Dendrobium canaliculatum
 

These orchids are found growing on the barks of the Melaleuca tree in Australia and New Guinea at elevations of 0 to 760 meters.
Plant blooms from winter to spring with many 2.5 cm wide flowers. This is a compact miniature with long 14 inches spikes and flowers that has a sweet floral fragrance.
This orchid plant grows in warm to hot temperatures with bright shaded light. I keep it moist with high humidity and feed it K-Lite fertilizer weekly weakly with regular watering regimen every other day on its growth period. I provide dry winter rest by reducing water to every 10 days until new shoots appear. I potted this in a well-draining mix of medium fir bark, lava rock, charcoal, coco chips, tree fern shards and sponge rock. I have also seen this orchid plant mounted and on S/H.

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Awesome! It looks very happy!

Beautiful plant, flowers, and photography! Thank you of sharing.

Thank You, Sonya !

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Thank You, Matt !

Beautiful, Bud! I love the growth habit of this species as much as I do the flowers, and yours looks very happy and healthy.

Fantastic!! I love the plant and the flowers are the icing on the cake! Great growing and beautiful photography.

Thank You, Nat!

I was excited to get four spikes in this blooming cycle.
Two spikes on two canes....the plant also gave me three new growths.

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Thank You, nikkik!

Its always nice to see you come visit my thread....

Thank You, Cesar!

Gorgeous Bud. Question, how do you make these beautiful plants bloom while there is an artic vortex going on?

Thanks for the visit !

note: this is not growing outdoors....I have a large south facing bay window in my apartment....but this plant gets to be out in the warmer months on the fire escape....you are right, the polar vortex is still on...and Manhattan is not spared

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but the pictorial was done on the top floor of my building on the noonday sun at 47F ....but no worries the plant was only exposed to the cold for a minute

Bud, this one is totally totally awesome Dendrobium. I do really love how it grows, different than many Dendros, and the spikes and blooms are amazing! You must let me know where I can get one, I really like this orchid:-) Amazing growing!

TommyMiami--

Andy's Orchids has them and they were pretty reasonable when I bought a small one last fall (though I'm probably a year or so away from blooming size).

Catherine

Add me to the list, a really nice plant! And your pictorials do your plants great justice. I think it might have been asked before, but any hints or advice regarding your photo setup and methods?

Yes I agree with Tommy it is totally awsome. I would like to find a good source as well!

Thanks for the visit and your kind words, Tommy !

This is a no fuss plant. I just give it the correct culture and leave it be on its corner.
Its a compact small plant given to me by a friend who got it from a Connecticut grower and that was a couple of years ago.
Andy's orchid is your best bet. Andy have robust healthy plant and he personally calls you and gives you tips on how to grow the plants you bought. He will call you when he is about to send the plant and when it arrives he will want to know how it is.

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Thank You, Catherine!

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Thank You, Thomas !

I make sure I have an overcast sky to capture the right color of the flower.
I use a Canon Power Shot SX500 IS that is small, low budget camera that holds an ultra wide-angle zoom lens in a very small, very light body. It offers more shooting options -- including semi manual and manual controls -- than most in its class, and has very good optical image stabilization.
I make sure to present the flower to its full advantage, that it gets a full shot, a close-up and an extreme close-up....

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Thank You !

Really lovely!

Thank You, Rosie!

Many thanks Bud, will try Andy, I do order from him pretty much nearly every 2 months some rare species, that he does not have even listed:-)
I want this one, really love the way it grows!

Very cool plant. The flowers are really attractive too. Unfortunately, that year-round heat requirement would mean it would die in my care rather quickly. Good to see a nicely grown plant of this species though.

You can grow this plant, Steve. I have one and several of my orchid society friends have one too. I do admit that Bud's plant is awesome...I have mine growing in bright, in-direct southern light. It is in a warm room--my home office. The room temperature goes from 64*F overnight to about 70*F during the day. I've been watering it about every other day. It really looks like shallots.

Thanks You for the visit and your kind words.

You can grow this orchid plant outdoors in the warmer months and then bring it indoors when the temperature drops to 50F....it needs a proper winter rest. after Halloween water it only every 10 days and hold fertilizer. After Valentines when you see new growths or spikes continue watering and fertilizer regimen.