WHY I DO THIS BLOG ON RARE PLANTS

This blog is a labor of love. Because of my love for unusual, tropical plants and the ways to make them prosper, I searched high and low for information and data on the more obscure denizens of the plant Kingdom my information database grew and I realized that Much of the Data on Obscure Species was Unavailable or written in a cold scientific manner. In Addition, many things in garden books will not tell you of the potentially bad aspects of plant species because they were compiled by people who did not actually grow the plants themselves.Finally,as a gardener of unusual plants, I and others searched relentlessly for species, pictures, seeds, and descriptions of plants that are Unusual and easy to maintain yet many of which are never seen outside of a botanical garden.
I talked to people and found that many of my friends and associates wanted cuttings (and had as much success with them as I did) It occurred to me that there are a great deal of people out there that relish unusual and odd plants but the mainstream Plant distributors only carry "Safe" plants, Yet the dealers who deal in unusual make a killing in the plant business. How are People supposed to know about these Floral finds unless they are exposed to them.

According to the report “State of the worlds plants”by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the United Kingdom, there are about 391,000 species of vascular plants currently known to science. Of these, about 369,000 species (or 94 percent) are flowering plants.


By scanning through several plant databases, including the the Plant List, the International Plant Names Index and the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, the team found that 391,000 vascular plants are currently known to science. Moreover, about 2,000 new plant species are discovered or described every year. Many of these newly described are already on The endangered list

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General orchid tips… Before my videos on Monday



 Orchid basics


The Key things to remember about orchid care in general .


In order to keep alive and re-bloom it.

Will it be indoors or outdoors?


 Each species has different light requirements and water requirements.


Orchids in a potting medium must

have the medium dry out between waterings.


Most Orchids without Water storage must be watered a minimum of once a week.As a rule of thumb, drought-tolerant orchids, such as cattleyas, oncidiums and dendrobiums only need to be watered once a week. Other species should be watered every 4-5 days.


Almost all epiphyte species do best when mounted on wood...It’s how they grow in nature… And once established… They require less or no watering and very little fertilizer.


 Explaining light requirements -Most orchids need strong filtered light. Not necessarily direct sun. Although they will acclimate to it. 

have a very sunny yard, so I put most of my not-full-sun plants in containers under the eaves. They want and need filtered light ..strong light. And many will not re-bloom unless they are affected by seasonal light change.


If you have orchids that like higher light — the Dendrobiums, Vandas, oncidiums and Cattleyas — put them in the pool cage or under an oak tree. If you have a successful staghorn fern, it's in a spot that's great for most orchids.


Many can take some morning sun and afternoon shade.


Your plant will tell you if it’s getting too much (or too little) light. Leaves tend to become greener when light is too low, but they may turn yellow or bleached-looking when light is too bright. If you notice black or brown patches, the plant is likely sunburned and should be moved to an area with lower light. 


They really should only be fertilized when they’re actively growing.


Hybrids or inter generic orchids will have the same light and water requirements of the parent plant or plants.

The rarest plant species in one informative vlog


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ONE NEO SPECIES FOUR EXPERIMENTS TO SHOW WHY NEOREGELIA BROMELIADS SHOULD NOT BE FED


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The first video n my day studio……… Spotlight plant. Neoregelia’red waif’ and its ‘parents’

It’s rough angles but lighting is good. Content is more informative interesting and accurate than most people post.PLEASE FOLLOW AND BE PATIENT LOL.  I NEED A CAMERAMAN at times AND IM used to a large and live audience. All that said.  Im pleased with video

25 years of rare plant material for lectures I just have to perfect the videos and I can’t thank everyone enough for your kind words and support.Please subscribe to blog or YouTube for my more advanced information. #rareplant #rareplants #plantgeek

My daytime studio…yay. Finally shooting vids today. Many need editing. But as the day goes on and become more comfortable there’s less editing needed…

heres daytime

 Finished Perfecting the lighting for shooting video during the daytime in my daytime studio. I like my nighttime studio better but I don’t always have the energy at the end of the day and there’s terrible glare during the day. Shot five videos scrapped three of them don’t have a cameraman so I’m just getting used to camera angles so be patient OK…lol…I’ve received a lot of great feedback on the information I give but a lot of people actually want to see me on camera talking about it.

That’s shots of the nighttime studio


Research going on that plants may actually be able to”learn” sensitive plants at KEW

 Sensitive plant… The leaves close up to protect themselves from predators and heavy rains…The fascinating thing is that researchers at KEW botanical Gardens in London… Have noticed that their display of this plant has stopped responding to touch… They are currently researching the possibility that this species might have a ‘memory‘… It responds by closing up  to the threats in its environment and it may have possibly ‘learned‘ That nonstop repeated touching their leaves on their plants is NOT a threat to them.  The plants may somehow know this…and dont respond to touch anymore.






The video I shot tonight

 OK so here’s the story about the video ..the lighting is perfect ..the content is good I was a little nervous at first the staging was perfect   I needed a cameraman to actually capture what I was talking about. And the audio was like a badly dubbed movie but I was comfortable even with my voice ..and the way I looked on camera. #rareplant #rareplants  this is just a video of the staging..


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Rare plant alert


Psychotria Elata 

Hooker’s Lips

Click link for photos and information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotria_elata




What’s your rarest wish list plant....

This is mine Mexican hand flower tree… The link is enclosed below





Tell me your favorite rare plants...

I'm resuming this blog but people should know that my last name has changed to Dudlik

I'm still affiliated with Pinders  but  I update all the sites that  I have had and link them all together.... so when I post a picture or notification it'll go to all the sites… LOL . I do this because I was searching for information on a real plant and my old blog or website came up as the only thing that had information on it… It was hilarious…