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Originally Posted by Dog Glooay Mai
Always love your yard orchid pics. We picked up a couple of bare root primilinium clumps in bud last month. Got them mounted out in the yard and they flowered really nicely and now are quickly growing several new canes. Really one of my favorites. Waiting on my aphyllum which has 50-60 buds and a hercoglossum with 15 or so, my first dry season dendobriums that have ever raised, very exciting. Thanks again for all your interesting pics!
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My pleasure, any excuse to walk around and look at my orchids and then tell someone about them, whose eyes don't roll back in their head.
D. primulinums are a very satisfying orchid to grow, except for their fragrance. I will always hold that against them. The one I have here has a more cigar shaped PB than the one I had back in AK. But it still blooms prolifically with an almost exact duplicate flower.
I grew to love the Dendrobiums from my early exposure to Nobile hybrids. Then, I tried a few pendant Dendrobiums and really found my calling, the large pendant Dendrobium section species, most [many?] of which are the cool-dry-rest types from the monsoonal climate of the Himalayan foothills.
In my original post in this thread, I alluded to some of them that seem to not like our climate here. I took some pics, but decided to hold off to give them a chance to maybe bloom yet. So far, D. pendulum, D. loddigesii, and a D. farmeri X D. Mousmee[D. thyrsiflorum X D. furcatum] are resisting blooming.
The D. pendulum and the D. loddigesii are now keiki-ing madly where blossoms should be forming. The D. farmeri X D. Mousmee's nodes are swelling but then stall and are not developing into buds or keikis, just as it did last year and the year before. I'll wait a while longer to be sure that it won't do any better than the previous years. Then, I'll start to explore reasons why they aren't doing so well here, then see if I can manipulate conditions for them. With little doubt it is tied to temps and moisture. My location is probably too warm and/or too wet for them in the winter.
My Laissez-faire attitude towards my yard orchids might need to be changed to get results from these particular Dendrobiums. That idea gives me nightmares when I think of how much effort I used to put into growing them in Alaska. I will not get to that point again! That's a good part of the reason why I moved here.
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