
12-13-2007, 03:58 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Oregon, USA
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Originally Posted by RPfeiffer
I recently saw on ebay a seller who is offering an established dendrobium which is a rooted cane cutting. I didn't know this was possible. I emailed the seller and asked them how they did this, but of course I didn't get the answer I was looking for. To me, a rooted cane cutting would be cutting the stalk off of the rhizome and trying to root it with possibly some rooting hormones like you can do with some house plants. I thought if you cut a dendrobium cane off and laid it in a bed of sphagnum moss that it might send out keiki's....do I just have it all wrong?
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Hi Becca,
Yes, some dendrobs, mostly the nobile type, can be started by laying in moss. I don't think the piece roots but starts new plants at the nodes, so try to get a couple of nodes in each piece you put down. I have also used this on Phaius flower spikes that are finished flowering.
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