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Why Won't My Orchid Bloom? Reasons and How to Fix them
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Oct 3, 2024
Phalaenopsis orchids will either rebloom on a yearly cycle or will spike twice a year within months of each other. So if your orchid isn't reblooming, just give it time. With the production of new Phalaenopsis hybrids in nurseries, at least one species of Phalaenopsis orchids will be in bloom during any specific time of the year, usually during spring or late fall. If you want the full explanation of this video in writing, go to https://orchideria.com/when-do-phalaenopsis-orchids-bloom/ On Orchideria.com, you can find more in-depth guides and all the access to our information, tutorials, guides, and much more... all for free! Happy Cultivating! ______________________ HASHTAGS: #orchidcare #orchid #Orchideria #AmandaMatthews _______________________ SOCIAL MEDIA: Website: https://orchideria.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orchideria.orchid.terrariums Instagram (Orchideria): https://www.instagram.com/orchideria.orchid.terrariums/ Instagram (Amanda Matthews - personal): https://www.instagram.com/amanda_june_matthews/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/Orchideria/ ________________
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Why won't she bloom? I mean honestly, why won't she bloom? I've done everything
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I've fertilized, kept it in light, I've watered, I repotted, I did everything that everyone said they should do
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but she just doesn't bloom. So in this video, I'm going to go over the reasons that your
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phalanopsis might not be blooming and how to fix that. If you want a quick answer, well, that's kind of easy to get because phalanopsis will re-bloom on a yearly cycle
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which means that first they will put out new roots, then in a couple months they're going to grow new leaves
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and in a couple months more they're going to start out with a few little flower spikes
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Now some phelonopsis will re-bloom on a yearly schedule following that, and others are re-blood
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bloomers, which means they're going to bloom following this schedule, and they're going to put out a
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second bloom after the first has all fallen off and died. That's the quick, easy answer? But you know
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in orchid care, there's never a quick easy answer to anything. So let's dive in to see why this
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phalanopsis refuses to bloom. I'm going to answer this question specifically for phalanopsis
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orchids. But please note that there are 73, and depending on the author, 77 species of phalanopsis
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Now, of these, there are seven subspecies and nine natural hybrids. That is a lot of orchids to cover. So I'm going to divide it in just three groups
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First, the species, which will be natural parents, which have not been manipulated by man and
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manipulated, I mean cross-pollinated and, you know, changed and messed with. And the second one will be
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the hybrids, the ones that you will buy online or from nurseries or from reputable sellers. And the
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third group is the one we buy in the supermarket, which is probably a no ID. And we just pick it up
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because we're buying flour or we're buying coffee and, you know. So yeah, that
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Third one is actually what I'm going to be focusing on because with the other two, you can either go to my website
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and I talk about all the species and not all of them, but at least the seven or eight most common ones
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which you can read right there And you can see when it supposed to bloom Now in the second category which is the hybrids which you buy from a seller the seller can inform you better of when it should be blooming
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and when it should not be blooming. Now for hybrids, which is the second point in this video
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there are probably two reasons that your orchid phalanopsis is not blooming
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Now the first one is temperature. In general, most phalanopsis will send out that
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flower spike when they've had about a month of a drop in temperature about 10 degrees Fahrenheit
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or 5 degrees Celsius at night. So if your phalanopsis hasn't been blooming and you've been
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fertilizing all year round, then try to drop that indoor temperature at least 10 degrees Fahrenheit
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or 5 degrees Celsius. For example, if your home environment is about 75, you need to drop that to 65
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or if it's about 23 Celsius, you need to drop that down to about 18 at night
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Do this for a month before that year's cycle that you bought it in bloom
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If you bought it in August and it was in bloom, then you need to drop that temperature in July so it can sense
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oh, this is the time to send out that flower spike, and it can really induce in a more natural form to send out that flower spike
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The second reason is fertilization. Now, I want to be very clear here because if you didn't fertilize all year long, adding fertilizer
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now is not going to make it bloom. The orchid needs that fertilization all year round to build up so where it's healthy so it can
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send out that flower spike. If you haven't been fertilizing, it's not a Band-Aid treatment
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So start now and next year you'll have that beautiful flower spike
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So those were the two reasons that you're a hybrid or you know the name of your orchid, the species where it's from, you've got all the data and it just hasn't been doing right
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So those are the two reasons. Please be sure to like and comment or if you haven't subscribed, please subscribe to my channel and hit that notification bell too
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I usually put out videos every week on Saturdays. Now on to the next point, which is number three, which is the no ID phalanopsis, which is the no ID phalanopsis
