Rooting a Cut Dendrobium Cane?

[Becca]

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?

[Gin]

Hi , Here is something I ran across while looking for info. on flasking ..Click on node culture .... Gin Lotte & Thomas Orchids

[orchids3]

Gin, When I was in the Philippines I visited a commercial grower who had about an acre of cut Dendrobium canes laid out on rice straw. All were under shade cloth. They were developing kiki's - so I vote yes. Have started some myself that way - placed in a tray of spag under the bench.

[Becca]

Originally Posted by Gin

Hi , Here is something I ran across while looking for info. on flasking ..Click on node culture .... Gin Lotte & Thomas Orchids

Wow I checked out the website....it looks like it would take a lot of patience! Lately I have given up on quite a few plants because after three months, I don't see any results so I lose motivation! As far as the flasking part, I don't think I have the tools to sterilize properly.

[Gin]

Me either Becca, but it can be done if the orchids gods are in a good mood Gin

[chulaorchids]

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?

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.

[thakshila smith]

I think this happens only in the wet rainy season. possible. I didn't divide the bulbs or stems .just kept the long stems.

[RoyalOrchids]

Once, when repotting a Dend. 'Elma Stripe' and cut off an unsightly couple of pseudobulbs or "canes" and just left them on my back porch (The resilience of orchids is part of what initially intrigued me.) It took about a month and a half for one to totally shrivel up, but one sprouted two new growths. They are tiny, but established on a tiny cork mount.

[RoyalOrchids]

Ok. I put a few pics of the little baby mount in my member gallery. You can see the shriveled old cane stapled to the cork bark and the new growths sprouting right out of the old! Very cool.