VIDEO of DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE

Those Dendrobium victoriae-reginae flowers almost open fully now.

Should be a good year for this plant. After I bought it last year it flowered TWICE and I took delivery of it probably about now or 11 months back.

So since then it has two new canes and currently has two more rising up as I type! Interesting to see if it produces any more flowers along with these two and I did think it would but not so sure now. Even so in a couple months time it should be quite interesting when it flowers again depending on how high the new canes are?!

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE FIRST FLOWER 2013

First of this years flowers almost opened completely!

I will be doing a series on this one now as I am sure there will be many more flowers to come, fingers crossed.

Photos not great but light not good when I took them quickly.

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE DEVELOPING BUDS

Well the first of the buds are now gaining in size and I only noticed when I looked at the picture there appears to be two?!

LMAO.

I need to quickly check these before I disappear out the house and count this bud section and look at the others.

DENDROBUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE WITH SOME SURPRISES IN STORE

Some pictures of my Dendrobium vuctoriae-reginae which now look to be showing signs of many more flower buds that the previous two?!

Remember also that each of these can have between one and 4, 5, or 6 flowers and the most I had previous was two from one?!

First fllowering was one flower and second flowering was three flowers from two sources. I look to have 4 or 5 dark patches just from one cane and another cane looks to have at least one and another new growth at the top, where it was previously cut to produce more plants, growing upwards in line with the cane?!

This could be another flower bud but I do not think it is. Had I had longer experience with this beautiful species of Orchid I would probably know for sure but due to its diminutive size I am going with another cane or to be precise a KEIKI!

Now a keiki on this would be cool! I also want to order another one of these at some point and likely another Vanda coerulea.

In both these pictures you will see an area slightly above the second node which should be flowers buds. But better seen in the photo below is the tiny growth coming from the TOP of the cane which I believe to be a keiki or a whole new plant growth. Once big enough and has around two to four leaves this will produce roots around its base and once there are at least three of these of at least an inch long I can remove this plant to another pot, therefore starting a second separate plant?!

COOLIOS!!

Arrows point to the areas of dark patched where buds normally appear from. Only in ones or twos previously but this time around could be very different. 

Once these two new canes have gone beyond the shortest of the shortest of the previous canes this will become quite a specimen indeed. After that the flowers it will produce should equal or exceed a majority of those you see in pictures.

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE - BLUE BAMBOO ORCHID

Now the excitement of the Bulbophyllum prodicing two new growths can ONLY be surpassed by me then spotting not one but TWO NEW CANES appearing on my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae!!!

Ooh YEAH!!

SO along with the bare beginnings of the dark patches that mean flower buds I also have two new growths?!

It produced two before but one ended up a little stunted but is still growing while the first one to appear is currently taller that the taller of the two canes when I first received it.

Now hoefully the stunted one will get another couple of inches and these new two, if I keep on top of it, will outgrow the current longest cane?!

If so when it is done this beautiful blue species Orchid really WILL put on quite a show INDEED!!

Fingers crossed, lol.

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE's PURPLE LEAF SPOTS

Must be a trait of this type I am unfamiliar with, though I see it in other Orchids and even British Wild Orchids all the time!

But without me noticing Purple Pigments started appearing and forming into spots!!

Looks damn cool if I do say so myself?!

Should start budding up soon as just all the others now have, should produce new growths too and I will re-pot this one very soon!