Denrobium Doctor Poyck x Dendrobium Black Cat

[orchidsal]

Very rich color on this. AL

[neha.aimer]

Jason- Thanx,u should surely try them.They could be quite rewarding
Bruce- Thanks a lot for this update Now my Dendrobium have a proper tag yipppeee!!

Foliage & close up pic.

[HHLL38]

Very nice, might just add to my wishlist...

[Dorsetman]

Dendrobium is such a large genus - divided into different sections ( very helpful in deciding how to grow them) - maybe 11 sections (?). This kind used to be called , maybe still are, Sect. phalaenopsis - which gets some people tied in a knot ( " does it mean that they are phallies ? No, it doesn't .!..) . In Thailand which is where they are mostly bred and grown, they put the young plants ( plugs) in green coconuts as the growing medium. I went to a nursery in Bangkok once, mainly concerned with the cut flower trade , but I did not know that, and they were happy to sell me a 100 or so plants ; they did not grow well for me in England - maybe I did not know enough about their requirements at that stage in my orchid journey . But on that visit I learnt that they measured their monthly sales in tonnes of flowers ( a metric tonne is maybe the same as 1000 kilograms , but whatever,) my mind boggles at that weight of flowers. Their best month had been 3 tonnes of flowers . Incidentally the plants I bought flowered for me the same year with great long spikes - the best I think was about 50 flowers on a spike... alas they were all dead a year later . I wish I could go back there and do that again, knowing what I have learnt in the years since then.
This reminiscence inspired by recalling that Black Cat was one of the plants I bought on that trip.

[neha.aimer]

Geoff- Thanks for sharing Always nice to read such experiences. Wow,50 flowers on a spike that's incredible.Do u remember its name.

[lakshmanamoorthy]

Gorgeous!!

[Dorsetman]

QUOTE=neha.aimer;280177]Geoff- Thanks for sharing Always nice to read such experiences. Wow,50 flowers on a spike that's incredible.Do u remember its name.[/QUOTE]

nd one from the right period showing my S/H bench with some of the dendrobes at the back towards the far end - may be interesting,the pic is dated- it comes from the personal web-site I used to run at that time.

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[HHLL38]

Very nice setup you had Geoff!

That's a shadehouse?

[mauraec]

Wow - Geoff - so many blooms at once! I see a few cymbidiums just peeking out to the right - love to see your photos of them sometime - and this is a greenhouse, is it not - S/H referring to semi-hydro and not "shadehouse"?

(Deepest apologies to you, Neha, for hijacking your thread temporarily - still in awe of your gorgeous den.!)

Maura

[HHLL38]

Ah ha! Semi-Hydro.

Knew I was missing something, haha.

Haven't had coffee yet.