My dendrobium orchids are not blooming
Sicily Paul
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How do I grow my Dendrobium Aggregatum orchid
Comments (15)Valieta, Let me throw my .02 cents worth in here. I grew Den. aggregatum for a number of years. I bloomed mine in South Carolina, Kansas, Florida, and Virginia. The plant comes from around the northern part of India, and ranges from the high altitudes to down in fairly low altitudes. This means that some of them get cool dry periods in the winter, and some get less. the altitude that your plant actually came from may affect its blooming, but then you may have one from low altitudes, and it'll be easy. I had a small greenhouse, so all my plants pretty much lived under the same conditions. my aggregatum may have bloomed out of season a few times...Its been a very long time ago...but really, I did not care because it was beautiful when it did and that was what mattered. I would grow it like a Cattleya, then in the fall/winter shelter it from water as much as possible. The pseudobulbs will shrivel a bit, but expect that. keep the plant out of the sunlight and as cool at night as possible, and hope for the best. One trick that works for some cymbidium growers who live where their plants can't get cool nights to bloom is to put a tray of ice in the pot each night for a few weeks in the fall. That may or may not work for you, because you are in effect watering the plant with ice. You might try a season or two without the ice, and if the plant refuses to bloom, try one season with Ice and see. read up and get familiar with the seasonal weather the plant experiences in its growing area, and do your best to match that where you are. Sometimes its a snap to get plants to bloom in different climates than they are accustomed to, and sometimes its just impossible. Either way, its fun trying. Bill...See MoreMy first blooming home phalaenopsis orchid
Comments (21)Polina, Volumes have been written to answer your last paragraph. ;Arthurm, you think they will give me enough room here to try? It used to be that there were two types of really expensive orchids. One group was rare, very hard to find plants that were brought out of the wild and only a very few of them were in cultivation any where in the world. The others were those plants that had been hybridized by man over sometimes many generations to create exceptionally shaped blooms, or blooms with exceptional color, or both. These plants had been shown to highly trained judges who were accredited by recognized organizations such as the Royal Horticultural Society of England, or the American Orchid Society, and granted awards recognizing their superiority. When two orchids are crossed (pollen from one applied to the stigma of the other) a seed pod may be formed that can contain nearly a million almost microscopic seeds. If these seeds are planted on a nutrient material (agar, something near the consistency of Jell-O) in a sterile environment (to prevent mold contamination), each seed can produce a baby plant. Each of these little plants are unique...some will resemble mom, some dad, and most will be somewhere in between. Some may inherit and exhibit a trait from some ancestor many generations back. After about 7 years these plants will begin to bloom, and experienced growers pick the finest ones out of the multitude of first blooming seedlings. These plants are usually allowed to bloom once or twice more to confirm their characteristics before they are entered in shows or taken to judgings. Once the plants begin to bloom, the cross can be named. The process looks like this...Cattleya Plant A X (crossed by) Laelia Plant B = Laeliocattleya John Doe. (Lc. John Doe must never have been registered before) Now all these little plants that came out of that seed pod have the same name. If, in America one of those selected little plants is taken to a show, and the American Orchid Society judges there agree that it is exceptional, they can award it. Lets say they give it an Award of Merit. Now, the owner has the right to give that individual plant a "clonal name"...It now might become Laeliocattleya John Doe Variety 'My Best' AM/AOS. Now, that one particular plant has been singled out as better than its siblings, and has a name that defines it from all its siblings. Before Cloning was perfected, the only way you could obtain a plant of LC John Doe Var. "My Best" AM/AOS would be to purchase it from the owner. That usually would not happen, but the owner might consent to selling you a division or part of the plant once it grew large enough to be divided. I have personally seen divisions sold for as high as $3,000.00. Once cloning was perfected, a piece of our pant in question could be taken into the lab, and multiplied many hundreds of times, producing exact genetic copies of the original plant, and now, blooming sized plants of this plant can be purchased for $15 - $20.00. If you wanted to, you could purchase at very reasonable prices two plants with excellent breeding records, cross them, wait for them (7 yrs.) to begin to bloom, and if your cross had not been registered previously, you could name the cross, and take the best of the bunch to shows and see if you could get them awarded, clone (could probably begin to sell plants in flasks in about 2 years) them and make your fortune selling them. Kinda changes a fun hobby into lots of hard work, doesn't it. Bill...See MoreOrchid People: Need help with my dendrobium and epidendrum
Comments (7)There are several different types of dends and each requires slightly different care. My advice would be to go to the Orchid forum in gardenweb - these folks are great at giving advice. I have a decent collection of orchids and learned a lot from them. Be sure to post photos....See MoreLooking to swap my Australian dendrobium for cattleya orchid
Comments (0)Hi there! I am looking for any cattleya orchids that y'all are willing to exchange . I can offer postage or swap my fragrant white Australian dendrobium Please send me a message. Thanks ....See MoreOnesime (centre QC)
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