me without them!

Excellent, well organized addition to your beginners series. My only suggestion is that you emphasize that you're in a warm AND DRY climate. As a newbie in South Florida, I was confused by your references to your hot climate. As you know in South Florida we deal with intense humidity that you don't have in Cyprus. I made the mistake of using too much sphagnum moss and had a lot of root problems until I figured out the difference in our environments. I absolutely enjoy all of your videos and have watched several multiple times. You present an organize your material very well. And I appreciate the fact that you're something of a science geek!

@teresabrockett7525

6 ай бұрын

I completely agree. I'm in Maine and it's been so difficult to figure out what potting ratios to use!

Hi Danny, I have totally enjoyed this series from the very beginning. I hope it will continue because I have learned so much from it! I used to fear repotting but now I don't mind at all, it got easier every time! And for that I say "Thank You"

My example that underscores your first reason to repot, suffocating roots. I bought a huge phal living with tightly bound roots, and it shot out another fast-growing flower spike before I got around to repotting it…so the huge phal already opened about 6 flowers. The leaves were going soft and it was clear the flower decided to go ahead with “un-aliving” due to strangling roots in sphagnum. Thanks to years of orchid education from your videos, I could see I was about to lose the phal, so I repotted but took the added risk of getting it away from a total moss root environment. Amazingly, the roots were still healthy, and freed from the constrictions, the plant opened four more flowers within 24 hours. Two weeks later, and more flowers opened with no buds dropping. Got rid of the rotting seedling plug and untangled the enormous root system, planted in appropriate sized pot, and because of Dani, will have a happy high-producing specimen.

I love the fragrant minis showing up in the big box shops!! I like your cat shirt 🐈‍⬛

I have found that when I have to cut a flower spike off, I can still enjoy the flowers a week or 2 longer by putting the spike in a bud vase.

Omg I have just bought an orchid that looks the same as the one you show in the video ❤🌺

Thanks to you, I bought an orchid pot and mix from rePotme to replant my first orchid. I usually have a terrible black thumb, but have managed to keep this little guy alive for over a year! Thank you for all your tips and advice.

I just had to repot my Phalaenopsis whilst just about to bloom. The potting mix was suffocating the roots, when I took it out there were lots of rotting roots. Hopefully I have saved it 🤞

Oh how pretty! I think it's the Phal. Dusty Belle 🥰, i bought it 2 weeks ago. I also have two wonderful flower shoots and I think about it every day whether I should repot them or wait. Thanks for this video, you made my decision easy! ☺ Merry Christmas! 🎄

@BK-jp4ys

3 ай бұрын

Is that the name of the phal showing in the video? It’s so beautiful especially the foliage. I want to buy it ❤

This one has the same flowers as fragrant Tzu Chiang Balm , very interesting!🌸 Nice and educative video.

Can you have an episode on how to tell diseases and how often to fertilize. Thanks from kauai!

My orchid is Phalaenopsis multiflora with 3 flower spikes, although it was completely infested with meley bugs I tried to remove all the bugs and treat with 70%alcohol but there were too many bugs so I threw away the bark and cut the flower spikes rinsed and cleaned the root system then i re-poted it in clay pebbles it's been a week or so and there are not many changes . The roots are still green and plump . I hope I did it right

Thank you for your videos. I learn a lot from you even if my enviroment in Romania is different from yours. You explain wery well what are you doing and for why. One month ago I bought an Rth. Zoung-Min Gold orchid, which is a cattlea tipe orchid and I repot it in barc chips because I see it starts to produce a flower spike, and it was in sphagnum moss which it was too soggy for my environment. I hope I don`t ruined it, but I`m constantly losing my orchids because of root roth. This is the first time I have a cattlea and for fun I purchest a Dendrodium Sa-Nook too which it is still in bloom, but it started to lose some leafes. I want to see som more videos about this tipe of orchids just to know when I can repot it... and to know when I scew up.

