Transitioning dendrobiums to semi-hydro

[vegetalmatter]

Lots of stuff coming in the mail lately

Just received my dendrobium spectabile and tobaense in the mail yesterday. I am eager to transition them to semi-hydro, and was hoping to get people's opinion on whether or not these new canes counts as enough "active growth" to safely transition them. From the surface I don't see any new roots coming from the new canes.

Spectabile:





Tobaense (yellowing leaves probably due to heat of transport):




If it were you, would you wait or go ahead and do it??

[Ray]

The stage of plant growth is far less important than whether or not new roots are emerging from the base.

Roots don’t transition; root systems do, by replacing the old roots with new ones.

[vegetalmatter]

Thanks. I’ll just give them some time. and kelpmax

[DirtyCoconuts]

good luck with that tobaense


the spctabile is, in my experience, pretty hardy and you can transition it to SH whenever you want