Dendrobium primulinum

[Bud]

This is the Dendrobium primulinum variant where the lip is white, sepals and petals are pink/lavender. This orchid plant usually blooms in winter all through summer with 3 inches fragrant flowers.
Plant is found on deciduous trees in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan China and Vietnam at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters.
I give this intermediate to warm temperatures with light on the west facing window and I water it every other day by drenching it under the sink and feed it K-lite fertilizer with seaweed mix weekly weakly during warmer months of growth season. I give this proper winter rest (starting December 15th) by putting it on a brighter shaded light and holding water and fertilizer until new shoots appear (spraying the roots only if I notice the canes shrivel ).
I grow this in a six inch wooden basket lined with coconut fiber where I carefully anchored the base of the canes making sure not to disturb the fine roots too much and sprinkled with well-draining mix of medium fir bark, sponge rock, charcoal, coco chips and tree fern shards.

[WhiteRabbit]

Lovely!

[Bud]

Thank You, Sonya!

[DeaC]

Have you thought of becoming an AOS judge?

[LovePhals]

Beautiful!!

[Bud]

Originally Posted by DeaC

Have you thought of becoming an AOS judge?

-that entails at least 10 years of volunteer work with no pay not even gasoline or subway card to go attend every AOS function and you have to kowtow and be under scrutiny....when you become a judge you have to sell orchids on your lectures and you are thankful if you even get paid to talk about your 10 years of experience....It is better to attend university and in 10 years one can be a doctor of Botany and get a salary of a professor.
And I don't believe in AOS and what it stands for=they use and abuse their judges....I might favor the RHS since they have been around for at least more than 2000 years in orchid research=but they also succumb to politics and bias because they are under the sponsorship from the money of the Queen of England and partly from donors and patrons and at least RHS people get paid a salary.

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Originally Posted by LovePhals

Beautiful!!

Thank You!

[DeaC]

Thank you Bud...my eyes have been opened. There are 2 judges in the society I belong to and now I know why one rarely comes to meetings and the other is a bit cranky. Stay put...Orchid Board and folks like me need your informative and beautifully posted threads!

[campchi]

Beautiful bloom u got there...I am still new to growing orchid. Will love to have more collection once I get more experience growing them.

[Bud]

Originally Posted by DeaC

Thank you Bud...my eyes have been opened. There are 2 judges in the society I belong to and now I know why one rarely comes to meetings and the other is a bit cranky. Stay put...Orchid Board and folks like me need your informative and beautifully posted threads!

Please don't take my word for it=it is merely my personal opinion....you must experience it for yourself. I am sure you will learn a lot from other senior society members no matter how cranky they can be. It is always advantage to be in an orchid group.

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Originally Posted by campchi

Beautiful bloom u got there...I am still new to growing orchid. Will love to have more collection once I get more experience growing them.

Thank You for the visit.

* we all started as newbies=I was lucky to have experienced the hardships and unkindness from that other orchid group I first joined=it made me appreciate this Orchid Board I am presently in....here, we try to be of help to others who need it .... generously impart what we learned all with kindness and tolerance to others.

[Brooke]

[QUOTE=Bud;699913]-that entails at least 10 years of volunteer work with no pay not even gasoline or subway card to go attend every AOS function and you have to kowtow and be under scrutiny....when you become a judge you have to sell orchids on your lectures and you are thankful if you even get paid to talk about your 10 years of experience....It is better to attend university and in 10 years one can be a doctor of Botany and get a salary of a professor.
And I don't believe in AOS and what it stands for=they use and abuse their judges....I might favor the RHS since they have been around for at least more than 2000 years in orchid research=but they also succumb to politics and bias because they are under the sponsorship from the money of the Queen of England and partly from donors and patrons and at least RHS people get paid a salary.[COLOR="Silver"]

Wow, just wow. So many wrong comments in your reply, it is hard to find a place to start.

I guess you have never "volunteered" in any group that holds your interest.

It does not take 10 years to be a judge, not even half of that. Volunteers actually volunteer to do something because they love it.

Judges do not have to go to every AOS function......unless they want. You volunteer to go because it is a hobby but it is definitely not required.

I don't understand what your comment about "kowtowing and scrutiny" even mean unless you are attempting to say there are rules and the experienced judges comment on your judging ability.

Judges DO NOT have to sell orchids when they voluntarily accept a speaking engagement. Many judges who volunteer to provide a program to a club, actually have the speaking fee donated to AOS. If the club is just starting out and cannot afford the fee, many judges volunteer to devote their time, energy and no fee to help the club get up and running.

As someone who is married to a judge, no one has ever attempted to use and abuse his time and the effort he puts in. It is after all, just volunteering to do something you love to do in a great hobby.

I must admit my ignorance and not knowing the RHS had been studying orchids for the last 2000 years.

There was no hardship and unkindness on the other forum until you made statements like the one above and constantly wanted to take issue with wrong plant tags and why you didn't think anyone could tell you the plant you had was actually something else. You have mellowed over here.

I think the plant you have is actually a Den. primulinum and am surprised it is blooming this late in the season.

Brooke