Starclass nobilé - Help!

[wendywoo]

I was given an orchid called starclass nobilé (in bloom) 18 months ago. It bloomed again this year (same month roughly) and has now produced more flowers only at the base of the flowers there seems to be roots growing out! Please can someone tell me what to do - I can't find anything that looks like my orchid in the 'how to' books and I don't have a very good record of keeping any sort of plant alive let alone an orchid - Please help!

[janet_a]

plant's alive? plant's blooming? sounds like you're doing something right...

is this your plant?

Dendrobium nobile starclass eng detail

Dendrobium Nobile Starclass White*::*Dendrobium*::*Easy Orchids

it's a nobile type den, it's deciduous, and they like to grow babies. that's possibly what you have--keikis that are themselves blooming. don't worry, sounds like the plant's ok.

where are you located, and what kind of conditions is the plants in? (windowsill? greenhouse? top of the toilet tank? )

[jerrymeola]

I tried to find the many previous posts on growing Nobile Dens, that I made. Our search engine did not go back very well.

Here is a quick summary.

Temperature range 25 -100 degrees F

Light range full sun no shade (11,000 foot candles) to shade (2500 foot candles) it will flower in both. I get more flowers in the highest light I can give them with lots of water.

Water range It can go months without water or you can soak it every day

Blooming - requires night temperatures about 50 degrees for a month
They bloom once a year seasonally based on temperature. Some of the whites can produce flowers over a few months.

They are semi-deciduous and will lose most of their leaves every year around flowering time. They flower best on the old leafless canes so never cut them off before the shrivel and dry up (the older canes will naturally shrivel and die.)

Fertilizer - Very Very little nitrogen. Do not fertilize from August to January or they may only produce keiki and not flower.

Here is a picture of an older plant with one tiny leaf and 80 flowers.

[janet_a]

Originally Posted by jerrymeola

Fertilizer - Very Very little nitrogen. Do not fertilize from August to January or they may only produce keiki and not flower.

--thanks for the reminder! i'm fertilizing tomorrow, then i'll stick a note on mine about not feeding. i usually stop the weekly watering at labor day and go biweekly til halloween, then only on major holidays after that 'til it starts doing something (last year it started budding in january).

[lissie0113]

i love the pic you put up there of the 'canary'. i have one of these guys that is a baby, and wont be flowering for a couple more years....but i hope eventually it flowers like that! ;o)

[jerrymeola]

Nobiles grow very fast lissie.

I buy young plants (5-6 inches high) every fall and some flower the same winter and almost all flower the next season.

2 inch pots about 12-14 inches tall in the fall almost always flower the same winter.

[wendywoo]

Thank you for all the info - in answer to your questions. Yes it's mine a friend thought it would be good to give a beautiful orchid to a plant killing person! I live in UK and the orchid is in the kitchen near the entrance to a conservatory so it's not in full sun but it is warm most of the time. I've only had 1 leaf drop off although a couple of them have brown dried out ends. I also have a couple of new 'growths' is that the right word? they have stopped growing and have remained unfurled. I have tried to attach a photo to this but not sure if it's worked.

[fred]

very nice pic thanks for sharing with us
I would agree with janet a you have a Dendrobium Nobile Starclass.
you have also been given some good advice

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