Hi!
Given the numerous requests.
I'm here in Orquidário Paulista do Reinaldo Ilaci,
to make an Orchid Special.
I hope you like it.
I'm here in Orquidário Paulista with Reinaldo Ilaci,
he will talk a little more about orchids for us.
Hello!
How are you?
Fine.
I am here today to talk about orchid on your channel.
The main thing I want you all to understand
is that it is easy to take care of orchid.
There is a myth created upon orchid.
That it is hard.
And it is not difficult to take care of orchid.
What people have to understand is that orchid is different from land plant, okay?
Everything that serves to land plant, does not serve to orchid.
So everything we learn as a child, with beans
in plastic pots at school, forget it, okay?!
Orchid is everything different?
Everything different.
So if a person has this concept of orchid, it is easy to care for.
Orchid likes plenty of light.
Just can not take direct sun.
Orchid loves water, it just does not like to stay wet.
That's the big question.
So everyone takes an orchid and water it once a week trying to kill it drowned.
This is wrong.
The second thing, put it in a dark place.
No, it needs a lot of light.
So the main thing that one has to do when receive an orchid
or wants to start cultivating an orchid.
The person buys an orchid with flower.
To decorate the room with this orchid,
Enjoy the flower.
And when the flower is gone, look for a place for this plant that is a nice place.
What is a nice place?
Enough light without direct sun, right?
And with fresh air, with a little ventilation.
And I'll find out this place as follows.
I'll sit there at noon or one o'clock.
If it is pleasant for me, it is good for the plant.
Ah!
It is not good for me, is not good for the plant.
People put on the balcony of a building,
closes the glass balcony and thinks it is a greenhouse, that it is a wonderful place.
No, it is a sauna!
Only that no one can bear to stay there.
The person runs away, and the poor plant stays there.
So first concept that one must have to have orchid is a place with plenty
of light without direct sun and a place that is pleasing to some one stay.
It has to be a place that you go there and feel good.
A little warm, one extra breeze there is no problem.
But he or she has to feel good, has to bear being there, if it does not endure.
And watering is very important, okay?
People think water orchid is watering the pot of the plant.
And orchid is watered on its leaves and drop a bit of water on the pot.
This is the ideal for watering orchid, right?
If possible in the morning, is a time that is good for the plant, or in the late afternoon.
I prefer watering in the morning, I think the plant responds better.
We imitates nature doing so.
Because every morning when you wake up in the winter, the night mist left everything wet.
And that the plant absorbs to endure the dry day.
In the summer it rains a lot, any time is good.
But if we water early in the morning and it is a hot day
the plant will be quite resistant to endure that day, right?
That story of watering once a week t is very wrong.
It is very little for it then?
I compare, I am comparing the plant with us.
Then I'll compar the plant with us.
What happens to the plant?
The doctor tells us take 2 liters of water a day.
No use taking 14 on Sunday.
It will be no good, it will harm us.
Then the plant, in the summer you can even water every day your plant.
Watering a little bit the leaves and dropping
a little in the pot, just to lightly moisten the substrate.
No need to do that irrigation that let a lot of water fall from the pot.
Important parameters to observe if one has to water the plant or not.
Clothes on the clothesline and towel in the bathroom.
Dried fast, it is to water the plant.
It took ages to dry the clothes, forget the plant, ok?
This is a moisture thermometer of the air.
And this thermometer indicates if one has to water the plant or not.
In doubt, there is a fantastic thing called finger!
If you put your finger in the pot and see that the pot is dry, water the plant.
If it is wet you do not need watering.
To feel with your fingertip makes miracle.
I talk about this a lot, the finger test for regular plant.
You stick your finger inside the pot to feel if it needs watering or not.
That's the best thing.
And something for orchid, different from land plants.
But you can also use to land plant.
You can have a peace lily at home.
The peace lily is a plant that if lackes a little water, it withers.
