The pigeon orchid - Dendrobium crumenatum

[Forrest]

very beautiful, as usual Prem. Nice job on both the growing and photography.

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Prem,

Are there multiple flowers on each spike? Are you able to gauge when you think the "day" will be when the bud will open? We have a vanilla orchid that has flowers that open one day and are gone the next (or so it seems, anyway) I always get frustrated when I come out and find the dead brown bloom on the plant or on the bench and realize that I missed it again! So darn quick!

Anyway, thanks for the info and photo!

Cheers!
Brutal_Dreamer

[prem]

Dreamer,
there are a number of "nodes" along the top portion of the growth from which buds will emerge. Any one node will produce one bud at any one time, but multiple nodes can fire off during a particular blooming, lining the end of the growth (which becomes needle-thin and spike-like) with multiple flowers. Mine doesn't tend to bloom this profusely, sending up between one and four flowers during any one blooming. Perhaps I need to make sure it gets more sun so the entire plant is blazing hot before it gets a rainshower cooldown.

The flowers, thankfully, last longer than just the morning like a Vanilla flower...they remain fresh until dark, at which point they'll start to wilt and be fully wilted by the next morning.

---Prem

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Thanks Prem!