Dendrobium lindleyi

[ghuylar]

This is my Dendrobium lindleyi which I have been growing for a year now. She was gifted to me from the Washington State University collection and it is the first rebloom in my care.
20 buds were originally produced on the spike, but 5-6 blasted the day before the blooms opened.
This plant blooms for me without a winter rest.
In bloom since 4/5/2020

[Keysguy]

Good job!
I really struggled to figure out how to grow and bloom this species but I think I finally figured it out although it does not bloom every year for me.
It has probably the shortest bloom cycle of any of my 200 orchids though. 2-3 weeks from when I first notice spikes starting to when it blooms and the flowers never last more than a week.

[ghuylar]

Personally I haven't found it difficult and don't give it any special attention. It grows in my home under a bright skylight. In the winter I will move it next to a cold window with my phals until a spike is triggered and then I move it back to its normal space. Through the fall and winter it's watered thoroughly once a week, and in the summer maybe twice a week. Dendrobiums seem to grow very easily for me, so maybe I'm just lucky!

[Keysguy]

If temp change is what causes it to set spike then that is probably why mine is hit or miss. We have the same issue with cymbidiums here, even the "warmth tolerant" ones only flower 1 in 4 years. A "cold" snap for us the past few years has been 55 degrees for 10 minutes.

[DirtyCoconuts]

its possible keysguy….i have the same plant and I've grown three chunky new pbulbs in each of the last three years and not a flower

[ghuylar]

The blooms will have opened two weeks ago on Sunday and are going strong! I'll let you know when they finally fade. This plant seems to really like a home environment because I have noticed that the blooms only last around a week in the WSU greenhouse as well.

[Keysguy]

Wonder if it may be that they last longer if you can keep the temps down a little for it while it's in bloom?

[SaraJean]

Lovely. Still trying to get one of my four to bloom. We were talking about this one at my last OS meeting (before the lockdown...) and of the people who could bloom them, they all gave them completely different winter care. One left theirs in an unheated dark garage and ignored, one kept it in the greenhouse with high light and moderate to warm temps (still got watered too), another kept theirs on the windowsill where it was watered occasionally and had pretty stable household temps with no change in light, and one left theirs in a tree all year. Seems like I just need to buy one that was previously bloomed and stop taking chances with this species, lol

[ghuylar]

I will probably be able to take a small division off of my plant later in the summer once it has started vegetatively growing if you would want to do a trade

[WaterWitchin]

Very nice. It's been on my want list for quite some time. Not sure why I've never moved forward, as every time I see one it really catches my eye. That yellow always reminds me of buttercups in the field.