Deciduous Dends?

[blackorchid]

I finally went and bought a blooming size anosmum from Oak Hill lol....can't help it. I thought it looks much bigger but it looks pretty small and fragile, the stalk is about pencil-thick. I don't know if it's gonna die if I don't water them at all for 3 months lol.... I'm a little scare.

[Sandy4453]

Originally Posted by Rosim_in_BR

Yes, Steve, I don't completely stop watering during the rest period, especially the seedlings. Never had any trouble with my Dends not flowering. Apparently, it is not the dryness or the light that triggers the flowering, but the temperatures. There are several commercial Dendrobium growers here that never stop watering or feeding, but at the right time they take their plants to greenhouses located at the top of mountains where the temperatures are colder. This seems to work good enough to initiate budding. Their plants are always healthy, sturdy, full of flowers and holding all their leaves.

Would the same be suggested for Dend. nobiles? And what about nobiles in s/h? Just continue watering minus the fertilizing?