Try it for a while and see what happens. If you get weak spindly growths,
then pass it on to someone else. If you get nice healthy growths then keep
it, even if you don't have the optimum amount of light you may still get
some flowers out of it eventually. Don't be afraid to try a new genus in
your collection. You may not always be successful but you'll never really
know what you can grow until you try some different stuff.
-danny

"J Fortuna" wrote in message
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"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
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Bottom line: Dends need much less water than Phals, but a good deal more
light. Catt light is good. I find that our Dends are happy in near full
sun.

Well, in that case I am in trouble since I have only a limited amount of
light available, nowhere near catt light and definitely not full sun.

If a Dend won't be happy enough with just a bit more light than a Phal, I
wonder whether I shouldn't pass the Dend along further to someone who can
provide it the proper conditions. One option: as I was going for a walk
with Robert in our condo complex I saw a place where there were 4 healthy
looking dendrobiums on a patio -- the weather has been nice and warm here
recently, and that patio had much more sun than our extremely shaded one.
I had the naughty thought that it might be fun to take this dendrobium,
and just leave it on this person's patio, sort of like a cuckoo's egg. :-)
Of course I could also do the same thing as the neighbor who brought it
over to me, and wait for a weekend when the dendrobium patio people are
in. Hmm, less fun, but probably the more correct action.

Or I could try to keep the dendrobium, and see what happens with it, but I
definitely cannot provide it much more light -- at most medium light, but
not high light conditions.

Joanna