Leaves are falling off!!!

[Jonatan]

It's a Dend. Thongchai Gold
I'll post some pics in a few minutes.

[Jonatan]

Here are some pictures. I hope that these will help.

[Lagoon]

Jon, I have had this to my dends, flowers will fade and the leaves will drop, This can be normal if the plant is finished blooming and you have NEW canes comming up. The older canes will dry up like green or brownish sticks.
I can not grow dends very well even in the south facing window unless, I add extra lighting. These dends really really need to have good light with fanning ALL year around.

It's abit hard to tell from the photo's (Kinda dark) But I do see some new roots, how are the roots closer to the bottom of the pot doing? What is the media mixture?

[daemondamian]

Hi Jonaton,
I can't quite tell from the photos, is it a hardcane or a softcane dendrobium?

Some dendrobiums do lose their leaves, but you're saying that the leaf loss has conincided with flower *and* bud loss also?

Maybe it was originally growing in much hotter temps- say 20s to 30 or more degrees celcius and the temperature drop has shocked it?


If you've already lost all the flowers and buds.. well if it were my plant and I hadn't already, I would unpot it, check out the roots, trim any dead ones off if needed, maybe soak them in some superthrive or root hormone or something, repot with new mix if need be.

What season is it over where you are BTW?