Look pretty good to me, I’d give them a good soak and put them in their spots.
bettyorchids
Beautiful 😍
TumescentAndroid
This is also how I got started with different orchids that are not typical phals. It’s such a great deal and you get a lot of variety. I even got a couple of tolumnias that were already blooming! So pretty, OP!
Savings_Dealer6819
The first one is a good sized specimen. Mature, flowering size with many growths. The other two will be tricker to establish. establishing dendrobiums with one or two canes doesn’t give you as much slack if the plant doesn’t establish well.
For the dendrobium, I can’t emphasize enough that you want to use very small pots. Using your hands to scale, I wouldn’t use a pot that is any wider than the width of palm of your hand, maybe even a little smaller. Whatever you do, don’t put the dendrobium into large pots. In the bottom layer of the pot I would put some larger inorganic pieces like large rocks, perlite, and then use some perlite mixed with bark or sphagnum. Keep the plants in humid spot with air movement and only water them when they get dry deep in the pot. You want to under water the plants a little and don’t fertilize until you see new growth emerging. For orchids, its kind of a dance where you are keeping the plant slightly hungry for water so that it searches for more by throwing out new roots. If all goes well the plants will throw out new canes.
You would really be shocked at how big dendrobiums can be relative to the pots they need. I regularly see large dendrobiums at judgings and some can be several 4 feet tall in 6 inch pots.
paddy_b
I ordered a box of mystery orchids about two and a half years ago and this is exactly how they looked like. Out of the five that I got, I killed three of them (wasn’t as experienced then as I am now). However my dendrobium that did survive, recently bloomed for me which you can see in my post history. These look pretty healthy and the pots that you planted them in look good.
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Look pretty good to me, I’d give them a good soak and put them in their spots.
Beautiful 😍
This is also how I got started with different orchids that are not typical phals. It’s such a great deal and you get a lot of variety. I even got a couple of tolumnias that were already blooming! So pretty, OP!
The first one is a good sized specimen. Mature, flowering size with many growths. The other two will be tricker to establish. establishing dendrobiums with one or two canes doesn’t give you as much slack if the plant doesn’t establish well.
For the dendrobium, I can’t emphasize enough that you want to use very small pots. Using your hands to scale, I wouldn’t use a pot that is any wider than the width of palm of your hand, maybe even a little smaller. Whatever you do, don’t put the dendrobium into large pots. In the bottom layer of the pot I would put some larger inorganic pieces like large rocks, perlite, and then use some perlite mixed with bark or sphagnum. Keep the plants in humid spot with air movement and only water them when they get dry deep in the pot. You want to under water the plants a little and don’t fertilize until you see new growth emerging. For orchids, its kind of a dance where you are keeping the plant slightly hungry for water so that it searches for more by throwing out new roots. If all goes well the plants will throw out new canes.
You would really be shocked at how big dendrobiums can be relative to the pots they need. I regularly see large dendrobiums at judgings and some can be several 4 feet tall in 6 inch pots.
I ordered a box of mystery orchids about two and a half years ago and this is exactly how they looked like. Out of the five that I got, I killed three of them (wasn’t as experienced then as I am now). However my dendrobium that did survive, recently bloomed for me which you can see in my post history. These look pretty healthy and the pots that you planted them in look good.