Dendobium kingianum (success? finally)

[dbarron]

I've had kingianum in the past (20 years ago) and I grew it for four or five years and never had a spike.
In 2021, I got another kingianum and produced blasted buds and a kiki, during winter 2022.
So, my spikes are being produced this year and I think I can avoid what I allowed to kill them last year (lack of water). I attribute successful spiking to (yes what everyone says) actually growing cooler in the winter (mostly unheated laundry room). I think I'm also gonna say that a dry dormant period is a mistake (at least for my conditions and climate).
I think I'm gonna do it...I think.....

Oh and as a funny, my dendrobium bracteosum x tanii is budding. I noticed it last week when I was watering pre-dawn. I nearly picked up a bud/nascent spike thinking it was a slug when I couldn't see the purple/green color. I was horrified to think I almost broke it off *lol*. I have flowered pure bracteosum in years past, but this was the first time this plant had shown buds (acquired in Mar 2022) and I wasn't actually expecting them quite yet.