This Channel is really a gift. The information is so easy to digest, but it also has such a fun flow to it. The delivery is flawless and I could listen to you. Talk all day. Thank you so much for your videos. I listen to them all the time while commuting to work. I absolutely love the flowers on that plant.

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your kind words!

Nice video on this particular orchid. It is a very lovely flower. Thanks for sharing.

@helloplantlovers

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Hello Matthew, I also live in Melb, outer eastern suburbs. I love your informative and colourful way of sharing your passion for orchids. I'm very, very new to keeping orchids but have become a little obsessed with them. Thank you so much for all your videos, they are great😊

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and good luck with your collection! As a beginner it's often useful to join an orchid group near you; you'll find out what other people are growing, learn a lot AND have access to plant sales! Here is a list of groups: oscov.asn.au/member-societies/monthly-meetings/

Can't wait to see you repot that one Matthew!

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

I should really do it soon!

@besottedorchids3605

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it would be interesting to see how you get it out of it's current pot

Your orchid has such a lovely colour with darker veins in lip. I have the holcoglossum kimbalianum X vanda ceorulea with bigger blue flower and large dark purple bluish lip. It can grow quite cold in my green house in Melbourne

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Oh good to know! Thank you - I was a little fearful of thrusting it out into the winter chill! But I might next season.

@debbiethomas3687

Жыл бұрын

Ooh, I have that one. I wonder if I'm keeping it a bit too warm in my kitchen? Perhaps I should move it to the greenhouse next year - maybe not now, it might be a bit too much of a shock for it.

What a gorgeous little orchid. Hopefully it will throw up a new growth for you. I don't have this cross - wish I did - but have Vanda coerulescens x Holcoglossum kimballianum, which grows on my kitchen windowsill. No flowers yet, but maybe in Spring (I'm in the UK). It's a good sized plant but looks like it has only flowered once, and that at least a couple of years before I bought it. Another to add to your cool/cold vanda list is Vanda coerulea (there are pale blue, pink and alba forms), which can, I understand, go down to 7or 8C in winter (I know my plant - pink - has on occasions when the weather forecast has been wrong, but I make sure it is watered early in the day so the roots don't get cold while they are wet). They are a bit bigger than this hybrid but if you can find one... My preference is for the original, unimproved, flower shapes. Sadly, there are too many of the "improved" (i.e. usually round) shaped ones around and very few of the lovely, delicately shaped ones they were originally. I look forward to the repotting video for this one, it's something I usually put off for much too long! I always used to wonder if my orchids were flowering because they were happy or because they were desperate, but I'm a bit less paranoid now! 😀 Love your channel. Thanks for sharing.

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Yes I've seen coerulea around the traps - I'll have to investigate!

@debbiethomas3687

Жыл бұрын

@@helloplantlovers Good luck. Mine is in spike. The plant doesn't look great, it got sunburned, but it flowers every year.

I'm not really a Vanda fan but that cross is so delicate and beautiful 💖

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Yes I agree....I do like these smaller types though!

Very informative

@helloplantlovers

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Please share the repotting with your viewers

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

I will - thank you!

We drilled holes in terra Cotta. Not sure if it's needed, but we ran water over it as we drilled.

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Yes you do need water to cool the process down. I'm working up to it!

What a lovely orchid and I can almost smell it from your description. I grew my vandas outside this summer in my US east coast zone 7 climate. I sprayed them with the hose almost every day and all three are either blooming or have spikes on their way. One even has 2 bloom spikes full of blooms! So I’m sure if I can grow and bloom vandas so can you!

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Ah inspiring!! I do put mine outside in summer, but we have literally just had an ARCTIC blast for 10 days with winter-like temps! No ones happy!

@baltschoolofdance

Жыл бұрын

@@helloplantlovers oh no! That’s not normal at all for your area this time of year! It’s been below freezing here at night but that is seasonally normal for our area. I hope you don’t have too much plant damage.

I killed mine in Brisbane...I cooked it by placing it together with my sun loving vandas...its rooted. I think this hybrid not so easy in my area but some people up in Gympie where its pretty cold in winter.

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

That's a shame - yes the Holcoglossum parent is a cool grower.

@PlantVisionz

Жыл бұрын

@@helloplantlovers Indeed and my last surviving hybrid hopefully will flower this winter...its not growing very well though but would love to use it to pollinate a warm grower to make more hot/cold hybrids.

I recently found your videos and have since become your fan. Like you, I live in Melbourne. I was a member of the Hong Kong Orchid Society in the 60's. Can you do me one favour. Can you recommend me to join the orchid society of which your are a member? Siu

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and finding me! This is a list of the societies in Victoria: oscov.asn.au/member-societies/monthly-meetings/ I'd find one that was near to you. I belong to the Orchid Species Society of Victoria.

Now you need to add a Vanda coerulescens to your collection, but that might be a tall order in Australia.

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

They are available here.....we'll see!

Hi Matthew, has this cross bounced back and started growing or was that brown growing tip the end of it? Wonderful plant.

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Yes it has! But.....the weather has just turned cold at night and I may have let it get wet and cold....hmm....it's inside now so we'll see!

Is it very fragrant, if so does it have that coerulescens grape fragrance?

@helloplantlovers

2 ай бұрын

I've never seen....or smelt!....coerulescens in bloom! I do have a wee plant...let's see if anything comes of it!

Hiya Mathew i lIve in Tasmania and have Vanda coerulescens only tiny plant seedling really, and it has a flower on it which is tiny but beautiful .

@helloplantlovers

Жыл бұрын

Oh good to know! I am going to have to find one!