Hello,
I usually post pictures of my orchids only, but recently one of our orchid club members (actually the new club president) Tom Daily sent me a picture of one of his Dendrobiums. He grows most of his plants down in his basement, in a plant stand made of pvc piping, covered with plastic with a humidifier inside and high output lighting on top of the stand. Ones with high light needs he puts up close to the lights and the smaller pleuros and things like that he puts on a shelf down below. He dunks most of his plants, and most of them grow very well for him. The den. senile he has flowered very well a number of times, and the first time I saw the plant in flower he had placed it in our orchid club display but didn't register it, for sort of political reasons dealing with the aos and awards, having to pay so much for having a plant awarded etc. The judges were dismayed as they would have given the plant an award but were unable to if I remember rightly. He does very well with many miniatures. Some of his success may be due to the fact that he has lately been finding and schmoozing with many of the literati when it comes to these types of orchids! well at least email schmoozing...
I have a dendrobium senile that someone else gave me that wasn't doing that well for them, and it looks nothing like Tom's! It also hasn't flowered yet but being a dendrobium the fact that it is still alive is promising (or surprising take your pick)
Tom told me that the plant had 18 flowers plus two more buds. I like yellow orchids very much and hope that mine will flower some day.
I usually post pictures of my orchids only, but recently one of our orchid club members (actually the new club president) Tom Daily sent me a picture of one of his Dendrobiums. He grows most of his plants down in his basement, in a plant stand made of pvc piping, covered with plastic with a humidifier inside and high output lighting on top of the stand. Ones with high light needs he puts up close to the lights and the smaller pleuros and things like that he puts on a shelf down below. He dunks most of his plants, and most of them grow very well for him. The den. senile he has flowered very well a number of times, and the first time I saw the plant in flower he had placed it in our orchid club display but didn't register it, for sort of political reasons dealing with the aos and awards, having to pay so much for having a plant awarded etc. The judges were dismayed as they would have given the plant an award but were unable to if I remember rightly. He does very well with many miniatures. Some of his success may be due to the fact that he has lately been finding and schmoozing with many of the literati when it comes to these types of orchids! well at least email schmoozing...
I have a dendrobium senile that someone else gave me that wasn't doing that well for them, and it looks nothing like Tom's! It also hasn't flowered yet but being a dendrobium the fact that it is still alive is promising (or surprising take your pick)
Tom told me that the plant had 18 flowers plus two more buds. I like yellow orchids very much and hope that mine will flower some day.
That was part of the reason why he didn't really want to enter plants for awards as he has a small problem with the large fee to get an awards certificate. I think it should be the other way around... get a ccm, get some cash or at least a gift certificate to olive garden or a big bottle of champagne 
