Dendrobium kingianum keiki care question

[tksixangels]

Hello everyone,

I received this little guy in Jan. He had very tiny roots and, in my humble opinion, should not have left the mother plant yet. I placed him in bark with a layer of moss on top. I water weekly and fertilizer . I know that these orchids require a winter rest but since he's so little and growing I was wondering if he needs the same rest. No fertilizer and little water?

Thank you in advance.

[neophyte]

I never give my 2 D. kingianum + 1 hybrid any winter rest and they are doing just fine (the kingianum hybrid is actually starting to bloom!). I actually had the same thing happen to me with a keiki I received from an order (the roots were literally less than half a cm long). It was one of my first plants, so I didn't know anything about winter rest or whatever (I guess I still don't ). I actually first just put the plant in a cup of water and later actually stuck it in dirt where it started growing another shoot before transitioning to a mix of sphagnum moss and bark (moss throughout pot, not just on top). I watered it pretty intensively (roots were always wet) and now it's doing pretty okay. <- I also kept it under high humidity at the time.

hope this helps

[dbarron]

Yeah, in my experience kingianum isn't going to die. Whether it will bloom is another matter

[estación seca]

Water all Dendrobiums when they're making vegetative growth, at any time of the year.