Why Doesn't my Phal Bloom?

Why won't she bloom? I mean honestly, why won't she bloom? I've done everything. I've

fertilized, kept it in light, I've watered, I repotted, I did everything that everyone said they

should do, but she just doesn't bloom. So in this video, I'm going to go over the reasons

that your phelinopsis might not be blooming and how to fix that

If you want a quick answer, well, that's kind of easy to get because phallinopsis will

re-bloom on a yearly cycle, which means that first they will put out new roots, then in a couple

months they're going to grow new leaves, and in a couple months more they're going to start

out with a few little flower spikes. Now some phelonopsis will re-bloom on a yearly schedule following

that and others are re-bloomers which means they're going to bloom following this schedule

and they're going to put out a second bloom after the first has all fallen off and died

That's the quick easy answer, but you know in orchid care, there's never a quick easy answer

to anything. So let's dive in to see why this phelanopsis refuses to bloom. I'm going to answer

this question specifically for phalanopsis orchids but please note that there are 73 and depending on the

author 77 species of phalanopsis 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 first the species

which will be natural parents which have not not been manipulated by man and manipulated, I mean cross-pollinated and changed and messed with

And the second one will be the hybrids, the ones that you will buy online or from nurseries or

from reputable sellers. And the third group is the one we buy in the supermarket, which is probably a no ID

And we just pick it up because we're buying flour or we're buying coffee and, you know

So yeah that third one is actually what I going to be focusing on because with the other two you can either go to my website and I talk about all the species and not all of them but at least the seven or eight most common ones 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

and when it should not be blooming. Now, for hybrids, which is the second point in this video

there are probably two reasons that your orchid phalanopsis is not blooming

Now, the first one is temperature. In general, most phalanopsis will send out that focus

power spike when they've had about a month of a drop in temperature about 10 degrees Fahrenheit

or 5 degrees Celsius at night. So if your phalanopsis hasn't been blooming and you've been

fertilizing all year round, then try to drop that indoor temperature at least 10 degrees Fahrenheit or

5 degrees Celsius. For example, if your home environment is about 75, you need to drop that to 65

or if it's about 23 Celsius, you need to drop that down to about 18 at night

Do this for a month before that year's cycle that you bought it in bloom

If you bought it in August and it was in bloom, then you need to drop that temperature in July so it can sense

oh, this is the time to be sending out that flower spike, and it can really induce in a more natural form to send out that flower spike

The second reason is fertilization. Now, I want to be very clear here because if you didn't fertilize all year long, adding fertilizer 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 send out that flower spike

If you haven't been fertilizing, it's not a Band-Aid treatment. So start now and next year you'll have that beautiful flower spike

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

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

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

we usually pick up like when our addiction kicks in. So the first one is light. 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

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 because light is what causes the whole process of converting the

photosynthesis to create energy 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. 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. It happens to us all. But if you keep it in a too dark of a place, it isn't going to bloom

The second reason that it won't bloom is the temperature, which I already cited back there. So

remember back to when it was in bloom, have that date written down. And a month before that

start dropping the temperature indoors. Now the third way that orchids can sense this change in

their natural environment. So the first one was light. The second one was temperature. The third one is

humidity. Now we all know that humidity plays a huge role in orchid care. So if your orchid is not

glooming and you've been fertilizing it and you've have it in the right light and you did drop the

temperature, raise the humidity just a tad bit. Now, most phalanopsis orchid cellars will say

oh, this is fine in your indoor climate. Well, sometimes mine won't bloom until I crank that

humidity up to around 60%, which is pretty high, especially for my indoor office here. So what happens

with these three things, which is light temperature and humidity, the orchid is going to sense these all

changes these shifts in the natural environment and they're going to send out that spike

When you grow your orchids indoors, you can change all those three. Easy. It's outside. It's more

difficult. So actually, this is the good part of keeping orchids indoors because you can raise

that light and how you do that. You keep your lights on longer for a longer period of time or a shorter

period of time depending if your orchid is summer blooming or winter blooming. You have to remember

what month it bloomed in. The second is your temperature. You can easily control that indoors

And the third one is humidity. And here's a humidifier and I added another one up there because my

terrarium was way too dry They sense that They sense that there enough humidity 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 but actually two seasons of the year where it really rainy in one season and it really dry in another

And when it comes after these seasons of rain and it starts to those first droplets come down, 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

And as soon as you walk in those doors, smell the air

It has that distinct smell of humidity. It has that distinct smell of who

And the orchid senses that because it has stomaida and phalanopsis will have the majority of their stomata on the underside of the leaf

If you have a thinner leaf orchid, it will have their stomata more on the

upper side of the leaf. So don't think that the stomatter are all on the bottom there on the top too

After all is said and done, orchids will have a mind of their own. It's going to do what it's going to do

It does what it wants. And there's really nothing that you can do that. I do want to add a huge

parentheses here. There is one way that you can induce your orchid to bloom. And that is

applying hormones to your orchid. Now, I won't get into this. method because I might make a whole video of this later. It's more it's not complicated, but it's

not a method I want to encourage you to do right now. Because imagine you're this poor little

orchid and you're trying to bloom. You're trying your best to survive. But your owner, you know

they just don't water you right and they will keep you in a temperature that is just totally off

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

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 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

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

And so watch that video. And this video down here is another topic that's related to blooming your orchid

In all, I wish you the best in your orchid care and happy cultivating