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[glengary54]

Originally Posted by mimimax

The weather here in Chicago is the craziest thing, I agree. My sister gave me a dendrobium in the past. No matter what I did with that thing I couldn't make it bloom for several years, I gave up and left it out in the unheated covered back porch without food and water for an entire freezing winter. Imagine my surprise when i came out the following spring and see this thing with spikes all over it!

mimimax - That Dendrobium was obviously one of the soft cane Dendrobiums that need a cool/cold dry winter rest in order to bloom, please do not try that with the typical commercial Phalaenopsis type Dendrobiums, they will not survive.