Dendrobium Comet King help required

[Leafmite]

Hi!
While attending an open house a month ago, my daughter chose a leafless baby Dendrobium Comet King that had just been removed from it's mother with two flowers attached and healthy roots. I'm still perplexed what I should do with it, even after reading everything I could find. It is in very good light, the roots seem to get nice and plump with watering, but it still has not grown leaves or a new growth. Does it grow new leaves on the same stalk or is it like my phal-dens in that this only happens on new growth? Should it be in lower light until it grows leaves? Do I lay it down so that it grows new plants at each node? Wow. What kids get their poor parents into these days!
I appreciate all the information anyone can give me concerning this dendrobium.
Thanks,
Leafmite

[gnathaniel]

Hi Leafmite, Comet King is a nobile-type Dendrobium hybrid bred by Yamamoto Orchids. Their website has great cultural information for this type of Den:

General Care

Hints

Hope this helps! That's cool that your daughter picked this one out, she has good taste in orchids.

--Nat

[gnathaniel]

Oh, and re: your question about the leaves etc., these don't grow new leaves on the old deciduous growths. New growths will come mostly from the base of the plant, just pot it upright like you would a Den-phal.

--Nat

[Leafmite]

Thank you very much. That site was a wealth of information when I read through it and I have it bookmarked. The reason I inquired about the orchid was that while all my other orchids, except a blooming phal-den, are in full growth mode, this one hasn't done anything. But that phal-den always does get started late and this will probably do the same so I'll just be patient and keep watering.
My older two daughters usually don't pay much attention to my plants so I was very pleased that she wanted to buy an orchid. Yeah!
Leafmite

[WhiteRabbit]

I have some Dens (not nobiles, but semi-deciduos, that haven't started new growth yet either - I know that in the past, they have started late, I just can't remember exactly when they started lol
I'm pretty sure it should be soon

That's so cool that your daughter wanted an orchid!

[Leafmite]

Thanks Whiterabbit for the reassurance. It has been a little cool, too, so some of my other plants are a bit behind, too. The other orchids, though, but for the phal-den, have been growing like crazy. Must be a phal-thing. I think it's great she wanted an orchid, too.