Dendrobium Comet King 'Akatsuki'

[NYCorchidman]

Still rather smallish, but good flower count for size.

The flowers basically look like Red Emperor Prince without the dark center.
Same large round flowers with heavy substance and great sweet scent!

[WhiteRabbit]

Wow! Gorgeous!

[Leafmite]

Very pretty!

[silken]

Beautiful! Did you bloom this one? Lots of blooms.

[NYCorchidman]

Thank you all!

Yes, it is one of the ones I kept from last winter.
It "only" has six spikes but with large round flowers, the short cane looks heavily loaded with the bloom.

This is how I want all my nobiles look.

Oriental Smile Fantasy looks this way this year on two of the canes that some how matured rather short last year.
This year's growths are much better. I just hope it will flower good next year.
Funny how I'm already worrying about the next years blooming. lol

So my three are blooing nicely this year even indoor, which is surprising to me.
Then I have two, that are not behaving. One is shooting up very small number of spikes, and the other one is aborting all the spikes.

[Orchids4ever]

Love it.

[silken]

Very good growing. Mine seem to bloom much more patchy than yours. That's how I would like mine to look as well.

This year I don't seem to have the time to devote to any of my orchids that I did other years.

[NYCorchidman]

I can't say anything about yours because we already talked about it and it is just a mystery. lol

but I still think the most important factor is the temperature. When I had nobiles at cold sunroom for the entire winter, they bloomed profusely around February-March.

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Gorgeous, God, you are so killing me with all your nobile Dendros in bloom, mine are not even showing buds yet, slowly only loosing leaves, and we have temps over 80 every single day, such an unusual winter after horrible rainy summer/fall, will see if they will actually bloom. Yours are just stunning with so many buds! Jealous:-))))

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by TOMMYMIAMI

Gorgeous, God, you are so killing me with all your nobile Dendros in bloom, mine are not even showing buds yet, slowly only loosing leaves, and we have temps over 80 every single day, such an unusual winter after horrible rainy summer/fall, will see if they will actually bloom. Yours are just stunning with so many buds! Jealous:-))))

This looks nice because the cane is so short.
There are "only" about 18 flowers. average of 3 flowers per spike, and there are 6.

I once saw a thread by a member in Miami. she had tons of beautifully grown dendrobiums, including Yamamoto nobile hybrids.
So, I'm sure you will get good blooms.
You want to keep these out of the rain once the canes mature though.

They will need some cool nights before showing spikes, although I have no clue what triggered these guys to bloom so early this year.
They bloomed around February this year, which is the norm here.

oh, well, can't complain I guess.

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Originally Posted by nikkik

That's beautiful! Great growing!

Thanks!