Dendrobium Nobile Stardust

[Orquiadicto]

The latest Nobile I've bought.
It's full of keikis with nothing than roots and flowers.

[WhiteRabbit]

Lovely!

[violetta]

It's beautiful! I've never seen flowers with roots, lol
I have Den Stardust 'Firebird', the flowers have the same shape but they're orange in colour.

[silken]

I have a yellow one and the orange 'Firebird' cultivar as well. They don't have any Den. nobile in them tho.

[Orquiadicto]

Originally Posted by silken

I have a yellow one and the orange 'Firebird' cultivar as well. They don't have any Den. nobile in them tho.

I guess you're right. It's a Den. Stardust, not Den. Nobile Stardust.

[silken]

Originally Posted by Orquiadicto

I guess you're right. It's a Den. Stardust, not Den. Nobile Stardust.

Thought you might be interested since nobiles usually require quite a cool dry rest. It does have 13% nobile in it's make up, according to OrchidWiz. It is half Den. unicum.

[Orquiadicto]

Originally Posted by silken

Thought you might be interested since nobiles usually require quite a cool dry rest. It does have 13% nobile in it's make up, according to OrchidWiz. It is half Den. unicum.

Of course I'm interested. Any help/hint/correction is more than welcome. I hope I can keep it alive and make all the keikis it has thrive and perhaps grow it to become a real specimen.

[violetta]

Originally Posted by silken

Thought you might be interested since nobiles usually require quite a cool dry rest. It does have 13% nobile in it's make up, according to OrchidWiz. It is half Den. unicum.

How do you grow it then? I gave my 'Firebird' a winter rest together with my other nobiles. Half of its buds opened but the other half blasted.

[silken]

It would get a cool dry winter but not as dry as nobiles and according to OW they shouldn't dry out completely but towards the end of winter and beginning of spring is the driest time. I have a couple small ones and that's all so I don't know for sure what is ideal. I do OK blooming my nobiles with a very cool and fairly dry rest.

If half of your buds opened, you likely gave it good culture and maybe it was a temp. Change or draft that made your other buds blast??

[Orquiadicto]

I still haven't succeeded in blooming any of my nobiles, nor the botanic one nor the hybrids. Either the winter rest I give them is too dry or not dry enough. I don't know. I hope I can get them to bloom next season (it's too late now, I guess).