Thanks King Orchid Grower, excellent advice.
I finally mellowed out enough to be able to read and understand the B&B entries for my antelope Dendrobiums and others, as well as looking a bit further online.
Looking online, I found an observation that the Spatulata section was a bit unusual in that almost all the members have very similar cultural requirements. I already have a Den. antennatum and several Den. Samaurai [Den. antennatum X Den. stratiotes] mounted in my trees. All are doing well, but the D. Samaurai in the sunniest location is doing the best of all of them.
I now remember why I never tried keeping any antelopes while in AK. I didn't think I could get them enough sun what with the short winter days.
In comparing D. antennatum, D. stratiotes and D. lasianthera in B&B, the habitat info for each of them is very similar. I'm thinking that I will go ahead and mount it in a sunny location on a tree, but at a low enough level that I can easily monitor its progress.
I can get D. findlayanum figured out now that I'm not bouncing around like a marble in a tin can.
By the time I got home from the show, I was horrified that I had bought seedlings, almost the same reaction I'd've had if M'Lady had told me she was pregnant.
I'm not really set up to deal with them properly. I have come to terms with it now. If I can still plant trees, I can still take on orchid seedlings. One is no more far fetched that the other. Plus, I am immortal. But, as far as kids go, been there done that - don't want to do it again after having done 16 years as a single parent.
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