I bought Dendrobium Stardust 'Choyomi' in bloom in March 2010 and never managed to get it to rebloom. It grew keikis like mad but didn't bloom.
It started to deteriorate a lot in Sep 2012 and the following May I finally realised that it was absolutely covered in spider mites
![Evil](http://www.orchidboard.com/community/images/smilies/new/evil.gif)
In September last year I finally decided it was beyond saving HOWEVER I had already taken two keikis off before it got the mites, and I saved a further 17 keikis when I threw it away but those keikis were barely more than tiny patches of green on otherwise dead looking canes.
Miracale of Miracles, I seemed to finally beat the mites and those 17 keikis grew like mad in the last bit of last year. So I now have 19 of these, 10 of which are a decent size (for a keiki).
A couple of people here in Europe had their name on some keikis however in just the last few weeks I've spotted mites again
![Evil](http://www.orchidboard.com/community/images/smilies/new/evil.gif)
and I'm not going to share mites with anyone, they will have to be clear a good year before I send them out because they had seemed to be gone for 3 months, then came back.
ANYWAY, the two original keikis I took flowered this year... and I know what I did differently... no fertiliser since the end of August! Otherwise treated just the same, watered regularly all winter and kept in the house. These are a primary hybrid of unicum but don't seem to want to be deciduous (parent didn't do at all well when I tried a dry winter).
Here after my rambling are the flowers
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