Dendrobium Aussie Parade 'Carrot Splash' HCC/AOS x D. fleckeri SVO, SVO6217

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Dendrobium Aussie Parade 'Carrot Splash' HCC/AOS x D. fleckeri 'SVO', SVO6217

This came to me December 20, 2016 from Sunset Valley Orchids. The spike was not visible then. It has been open now for eight days.

The three flowers are 2" / 5cm across and 2.5" / 6.3cm tall in their natural state. When the sun hits them they have a strong fragrance of hospital antiseptic.

Fred Clarke's description of SVO6217 is:

Orange is one of the most difficult colors to obtain in Aussie Dendrobium breeding. Aussie Parade (Aussie Ira x Star of Gold) has an almost orange color with bold red spots and a shape reminiscent of the tetragonum in its ancestry. The flowers of fleckeri are an orange-gold color, and this species is one of the main pathways to orange hybrids. Den. fleckeri is a small-growing plant that will flower at a small size. These have already started flowering in 3” pots!!! I expect that all will bloom by this February. The flowers range from an orange to burnt orange color. This cross is looking like it's real a winner and a space saver, too.

I broke my phone. I took this with an old phone with a scratched lens. I couldn't get a decent photo in brighter light due to glare from all the scratches. Sorry. (Actually, somebody chewed up my phone. I don't know who it was.)

[u bada]

these aussie den hybrids have such beautiful combinations of form and color... great flower, great growing! I'll have to get one now... The next show is around the corner and I'm sure SVO will be there...

darn doggie!

[AJW]

Nice one

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Thanks for the kudos! And they're so easy to grow!

[jkofferdahl]

That's a nice flower! Dendros are really cool.

[Dollythehun]

And how did you grow it? Because it is amazing, I need one too...Got me at small.

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I've only had this one a month, but I've bought a number of others over the past 2 years. Fred Clarke is actively hybridizing these Dens descended from Australians species.

They like bright light, warm temperatures, and regular watering and fertilizing when in growth - which is all year for me. I let them get completely dry between waterings, as Fred advises, especially in the cooler winter.

I think for people with cooler winters, they are primarily warm-season growers, with cooler and dryer winters. But my sunroom is quite warm, so I get growth all year. The ones big enough to flower do so.

I think a lot of them can probably take very low winter night temperatures, since many have D. speciosum and D. kingianum in their backgrounds. I suspect some could take a little frost, but I'm not going to find out. I've kept them in my sunroom during the winters.

Fred has detailed growing instructions here:
Growing Aussie Dendrobiums - Sunset Valley Orchids

[Dollythehun]

Cool, thanks.

[twinofmunin]

Beautiful! I was just looking at the listing for this hybrid the other day. I have two of SVO's Aussie Den hybrids that just bloomed for me for the first time, and it definitely has made me want more.

[rbarata]

Too bad the pictures are not good enough to show the colors. How many flowers do you have?