Whereabouts are these parts? The USA is an awfully big place or are you in Malta?

The orchid comes from NE Australia where the dry season will end in a month or two and the wet season will begin. It is warm all year up there.

Name changed to Dockrillia and then changed back to Dendrobium to much annoyance to local orchid growers.

You can see by the growth habit that it might be best on a mount.

The habitat it comes from is called monsoonal rainforest. Provided you do not let it get too cold in winter, it is rated as easy to grow and flower

I'm in the Mid-Atlantic USA, zone 7b--unfortunately not in Malta, I wish! haha. Thanks for the info about my new friend. My apartment is kept very warm in the winter thanks to the building owner, so that is good news. So does this plant need to go through a dry and wet period in order to bloom? It is approaching fall here in the States, and once the days get shorter I usually water less, but it will be hard to resist spritzing the aerial roots. I'd like to mount it, but as I said it's fall so it may not be the best time to do so. I've never mounted anything myself and I'd really like to try it.

It's in spike! Almost exactly a year since I bought it. I didn't really expect it. I will post photos when it blooms. It has grown a lot over the past year.

Ok 8yrs later but a quick google search brought up your post. Your plant was already large by my standards. I have two wassellii, one on a piece of cork, the other on tree fern plank. No moss. One I have hanging high in the greenhouse, the shadecloth removed so full winter light here in CT. The other on tree fern fiber mount is placed in a 4" empty plastic pot. THinking it might retain a bit more moisture. I think there are some bark nuggets at the bottom, again retaining a bit more moisture/humidity around the roots. Gotta say, mine haven't grown one bit. Ok, I think right now a new pseudobulb is forming on the tree fern mounted one. Even though it's i a greenhouse with humidity, I think they need to be watered more. But then again I'm a consummate overwaterer! In the greenhouse they don't get below 60f. Only getting below 60f in fall when they are outside for summer/fall. Never flowered.

I have never grown this orchid and it is not commonly seen here in Sydney, Australia where the WSOS Society holds meetings.

"wet tropical biome" describes where it grows on the eastern side of Cape York Peninsula.

Probably best to seek culture info. from the firms that market the orchid in the USA.

This is growing on a ponytail palm near the street. It gets a lot of attention while in bloom from the pedestrians. Like all my mounted plants they get water every day unless it rains. The entire bloom has expired then imediatly another bloom. Not as many asthe first but quite a demonstration. In 10b most tropical Austrailian orchids like my climate. But I protect them under 50f.

This one is growing in an empty terra cota pot. Watered like a mounted plant.