| Dendrobiums put out new growth along a lateral line - usually just under the surface of the media - but some will eventually work their way on top of the media and you will see them popping out there. Here is a pic of one of my dends that has traveled a few years towards the front of the pic and then I was able to get it to turn and head back the other way - note the new growth coming out of the last cane (more often than not this would be UNDER the media). As Aleksa was noting - keiki's usually form along the canes higher up on dends. Sometimes people will take a cane from a dendrobium and cut it off and lay it horizontal in a bed of sphag and then little keiki's will sprout at the joints - to get additional plants. |