how do dendrobium phalaenopsis flower?

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Originally Posted by Wrebbitrocks

hello. after so much helpful info i decided to look over my orchids and wondered how do dendrobium phalaenopsis bloom. do they respike from previously bloomed growths or only from new growths and what do new spikes look like.

These Dends will flower from a matured new growth and generally from direct out of the top of the cane. Old canes flower from the nodes that are each side of the cane opposite each leaf. They will flower from leafless canes but they are usually poor spikes.