So what's going on here?

[MSPProductions]

So this plant has been the subject of many a joke around the apt. I bought it
for my little lady Valentines Day '06. For about a year it looked exactly the same and I would joke that this ungrowing plant was like our love....
when we moved in together I started to tinker with it.... If it's not dead lets see what I can do...I dropped the little guy, still in it's pot, in to a bigger pot and wrapped it in moss, just to see what would happen. Within a week or two it started a new growth. Now this guy had a tag 'intergeneric' - I'm guessing it's got to have some Dendrobium in it...maybe not?

About a month ago it started what I thought was a new set of leaves at the largest cane's axel but now it's looking like it's a new plant, very similar to the one at the base of the plant.

Any ideas?

[arleneg]

That's a keiki growing from an unusual place. I would leave it alone until its roots are 2-3 inches long. When it gets to that point, remove it from the mother cane and pot it.

[fred]

[quote=MSPProductions;23003]So this plant has been the subject of many a joke around the apt. I bought it
for my little lady Valentines Day '06. For about a year it looked exactly the same and I would joke that this ungrowing plant was like our love....
when we moved in together I started to tinker with it.... If it's not dead lets see what I can do...I dropped the little guy, still in it's pot, in to a bigger pot and wrapped it in moss, just to see what would happen. Within a week or two it started a new growth. Now this guy had a tag 'intergeneric' - I'm guessing it's got to have some Dendrobium in it...maybe not?

About a month ago it started what I thought was a new set of leaves at the largest cane's axel but now it's looking like it's a new plant, very similar to the one at the base of the plant.

Any ideas?

The top pic has a nice new growth comming from the base.
(a new cane)

http://www.aos.org/aos/uploadedfiles...redendrobe.pdf
All the AOS Culture Sheets are now in the Care and Cultivation Section

the second pic has a new Keiki growing also. ( new growth )

when that keiki grows roots and the roots are about 2 to 3 inches long you will be able to carefuly remove that keiki and plant the new keiki into another pot ( plant on )

If you see this this plant like your love well good news the plant is growing for you.

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

MSPP, you can take that label and throw it away. The store no doubt got the labels mixed up. Intergeneric usually refers to the Oncidium complex, which your plant is definitely not. Absolutely unrelated and could never be bred together they are so different. Yours needs a new label 'Dendrobium unknown'. It looks more like the Phalaenopsis warm growing type than the cool nobile type, which it certainly is not. But the canes seem to be a little squat looking, so it could have some unusual species in it. Oddly enough, a friend had a Den with squat bulbs which I finally identified (same store got more in with exact same plant and flowers), can't remember now the dominent species in it, but she finally thru it out because it never started a new growth in 2 years. Probably needed some kind of special conditions, but she wasn't an orchid grower at all and wasn't interested in experimenting.