Is this dendrobium nestor alive?

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Originally Posted by greenvalley

I bought a dendrobium nestor "Nagata" in last March with flowers on it. Now the flowers are gone and I only have some "sticks" standing. Can someone tell me if this is alive? What should I do to make it grow leaves?

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Thank you.

Hi there, yes it's a soft cane den so it will lose it's leaves. You should get new canes coming up from the base of the plant soon. I have a few of these and they will almost certainly flower again on these old cane so don't cut them off. Mine usually flower on the old canes (2 years) and the previous years canes (1 year) but they rarely flower on the present years growth. Most of mine are in bud at the moment.

You can propagate from the old canes and I have done so 3 ways.

• 1.Removed a couple of old canes and planted them up in a seperate pot where they have produced keiki's
• 2.Removed a couple of old canes and planted them up in a seperate pot where they have thrown out new canes at their base.
• 3.Removed a couple of old canes, cut them into sections with 2 nodes on each. Placed some sphagnum moss in a clear candy box and layed the sections on top. Sprinkled with water and replaced the lid, I placed the box on a windowsill. After about 6 weeks some had produced little plantlets at the nodes.

Hope this helps

Marion