[Leisurely]

Dendrobiums are a funny lot. I think that their blooming period depends largely in what is in the plants background. I have a hybrid hard cane types that bloom at any season. One of my first plants was a four inch potted dendrobium called Emma 'Queen Southeast' that I purchased at K-Mart fifteen years ago. It is still in the same four inch pot and has never been re-potted. Boston fern came up in the pot which I left, so the bottom part of the plant is a Boston fern that I must keep groomed to prevent it from becoming too large. The roots hang down two feet like vanda roots. When it attained some size, about six canes, it has been everblooming. The flowers are the white phalaenopsis type and the inflorescence produces about fifteen of them.