berry oda

[lynne watts]

Hi, i am new to this site and to growing orchids. i bought a dendrobium berry oda a few weeks ago just because i liked it. this last week the flowers have all died and fallen and i'm left with the cane like stems some brown and dead looking and some green. The leaves look nice and healthy, I would love to hear from anyone who can tell me what i should do now, cut the canes back or leave them??? help please!!!

[jerrymeola]

You can cut the dead flower stems but never cut a Dendrobium cane. It can flower again from the old canes for years. Even if the old cane loses its leaves, it can flower off a leafless cane.

[dendro]

Hi,
I too bought one of these plants.It is not often that you can buy named varieties in the UK.Mine has still got 5 spikes and lots of flowers. Is this plant a variety of den kingianum? All my kingianums grow right up against the glass all year and are watered regularly during the summer growing period.Fertilising stops in the autumn and the plants are only watered about once per month lightly in the winter.