TEMPERATE GREENHOUSE FALL MAINTENANCE OF ORCHIDS AND CARNIVORES (4K)

good afternoon YouTube welcome back to my channel in today's video I wanted to show you my temperate greenhouse here I want to give you a little tour of it lots going on in there because there's lots of orchids in there at the moment but before we go in I just want to show you the outside of it now this little thing is a cheap little greenhouse I have reinforced it in several ways added more metal struts to it on the inside to make it more sturdy added some actual box tape to it so when the wind blows it actually doesn't stress the vinyl out on the seams the box tape holds it sort of together believe it or not it works really good we've had some good wind storms I still don't recommend these greenhouses really for anyone they're really volatile even this time of year in the Sun you know it's now into October this thing gets to 37 Celsius in there or so when it's all closed up in the summer it gets its really high maintenance this time of year it's not quite so bad all the plants that are in there don't mind that temperature but very volatile a little thing I've got it sort of on my porch here it's got a wall on that side it's got a wall behind it it's got a glass railing on this side here so they're very well protected from the elements the only real area can get wind is right there and straight on the way we're looking it's even got a bit of an overhang on a few of the sides so it won't get a whole lot of weather on it I wouldn't want this thing in the middle of my yard it would literally blow away it has been anchored to the deck just and to the railings just for some added security but now that I've sort of had my disclaimer here that I really don't recommend these greenhouses it does work well as long as you're on top of it my temperate carnivorous plants did really well after I put them in here I only made this or built this thing in the mid summer so they still had the temperate plants still had all of their springtime normal growth rates and then accelerated growth from that point on as I say it still gets to 37 degrees in there when the Sun is on it which is getting closer you can see it there so why don't we go in and have a little tour okay inside it is nothing but crowded in here at the moment I'm gonna do a little bit of maintenance as we go along I know a few of you enjoy watching sort of maintenance on stuff so on the top shelf here we have some sarracenias and for the fall I am going to be cutting off all of the trumpet shaped pictures just to give a better light for the spring so as they die I go through it and chop them off like this now there's a few non-carnivorous leaves starting on these certain sarracenia get non-carnivorous leaves and you don't want to cut those off for the winter because that's going to give it its spring energy so hopefully you can see me I'm trimming away and the flower is my garbage can at the moment but I'm gonna go through this off-camera and trim those right up what else do we got in here some seedling sarracenia is doing good albino capensis are not going to be able to stay out here when it becomes freezing weather this greenhouse is going to insulate nicely I don't expect it to get nearly as cold in here as it does outside and we really don't get that cold outside but we hover around zero so this is gonna at least keep the elements and everything off these sarracenias we get lots of rain here and that's what is going to rot my plants is not so much the temperature but all the rain so this acts as a good rain shelter these citizeness here didn't do so good they were in lots of light and not much water big tall pot the bottom row has a nicer pot of citizeness in a few other sarracenia seedlings in there there's some orchids in here at this point as well this is a path in signe I always have trouble getting this guy to bloom so this time of year I've moved it from my main greenhouse where it's been getting lots of Sun which is why it's so nice and light and I'm gonna trim a few of these leaves off as well and anyways I wanted to get some extreme temperature so as I said lately has been getting to about 37 in here and it gets down to below 10 Celsius at night at this point and it's going to continue to get colder so I'm going to leave it in here until it's had a good winter chill let's move you over a tiny bit as I say there's not a whole lot of room to move in here in the first place venus flytraps are starting to get shorter traps again there's a lower light in here and I like to cut off all the dead traps and as I say for now throw them all under the ground because I will clean them up after joys of having the greenhouse this little community pot of venus flytraps did really well for me this year especially once it got into the greenhouse here and i just got it last late last fall as a bunch of little tiny plant lights some cool ones that are in here some cool hybrids but they're all unlabeled so I don't know exactly what they are but we just want to make sure there's no dead ones going into the fall and the traps are going to continue to die as the weather cools down and the days get shorter and they're going to go dormant and you'll see the traps are going to start hugging the ground a