It literally asks for help.
You can not pass a peace lily without seeing its suffering.
So you water your peace lily and water all your other plants as well.
It helps a lot.
You should fertilize orchid a lot, all year long.
Ok?
But it's not fertilizing a lot in quantity.
It is in times like the story of the water.
No use I get 1 kilo of fertilizer and fill it all at once with a kilo of fertilizer.
I have to use this fertilizer in installments in many times, according the manufacturer instructions.
Always respecting what the manufacturer tells.
And very, very important, do not water the flower with the fertilizer.
The flower will stain.
Just do not water its flower because it will stain with water
and will ruin the tissue of the flower.
But you can fertilize and water the plant normally.
Very important.
Never ever use land on orchid.
So, always use substrate suitable for orchid.
And always put orchid on small pots.
Just a little larger than the plant.
And punctured?
Preferably, the more ventilated the better.
The point is that people buy a baby land plant
and put on a big pot so that the plant will grow fast.
If you do this with the orchid you will kill it quickly.
So always, the concepts of land plant, forget them to orchid.
Reinaldo, let's give a general view here.
Talk about what we have here on the table.
What we have on the stand.
The name of each one.
I put quite a big variety of plant here.
That is why there are so many orchid collectors.
Because orchids is a huge universe, right?
You have what people know as slipper that is Paphiopedilum.
Everyone knows the little brown one, a very common plant, that everyone has.
But that here is a universe of many plants.
There are exotic plant collector of plants like this here...
Cleisostoma meirili that is a very rare plant.
You have the Cattleya schileriana whish is a Brazilian native, from Espirito Santo.
It was threatened with extinction
in the wild, by doing taking away its natural habitat.
Today by the plant breeding laboratories and collectors there are a demand for it.
Today it is produced in laboratory,
which is the only way to reproduce orchid, in the laboratory.
Because naturally almost anything is born.
You have the Oncidium which from the golden rain family.
Only that this here they call Oncidium twinkle yellow is a tiny that have various colors.
It has yellow, red, pink, has several colors it.
You have Coelogyne which is a very common plant to see this time of year.
Very beautiful!
Very easy to take care of.
The plant grows very rustic.
You have the Maxillaria schunkeana, which is the famous black orchid.
If you look here, you have two small coffee-colored flowers.
Very beautiful.
So this is natural on that plant, in nature it is found that way.
How cool!
It is that color to attract a specific type of insect to it.
That likes.
And that is why it is this color.
And you have the Cattleya, the most common plant
that people know as orchid, right?
In case ...
Previously there are only this...
Previously only had this, and people who were presented with it, the plant would not come with it.
Only the flower was given inside of a box.
And that was extremely expensive.
Today production has increased a lot.
You have a lot of varieties and many different colors of that one.
And people keep enjoying it, is still very traditional.
Yes, very ...
I think it's very beautiful, the colors are showy.
And most of them are very fragrant, which is very interesting, right?
You have the Cattleya hybrid that collectors love like these here...
That to give as a gift is not a great idea.
Because it is a fallen plant and all.
But collectors love this plant.
So it is a universe that you have all type of plant.
Since micro plants, tiny ones and all kinds of shape and color.
And here's a very different Phalaenopsis, right.
Yeah, it is a very exotic Phalaenopsis.
Is a plant species that is found in nature in Asia.
The interesting about this plant are spots on the leaves.
It seems kind of marbled, right?
Very decorative ...
Very beautiful ...
The beauty of it is the silver color of its roots.
Look how nice it is!
It is an expensive plant because it is difficult to reproduce.
You make the seed of it and generally you do not
You can't get it to the plant, to make the seedling.
The seed abort, the seed capsules abort.
Or it does not germinate after you send the lab.
So that is why it is an expensive plant.
Many of the plants that are inexpensive, are plants that
production is too large, then lowers the cost.
In this case, it is a difficult plant to cultivate.
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