All I can say is beautiful.. And having blooms last so long and keeps going, this one is really earning it's keep.Velleta

It looks like a big plant or I'd want one for the windowsill, after your testimonial. Good job!

You keep posting photos of this very desirable orchid and have made no attempt to fix up the name......Previous discussion.

Arthur, you are right. I have not made an attempt of any kind to fix up the name. I would not know where to start. By chance I did fix up a noid dendrobium because I simply saw it for sale on the web and got the name. I do understand the concept of research and practiced it in my career. In that situation early on I had training of a complicated process that allowed me to fix up stuff. But in the world of taxonomy I am mostly lost and I am not familiar with the resources. In addition my best answer is was it is. If you care to pursue it it would be appreciated. At this stage of my game so to speak my only intentions are to read the tags. I have other interests that stirs my passions that I would rather allocate time. Given the chance at correcting the name I would take it as long as research was either modest or not at all. For now I'll use what is on the tag. But if you have an answer I'll take it. Thanks.

A little history. The plant has been judged 3 or more separate times by accredited AOS judges an won blue ribbons. Maybe this doesn't matter. I guess they might miss that?

You
have got to be kidding, do you really think that panels of judges go around
checking plant labels. They go around looking at blooms that should be in
the right place which is the duty of the benching marshal or whatever they call
that guy or gal over there.

Three
blue ribbons and probably more in the offing and maybe a sale of a division or
two make it important that the plant has a correct name.

If the
plant tag has something like....Dendrobium Hialeah twist. (Spiker x canaliculatum) then the correct name
is probably Den. Haleahi
Twist 'Spiker' x canaliculatum.

This is not rocket science. The University of google is at your disposal. You just have to sift through the stuff that is there and discard the stuff that is obviously rubbish. The other tools are the RHS Database of Hybrid Names and the species Checklist.

Names
are an important part of the hobby, the other night the judging panel led by an
AOC Judge gave plant of the night to an Unknown Cymbidium.

When I was typing
the results I rang the owner and asked him if it was really Unknown. He said
that tag on the plant was incorrect due to a mix up at a nursery and he was
taking a Photo to ask them to try and give him the correct id.

Thanks Arthur for your thoughts. I have no knowledge of what the judges do and do not do. So now I know a little more. I do agree that it is beneficial to have the right name. I will immediately change the tag to Den. Haleahi Twist 'Spiker' x canaliculatum. I've tried the RHS without success and google as well. I came to a point that I was done looking.

Lovely as always!

31 months and counting...

I'm amazed you have no problems with your dends. I have some old ones which flowered so well in NY and are just not adjusting to the heat and sun here. Add to that, thrips and fungus are constantly ruining so many buds.

You probably have better air circulation being close to the coast and less bugs. Who knows, I am so jealous of your beautiful plant.

Great growing,

Jane

I think I broke the code for this type of den. Just luck. The combination of environment, pot, medium, water, sun, and fertilizer. This plant is a hybrid but I believe 100% Aussie from a similar climate as mine. Dendrobium Blue Twinkle has similar characteristics as this one. It stays in bloom months at a time but not as much as this does.

It has eight or nine different Dendrobium species as ancestors. Not all from Australia.

A long line of breeding and selection of the best has resulted in this high quality hybrid.

Some questions...how old is this plant? What are you using for media? Fertilizer? How much light is it getting? It appears to hang from an over-hang roof.

Jane

The plant is 15 years or more. I went through my mite blight 12 years ago. Those survivors were deeply hurt so it was a reset from there. Almost all my plant are 100% lava rock and terra cotta pots. That way they can take water every day. I use orchid plus from home depot. Now endorsed by the AOS. I feed full strength every 2 weeks. The instructions before gave a choice of 1 tablespoon per 2 weeks or a teaspoon per week. Now the only instruct 1 teaspoon per week. I stick with 1 tablespoon per 2 weeks. Included in the mix is maxi-crop. a seaweed root stimulant. Also I add Magi-cal. for minerals. Every other week I use maxi crop with blackstrap molasses. Must melt it in hot water first. Different trace minerals with the molasses. Blackstrap is the required type. It is in my screened in cage for the pool. It gets direct morning sun less 10% from screens. Noon the overhang comes into play for bright shade for the plants on the west end near the house.

Thanks Harvey, Love to hear how others grow their plants.

Blackstrap molasses might be a stretch for me. I'm very bad about fertilizing and it probably shows. I'm also bad about watering so I still use bark although I have a few in rock

Interesting that you grow your dends with only east sun. I have a similar set up as you do but thought it might not be enough light. It would also create a problem walking around with dends hanging overhead.

Great growing and I love that plant. Thanks for the info.

Jane