Dendrobium Mingle's Sapphire

[WhiteRabbit]

(victoria-reginae x gonzalesii)
First bloom for this one! I got it a bit over a year ago. Unfortunately it was twice knocked off the windowsill by my cat earlier this year - fortunately I found a safer sill for it before it decided to bud This one wants to be pendulous I think, so I will need to accommodate in the future I guess. Right now I just have the canes staked to skewers lol

[susiep]

Beautiful! What an unusual flower!

[WhiteRabbit]

Originally Posted by susiep

Beautiful! What an unusual flower!

thanks Susie - yeah it's a new type for me - I rather like it

[nutgirl]

Those darn cats!

Looks like it was worth the wait though, very pretty!

Maureen

[WhiteRabbit]

Originally Posted by nutgirl

Those darn cats!

Looks like it was worth the wait though, very pretty!

Maureen

hehe - my previous cat never bothered with the windowsills. My newer guy likes them - so after finding plants from the one window knocked over twice - he has claimed that windowsill lol

[nutgirl]

Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

hehe - my previous cat never bothered with the windowsills. My newer guy likes them - so after finding plants from the one window knocked over twice - he has claimed that windowsill lol

Yep, mine weaves her way through the plants, finds a sunny spot, settles in, stretches and everything goes flying.

Oh well.

Maureen

[stefpix]

Just got one on ebay for cheap! nice! how do you grow it? I like the Den gonzalesii best but this looks good too. I saw both parents at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and they are definitely bery pendolous. mounted with canes growing downwards or horizontally. Lots of blooms.

Where did you get it, how did you make it bloom?

[trdyl]

I love the color of this one.

[stefpix]

Yeah love both species. Had to get one after seeing them at the bbg. Also heard these can bloom more than once a year

[WhiteRabbit]

Originally Posted by stefpix

Just got one on ebay for cheap! nice! how do you grow it? I like the Den gonzalesii best but this looks good too. I saw both parents at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and they are definitely bery pendolous. mounted with canes growing downwards or horizontally. Lots of blooms.

Where did you get it, how did you make it bloom?

Hi Stefano! (sorry, I missed your post earlier ) I got mine from Clackamas Orchids. Is that where you got yours? I try to keep it just moist, tho due to being in bark in a small clay pot , over winter it did get dry a few times, and I did get a bit of crimped foliage when it started growing again. It was growing in an east window last year. Early this year it got moved to a west window.

I too have heard they can bloom nearly continuously - tho it may need to be bigger before it does that.