Flowering Houseplant Haul

I can't remember are they one of the places with the cotton around the plants or do they stuff everything full of packing peanuts about to find out it's been a year since I've ordered from him hey what's up Garden friends Jeff here how's everybody doing hope you're doing well I'm great just got a box in the mail figured I'd open it up for today's video I have something else I'm supposed to be editing for today's video but it's going of take a long time to edit and to be honest I'm just not in the mood so I thought this might be something that's more fun Pleasant and easy to get through as far as editing is concerned what's wrong with my knife I just put a new blade in here why don't you cut get the box we took a few attempts there too much caffeine not sure what's going on so what I have here is a box from houserman orchids I love my orchids and I mentioned in last week's video that I've just been buying a few new ones every year soz I've lost the majority of my collection several years ago for reasons some stuff happened and uh now I am rebuilding and just getting a few things at a time I prefer to do it this way over how I used to buy orchids which was I would just buy any Orchid I saw in site Trader Joe's Walmart didn't matter if it was something other than a phenopsis I would buy it problem with that is the alls that end up with too many right and I've been around now I've seen them I've grown them so I know better as to what I like and what I want around or just what I'm intrigued by in last week's video I showed a couple of orchids just intermittently in a vlog while I was setting some stuff up over here on the patio and I talked about how I don't do many Orchid videos anymore because people always click off of them that they just aren't as popular which is okay that just means it's something I can enjoy on my own and I for the most part do are there something in here okay that's not just packaging material it's good to know but I figure you know couple times a year not a big deal to go ahead and pull out some plants have a look at them talk about them they are still house plants at least the types that I'm growing basic with I okay hold on let me back that up what I mean by that when I say they are house plants is that they like household conditions more so than a lot of other orchids are you going to stand up or you're going to fall down okay it's going to stay the other ones kept falling over so mostly what I have in here are simple orchids just cuz I don't have the time in my life for all the Vanda orchids that I used to grow which are awesome orchids but they like the Heat and they don't Faire as well indoors unless you have a very humid home and I an Atrium or something that's warm for them whereas phenopsis type which is what I'm pretty sure everything in here is a phenopsis type they do better indoors they're more adaptable to being in the house and most of these good Lord what did I order I thought I just got a few things look I just keep pulling more and more stuff out of here Hower houserman orchids then this is just a thing let me know that my order was inspected that's nice thanks Joe appreciate it so back to what I was saying orchids just don't get the love that house plants get which I don't understand because they are house plants as it's got a nice big spike in here that's great this one's going to be able to give some flowers off pretty soon feels really nubby down here have to very carefully get all these things off this is also why I unbox in the box so much easier it's going to be a lot of paper shreds to deal with and done with all this I think there might be two spikes in here look at this that is just one big nice healthy plant tons and tons of buds in there so I'm not missing out on anything I'm not seeing any pests in here along the flower buds where I usually look for the pest M bugs love to hang out in there there is another very popular Orchid grower that I used to order orchids from but every single time I got them they had melee bugs or not necessarily melee bugs but you could see the residue Left Behind from where they had killed Mee bugs then a couple months later they' had Mee bugs on them this is it this is one of my favorites it's is a replacement too so that's even more exciting and it looks like it's about the same size as the one that I had when I lost it so the name on this phenopsis sesame it has lots and lots of spots on it a very very attractive Orchid reliable Bloomer and they have really large Foliage for a phenopsis what is that is that no it's just dust I'm so paranoid about the melee bugs these days that was the main reason I placed the order so the Orchid that was in that was probably very loud I'm sorry gently gentle gentle when I packed that back down the Orchid that was in last week's video was similar it had spots on I was like oh this might be a good substitute don't know why I thought I wanted a substitute it showed up and I was like no it's just not the same the Sesame is tried and true it's just a beautiful Orchid as I was saying in last week's video when I was unboxing the fudal orchids that I was unboxing is that the Orchid videos just don't really get much love or attention which is okay to each their own but it just confuses me considering the types of plants that are popular right now amongst house plants being aroids it's just big green leaves I'm not dissing on them I think they're cool and everything but a lot of their care requirements and the media that used to grow them are the same stuff you're going to need for orchids with orchids you get blooms and some of them do have really cool looking growth on them and that was just lucky I thought this was going to be a phenopsis in here so that was good timing that is a very nice large pseudo bulb holy freaking crap and it's got a couple spikes on it that's good make sure there's no papers left in there I mean look at that that's so freaking cool they're neat looking alien plants this is onium Cherry baby it's just a classic idium type Orchid reliable Bloomer as far as the idium go when you're trying to grow them in the house and the reason I like this one is not just because as far as oncidiums go they tend to be very sturdy and easy to grow is the fragrance these things in the morning particularly you can smell smell it throughout the entire house it's a kind of a fruity chocolaty smell it's very very special it's one of my favorites as far as just fragrance is concerned that in the yin-yang blueberry and I heard about that one from TD Moore TD Mo's orchids I think that's Terry's channel name I can't remember but if you like orchids check his stuff out cuz he'll go into detail on these things like the parentage and all kinds of stuff and with me you're just going to get a whole lot of it's pretty you look it look at how pretty but yeah back it up back it up more there we go as I was saying if we growing a lot of these AIDS you know gloriosum and various antheriums you already have what it takes to grow the orchids you're already using the basically the same potting media that you would need for a lot of orchids there are some differences and Orchid is a very very very large group of plants right so you have to take that the grain salt but with you know the phenopsis and a lot of the onium types paop pedum very slipper orchids you could probably grow them just fine if you're doing a good job with some of those antheriums and filad dendrons I think I'm going to