Dendrobium aberrans in 2008

[Ross]

This year's bloom is much larger than last year's. I have two plants in thumb pots and one large one mounted. This year the mounted plant has bloomed on three pseudobulbs. These guys can, and do, often rebloom on leafless old pseudobulbs. The mount is hung right below the t5 lights and gets 12 hours at 1800-2000 foot-candles. This intensity is really hard on the leaves, but the plant is doing well so far.



These three pseudobulbs are old backbulbs with at least one leaf. Right above the right-hand flower spike you can see an old spike on a leafless pseudobulb. Next to it is a new, slow-to-develop spike hard to see in this photo.

Thanks for looking.