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dendrobium help requested
Please see the exchange below. Can anyone advise me if the plants in the picture should be given a "winter rest" with no water, or are these likely to be the kind that need to be actively watered year 'round? Thanks, C. Berlin "C. Berlin" wrote in message news:VFwTi.3800$uE4.371@trnddc07... I have a few dozen orchids, mostly no-name, growing in my window sills (on porch in summer). I've been able to sucessfully get the phals, paphs, cymbidiums, oncidiums, and masdevalias to all bloom nicely over the past few years. However, no luck with the dendrobiums. I have two that look healthy (lots of growth) that I've had for ?3-4 years, but have never rebloomed since I originally got them (can't remember where they came from, and no labels). I've read that many dendrobiums need a dry period, and one acquaintance who does well with orchids says to let them go totally dry for a long time, and lose all their leaves, then begin to rewater, and they'll then bloom. But I've also read that there are some dendrobiums that should stay watered and green year round. I'm thus confused what to do here, and I'm a little uneasy about letting them go totally dry for a long time. What I've actually done is somewhere in between, just very lightly and infrequently watering in the winter. While the plants stay healthy, no blooms. The light I have through the windows (west facing glass patio doors) is less than optimal. They get the same very dilute fertilizer as everything else does. Any advice about what to do to get these to bloom will be appreciated. Chuck B. Both you and your friend are right. Dendrobiums are a huge diverse group, some of which like to go totally dry for long periods of time, others like to be kept moist like other orchids. So you need to figure out which sort of dendrobium you have. If you are in the USA a decent book is Ortho's 'All About Growing Orchids' (sells for about $12 or see if the library has one). Their abbvreviated overview of the various types of orchids would be a decent beginning. Their dendrobium pages at least would tell you what general type of dendrobium you have. Then you can make an informed decision as to how to proceed. K Barrett |
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dendrobium help requested
oops. The pictures didn't work. I'll try again. Please bear with me. Thanks. |
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dendrobium help requested - how do I post pictures properly?
OK, I've fooled around awhile trying to figure out how to correctly post a
picture here, without solving the sizing riddle. I'm sure there's some simple and obvious way to do this, but I don't see it. Could someone email me privately (so as to not bore the rest of the group) how to do this? I've not posted to binary groups before. I use Outlook Express as my email program. Thanks for any assistance with this. C. Berlin "C. Berlin" wrote in message news:fq6Vi.9438$aJ3.3743@trnddc02... oops. The pictures didn't work. I'll try again. Please bear with me. Thanks. |
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dendrobium help requested - how do I post pictures properly?
I am going to post your resized pictures in a new thread.
Diana "C. Berlin" wrote in message news:2N6Vi.9445$aJ3.2364@trnddc02... OK, I've fooled around awhile trying to figure out how to correctly post a picture here, without solving the sizing riddle. I'm sure there's some simple and obvious way to do this, but I don't see it. Could someone email me privately (so as to not bore the rest of the group) how to do this? I've not posted to binary groups before. I use Outlook Express as my email program. Thanks for any assistance with this. C. Berlin "C. Berlin" wrote in message news:fq6Vi.9438$aJ3.3743@trnddc02... oops. The pictures didn't work. I'll try again. Please bear with me. Thanks. |
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