A new area on the back deck
Cutting and Propagation
This cutting was created from a branch off the original orchid, which you can see in the first picture. The new cutting is the stem on the left branching down. Not knowing that the stem normally looses all it leafs, I mistakenly cut the stem thinking it was dead and that the new shoot on top was the new main plant. The cut stem was a thin leafless stem about 15 inches long. After noticing small shoots breaking out at the joints, I struck it into a bottle of water. After a few weeks, I notice the new out-cropping at several points along the cutting and some bloomed (picture 2). Notice the bottom of the cutting is stuck in a vase with water.
After a month, small roots developed in the water. Carol struck the end of the cutting into a new pot. See pictures 3. Pictures 4 & 5 shows how the out-cropping has mature and produced air roots at the base and along the stem. The last picture shows how many of the orchids are starting to develop lot of air roots along their stems. This just started this year (2004). In prior years, all the air roots were at the base of the plant near the top soil.
With further research for the Dendrobium hybrid, this is what I found. They are a prolific group in that offset plantlets are frequently produced on the cane. When each offset has produced several aerial roots, it can be cut from the parent plant and will frequently flower after one year of growth. I'm in the process of producing a new cutting from an offset to how well it propagate.
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With the orchids in bloom continuing to hold their flowers and new orchids coming out this month and late August, the house and garden is full of orchid blooms. There are still about 4 orchids still in buds. We have about 30 orchids in bloom at the current time including the ones shown in the August which are still holding their flowers.
Above are pictures of the kitchen with about 15 orchids in bloom.
Some are new bloom, others are photos of the February blooms as they mature and more of the buds open up
October - November Bloom 2004
August-September Bloom 2004
Start of the May 2004 bloom
The last three pictures above are about 10 days apart. The orchids came to full bloom from buds in a matter of days.
Orchids in bloom during February/March 2004
Orchids in bloom during January 2004
Prior Years
