Which orchids in YOUR collection get a winter rest?

[kavanaru]

Ctsm pileatum
Ctsm Durval Ferreira (pileatum x vinaceum)
Cycnoches haagei
Cycnodes Taiwan Gold 'Orchis'
Cycnodes Wine Delight FCC/AOS
Coelogyne cristata
Dendrobium kingianum
Cymbidium devonianum
Cymbidium kanran
Tolumnia hawkesiana
Tolumnia variaegata Hybrid

Sue, do you give a winter rest to your Dendrochillum? I have magnum and glumaceum, and I think that if I do not give them water, they just start walking and drink it from the WC and the cats water-dispenser! (had never seen any other plant so thirty as this genus!)

[boytjie]

[QUOTE=kavanaru;155491]
Tolumnia hawkesiana
Tolumnia variaegata Hybrid

So... Tolumnias benefit from a total winter rest, then? Good to know. Does that include the hybrids, or just the species? Thanks for this list -- I'm learning some very useful new things.

[cb977]

do you give a winter rest to your Dendrochillum

This will be the first year I have it and it was very hard to find info anywhere on it's care.

Orchidwiz says that they should get less water than in summer so this one gets what I call a "slight rest"...if I see it looking scraggly or unhappy, I will give it a little bit of a heavier misting.

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[kavanaru]

I have my both Dendrochillum growing in S/H, and I tried giving them a bit of rest last year, but they starting growing new PBs in November, so water non stop fpr them.. Obviously they liked it, because they are both in spike now just after spike, the PBs start growing, so I think I will keep the watering as usual...

[ewcia1028]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

I have my both Dendrochillum growing in S/H, and I tried giving them a bit of rest last year, but they starting growing new PBs in November, so water non stop fpr them.. Obviously they liked it, because they are both in spike now just after spike, the PBs start growing, so I think I will keep the watering as usual...

I grow my Dendrochillum Wenzelii in Hydroton (expanded clay) and I water every other day with reverse osmosis water whole year and right now I have 13 spikes.Pot in which I grow it, has two holes an inch from the bottom of the pot so after I water ,remaining water stay there in the bottom and roots like it a lot.My whole collection of Phragmipedium grow like that and multiple and flower very good.

[cb977]

Thanks for the info, Ramon

I'm gonna try to hold back a little bit and see what happens...I don't mind experimenting a little

If I don't like what I see, I'll definitely go back to it's usual regimen.

[kavanaru]

almost no watering during winter: maybe a spray from time to time, but they need to dry out very quick.. last winter I lost 2 Tolumnia for watering "to much" (it was my first winter with Tolumnia)

[Ross]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

almost no watering during winter: maybe a spray from time to time, but they need to dry out very quick.. last winter I lost 2 Tolumnia for watering "to much" (it was my first winter with Tolumnia)

Ramon, how are yours potted? Mine are either bare root in mini pots (like 1-2cm size) or in charcoal chunks.. Either way I dunk 'em and let them get bone dry. I stay with this over the winter and they bloom just fine. So what am I missing?

[Ross]

I don't see most Tolumnias needing (or tolerating) winter rest. But I wait to hear from others.

[kavanaru]

Ross, received my Tolumnias potted in Charcoal chunks with some Sphag mixed. When I saw that the plants were not doing well and were loosing many leaves I contacted the nursery and they told I should immediatelly stop watering them, as they need winter rest... then discussing with some friends in Germany, they even suggested "more drastic actions" and all tolumnias were either mounted (2 of them) of potted in small pott with EpiWeb (the other that survived, and the new Tolumnia hawkesiana), which retains almost now water...