Dendrobium lindleyi

[Jane Doe]

I've had this plant for five years now. It bloomed only once for me. It's been three years now since it grew a single pseudobulb or a leaf, nor has it flowered. The existing bulbs though are fully green, and the roots are nice and healthy. I grow it on a piece of cork. I "chill" it during the appropriate time, withhold water in the winter (unless the psedobulbs begin to shrivel).

I'm at my wits end and thinking of tossing it.

Should I hold on to it? is there a way to find out if it's still alive?

I can take a picture of it and post it to the orchid binaries?

-M

[Diana Kulaga]

By all means, post the picture. From what you have said, you've been treating it appropriately regarding water, so my question would be about how much light it receives. It does need relatively high, filtered light.

BTW, what do you mean by "chilling" it? We are in S. FL and take no special action to give this plant cooler temps. FWIW, we also grow it on cork, and have another one in a slat basket with little or no medium. During the growth months it gets water every day.

Diana

[Jane Doe]

Diana,

Thank you so much for responding. First let me apologize, I have no idea why I said lindleyi when my Dendrobium is an aggregatum.

When I say chilling, I mean leaving it outdoors when the night's get cooler, I leave it outside for as long as the nights do not get below 48F.

I will post photos in about two minutes in the binaries orchid group under the title Dendrobium aggregatum.