Soft cane dendrobium - advice for a beginner?

[gngrhill]

I am no expert with nobile Dens. , but have managed to rebloom the two I have. After the blooms have gone, it should start putting up new growths from the bottom. As they start to grow ands as the weather gets warmer, they require lots of light, lots of water, and enough fertilizer to keep them growing well and getting new bulbs plump. Use a low nitrogen fertilizer. In fall as the nights get cooler they must be allowed to cool down at night even to close to frost.(Don't let them freeze )
They need that night cool and day warmer to set buds which should show up just before winter. Once buds are started, you can allow more even temps. Cooler temp cause later blooms and warmer temps cause earlier blooms. I keep mine outside on my deck until temps are just above freezing at night and move them into my heated porch for winter.

[bunny]

Originally Posted by gngrhill

I am no expert with nobile Dens. , but have managed to rebloom the two I have. After the blooms have gone, it should start putting up new growths from the bottom. As they start to grow ands as the weather gets warmer, they require lots of light, lots of water, and enough fertilizer to keep them growing well and getting new bulbs plump. Use a low nitrogen fertilizer. In fall as the nights get cooler they must be allowed to cool down at night even to close to frost.(Don't let them freeze )
They need that night cool and day warmer to set buds which should show up just before winter. Once buds are started, you can allow more even temps. Cooler temp cause later blooms and warmer temps cause earlier blooms. I keep mine outside on my deck until temps are just above freezing at night and move them into my heated porch for winter.

Thanks for responding!

What do you mean by "new growths from the bottom" ? New canes?

Should I slow the watering after the blooms drop and before new growths are visible then start watering more when I see new growths?

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Originally Posted by estación seca

Thanks... What I'm getting at is you can't tell the plants apart the feel of the cane, so how do you tell which is which?

Some of the visual things I came across were the color of the leaves, location of the blooms, flexibility of leaves.

This video is where I got the leaf flexibility from