need two hands for this I don't want to mess this up they're freaking huge this is another Sesame I like them so much that I went ahead and I ordered two so that I can have one outside and one in the house I actually thought I ordered three I don't know I guess we'll keep going we're going to find out and I did have someone comment in that video last week's video when I was talking about the orchids versus the eroids and all that stuff about how they like orchids but then they grew them and then they just weren't interesting anymore and uh I've heard that from people before it's not that uncommon and I get it to an extent cuz when you're growing things like you know say a goros some filad dendrin every time it opens up a new Leaf it's so big and exciting whereas with the orchids it's exciting to watch them grow it's just they do it much much much more slowly but there's still a lot of reward behind that because well they grow more slowly than a lot of the AIDS do you can double up on that excitement because then when they flower there's another thing to be excited about and a lot of these phenopsis types they'll Bloom for you a few times a year depending on you know what kind of phenopsis you're growing but most of them will reward W you a few times here okay this is a fun one golden sweet it's just well it's a yellow phenopsis I don't know why I overhype that so much has nice yellow flowers on it I thought I would give these a try as opposed to the uh I keep on to say humani smile is that what it's called lemons Happy Lemon something no I don't know what I'm trying to say there's a yellow that I used to grow and I used to really like it but every single time I get them the melee bugs get on them and they end up being so bad that I just toss it work and wash the me bugs off like once a week and they still come back I did that for 7 months this winter in the house with all my fouls or my garden window in there I was blasting the Mee bugs off of them once a week or more whenever I'd seal a me bug but that was typically once a week and did that from October until gosh just a few weeks ago is when I said that's enough and I threw them away so that's way more than 7 months that's like 10 months and that just happens sometimes I think that when it gets to that point I'm guessing that the mes have established themselves down inside of the sagam Moss or the core whatever you're using and uh the next option would have been to take them apart pull everything out of their containers and give them like a peroxide rinse and then start them all over a new pot when it gets to that point though I have to say hey these are a tenacious burit melee bugs that are growing in here and I don't want them near my collection so that's why I got rid of them that's why I'm getting some new ones here from a grower that is good about not sending you plants of mil bugs all over them Fuller Sunset excellent Orchid they are very very very prolific Bloomers this one has three spikes on it and I'm just loving the size on these too I also really like that these are in the silicone pots you can see it in there but they went ahe and they put them into okay careful they put them into 4in squares so that they'll stand up straight because these are so topheavy they're such big plants they need some extra stability to stand up that's a nice looking Orchid the Fuller Sunset I probably will have had a picture up on the screen but big yellow flowers and they just Bloom and Bloom and Bloom very good repeat Bloomers okay I already opened up the last two and didn't film it because they're just repeats the golden sweets I got two of or three of I want to put them in a bowl a big white bowl I want to put them in I don't know what this is because I think that's everything I ordered so I'm just going to assume this is a bonus plant or some kind of packing material oh no I did order this this is an ASCO Centum minatom these are like a mini Vanda orchid and see strappy long leaves monopodial growth I guess that's kind of the case for all these over here and they have really pretty orange flowers on them they put out sprays with lots of small small little orange flowers on them and what I like about these is it's a smaller plant you can keep them for a long time in a container whereas you know the vandaceous orchids they get really big and you just they don't do great potted that's not their jam okay I'm going to pack this up and then can have one last look at everything and wrap things up gosh this humidity the lens greases up so fast so yeah there it is lots of beautiful backlit orchids very big healthy plants I am excited about every single one of these but these three right here the little yellow ones right here golden sweet those are going to be so pretty together I have a clamshell Bowl I'm going to pop them all up in one grouping together that's going to be so nice and all of the orchids that I have here and I've talked about truly are pretty easy ones to grow with the phalenopsis type orchids being the moth orgid these ones with the big strappy leaves on them generally most the ones you pick up from the store are hyper cloned and usually pretty good and easy to grow and the idium Cherry Baby specifically as far as on go a pretty reliable one and if you like the vandaceous type orchids then these little ascon centons asone Esco Centrum they're really good too if you are an Ikea cabinet H Pardon The Wind by the way I have the fan on there's black flies everywhere from the flooding we had out here last week and it blows them away if I don't have that on my face gets dead up and swells up these will do great in those Ikea type cabinets or the whatever you're doing for your aroids because they don't get very big you just put a piece of cork on the back wall something like that and you can glue these right to the cork with that humidity that you have in there for the AIDS already you'll just have growth that doesn't really get much wider than this but it will go taller and then they start to put up lots of lots of other growths from the side they split up and then they have those orange flowers on them it just adds a nice texture and you don't have to do much with them other than you know miss them occasionally but in an Ikea cabinet probably not all that often really as long as the humidity is you know up there probably around 70% or higher they'll be pretty tough and sturdy and just hang out in there and grow in flower and not take up a lot of space it's just add some diversity who doesn't love diversity diversity is what makes things so much more fun and interesting with various types of Collections and culture all that fun stuff anyways yeah thanks for hanging out I got some great Stu here regenerating the population probably a bit more dramatically than I should be right now but that's okay these are all like I said very simple easy to grow orchids so they aren't ones that are going to take up much time out of my life like some others that have grown in the past and holy crap there's going to be a lot of flowers out here in just a few days by this time next week these things going be popping open all over the place anyways comment down below say hi I love talking to y'all what's going on with your plants your Gardens with your house plants your collections reasons you love or maybe dislike the orchids put it all out there let's talk about it and of course as always and most importantly everybody that was some shaky camera work keep on growing byebye [Music]