Dendrobium Berry 'Oda' is one of my toughest plants, orchid or not. It needs a lot of light in the darker time of the year to bloom well (I supplement with a few hours of LED light in an east-facing window at 48 N), but it would require a real effort or months of total neglect to kill it. It's not too picky about winter temperatures, growing on the same windowsill as my Phalaenopsis orchids, but it can also take cooler temperatures. It's basically a larger, more robust Dendrobium kingianum that likes to grow a bit warmer and is a bit easier to flower. Right now, mine is flowering out of season with a single spike and growing keikis. It has been in the same pot forever.
@@tim_koch14 those kingianum hybrids are tough as nails!! I have one of them and it's one of my most VIGOROUS orchids. It's actually a no id that's possibly berry oda or delicatum but clearly a kingianum hybrid and I can definitely vouch for how hardy they are! Thanks for watching :)
For me the easiest are your advanced care ones!!! I can still grow the warmer Dendrobium but I don't have much space indoors in winter and they are large. The only ones I have indoors during winter are Dendrobium phalaenopsis and hibiki. I was not aware you had a kingianum too but I am adding you to my list for the next CareCollab update. Looking forward to see what that spike will do and see what colour they are. Have a great day, amiga 😍💖🥰
It makes sense when you get can many of them outside! I agree that those are very tough orchids! They can handle really low temps which is nice! Yes, a friend gave me kingianum keiki a few months back, to my surprise, yesterday I found that spike and I'm so excited to see it. Have a wonderful day amiga. Beijos ❤️❤️
I would really like to know how to care for the kingianum. Have one for 3 years and never spiked. Think it must have been a seedling since canes have grown taller than at start. However last summer it got something, leaves turned brown and few remain and those look bad.
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With the winter resting Dens, getting them "cool" is really the least important factor. Shortening the day, keeping the light high and slacking off on water/feed are more important. So long as there is a sufficient drop in temp overnight, they will bloom. In our warmest winter I can remember (2017/2018), mine bloomed like crazy, even though we only had like a week when it was 60 or less. We were in the 80's most days, dropping at least 10 degrees at night, and that was enough.
Thanks Michael! That's really good to know. I'm curious how things end up this year with that big cooldown you guys are getting this winter! Funny enough, I just found a spike on kingianum. I was not expecting it since that barely got a cooldown. Side note, I have another latouria in bud about to bloom in the next few days, Dendrobium mini snow flake. I was lucky to pick latourias that look completely different from each other, I've seen so many that look exactly alike, I can understand why you wouldn't be a fan.
I have a noblie and I’m very excited to try this cool down part of the culture since I live in a climate where it snows during winter I could have a chance to get a lot of flowers
Definitely the winter resters are the most challenging. My nobile hybrid is putting out keiki instead of buds so far. I think I didn’t taper off on watering and fertilizer soon enough in the fall. Next year instead of slowing down and ceasing water and fertilizer in November…I’m going to try October. I have also found if you repot a den Phal when a new growth is not emerging you risk losing the entire plant. MUST have new growth when repotting so the new roots can sustain the plant since repotting causes existing root loss. The easiest ones for me so far would definitely be the Aussie Dens. They are so tough and can handle neglect. Bloom proliferously and can handle all ranges of temps except freezing for very long. I’m in 10b so they so very well outside for me. For indoor dendrobium my easiest to grow, as I haven’t got any to bloom yet as most are seedlings, would be the species orchids such as canaliculatum, hekouense, bracteosum and laevifolium. They put out growth so easily and quickly where the den phals are soooooo slow. This spring and summer will tell me which ones will bloom for me so I might change my mind when that happens. 😉 Thanks for sharing your experience and opinions! -DeAnna
My easy Dendrobium orchids are Dendrobium Chocolate Chip, which is in full bloom right now and Phalaenopsis Dendrobium Polar Fire which is bloom also. My hard to grow Dendrobium is Anosmum. It’s mounted and hangs in my West window. Just doesn’t do much but grow roots which cover the entire mount. I keep waiting. Thanks for sharing.🤗🌹👏
I agree that the Den. kingianum is difficult to get to bloom without it blasting most of the developing buds. On the other hand, Den. anosmum is doing pretty well. I grow in the desert southwest indoors, and under LED's. No natural light in my growing area. Temps to 68 at night, and 82-84 in the day time.
Hi Nicole, I only have two in my collection, both Den Phals, one has bloomed for me but her leaves have some brown spots on them. The other has grown over the last two years, but no blooms yet. I'll see how these keep progressing and may try one of the others later on. Love all of yours, such pretty blooms.
My first and only Dendrobium is a nobile. It may need to live outside all winter in order for me to rebloom it. Someone in Florida told me to grow it in full sun but southern AZ desert full sun and Florida full sun are different things entirely
Yeah AZ sun is intense! I think if you try you have to acclimate it slowly and watch the leaves, I wonder if it can adapt, I know the den phals can but i'm not sure about these, I guess you can try and see but something a bit more shaded would be safe! I hope leaving it out in the winter will help it bloom :)
Started backwards from hardest. Realize now I have at least one from each except intermediate. Still all hard for me and not doing well. Maybe I should just start again with 1 easy. Thank you for the info.
Hi Nicole, I enjoyed watching your video. It has a lot of useful information. I am a beginner indoor grower. Now I am struggling to keep alive dendrobium cuthbertsonii that I bought because of their compact size and beautiful blooms. Unfortunately, I did not check their culture requirements which seem to be a very bad fit for my growing conditions. Do you have any experience with this type of dendrobiums?
Thanks so much for watching! There are so many dens, this one I don't know as well. I hope you're able to grow it well. I quickly looked up care requirements and this one looks like it usually gets cooler nights in the wild. This sort of orchid is tougher I find to grow indoors, because I can't give them a temp drop like that regularly unless I bring them outside. I hope you have success with it!
Usually mid September in NYC, and I bring it in before the first frost. It's inside now bc it's been raining a lot, but when the rain is done I'll get it outside again!
Den. Chocolate chip Den. Green flash Den. Anosmum white Den. Anosmum little sweet scent Den. Loddigesi Den. Kingianum Den. Popeye Den. Burana Jade x burana stripe Noid den nobile
I bring the nobile and kingianum out in September and bring them in when the temps hit freezing. The anosmums stay indoors and I don't fertilize till they start their new growths.
