Rooting a Cut Dendrobium Cane?

[printkoozies]

Originally Posted by Becca

I recently saw on ebay a seller who is offering an established dendrobium which is a rooted cane cutting. I didn't know this was possible. I emailed the seller and asked them how they did this, but of course I didn't get the answer I was looking for. To me, a rooted cane cutting would be cutting the stalk off of the rhizome and trying to root it with possibly some rooting hormones like you can do with some house plants. I thought if you cut a dendrobium cane off and laid it in a bed of sphagnum moss that it might send out keiki's....do I just have it all wrong?

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[orchids3]

The media probably isnt too important. Gravel, Spag or Rice Straw. Something that can be dampened down to provide the humidity necessary to keep the canes from drying out. Have had canes kiki just laying on the bench (wire) in the summer time in Florida. Very moist humid conditions are the key I think.

[Rosiefuture]

Hi, I think spagnum would work better. I have produces keiki's on sections cut from den canes. I cut the canes so that each had 2 nodes, I put a layer of damp spag into a clear flat candy box. I placed the sections onto the spag and pressed them down slightly and placed the lid on. I put the box on a window sill out of direct sun. In about a month or so some of the sections had died off but several had little keiki's. I potted them by placing the whole section into the pot, they are growing well.

Marion

[nirsha]

I was able to get new shoots successfully by laying them on damp sphagnum moss. I was given a broken off spike by a friend who did not know much about growing them, he just pulled off a spike and presented it to me. Fortunately for me I found this method online. I cut the spike into two pieces , both had two nodes each and lay them on the moss. I now have two tiny spikes each with a few small roots. they are alive and growing slowly.

[DMT]

Here are a few Dem canes that I stuck in a Hapu fern. These grew a lot faster than the ones I have in spag moss

Donna