Dendrobiums growing in the wild! Dendrobium crumenatum
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- This week Plant Lovers, a little trip to Ubud in Bali where I was lucky enough to see Dendrobium crumenatum growing on just about every second tree! And on seeing just how this epiphyte is growing in the wild made me reconsider how I'm growing similar Dendrobiums in pot culture in Melbourne! So we'll look at footage I shot in Bali and then return to look at three of my species Dendrobiums and see how I could improve on their culture!
The orchids we look at in this video are:
Dendrobium crumenatum
Dendrobium aphyllum
Dendrobium rindjaniense
Dendrobium thyrsiflorum
And you can see my full length Dendrobium rindjaniense care video here: • How I grow: Dendrobium...
veeeeery interesting video. There are not so much videos about orchids in their natural habitat, so thank you so much for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
Dendrobium crumenatum is a verry common sight in Singapore! As far as I know, it's also known as the Pigeon Orchid over here. You can see it on many a tree, with many choosing spots like you observed. After a series of heavy rainstorms and comparatively cooler temperatures, they put out little displays of white flowers which are gorgeous to behold. Glad you got to see some up close in Bali!
They were gorgeous! Thanks for watching!
I loved this field trip to the tropics. Would you consider a 'spring changeover' video about which orchids you brought in for the winter, and when and how you move them back outside?
I would....and will! Thanks for the suggestion!
Oh how I love Dendrobiums ❤ that was absolutely fascinating! I also love that you clearly got a buzz out of seeing them growing in all sorts of places-my partner teases me for staring at them and I can imagine you doing the same 😅 what can I say, fascinating! 💖
Thanks for watching!
Hi Mathew😌🙌I enjoyed watching and listening to you introduce that dendrobium crumenatum🙏💖I don't have any here growing, but I do grow the native orchids on trees in the garden here in Japan. It's a very dry winter and even minus temperatures, and a hot humid summer, but I do mist the trees with the hose to keep my orchids damp because they tend to grow at higher altitude. I grow other orchids in terracotta in spagnum moss. The terracotto helps keep the roots cool in our summers and the moss keeps some humidity and dampness that roots need. There are vanda falcatas in very harsh runrays in my neighbourhood doing well😌🙏
Sounds wonderful! Thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for another fascinating video Matthew, as all of yours are!👍👍
Ah, the intriguing Dendrobium crumenatum! I'm kind of 'obsessed' with them after seeing one - obviously self-seeded - growing out of a roof gutter (and others on various trees) in Honolulu when I visited in 2023 (apparently they are now naturalized on Oahu). Then I saw a variegated variety for sale by Ten Shin Orchids of Taiwan at the orchid show here in San Francisco last year and just had to buy it, despite knowing that I couldn't really replicate the tropics in my tiny, old studio apartment, but which luckily does have a sunny, warm, south-facing window and central heating.
So I got the idea of growing it 'vase' style, bare-rooted, like a couple of Vandas I have. Except my 'vases' are upside-down, clear plastic gallon/half-gallon water bottles with the bottom cut off them and a couple of inches of lava rock/LECA and water in the neck for humidity, just below the roots, although some roots have grown down into the water with no ill effects - as yet, anyway. Sort of semi-hydro I guess? I just unscrew the bottle top to soak the roots and change the water as needed. Plus I do mist it regularly when the weather is warm and have a little sphagnum moss draped over some of the aerial roots for extra humidity and moisture.
Anyway, after a year of dormancy it recently, suddenly started sprouting lots of new roots and plantlets, so of course I'm over the moon! Whether it will ever flower is another matter, but I love the unique form of the plant anyway.
Sorry to go on so long, Matthew! 😋
Thanks for watching! They do seem to need a drier season for the new rains to then stimulate flowering?
@@helloplantlovers OK. Thanks for that helpful tip which I will keep in mind. 😊
I have dendrobium crumenatum, flowers only 3 days, but so often and from the same spot I don't know how many times ( 8 times for now), but it's not the end. And it has really strong fragrant, I love it.
Wonderful! Thanks for watching!
Hi I grow den. Crumenatum in an intermedia climate. They really like rain and that is the bigger season on blooming. I mounted a little división in a pvc tube with coconut fiber for moister. This method I learned from a grower in my country and it work so good for den.
Ah interesting! Thanks for letting me know!
I picked up these from the roadside when the branch they grow on fell off. I saved them and grow them on the tree. You can see them on the trees in Kuala Lumpur as well. 😊
Wonderful! Thanks for watching!
Fun video! I’ll be going to Bali soon and I’ll enjoy checking orchids and other plants there. 😊
Have fun!