Dani, your videos saved my orchids! People kept giving me orchids and I had no idea how to take care of them! I used to water them with ice cubes (ugh). One day I decided to look up how to take care of them and I found you. ❤ I watched your beginner videos and learned how to repot, water, and (gasp) fertilize my orchids. At that time I had three phalenopsis orchids. A few months ago I got adventurous and ordered three more; another large phal, a Sharry Baby, and a Dendrobium kingianum 'San Bar Stripe'. I watched your video about how to get your orchid to make a flower spike and now two of my phals are spiking!!! I'm so excited to see their blooms. It has been years! What I am most excited about though is that the spike on one of my mini phals has sent out another spike AND produced a keiki!!! I'm over the 🌙! Thank you, thank you, for all of your help! ❤ Merry Christmas! 🎄

Thank you for another great video, Danny! I wish you a wonderful holiday season and may the new year bring you good health, much joy, success in the wonderful work you do and, of course, happy, healthy, beautiful orchids.

Thanks for your unfailingly valuable info Danni. Wish I would have had someone as knowledgeable as you when I first started in the hobby (too) long ago. Keep up the knowledge sharing, and good work.

Thank you for the great explanation of why or why not to repot a blooming phalaenopsis. I’m in a couple of orchid groups on FB and there can be some pretty heated arguments about this. This is very helpful.

I’ve appreciated these videos!

Merry Christmas, Danny ❤

Awe Danny another beautiful video. Happy holidays blessings 🙌

Thanks for another great video. Have a wonderful holiday and happy new year!🎉

Merry Christmas Dannii and thank you 🎄🌟❤️🎂

I love your video's. I learn something new with each one of them!!!! I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Thank you!

You are very well spoken straight to the point and very informative thank you!!!

I had to come back here and comment because shortly after I watched this video, I got a new little fragrant phalaenopsis from a guy who'd got a bunch of seedlings, and I could see it needed repotting really badly. But it had a bloom spike and a bud, and I was worried repotting would cause it to abort the spike. This video helped me decide to go ahead and repot it a week ago. The sphagnum moss it was in was so bad it was slimy in spots. But it had a ton of roots, and the roots were still healthy, so I think I got it repotted just in time to keep the roots from rotting. The moss was soft enough I was able to do it with hardly any root damage, and the bud just started opening today :)

This was a really great video. I’m not a beginner but enjoyed the tips. Merry Christmas, 🎄🎁, and Happy New Year. 🎉

Will we still be able to have access to these wonderful videos?

That is the exact phal that I have just bought from my local flower shop. Must be from the same producer! Mines is in bloom and I have been agonising over repotting. Perfect video for me 😊

I just found out I didn’t need to repot my mini- phal I just bought! So far it is doing well. I will keep a close eye on it. This was Most helpful. I am waiting to repot my standard phal since it has wrapped it loving roots around the holes of the ceramic pot I potted it in. I will give it a good soak, but I expect the roots are going to grip the unglazed inside of that pot like glue in spite of being soaked. I have time to let it finish blooming.

Started following during covid and here we are😊

I wish we could find those fragrant flower shop orchids that seem to be so common in Europe here in the States!

That’s a beautiful hybrid. Wish those were easy to find in my area

Hi Danny. Thank you so much for your very helpful videos! Can’t wait for my repot me order to get here. Yes, I bought myself a Christmas gift. I had to repot almost all the orchids I’ve bought. They all had the plug and some of the roots were horrible. Do you recommend that if you repot it, and even more roots die, do I deconstruct her again?

I love your videos! They are so informative and helpful! I decided to repot three of my mini Phalaenopsis, which I should have done a long time ago but never felt so confident to do so. I repotted two of them, one having flower buds, the other almost dying... I hope they do well! The third one is in bloom right now but I don't think I will wait for it to drop the flowers because it is suffocating from the old medium. The one that I mistreated for a long time and is at risk of dying, right before I repotted it, I saw something forming from the stem that I thought was active growth, but I think now it might be a keiki, I am not sure though. Let's hope it is!

So those small white little bugs are good for orchid. I got scared when I saw them and I went to buy pesticides to kill them 😢

Had to repot an orchid i brought home yesterday, root rot. 😅 Hopefully, she will do better in the new medium now that it's been treated for rot. I'm expecting her to drop her bud she had and I won't be too upset if she does.

