Hello A Newbie with 25+ stubborn orchids

[silken]

Most of the ones you mention do require a fair bit of light. 15% shade cloth isn't a lot of shade unless you have trees or building blocking sun a lot as well. It might help to use a bloom booster fertilizer as the growth begins to mature if you are not already. Too much nitrogen can encourage new leafy growth rather than blooms. Some also require cooler nights and/or a winter rest. You need to check specific info on each orchid to know which ones might need this. If you have the names of some of the ones that haven't been blooming let us know and you should get some input from members who grow them as to what helps theirs bloom. I know my Encyclia cordigera hasn't bloomed yet despite getting lots of sun and being considered an easy bloomer. Some are also just stubborn I guess.

[Greenthumb.5]

Okay I'll start giving you the names of the cattleya and the oncidium, and as well as the encyclia and maybe even more if you want once daylight comes. Also anyone has an idea to bloom a Maxillaria tenuifolia.

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

If Max tenuifolia is one of your problem children when it comes to blooming, it is fairly common. This one likes bright light. Winters may have to be drier and no cooler than 55 F.

What kind of fertilizer are you using? Does it contain urea? What is the N-P-K ratio for the fertilizer you're using?

[RosieC]

Welcome to Orchid Board

[Greenthumb.5]

I fertilize them with water soluable fertilizer from Better-Gro and they are orchid fertilizers and contain no urea whatsoever. The grow plus has 20-14-13 and the bloom booster has 11-35-15.

[HighSeas]

I can relate to those awnery orchids! I have a few myself!

[Greenthumb.5]

Aww I like the cat welcome and how do you do that? LOL

[LizB88]

Believe it or not I had one stubborn orchid too, she loved to give me new growth and lovely green leafs, one day I had it with her and told her that as much as I love her leafs, what I really wanted was some blooms (my husband hear me talking to the plant and though I was nut!)
Now coincidence or not, with in 3 months of that little talk, I got beautiful bloom and I was so excited that I took a picture of it! This pictures were taken in February, after 4 years of no flowers.
So if your done everything, maybe a good talk will do the trick

[lornaheath]

I am just in awe of all the names you've rattled off here. I didn't even know there were so many sorts of flippin Orchids in the world. Woa! You got a lot of different things Young Man.

Lorna
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[hcastil3]

hooray