Great video! Thank you!!!
Thanks for watching!
Hi! Very interesting video again thank you! I was given a tiny bit of Dendrobium Crumenatum by a friend who has an enormous battered clump growing on a tree in his yard, in full sun in Brisbane! Temps 7deg C to 33deg C in all weather!
Lucky you!!! Thanks for watching!
Hi, what a beautiful plant this cumenatum is. I love the different shapes of Dendrobium canes as you have them most of the time without any flowers.
Many years ago I made a guided trip through Thailand (Bangkok up to the Golden Triangle and back). Half the way I asked the tour guide where the orchids are. He sighed and told me that I wasn't the first who asked, so obviously the same situation as you experienced in Bali. But I saw beautiful Lotus everywhere, almost in every puddle. that was stunning. Many regards!
yes - lotus and water lilies!!! Thanks for watching!
Hi Matthew - love the channel - philosophically and geographically v aligned with what I am ineptly trying to do! A quick request - not particularly aligned with this video. Its that time of year when flower spikes are shooting up everywhere (in Melbourne) and remarkably I have lots this year - thanks in no small part to your previously imparted wisdom. I wondered whether you could do a video on how to train (or not train) your flower spikes? I notice you leave many of yours "au naturelle" but I am very interested in any knowledge you could impart. eg when to tie them / not tie them up, how to tie them up etc etc? Thanks heaps. Tim
Hi Tim - well I rarely do it so I'm not the one to show you! But It's quite simple, make sure the stake is in as soon as you see the spike forming, and then use a tie following the growth of the spike so you gently keep in place as it grows. Trick is to do it from the start not when the spike is already quite advanced. Good luck!
@@helloplantlovers Aha! Thanks Matthew. Exciting times - new spikes daily - so need to keep a close eye.
Thanks for sharing another fantastic video! Have you ever considered trying a Teva Planter? They're designed for growing clinging plants and I've managed to at least stave off failure with a little cernua. In fact, I discovered your channel because kingianum is one of the recommended plants to grow on it. Also, it's made of terracotta so it's right up your street 😉
Oh I just goggled them - interesting! Must say I wouldn't grow a Kingianum in one though! Doesn't need ANY fancy care. Just a pot, some bark, moderate watering and good light in winter.
It depends on where in the world you live. Not all topics are created equal. 😂 I struggle to keep the humidity high during the day. By switching to coconut fibre pots lining the plastic ones, the humidity inside the pot has increased.
Ha! True!
orchids need remarkably little food in order to grow. The only reason we feed them more in cultivation is to grow them better than they would in the wild (looking for more growths per year and more blooms per growth) but I've not been convinced for a while that giving them more feed actually has that effect. There is a native (Encyclia tampensis) mounted on a Roebellini palm up the street from me and it receives no care from the owner, just hit by the sprinklers twice a week and whatever rain we get, and the associated nutrients that come with it getting wet. That plant would be an award winner if it could be yanked from the tree and taken to a show.
There you go! Thanks for watching!
Its true. In Indonesia most people grew orchid mounted on life or dead tree trunk. When monsoon season come it rains everyday here for 3-4 month. That's why we only use big chunk charcoal when grow orchid in pot, otherwise it will rot very quickly in rainy season. Most orchid owner here never fertilize their orchid, but as long as it gets as much light as possible it will produce so much flower and last longer. Also most people here grow dendrobium under full sun without any shade. It produce the best flower, the plant is also so much stronger. But be careful if you just bought the orchid from nursery, you need to train it before it can withstand full sun without any damage.
I been successful using lava rock with perlite in a clay pot for all my orchids. I don’t growDendrobiums (tried and failed). Ut very successful with phalenopsis, cattleyas, and paphs. I use to use moss or bark and with the way I water I was losing roots. Maybe a rock based medium would help you? Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching!
my outside dendrobiums grow very well and flower however, some leaves have black spots. is this actual blackspot or something else? potassium bicarbonate spray to reduce blackspot?
Hard to say but generally a plant outside in weather conditions will have damaged leaves of some sort. The older foliage on the ones I saw all had black spotting on the leaves - perfectly natural.
@@helloplantlovers : black holes (cosmology) are also perfectly natural ;)
Are you familiar with den. densiflorum? We have had one for 1.5 to 2 years. Have been trying to get it bloom with temperature drops and stopping watering but haven’t had any luck.
I do know it but don't have it - good luck with yours!
I tried, I failed. I think the plant was just too small and possibly sick to begin with.
That happens....OFTEN for me!! Thanks for watching!
Leather money purse, eh? 🤣😂🤣😂
Long bow!