Dendrobium Illusion 'Embers'

[Salixx]

I wanted to show off my little guy a tad.

I got it from Mountain Orchids last December and it had 3 flowers at the time that lasted for five months ( )

Almost immediately after the last of those blooms faded, it started budding out again. I lost two to a snail outbreak, but still have six now.

Since last December, it's total out of bloom/bud time has been about a week



One to show just how mini it is (but the flowers are huge by comparison to the plant!)

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YOU get a COOKIE!

[Pattywack]

TWO cookies!!! This is gorgeous, wow! I’ve looked at this plant several times at Mountain Orchids, he has the best plants and he’s so helpful.

How do you grow yours? Obviously it’s very happy as you must be. Think I’ll have another look at Mountain Orchids....

Thanks for enabling/sharing

[Dollythehun]

Wow! Salixx! Please give us culture. I have a couple dozen cookies in the freezer for you.

[greenpassion]

Wow! Seeing these pics, I think I'm going to add to my orchid collection- the only dens I have are den kinganium. Their flowers are much much smaller. Problem is I LITERALLY have no more room in my house, and don't have a greenhouse. Yet. UNLESS some of you all out there in OB land feel sorry for me and donate so I can build one!

[Subrosa]

Yeah you get 2 cookies because I don't get one. Mine has been in an inexorable slide downhill since I touched it.........

[Salixx]

Haha, thanks everyone!

Here's the basics.

I grow this with my Masd. Wild Child (so some of you may have seen the whole terrarium pic before). It's a small Exo-Terra, 18x18x12''. It's about 7'', +/-, below two 60watt LED bulbs which rest on the top of the terrarium (top is homemade from plexiglass. I have mounted it on a piece of cork and rest it horizontally on the "arm" of a piece of drift wood. There's a computer fan pushing air 24/7 in the tank. I "mist" heavily nearly every day, preferably with R/O or rain water but I have been lazy and using Tap more often lately. I use the term mist lightly because I have a pump sprayer and a more accurate term would be that I make it rain. I fertilize once a week with MSU, more recently K-Lite. It's in the coldest room in my house, which is more intermediate than cool. Highs max out in the upper 70s most often which the low is at least 63F, preferably 58-60.

Basically, I guess, I treat it like a high light Masdevallia

[greenpassion]

Your initiative shows. ☺

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Cool, moist, fresh, moving air. You figured it out! Now you can sell pre-made terrariums to dolts like us.

[Bolero]

Gorgeous, I really like that.