Help needed on reviving my dendrobium!

[Susie11]

I am going to buy a tall floor lamp and use a high light LED bulb to put my Den under. It will only be about 11 inches tall and it won't bloom until next year - I hope. It has to be 18 inches to bloom. I hope that it wil be it new home under the lamp for the rest of it's natural life.

[NYCorchidman]

Since I harvested three keikis from the old cane, the same cane is making 4 additional keikis. Yay!!!

Now I have too many. hmmmm

[violetta]

I see that your keikis grew many roots even when they were tiny.
What would you do if you had huge keikis attached to the mother plant, with not even one root?? Those keikis have started to grow new canes from their bottom and have forgotten that they should also produce some roots

[BettyE]

All is NOT lost! I do see some "green," on the roots in the middle picture. And...the kieki looks very good! At least you're going to be able to save this off-spring of the orginal plant. HORRAY! Glad you decided to put it into bark. Now...don't over water. A once a week soaking ( for five minutes ) up to the top of the container should be plenty. Good Luck...BettyE :-)

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by violetta

I see that your keikis grew many roots even when they were tiny.
What would you do if you had huge keikis attached to the mother plant, with not even one root?? Those keikis have started to grow new canes from their bottom and have forgotten that they should also produce some roots

Yes, for this particular plant, once a keiki reach half an inch or so, it starts to push out roots as well, thus sucking in water and grow quite fast!

The ones that started last fall is now making flowers of their own!

Regarding rootless keikis, I have no idea as I have never seen keikis with no roots, but if there are no roots, you should probably leave them as they are.
I've had only two dendrobiums that grew keikis on their own (not like this sort of forced way), and those keikis while still attached on to the mother plant grew lots of roots, so your plant is a unique case I would think.

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by BettyE

All is NOT lost! I do see some "green," on the roots in the middle picture. And...the kieki looks very good! At least you're going to be able to save this off-spring of the orginal plant. HORRAY! Glad you decided to put it into bark. Now...don't over water. A once a week soaking ( for five minutes ) up to the top of the container should be plenty. Good Luck...BettyE :-)

The original thread topic sounds sad because it was sad in the beginning as I really liked the flowers but the plant looked dead with no roots.

Look what I have now!
I have quite a few keikis now and two of them are about to have their first bloom!

I water them a lot. heavy misting everytime I'm around. morning and evening. weekends or when I'm home all day, I mist all day.
More water, faster growth!

I love to see these little guys growing so nicely.

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[NYCorchidman]

So two of the keikis that started last fall have been growing their tiny little spike for the first time after growing 8-9 leaves.

This picture is actually two weeks old, so I should post newer pictures soon. I can see tiny buds, three on one keikis, and two on the other one. It's going to be a very small flower.
I'm very excited!!!

[NYCorchidman]

I will take a better one in the day light and post later, but this gives an idea. three tiny buds...

[lostonthebeach]

I have quite a few keikis now and two of them are about to have their first bloom!

I water them a lot. heavy misting everytime I'm around. morning and evening. weekends or when I'm home all day, I mist all day.
More water, faster growth!

I love to see these little guys growing so nicely.[/QUOTE]

Glad to hear they are all doing so well. It has been fun and informative following this thread.
Keep the photos coming.

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[MJSK]

violetta - The keikis that have grown on my orchids all have had roots. I usually take them off, but yesterday I had one from a Den. Nobile hybrid that was about 4 inches tall with about 6 roots that were 2 inches long, so I potted it. Perhaps the growth without roots is an extension of the mother plant and not supposed to be separated?

NYCorchidman - I am quite impressed with your success with your keikis flowering already. Great work!