Terminal leaf ID

[bil]

Originally Posted by jrguevar

Thanks a lot bil, you have no idea how grateful I am for your response, I've spent days trying to see something exactly like the two images you attached it makes it all better and gives me a lot more confidence on how to take care of the plant. The last image is a keiki of the same plant (which are side by side), by what you have explained me I think this one is already in its rest period, and that leaves me thinking, the roots on the keiki show active growth with pretty green tips, So that leaves me thinking; roots active growth does not necessarily match the plant´s active growth period and/or the rest period of the dendros?... each cane that you see is a keiki from an old cane that had been cut and have sprouted, meaning they are all connected by one cane, know how am I supposed to stimulate rest and growth period if all the plant is still connected and fertilizer moves throughout every part?!?... my apologies if Im writing nonsense here, I just really want to learn how to grow this new species for me. Thanks a lot in advance!

The rule is, there is no such thing as a stupid question here.
It's actually a sensible one, and one that in all honesty I can't answer. Perhaps someone else could chime in?

Part of the reason that I haven't thought about it is that I grow my orchids slightly differently. Basically, if I don't want to propagate the plant, I now snip the keikis off as soon as I identify them. If I want to propagate, I remove the whole cane that the keiki is attached to, as soon as the keiki has enough roots. From experience, when I tried removing a cane when the roots weren't long enough, it sulked like crazy. I don't normally get keikis out of season.


That's a nice keiki with all the roots in the first pic. Personally I would cut the cane close to the medium, dust both cut ends with cinnamon powder and leave the keiki on one side to dry for a day or two. Then I would pot it in fine bark so the whole of the parent cane and the roots were all under the bark.

Alternately you could pop it on a mount. That's what I do with all my Dens. as I seem to get better results, especially fro some that seem very unhappy in a pot.

That keiki looks as tho it has stopped growing for the season, so I would water it with no fertiliser. On the main plant, in the full plant pic, if the cane with the growing tip is securely rooted, I would leave it there and water it with fertiliser, at every watering at a very low concentration.

It really doesn't matter if you get it wrong. The worst that will happen is that you get less flowers. There are some dens that really take offence, but the majority are pretty forgiving.