Dendrobium moniliforme?

[JandenHeld]

Would anyone know if this is Dendrobium moniliforme? Or is it some hybrid?

Thanks
Jan

[Ross]

Looks like one I have (Dendrobium moniliforme Matsushima). So I'd say moniliforme.

[Becca]

Wow that is spectacular! What I want to know is how to get these pretty little ones to bloom! Do they need a dry rest along with cooler temps during the winter? What is the secret? Tracy has tried helping me, but I guess I'm still not getting it!

[jaxorchidman]

Nice full pot!!!! I have to get one of these!! Very pretty!!

[JandenHeld]

Thanks Ross! I googled matsushima and found to my surprise that there is a whole Japanese cultivation tradition of D. moliniforme varieties, which you knew already of course.

Becca, I grow the plant just like D. nobile: warm in summer, cool and rather dry in winter. I guess I'm lucky to have just an individual plant that is flowering very freely (it's a cutting from an equally rich flowering plant of one of my friends). I have a wild type D. moliniforme (white narrow sepals) that is much more difficult to flower.

Jan

[Tom-DE]

Beautiful display!

[jason woodrue]

That is an extremely healthy looking moniliforme!
Are you about to cut back on the watering? do you gradually pull back? or abrupt?

mikesmith

[JandenHeld]

When the bulbs have formed their last leaf I gradually cut back on watering and after two or three weeks I am on the winter regime, which is occasionally misting and lightly watering (not soaking as I do in summer) every two to four weeks.

By the way, the flowers you see are on the bulbs of last year, and on the bulbs of this year I can see already some slight swellings of new flower buds, so if I would give too much water now (indeed: before next May!), I'd get mostly keiki's insted of flowers.