Dendrobium Species Acquisition

[annabanana1987]

here's mine ♡ I love Dens ! Happy growing to you!

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[debrasoon]

I have a few with very interesting leaves and super tiny flowers. The flowers are so small I can't capture them on my iphone camera.

Anyone know what 'type' of dendrobiums these are? I have their names but figure they must all belong to the same family of some sort and they are so different from the large commercial ones with big canes.


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[MattWoelfsen]

Beautiful plant Anna! Thanks for posting a picture of your version of Den. (Dockrillia) cucumerinum.

Debrasoon, the first one is a Dendrobium flexile. It is the SECTION Aporum SUBSECTION Strongyle. The second one is also in the Aporum section. I have seen the third plant, but I don't own it so I have no information on it. If you post its name I can look it up for you. But based on the first two, it just might be in the Section Aporum.

[MattWoelfsen]

After the winter season of not being able to order plants due to such freezing temperatures, I have been abstaining from ordering plants for shipment here to Fort Wayne, Indiana. But now winter has passed, I am buying more plants! Particularly Dendrobium--as this thread can attest.

Back in late Fall, I received a recommendation from TommyMiami about a vendor he likes to order unusual orchids. This vendor, Tropical Orchid Farm, sells many unusual plants at very inexpensive prices. There is a catch--you are required to spend at least US$40.00 in plants--which is about four plants.

So I ordered three more Dendrobium:
Dendrobium aberrans
Dendrobium loddigesii
Dendrobium toressae.

I'll post pictures when they arrive.

[MattWoelfsen]

Dendrobium senile, cucumerinum, lindleyi x aggregatum, oligophyllum arrived today. amazingly small plants. The vendors' pictures of each plant does not give you a sense of how small they really are. I'm going to spend a lot of time nurturing these plants for the next few months!

[debrasoon]

MattWoeldsen. Not sure if these are unusual to you but these two tiny ones are a den peguanum and a den prenticei


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[MattWoelfsen]

Any orchid is special debrasoon. These are very nice plants. Thank you for posting them. How are you growing these plants?

[debrasoon]

Thanks Matt. Sorry for the typo error w your name. They are growing outdoors on the balcony semi shaded. They are hung off a phal pot and get plenty of natural light. Mounted and watered daily. I am in tropical singapore so the plants have to be watered daily, sometimes twice a day. I have lots of dens. They need plenty of light. Some do well in almost direct sunlight.


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[debrasoon]

Matt these are a few of my tiny bulbos and the two dens having off a bench on the balcony. By hey are above the phals but under the cattelya and a few phals.

And for context I am adding a panoramic shot of the balcony.


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[MattWoelfsen]

Having your Dendrobium outside, watered daily in Singapore implies I need to water my plants more often. Thanks for that tip. How often do you feed your plants?

Wow! Beautiful balcony. There is another balcony growing member who lives in Miami, Florida--his name is TommyMiami. He grows a lot of smaller orchids. I wish I can grow orchids outside but here in Fort Wayne, Indiana, our winters are too cold.