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Hi there. I love orchids! Why?
It is very hard to make them happy but once you achieve it is so rewarding… Look.
You will see here few approaches, however the goal is one- flowers. The extraordinary part is to convert orchids to Full Water Culture (FWC). Often achieved by tempering orchids first in Semi Water Culture (SWC) or using leca beads. Following are results according to orchid types:

Phalaenopsis aka Moth Orchids

And here are the most common- easily to transfer from wood chips to SWC or FWC

 

Mom with side keikis:

  • September 2018
  • January 2019
  • March 2019
  • Can you see the spike?
  • January 2020
The mom I received after a wedding party and had a final spike. Soon after she started to produce side keikis. They started to grow so big that had to detach from parent. It was in soil and placed in margarita glass right the way to Full Water Culture (FWC). He loves it! Within 2 weeks 4 new big roots and mitten!
I’m very curious if the color will be the same what her mom…
And.. Yeah! Huge success!

Mom with spike keikis:

  • od Joli
    May 2017
  • July 2018
  • August 2020
  • August 2020
May 10th, 2017. Present from Jola. Beautiful phals. After they stopped flowering 2 of them had spikes with babies. One spike started to get brown from bottom to top so baby wasn’t save-able. I tried with dump sphagnum moss- worse, then just wet paper towel- it started to get little green nob. I accidentally broke it once trying to remove old leave- next time use tools and not pull it! 🙁 here is the 2nd baby thriving in FWC.

Babcia Ania’s present:

  • November 2017
  • November 2017
  • od babci Ani
    November 2017
  • May 2018
  • August 2020
Above is a gift from babcia Ania. I have move them to moss first, then to leca and lost 2 – it was too dry. Finally directly to full water culture and it seems to love it. Can’t wait to find out the color of the flower!

Following Frequently flowering 🙂

  • July 2018
  • August 2020

Mini phal:

  • November 2017
  • October 2019
  • August 2020
Mini phal to pick me up.

Light pink phal:

  • August 2020
This one was another experiment. It started in leca beads plastic container with wholes around it. It loved it for the first year then black rot was getting to roots, so moved it to glass with the straw in it. After standing in water for few days drain the glass by placing long tube inside the straw to empty the glass. Moved to Full Water Culture in spring 2020 and the root porn began.

Dendrobium

Here is a transformation of my Dendrobium orchids.


   May 2018, Dendrobium Hawaii Fancy. It was a present from my husband. Came from Maui without flowers. Bloomed at home. Not transferred yet… 

 

Dendrobium Violet Fizz ‘Luna’:

  • luna 2018
    July 2018
  • August 2020
Bought in spring 2017, Luna – beautiful full of fragrance orchid with many flowers but has not flower again for me. FWC since I purchase it. Grew 2 branches since then just no flowers yet.
 

Parent and keikis:

  • July 2018
  • babies
    July 2019
  • August 2020
This is my first orchid… Mother to many… for few years was in wood chips. Transferred in 2015 to FWC sat in bathroom(north) window and loved it. This is when it bloomed last. After we moved in 2017 his new place is a kitchen. Spring/summer 2018 added leca ceramics for more water retention and stability. Also to move him higher from bottom of glass as it was loosing a lot new ones when got in contact with water and no air circulation.
 Babies to my first orchid in moss. Still loosing a lot them 🙁

Phalaenopsis

Phalaenopsis Bellina“Jungle”x sib’#2′ x bellina v. coerulea. VERY Fragrant!

… and very expensive. It was thriving in humid bath window (never moved to water culture). RIP

  • March 2017
  • phal
    October 2017

Phal. bellina var.alba. Brought it from Maui Orchid Show, soilless. Kept in Semi Water Culture (SWC) since then. Flower never bloomed and died.  Currently (2019) still have a spike but noticed a tiny baby around roots.

  • May 2018
  • January 2019
  • August 2020
In 2020 moved to Full Water Culture (FWC) it bloomed within 2 months.

Oncidium

Oncidium often has pseudobulbs

Oncidium Twinkle:

  • July 2018
  • August 2020
Very fragrant mini orchid.

Colmanara Wildcat:

  • July 2018
  • August 2020

Oncidium tiger:

Oncidium Sharry Baby:

  • July 2018
  • August 2020
Very fragrant, first re- bloomed spring 2020