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Dendrobium lindleyi
Dendrobium lindleyi is one of the easiest orchids to culture if you like leaves and no flowers. For the normal enthusiast who cares about flowers, however, it is one of the trickiest plants to bloom. Arne acquired the lindleyi in 2007 and, as expected, it was difficult and didn’t want to produce any flowers until 2013.
During the following years Arne did exactly the same thing but no flowers appeared until December of 2015. So what triggered the plant to suddenly start to grow a flower stem in December of all these months? That’s the plant featured in this post.
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| A) This photograph was taken on December 31st, 2015. A relatively 'warm' winter to be outdoors. |
Dendrobium lindleyi, which is native to the mountains of Southern China and Southeast Asia, loves the cooler mountainous climate. This orchid is supposed to be dormant right now. It should suffer from cold temperatures without any water from November until February and then reward us with flowers in March to April. With this particular plant, we have no control obviously. Unexpectedly, we had flowers bursting from the single inflorescence! Having said all this – some people really get the culture of this plant right and can show off plants completely covered with thousands of flowers.
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| B) We have around 26 flowers. But others have more than a 1000 cascading flowers. Perhaps we will be fortunate in the future with this specimen. |
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| C) An 'aerial' view of our Dendrobium lindleyi. Still in bloom today, January 10, 2016. |
I hope you enjoyed this orchid. We certainly did. Until next post, have a great work week!
Mine's doing the same thing, just not as far along as yours. Not sure why it's a month or two ahead, but I did let it get cooler, sooner this year.
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