What's with my dendro?

[irrka]

Hi! I got a nobile den last spring, it was growing ok, sprung some keikis (which i managed to kill after removing) grew for a while, then it was time for winter rest, so i stopped using fertilizer in the S/H. But now the canes are turning some strange ugly brown color that just doesn't look right. Is this from winter rest? or being too cold? or what?

[Sandy4453]

Can't answer this, irrka but I'm bumping this thread, hoping someone who does know, will see this. I'm curious, what's happened here too.

I know that nobiles need good light while resting. Have these canes gone soft?

[Lagoon]

Did you also stop watering all together??
How much light is it getting?

[irrka]

Well, it's in S/H, so i just cut out the fertilizer, which is the advice i got when i first bought the thing. The canes do feel softer in the brown areas than in the green. It's been sitting on the windowsill in southern window, but i did just move it further away from the window last week, just in case this turns out to be frostbite.

[irrka]

bump

[10010100102]

I hate to say it, but it looks to me like they're rotting. I got a Lycaste propagation from a raffle at my orchid society where the pseudobulbs had turned the same nasty brown colour and were a little mushy. I cut one open and the inside was totally rotted.

As far as treatment goes, I'm afraid I won't be of much help. All I did was cut the affected pseudobulbs (which was all of them) off and now I'm just praying for some growth from the shoot. Hopefully someone who knows a little more about this can be of more help... Until then, though, best of luck with your nobile.