How nice your plants looks! It will thank you too for the change of living space. I got one 3 yrs ago. I Thought they were fairly slow growers. Mine has really branched out and looks good. I put it outside for the summer and it loved it.. I had to learn hands on how to take care of it. When I found ID and info last year, it mentioned all the problems in growing it indoors. Mine is a very care free plant that give me no problems. I'm sure yours will be the same. Congratulations!!!!!!

Hort, who are these professionals? You will be hard pressed to find them. I've been trying to grow things for 37 years and still plants cark it. That is why we need an orchid forum. Sometimes you will find in posts little hints that make a difference. Anyway, it all comes down to conditions, conditions, conditions. Your Wal-Mart Dendrobium is probably a hard-cane, i've got about thirty of them and not many people grow them around these parts because they are considered "Difficult" . As for the disease, your plant is just showing what happens when conditions do not suit. I had one that grew too big, thought i would trial it outside a glasshouse and put it in a sheltered position of the front porch, sheltered position, morning sun. It declined! Moved it to my shadehouse. It declined more and then died. Your plant has declined to such a point that perhaps you should discard it and start off with a new one. These are the "weeds" of Florida, Hawaii, Queensland, Australia. They like moderate humidity, warmth, even watering, though slightly less in winter and sunlight filtered by some like shade-cloth. How can i tell you how to grow them seeing my total orchid experience is here? That is the real problem with orchid growing, you have to do some research and follow that up with some interpretation in relating what you read to your growing place(s). Even then many you try will just die.

Wow! Lucky. I hit the Lowe's and the Home Depot that's across the freeway from me and they didn't have any. I've seen them at the Home Depot last fall but didn't know what they'd bloom and they were at least 5 year old ones. I am hoping to cruise through a Walmart this weekend and maybe I'll see some there although I'm probably going to hold out for a while on buying an established/grafted one. I am really wanting to hit a nursery or two that Marie told me about. I just haven't called them up to see when they'd be getting any in because I know I'd want to go right then and spend a ton of money I don't have since I'm saving cash for a 2-3 week stay at my sister's down in Port Aransas for Sand Fest and for the Corpus Christi Botanical Garden Spring sale to snag up a couple of plumaria cuttings. LOL Kirk

Here is the last of the Walmart bulbs in bloom. It just bloomed this week. I think this one is Amigo. Although I confess I did not label my Walmart bulbs. The red is really deep. The photo doesn't do it justice really. It's a true red, not the orange tinge that is reflected in the photo. It got two flower scapes and they both bloomed at the same time. So it really packs a punch.