3 Flower Stalks and A Piece

[cjm3fl]

I need some help with these orchid "parts" that I got at the Green Thumb Festival in St Petersburg, this past weekend.
I have absolutely no idea where to look to try to locate my own ID for these guys.

1.) The 3 flower stalks are each a different color flowering orchid of the same kind of orchid.
Some potted ones, they had for sale, grew with very small leaves, compared to the thickness and length of the flower stalks.

2.) And this "piece" was a "throw-in" because of my other purchases.

I've included a picture of a fading bloom from one of the flower stalks, if that could help ID'ing them.


Help ID'ing is need AND what to do with them AND the needs/care of both varieties.
The can of Cutter mosquito repellent is for size referencing.

My Japanese is really rusty so I didn't understand what the stall owner was telling.

What kind of pot medium; soil?, wood and moss?, mount with some moss?

Any and all help will truly be appreciated!

[Fairorchids]

You have 3 Dendrobium canes, and a section of Vanilla vine.

It looks line Den canes have no roots or base, but they might still sprout keikis. Put them in a small pot with a little moist spaghnum, then into a clear plastic bag and tie it up. Leave in a fairly shaded place for 6 weeks or so, then check on them.

The vanilla can be potted in spaghnum too. The base is towards the right in the photo. Remove the lower leaf, and pot so that bottom two roots are in the mix. Leave in shaded spot and do not let it dry out. It should produce a new growth from the top leaf.

[cjm3fl]

Thanks Kim,
The woman who owned that stall was indicating about "planting" these canes/stalk in something, some how.
She had a bushel of each color for sale just outside her stall.


And, Hmm..vanilla!

Thanks for the ID's and info.

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EDIT/ADD-ON

I was just out in the shed looking at these guys again.

Originally Posted by Fairorchids

You have 3 Dendrobium canes,...

Would it make a difference in the ID if those 3 were just flowering stalk parts of an orchid and never had leaves grow from them?

It's just after looking them over again I remember seeing some attached to a pot.
There were short (about 3 inches long/tall) leave clusters from the potting medium with these "stalks" trailing down with a single flower from each "knuckle"..one on the right side, then next "knuckle" a flower on the left side, etc....

?

[Optimist]

This is a way to possibly get a plant. You can grow kekies from the pieces of dendrobium. This is a way that many people grow offsets from various house plants. you need to put them in a sterile green house type situation. (small greenhouse, like a sterilite container. ) Possibly use some rooting hormone or keikei paste on them. Unless you have done this before, you need to look up instructions on internet. I believe it would be called "propagating from cuttings" or something like that.

Plants without an Id are extremely hard to identify. Especially if they are just Id's by color. There are many kinds of dendrobiums. And many hybrid crosses of many colors. The white flower could possibly be Dendrobium Animosum Alba. That really won't make a difference if you can't get it to grow, because you have the clippings from a plant, which is like the branches after someone has pruned them, and I do not know if you can get them to grow.

[cjm3fl]

Thanks Optimist,

I've had a lot (sometimes to much) luck with growing cuttings from; most of the common hanging plants, ficus trees, dieffenbachia, dracaena, etc.

I've also been lucky to have more then a dozen keiki from a dendro I've owned for a couple years.

[cjm3fl]

If these are Denbrobium anyone have an idea that kind?
The pieces I have are TOTALLY flower stalks -- only.
They never had leaves on them.

I'd like to research and learn about them.


I'm looking at a small (clear plastic) orchid pot with some moist moss in it. Then putting the pot(s) in a sandwich bag, closed off with a twisty.
I can dip the cut area in a rooting hormone.


Still research the best/easiest way to root/pot the vanilla.
I know it's a vine type orchid.
I have 2 large potted Ficus trees I can let this grow on.




EDIT/ADD-ON !!!

Could those pieces be related to Den. dactylanthera?

[estación seca]

Chuck, those are definitely Dendrobium pseudobulbs, and they did have leaves on them in the past. The papery white sheaths are the bases of the leaves that have fallen off the plant.

The flower isn't in great shape but... could it be a Den. moniliforme?

[cjm3fl]

Thanks all!

I was kinda leaning/hoping for something completely unique (to me) but the length of these Dendrobium (whole) plant(s) make them very unique to my collection.


Going to follow Kim's suggestion about wrapping/small potting the ends and bagging them.
I'll keep the entire plant piece(s) moist and out of direct sunlight, in hopes to get a keiki or two off each.

Thanks everyone for you help convincing me that what they are.
And sorry for the stubbornness I've shown.

[estación seca]

I would hope for such stubbornness in somebody who protects the country.

[cjm3fl]

Originally Posted by estación seca

I would hope for such stuubborness in somebody who protects the country.

When I was....I was!