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All the plants including the ones I shipped had been treated with worm tea and SuperThrive.
Since then they have been treated with a mixture of Worm Tea, Companion (pure bracillus bacteria for fungal inoculation, although I do not think Dendrobium need it I treated everything I own), and Essentials rooting hormone. This was by drenching since I was treating all my Cattleya for fungal rot.
I am spraying the entire greenhouse with this mixture every two weeks. This plant had budded before the extra treatment and after a lot of abuse with the greenhouse collapsing on it. I mentioned it another post that this was one of the smallest plants I own. The second one that budded this week was a larger plant (all of a 4 inch high cane).
The small new growth on the plant was not there when the buds first appeared, and it is nice to see new growth while a plant is in bloom. This often indicates the possibility of blooming more than once a year.
Most of the plants I shipped had flowered last year but this was a first time for this plant.
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