Multumim😊, Ca de obicei foarte bine .Am învățat tot ce știu despre îngrijirea acestor minunate plante de pe canalul tău. Când erai în tara de unde te aprovizionai cu ce aveai nevoie ?

About 2-3 weeks ago I rescued a Phalaenopsis that was in bloom. It was in only sphagnum moss that was very hard and compacted (I didn't even think of soaking the pot first!). I just HAD to get her out of that tiny pot. All I had was a 5 inch slotted orchid pot, so she went in there. I have lost 2 of the buds (4 or 5 very tiny buds still look good) and all but one flower. I used all bark with some sphagnum moss on top. I think she is doing well, because there is what looks like one small air root shooting out way up on the stalk near the last flower. Is that normal for a root to shoot out that far up? I am not an expert, but it sure looks like a root. It has that little lighter colored tip on it.

Hi Danny, thank you for your video! Could you please let me know the name of the phalaenopsis orchid that you showed in the video?

Is algae a situation for repotting ?

@julzlarrabee

6 ай бұрын

Would love to hear an answer on this also!

@jhndr0nia

6 ай бұрын

If it is indeed algae, I don‘t think so but if it‘s in fact cyanobacteria (dark green, bluish, blackish, smelly) then yes. Since they produce or can produce toxins that harm the roots. They usually occur when transparent pots without a decorative container are used or in whatever scenario the pot is exposed to light because cyanobacteria need light to survive as photoactive organisms

I have this orchid and she is so beautiful 😍 I repoted my today, that moss in that litle pot was horible.

My orchid has many ariel roots outside should i put the roots on the outside inside when i repot?

Congratulation madam ❤❤❤ Fantastic and nice hjr

Dani, do you ever cut roots to fit in a pot?

Dani I may have just destroyed my beautiful new plant. I just received my rather expensive new orchid, and for some reason thought I had to repot it immediately and it is still beautifully in bloom. I’ve taken it out of the pot. I’ve cleaned away all of the potting materials. I’ve soaked the roots and now I have to put it in its medium, but I think it may be too late. I may have destroyed it by doing this all too soon. Can it be saved?

I just repotted a mini & now it has lost 2 of 3 leaves! Turned a little yellow and fell off😢

Hi i am new to Ur channel and I was hoping/wondering can a phalaenopsis regrow roots when it has 2 leaves cut in half ... 2 new leaves and 2 roots that look dead for about 2 inches where it attaches to the plant then the rest of the roots look good ... I think the answer is gonna be a BIG NOPE but I live in hope that I can somehow rescue it for my neighbour 🤞🤞🤞

@davegrimstead8289

6 ай бұрын

No matter how many roots are still attached to the plant but are dead for 2 inches are no help to an orchid. The plant needs roots to absorb water. And dead roots don't absorb water.

Your videos have helped me so much. I really appreciate you. I’m just so curious. Where are you in Europe? I can’t place this accent is such good English.

@davegrimstead8289

6 ай бұрын

Danny is Romanian

@jhndr0nia

6 ай бұрын

Her accent isn‘t a typical Romanian accent tho

Question for whoever sees this and knows: I bought phalaenopsis from Etsy but the seller said I should wait until it’s much warmer to repot. The roots above are all dead and the potting mix is broken down. Should I repot or wait until Spring?

@shirleytaylor9267

6 ай бұрын

My opinion - if the potting mix is broken down, I would probably repot the orchid now. That way, you can check the condition of the roots and trim away any dead or dying roots. Your phal should be much happier afterwards. Good luck!

@denisedavis5267

6 ай бұрын

@@shirleytaylor9267 thank you. That was my opinion, but thought I’d get another!

Numerous different scents in theorchid world.

That totally looked like mealybugs to me!

I find that when I repot while in bloom, they usually last only another month or so, whereas if I leave them in their pot, the blooms last 3-4 months. I’ve stopped repotting immediately, unless there is an obvious issue with how the plant is potted, be it smothered roots, decayed media, dead roots, pests, etc. 🩵