Dendrobium keikis

[cb977]

Googled it...very pretty
The information I found says it's approximately 6" tall.

I looked again in Orchidwiz, in case I just overlooked it) but it's not there. I was hoping to find it's parentage.

[silberhaarig]

Susanne,I only recently found anything other than one picture about it on the Internet.And I don't find its parentage either,so maybe it was never registered.I was sick when the original plant died,so I surely hope the keikis bloom. It was one of my first orchids.

[esungirl]

Man, I so agree with Ross, lots of love and care and never a bloom! But I have a nice full healthy plant throwing tons of keiki's. I'm working on this issue, I really am!

[bodaciousbonsai]

I am watering mine everytwo weeks. let em shrivel to a winter rest.
clay

[Rosiefuture]

I have heard that if you over water dens in the winter then they are more likely to keiki than bloom. I only just found this out recently. I have a lot of dens. I have one beautiful white kingianum that flowers like fury every year but most of the other only have a few little blooms. It's strange because they all live in the same area.

Marion

[gands]

Hi Nancy,

The vast majority of mini-dendro's on the market today are D. bigibbum crosses. They will not like to be disturbed much at all, so go ahead and let them become "root bound" in their pots. Give them lots of light.........south exposure is best for us, and cutting back on fertilize will help get them into spike/bloom. Fertilizing on a regular basis will promote good growth, but not bloom. Try bright bright light and plain water for awhile. I think they will then perform well for you.

[Gin]

Hi , If they are the compactum type they are small growers they might be big enough to bloom .If the standard size then probably not yet . Gin

[justatypn]

My 2nd chid was a Dend. Salaya 'mini'...very tempermental....dends are gorgeous orchids but big BRATS!!!!

Have a nobile in which produced 8 keiki's and doing well and much like your's young and not ready to produce, give them a few years and they will be showing off....bright light is the formula

[silberhaarig]

Thanks for all the good suggestions. The plants still look very healthy,so there is always hope thaat a spike will appear. I should stop looking and let it surprise me!

[nani]

I have a friend that sells orchids, mostly for cut flowers, and is getting rid of all his older dendrobiums (15+ years old) to make space for newly potted plants from flasks. He has hundreds of thousands of plants that he is dumping. The plants are all pretty much, older more ''common'' types of flowers (still beautiful). The plants are absolutely covered with huge keikis that he has been letting me come out and take what I want before he burns the old plants. I have gone out twice and recuperated approximately 1000 keikis of various sizes by actually cutting off the canes they are growing on , many full size plants with 10 canes or more. All these keikis have rather tired the mother plant and so there are very few flowers and my friend says for him, it is more productive to start with new (newer varieties also) plants than to try and save the old ones. I have attached most of these ''bonus plants'' onto a huge Flamboyant tree I have in the yard and, maybe 200 are already flowering....I put another 100 or so on some old mango trees on another island where they receive more rain, but less light than the ones here. My point in all this, is that I have found that in tropical conditions, old dendrobiums give off keikis in an attempt to procreate rather than anything particularly wrong with the culture. None of my younger plants seem prone to keikis. I also notice that some varieties, especially the more common types; whites and purples, generally make keikis more than the more highly bred types. I am attaching a picture or two. Remember they are still just little plants, but can you imaging how gorgeous they will be in about two years in full bloom?