ORGANIZATION - HOW DO YOU DO WINTER REST?

[CTB]

I water all my orchids the same, some a little more or less but never do I stop watering. Usually we go to the Beach Christmas week, orchids are feeling the same heat. Up North so many places just close up the greenhouse and don't open again till Spring.

I have Dens, Catts, Bulbos, catasetums, phals, paphs, Epics, cadetas, cymbidums, Oncidiums, and Vandas none get a winter rest like they do in Penna. Most of our orchids have been raised in Florida, California, and Hawaii weather. Unless we get a heavy frost they enjoy the cooling down time. My catasetums don't even lose their leaves.

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by CTB

I water all my orchids the same, some a little more or less but never do I stop watering. Usually we go to the Beach Christmas week, orchids are feeling the same heat. Up North so many places just close up the greenhouse and don't open again till Spring.

I have Dens, Catts, Bulbos, catasetums, phals, paphs, Epics, cadetas, cymbidums, Oncidiums, and Vandas none get a winter rest like they do in Penna. Most of our orchids have been raised in Florida, California, and Hawaii weather. Unless we get a heavy frost they enjoy the cooling down time. My catasetums don't even lose their leaves.

Thanks, very interesting, than I do not know what is my issue, I have most of my orchids from Florida sellers or Hawaii sellers. I did not do any winter rest ever before, and did whatever you are saying, meaning still water whenever needed during the winter time, and unfortunately, all my dendrobiums grew like crazy, to huge plants, however NONE of them ever bloomed, and there was many keikis on some of them, which after careful reading means they actually did not get proper winter rest, and instead of blooms they went to keikis. So, now I am really torn and confused, because this makes no sense to me. If I should not give winter rest here in Florida, than what went wrong for my Dendrobiums not to bloom at all and push only keikis????