Learn the Stages of Growing Orchids

Series Summary

Orchids have some of the most exotic and beautiful flowers in the plant world. They boast of at least 25,000 officially recognized individual species, and some botanists count the number even higher. With such a natural diversity and beauty, orchids have garnered much attention from the world horticultural community. Amateur gardeners and flower enthusiasts are constantly cross pollinating species, and have to date created over 100,000 hybrid orchids. Orchid cultivation happens on a global scale, with favorable climate conditions regulating regions of high or low growth.

Aside from the aesthetic qualities that orchids are famous for, they provide at least one well known nutritional benefit. The vanilla bean is the fruit of an orchid plant, and is considered to be an important, valuable crop in many areas.

This free video series gives you expert knowledge on growing orchids and finding help in your local area. Bill Hutchinson talks with you about breeding and crossbreeding orchids, the importance of naming new orchids, and how to research your plants. He also gives you advice on taking the next step, how to connect with other orchid growers in your area and find support. Bill shares his experience with local shops, orchid malls, importing plants from out of state or out of country, and which supplies work best. This guy knows his stuff! After this series, you'll be ready to grow gorgeous orchids and find others to share your hobby with.

Video Transcript

"The process of naming orchids is not as easy and straight forward as we would hope. Often times, an orchid gets its name from the guy who paid the bill for the expeditgion to go out in the woods and find them. After all if your name is Rockchild and you are paying someone a half a million dollars to go find orchids, you would hope thta you would have one orchid named for you. Mr. Rockchild has many named for him. Other things that we have to look at when we do this, is how important is an orchid's name in terms of what you need to know. All too often I have people call me up and say, I have an orchid. How do I do grow it? I'll say, what is it? They will say, it's an orchid. Unless you can tell me what it is, I can't give you any hint on what you need to do to grow it. So orchid names are important and critical if you want to be successful. "