little bit more but that is going to be some more maintenance that I continue to do off-camera let's have a good look at the venus flytraps here so like the red ones there there's a really nice little bristle e1 in there I love the one they just have the short leaves and the traps that are close to the ground there's what I wanted to show you hopefully somebody can ID it for me if I can find it in here oh I can see some traps closing as I do this kind of funny let's see while you're getting a good tour of the traps this is just a peat moss and perlite mix I can see um sundews are infesting it there's a Bonita and there looks like in ålesund you didn't plant them but there they are shoot I can't find the trap now anyways it was red and instead of having um quite big teeth it had a really fine little teeth on it there it is and it was really tiny to start with so maybe somebody can I do this for me no not the big traps here but you can see one of the traps right here Cena's got little fine bristles on it this whole little plant here is full of fine bristles right next to one that has some big teeth but yeah where my fingernail is so interesting wine I'm gonna follow that way along it's not like a dente but it's something that doesn't quite have the long teeth that the rest have anyway moving on from the venus flytraps this is my big worry awful Sand Mountain cross lava and again these ones here they are some of the first pictures up in the spring and it also means they're some of the first to go so being it hasn't got any rain in here one thing I have noticed an amount used to greenhouse growing maybe it's totally common but there's um these these traps are very sticky with their own like nectar and stuff like that and the nectar is actually causing like black mold on the traps hopefully you can see that they're not too much um lighting in here at the moment maybe I should have waited until it was sunny in here but anyways not gonna hurt the plants I don't think but kind of unsightly I don't like it all that much but I'm going to continue to cut off the big traps here and you can see the non-carnivorous leaves coming out for the winter we don't want to cut those off so this one won't be too hard to cut everything off there and I'll continue with that later moving along I have brought my Dendrobium Nobile ease in here they were outside for the summertime and they did okay outside they were had lots of bright light and a bit cooler temperatures now my fingers are sticky from touching that sarracenia it's very full of sticky goo I just washed it in the venus flytrap pod so for these guys i'm gonna leave them in here again until basically i can't until it gets almost to zero in here they should be frost free even when it's even if there's frost outside but i want them to set their spikes and i want them to set them good if i can two pots of the Dendrobium Nobile ease this here was actually hanging in a palm tree and it really got eaten by bugs you can see two marks all over it but I can also see right there at the tip of the scissors is a little nodule which I think is going to be a bloom spike starting because it is getting sort of a chill in here you can see it right there care I'm going to give these guys while they're in here is just make sure I remove any dead leaves that I can most of them will just like pull off pretty easily if they're starting to turn yellow there's one way back in here as well and just keep it a little pretty what else there's another of the same I have my cymbidiums in here now and what I'm going to do is just stop the camera for a second I'm going to sterilize my scissors in case I need to use them to cut you know be right back okay we're back and my scissors I just sterilize with some rubbing alcohol and this these guys they don't need a whole lot of work actually I don't know that there's much to cut off of them they're just gonna stay in here too they're gonna have nice warm days and cool nights hopefully we're gonna get some bud set on them I did a lot of transplanting this spring I redid all my repotted all nice and vidiians and it took some extra months to get sort of going again so I'm not expecting much from them this year but I will be expecting quite a bit from them next year these guys were outside as well so there's going to be all kinds of leaves and debris in here that aren't supposed to be here like from other trees and stuff that they were around so I'm just gonna take my time and pick three of these guys I can see if you can look through that little hole there there's lots of like leaves and stuff just on the surface don't go very deep but it will go rotting in in the plant so I want to make sure to take them out if I can and wait for some bloom spikes so the good thing with this is at least they're still getting warm days and cool nights so they're still growing nicely it's giving me a little bit bonus growing season for them I brought in my cat Leia walk arena I transplanted it this year as well it's got some nascent root growth too it doesn't bloom for me in the greenhouse and I was at a orchid talk and these guys came up and the person I was listening to talk who was a very experienced grower and he says that they need a very high differential and temperature as