Here's the list of articles on the Den speciosum complex.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/elanbee/Articles.html

Don't give up on the plant! 'Orchids' ran 2 great pictures of SBOE's huge
CCM (99pts!) plant. One was of it being loaded into the back of a pickup
truck to go to the show where it got the CCM, and the second was a few
issues later where a fellow had it as a 3 growth plant sitting on a
bookshelf in his home. IIRC the plant was traded from on person to another
until it wound up at the SBOE, and the rest was history.

Its funny how some of us still have Rod Venger plants. I still have a
Masdevallia tuerckhemii. Imagine that in my dry and poor waterer
conditions.

K Barrett


"Ray B" wrote in message
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Thanks to all.

Dave, I was about to get rid of it, but your commentary a while back
encouraged me to stick with it.

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Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info!


"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
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Congratulations, Ray. Dunno about guidance. Mine grow & flower (or not)
according to their own peculiar preferences. The general wisdom seems to
be
that they like a cold (by Aussie standards) winter to promote flowering.

For more info on the species, the reference Kath gave you is a good one.
I had
scanned & emailed a lot of my stuff to her; then she found that site that
had
much of what I had sent her on it.

John may be able to tell you more. BTW, look at the Cedarvale site:
http://www.cedarvaleorchids.com

Ross grows beautiful speciosums, & his website has cultural info on it.


On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:13:57 GMT, "Ray B" wrote:

I am not a grower of dens. I'm not particularly fond of most of them,
and
the unique ones seem to be outside of my skill set. I do not give plants
"rests".

MANY moons ago (maybe 120 or more, actually) Rod Venger sent me a Den.
speciosum seedling in a 2" pot. Despite my relative neglect, it has
grown
and grown and grown. It is currently in an 8" basket (hasn't been
repotted
in years) hung up with the vandas, with the largest growths maybe 18"
tall
(not counting the leaves) and today I actually noticed the beginning of
spikes!!!! 2 on one, one on another.

Not a specimen by anyone's standards, but I will give it credit for
tolerance.

Any guidance?
Dave Gillingham
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