The Six Horticultural Groups of Dendrobium

[razka3]

Hello all, just found this forum and I'm glad to see it's quite active. I will be visiting often I think - Relatively new to growing orchids - mostly just phals. My sister has a Dendrobium Pegasis, which has not flowered in about 2 years, so I've taken it in and going to try and get it to flower again. As soon as I find some information out about it though... soil type, lighting, humidity, temps, etc. It desperately needs to be re-potted.

I'm assuming this is some sort of hybrid, as it's not included on the list. I can't find any information about this specific plant on the web or in my orchid books. Does anyone have any information they'd like to share?

Greatly appreciated,
Frank

[quiltergal]

I found this while doing some searching around for something else and thought it might be useful. It describes the different den. groups, and gives more examples.

Dendrobium Orchid Care - Intermediate

[Leisurely]

To which type do you think Den. Bracteosum belongs?

[Dorothy]

Den. Bracteosum is in Section 10 - Pedilonum
found here - Dendrobium bracteosum

[Leisurely]

Thanks Dorothy. You are wonderful.

[samizook]

Hi-jack
O.K. Dorothy I need your magic. Last week I managed to talk Home Depot down on their prices to 7.00/den. The only description provided, is the following: DENDROBIUM "Genting Royal", and DENDROBIUM "Princess Misaki". I'm guessing these are Hybrids because I haven't found info on these anywhere. They were no longer in bloom upon purchasing so that complicates things even more.

[kavanaru]

Hi Samizook,
I am not Dorothy, but I had seen one of your Dends (Genting Royal) in this hp :

Woonleng
Woonleng - Dendrobium Genting Royal

as per info on it and Princess Misaki, I let the door open for Super Dorothy

[Dorothy]

The closest I could find to DENDROBIUM "Princess Misaki" was Dendrobium Princess 'Asai' - Dendrobium Princess ‘Asai’
other than that - the closest I can come to in hybrid name is - Ascda. Princess Mikasa which is a Vanda hybrid - Ascda. Princess Mikasa: Orchids By Hausermann

[samizook]

You guy's are great. Thanks a million! Kavanaru, Thanks for allowing me to see this in bloom for the first time.lol
Dorothy, thanks for all your effort also. I'm beginning to think there was type-o on the label that was supplied. I would totaly be happy if it were indeed "princess mikasa".

[Randy]

Originally Posted by Ross

As classified by Rebecca Tyson Northern, there are 6 groupings that describe the differences in growing needs of Dendrobiums. I am paraphrasing to avoid copyright infringement.

Hi Ross,

Did you by any chance see where the Dens like Den spectabile fits? I didn't see any category that seems to fit it's growing habit. It's persistant and needs to be warm year round. However, I don't know about restricting water twice a year. Any thoughts from yourself or anyone else? I also know it's a bit fussy about getting repotted and needs to re-estabish itself before it will flower again.


Randy