Dendrobium nobile propagation

[Silje]

I got a couple of small dendrobium nobile stems in the mail a few weeks ago. It's a white NOID of some sort.

And I just have to say that those are so much fun! They're so fast-growing that I can see changes from the morning to the evening. They're shooting like crazy! I love them.

I'm kind of used to my orchids being fairly slow and steady growers with a new bulb or leaf or spike a couple of times per year, but these nobiles are like weed!

Lets just hope they continue being happy and vigorous.

[WhiteRabbit]

Very cool!

[Silje]

Oh oh oh...! A question after all.

The cane cuttings...or...hmmm, I guess they are actually small rootless keikis, because they don't look cut. They are shooting from different nodes, and they're only something like 5 cm long. I'm not sure whether I should keep all the shoots or whether I should let the cane put all energy into one seedling.

Any suggestions? It looks like there are 2-3 nodes that are shooting on both canes at this stage. And they're developing roots really quick so maybe they don't actually need the energy from the cane for very long? But I've got no idea. They are my first dendrobiums and I've got no experience with them at all.

[Discus]

A bit late...
I'd let all the shoots develop.
They'll want a "rest" from watering through the winter of a couple of months - basically, once they stop growing, withhold water unless they look *really* sad and then water and fertilise like mad once they start growing again. Without the dry period (or a "no fertiliser period" also works for some), you don't get flowers, you get keikis!. My nobile has multiplied like a trooper...