well to get to set some bloom spikes so I'm hoping by having the really hot days in here and really cold nights that these guys are going to do the same and set some blooms for me this year the wisteria that I planted by seeds is going dormant now the leaves have gone yellow another path in here a couple Australian Dendrobium Xin here as well kingi annum is back there and this guy here is bell curve follow course tourim Dendrobium key annum like in anyways they need a bit of a chill in a bit of a rest you can see some burn damage here that's a couple years old unfortunately just after I got it I put it into bright lights and I get to look at that as a reminder and the King animals back there as well so hopefully they're going to set some buds now let's go down a little bit and see what we can look at down here my Cape sundews and all of these guys basically are gonna have to come in soon Ellis sundews are still out here Adelaide lots of bonitas are out here tons of ålesund news behind those ones they all did pretty good my bog planters are looking good again they just need some general maintenance this one doesn't need a whole lot yet I can see an old flower spike that my son has thrown in here and it likes to really play in this greenhouse so some things kind of get battered but I figure it's okay cuz well they're gonna go dormant soon anyways I'm still keeping them moist but not stopping wet they still get quite a bit of light and I suspect they will start to go dormant soon but not quite yet just due to the warm days in here still a few dead pictures in here but my Luca fella are sending up as they should some of the nicest pictures of the year so hopefully you guys can see that that is one of the biggest ones really nice looking some others I've actually hit the bench and crinkled unfortunately the top bench was just too high for them but that one came out amazing I wish they'd come out this size all year instead of like those guys so these ones our office opposite the flowers above flowers are done this time of year and these ones are setting up just some of the nicest pictures that I have seen from them beautiful good size too what else this is my temperature alarm if it gets too hot in here or too cold it's gonna go off see going down zoom you back out here's my pot of città Cena's that has a very high water level in it and it was a night and day difference but compared to the one above that had a low water level this is just my mixture here I got them all in sort of one order and just put them all in one thing they're all kinds of crazy crosses not much needed to be done with this one yet I see a few dead pictures in here that I can cut off but for the most part they're still looking okay some of them are going to be setting their fall leaves all the hanging ones that are coming over the front I might as well just get rid of because they're an annoyance so cut those off but some beautiful pictures on it let me just take the camera down for a second from the tripod and give me a look so now it's a nice beautiful fall pictures even um this flap arugula here doesn't realize its fall yet some nice other hybrids in here it's too bad for the backlighting there nice red with red veins I'm not sure if we're gonna be able to see that it's a nice tight-lipped ones here that curl raid over beautiful ones but this is my pot of hybrids mainly I think there's a Jonesy eye and a flap in there that aren't my um bigmouth flytrap but Elmo's lost a couple years ago is come back it's down there it's not with the rest all the pots have nicely growing some Spagna moss this year looks really good nice and fluffy so that's kind of cool lots of little sundews in there and stuff like that down below are my palm tree seedlings i can't get to it because the tripod is there but you can see them there they've done well next spring we'll have to repot them but anyways that is a temperate tour like temperate greenhouse full of orchids and carnivorous plants so the temperate carnivorous plants as they say will stay in here the orchids will come in before it becomes too cold and before it starts freezing in this thing and because there's no heat whatsoever no extra lighting no heat no nothing there's a fan in here for air circulation and it's off right now for filming but other than that that is all we have in here anyways I hope you liked this video and if you want to see more videos like this and make sure you subscribe to my channel as always thanks for watching good afternoon YouTube welcome back to my channel the Sun is just about to hit my little temperate greenhouse there you can see them it's about to get really bright in there and I just wanted to give you sort of an update on this and I think is going to get loud before we do that because the planes about to take off in the lake although that thing looks very far away it's very very noisy right now so we'll do some watch the plane take off first you know I think we have liftoff which means it will get quieter soon and it's behind the house there we go all right so let's try this again in a minute

Channel: Brads Greenhouse & Gardening

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Length: 17min 44sec (1064 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 02 2015