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Old 07-17-2012, 03:37 AM
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My Den Phok bong x Den little princess is reblooming, but i noticed that there are less flowers, and the stem is smaller too. Should i do anything?

Initial bloom: sept 2011


Current bloom: Jul 2012
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Old 07-17-2012, 07:55 AM
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That is usually indicative that the plant is not getting the level of care that it once did, often in the nutrient department.
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:47 AM
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It looks like it was left in the cold and lost leaves, which set it back.
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:57 PM
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Hmmm, i fertilise the plant weekly with a weak fertiliser gaviota 63 21/21/21 and once in a while the flowering fertiliser. This dendrobium hybrid has very thin long roots, unlike most other dendrobium i have. I would have change the mount, if i can yank it out, and mount it on a fern bark instead. Seem like a delicate hybrid.
And the plant is grown in the balcony with morning sun in the tropics, but still have a habit of losing all it's leaves after a few flowering spikes. Is that in it's ancestry or is it a problem?
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Old 07-17-2012, 11:11 PM
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Its a hybrid so it must have improved genes....it is supposed to improve on every blooming cycle....you must have more blooms; bigger brighter colored ones....more keikis to form more spikes with bigger roots that in a couple of years you must have a specimen that gives you a magnificent display of flowers....
Ray is right....you must review your Dendrobium culture get a refresher's course and start from scratch....undo what you have been doing because it is not working
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