Dendrobium tobaense

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Originally Posted by calvin_orchidL

Peng Seng is the primary of tobaense X cruentum which is nice and similar but the lip is not as interesting. There is also tobaense X draconis which I recently acquired

Thank you. Peng Seng is the one I meant. Maybe the evaporative cooling would do the trick if I use S/H and a clay pot... that thing is still calling to me from Hausermann's Web site like the Lorelei.

[calvin_orchidL]

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Thank you. Peng Seng is the one I meant. Maybe the evaporative cooling would do the trick if I use S/H and a clay pot... that thing is still calling to me from Hausermann's Web site like the Lorelei.

I can empathize. I was obsessed with Dend tobaense for a long time (looking back my original post was back in 2010!) and it wasn't available until late 2013. I have a healthy one from H&R that has yet to flower, and I'm trying to figure out the trigger.

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I'm also nervous about getting a Den. tobaense because I bought a Den. lowii in November, also section Formosae, and it isn't happy. I put it into S/H on arrival. A few of the newer growths have died back and it hasn't made any new growth.

A Den. macrophyllum (section Latouria) that came in the same shipment took off right away and is growing with great vigor. It's not big enough to bloom yet, but probably within a year....?

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Well, I just bought a HPS/MH light and ballast to drive up the light levels higher than my t5HOs and LEDs put out, as well as the needed warmth from the lamps for these dens. Just hooked it up today, I have my arranges iuteoalba, my tobaense, my Fredclarkeara, and my dend smilliae under the new fixture, but off to the sides so as to not exceed their cultural-specific recommended light FCs so we will see how they do.