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we usually pick up like when our addiction kicks in. So the first one is light
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Now this will influence more than fertilizer wheel. Most people think that just correcting the fertilizer is going to make that spike come out It won Light is really the factor that contributes the most to getting this bloom out Now don put this phelinopsis in the sun That not what I saying
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Don't get me wrong here. What I want to say is that it has to have the right amount of light for the right period of time
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because light is what causes the whole process of converting the photosynthesis to create energy
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to get that flower spike out. and if it doesn't have energy, there's no way it's going to put out that flower spike
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So make sure that you're giving your phalanopsis enough light. Sometimes we're all scared to sunburn your orchids, and I have done that
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It happens to us all. But if you keep it in a too dark of a place, it isn't going to bloom
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The second reason that it won't bloom is the temperature, which I already cited back there
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So remember back to when it was in bloom, have that date written down
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and a month before that start dropping the temperature indoors. Now, the third way that orchids can sense this change in their natural environment
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So the first one was light. The second one was temperature. The third one is humidity
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Now, we all know that humidity plays a huge role in orchid care
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So if your orchid is not glooming and you've been fertilizing it
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and you've have it in the right light and you did drop the temperature, raise the humidity just a tad bit
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Now most phalanopsis orchid cellars will say, oh, this is fine in your indoor climate
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Well, sometimes mine won't bloom until I crank that humidity up to around 60%, which is pretty high
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especially for my indoor office here. So what happens with these three things, which is light temperature and humidity
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the orchid is going to sense these all changes, these shifts in these shifts in these
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a natural environment and they're going to send out that spike. When you grow your orchids indoors
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you can change all those three. Easy. It's outside. It's more difficult. So actually, this is the
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good part of keeping orchids indoors because you can raise that light and how you do that
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you keep your lights on longer for a longer period of time or a shorter period of time depending
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if your orchid is summer blooming or winter blooming. You have to remember what month
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that bloomed in. The second is your temperature. You can easily control that indoors. And the third
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one is humidity. And here's a humidifier and I added another one up there because my terrarium
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was way too dry They sense that They sense that there enough humidity in there And the best thing about this is most orchids will grow in most orchids falinopsis will grow in a tropical climate that has these not these four seasons of the year
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but actually two seasons of the year, where it's really rainy in one season and it's really dry in another
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And when it comes after these seasons of rain and it starts to those first droplets come down
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you can actually smell the humidity in the air. The easiest way to do this is actually go to a zoo if they have a tropical habitat
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And as soon as you walk in those doors, smell the air
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It has that distinct smell of humidity. It has that distinct smell of who
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And the orchid senses that because it has stomaida and phalanopsis will have the majority of their stomata on the underside of the leaf
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If you have a thinner leaf orchid, it will have their stomata more on the
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upper side of the leaf. So don't think that the stomata are all on the bottom there on the top, too
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After all is said and done, orchids will have a mind of their own. It's going to do what it's going
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to do. It does what it wants. And there's really nothing that you can do about it. I do want to
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add a huge parentheses here. There is one way that you can induce your orchid to bloom
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And that is applying hormones to your orchid. Now, I won't get into this
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method because I might make a whole video of this later. It's more, it's not complicated, but it's
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not a method I want to encourage you to do right now. Because imagine you're this poor little
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orchid and you're trying to bloom. You're trying your best to survive. But your owner, you know
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they just don't water you right and they will keep you in a temperature that is just totally off
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and then they don't fertilize you and you're expecting to give a spike and here they are throwing all this hormone at you
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and you're like okay I'll bloom I'll bloom. Let's give me a break. So you see what I'm saying. If your orchid isn't
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blooming naturally, try to find the cause instead of forcing it to bloom, you know, forcing it to go beyond what it should be doing
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If you've done everything right, then I suggest you watch this video on fertilization because that could be a problem too if you haven't been fertilizing correctly all year long
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And so watch that video. And this video down here is another topic that's related to blooming your orchid
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In all, I wish you the best in your orchid care and happy cultivating
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