Pendant Dendrobiums? Part 2
 

This will teach you to not send me down memory lane!!

You can see the ways I had mounted these to enhance their growing from sub-erect to recumbent to pendant.
Most are on rafts [flats, etc] or bark mounts. Tree limb and other wood mounts would work as well also, anything their roots can attach to.
You can put a truly pendant plant into a pot or a bowl and it will still grow pendant as long as you let it.

The small yellow Den. that I couldn't remember was a Den sulcatum
[http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps6vxphtwu.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psk8gccrgm.jpg

Now Pendant Dendrobiums:

I had forgotten about this one

Den christyanum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psqr6pemb1.jpg
A small nigrohirsute.


Den. victoria-reginae
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psdcbuudnm.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...pst3zywhsz.jpg

Den. devonianum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psqw5hix8e.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps6d8h6jt9.jpg
This had much smaller flowers than I had expected. But still, a very pretty flower.

Den. findlayanum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psxlqrovtb.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psbjdetfy8.jpg
I just love this flower and the shape of the PBs.


Den. anosmum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psxv9t1jcx.jpg
These two plants have different shaped flowers.


Den. primulinum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psrffltskz.jpg
It is nice, but it just doesn't turn me on.

Den. crystallinum
[http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psf8ujltrz.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...pszik3b9in.jpg
I love this plant. It was sent to me by mistake. I had ordered a Den. gratiosissimum. This came labeled as that, best error anyone ever made for me.
I would suspend it in the window in one direction for a full growing season. Then, when it began to form buds I would turn it 180* to let the new foliage grow out in the other direction.

Den. gratiosissimum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps499vlece.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps1i6p4yvm.jpg
After becoming suspicious that the D.crystallinum wasn't a D.gratiosissimum. I ordered this from an East Coast dealer.
I preserved and sent flowers in to have them both ID'd through an East Coast University Botany Department.

Den. parishii
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psy6zcsxwb.jpg
This little cutie has a strong raspberry fragrance like the D. anosmums.

Den. pendulum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psygzczgtz.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psi6bzavnd.jpg
I was very disappointed that this didn't have the purple tips on the petals and sepals.

Den. transparens
[http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps5j2wmnlt.jpg
[http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...pskyierzqn.jpg
These flowers were also much smaller than I had expected.

Den. pierardii
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psppsfico4.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psbj1xog5s.jpg
This had reproduced so quickly that I had to divide it very often. I was always giving divisions of this one away.
The middle one is a cotton wood bark mount.


They do not need to be Dendrobiums to be pendant.
Brassavola cuculata
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...pslrgkzrgs.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...pspntnbllk.jpg
I love how even the flower parts are pendant.


The PBs do not need to be pendant as long as the inflorescence is.
Den. amethystoglossum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psonk5jcgd.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...pswgmd58os.jpg
Den.'s dalhuoseanum [pulchellum], chrysotoxum, lindleyii, moschatum and a few others have similar type inflorescences.

Again, they don't necessarily need to be Dendrobiums.
Oncid. ornithorhyncum
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...psnmg4glpv.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...pshchurs4h.jpg

OK, that's enough.
You should get enough ideas on how to pot or mount sub-erect, recumbent and pendant plants from these.

OK, I tried to get these pics uploaded correctly a couple of times now. Some just will not load upright. You'll just have to cock your head to look at them. It may be because of the number of pics I've uploaded.

Nice.

Beautiful plants and photography. Thanks.

Not only did I get some great ideas, I got to pick a few favorites :)

Beautiful plants. Thanks for your excellent pictures. Lots of ideas there :)

Beautiful as usual, thank you so much! Your collection is just amazing and the photography is excellent.

No. No. No. No.
I wove the bare PBs around and through each other just to get them out of the way so the flowers could be seen better to photograph them. They were mixed into a tangle of PBs, not very photogenic.

It was one of the reasons I began turning the pots each growing season. It would make the flowers easier to see, and make the plant simply look better hanging there in the living room.

EDIT:
Note that every pot hanger and mount has a hook on the bottom side. Than was so that I could daisy-chain them in the windows, putting the shorter ones on top with the longer ones near the bottom. One of the reasons I could get 75 or more into the windows of my living room.