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| Following on the old post about Den. kingianum, does this little plant require a totally dry winter? Won it at an auction and my 'googling' around seems to suggest it does. The tag reads: Dend Aggregatum (Dendrobium lindleyi) Thailand Species Jane |
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- Posted by orchidnick z9Ca (orchidnick@yahoo.com) on Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 5:47
| The correct name is Dendrobium agrevatum. Yes, a totally dry winter is supposed to make it bloom. I have 3 of them, last year one of them bloomed. They always manage to get splashed somehow and for me are very reluctant bloomers. When they choose to bloom, they are very nice. Let us know if it gives you blooms or the usual finger. Nick |
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| That's what I thought. Jane |
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| My winter rest got away from me this year!!! My Aggregatum, Kingianum, and a nobile hybrid all got frozen on the front porch!!! It's ok. I think I'll be ok without them. I did bring in the Kingi and hang it over the kitchen sink, I guess I'm challenging Arthur's notion that they can take anything.Will see if any of it has survived, look at it as an experiment for the orchid community....yes, that's what we'll call it, brilliant!!!!gb |
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- Posted by tolumniamatt 6a (My Page) on Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 22:19
| They should be kept dry and only watered to prevent them from shriveling up. |
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| Good story, ginni. That happened to me in NY. I had a bunch of Catts near a window while we were getting our house painted. My husband opened all the windows to get the fumes out. This was in January. After an hour he closed the windows except for the one with the Catts. Next morning, I had solidly frozen Cattelyas. The best I can do in Florida is leave the sucker outside all winter and hope it doesn't rain. I'll donate it to the next auction. I don't have time for this nonsense! Jane |
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| Den. kingianum can stand temps down to about zero. C. Same for all the other toughies but not the temps in the frozen north. (Where the real orchid growers live). Forget all this bone dry stuff, it is twaddle! Just think drier! The climate here is east coast erratic. My last experiment with totally dry was with Stenoglottis longifolia. Needless to say it died. The replacement plant is going to spend winter out in the shade-house getting what rain that falls plus top up by me in really dry periods. While i'm raving on....here is a picture of the hated banana herb growing next door. Always looks straggly and it is like those casper milk toasts of the orchid world Phalaenopsis. Any suggestion of frost and it is cactus! The coldest it has ever got in this micro-climate is about 1C.  |
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| Yikes! Feel for you Arthur... Jane |
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| No No No Arthur! It gets Fahrenheit here...not Celsius!!! That's much colder isn't it???? Right?? You silly Aussie people... (I'm just kidding,I'm a kidder!)I do have to take my shoes off to change °C to °F like my husband told me. Have to stick my tongue out too because it makes my brain hurt. Yep! Nope, I was right. It's dead. I'm ok with that though. Time to mooooove on. Ginnibug |
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| I've forgotten how to do the conversion, but every so often I ask Dr. Google to do it for me...There 1.C = 33.8F Brrrr Never got around to writing about the rainfall figures for winter 2012. June 2012 178.2mm July 2012 40.8mm August 2012 7.2mm I'll ask Dr. google to do conversion to inches. Despite being nearly drowned Den. kingianum flowered normally in spring. |
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- Posted by orchidnick z9Ca (orchidnick@yahoo.com) on Mon, Feb 11, 13 at 1:30
| Ginnibug,why are you calling Aussies silly? If you spent your life standing on your head how do you think you'd feel? Considering the fact that they are continually upside down I think they are doing great. Nick |
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| lololololol Oh my gosh! What a huge belly laugh that was. We're just kidding Arthur. Please take no offense. The gravity is pushing on our brains too hard up here. Ginni |
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| Lol. Never thought about the effects of gravity up north! |
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| Back when I was growing in Hawaii, the Den aggregatum grew perfectly well mounted on tree fern or bark out in full sun. Of course, that was hawaii. However, mounting is a good option for some of the ones that don't like dank feet. |
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