How To Look After Dendrobium Orchid After Flowering. Water copiously whenever the potting material is dry. How to care for a dendrobium nobile orchid.
Feed the plant with orchid food once a month throughout the year but give it a smaller amount in the winter. Cut the flower stem just above the top leaf of the pseudobulb when the Dendrobium has finished flowering. For instance popular Dendrobium nobile Dendrobium kingianum and Dendrobium loddigesii produce keikis instead of flowers if not provided with cool temperatures down to 30 F but they prefer intermediate temperatures when they are vegetating.
The reason is that blooming from the same spike twice can be exhausting and harmful for your orchid plant.
Dendrobium Orchid Care After Flowering. Check my earlier post for more about cutting tools. The trickier sort flower on side-shoots projecting from the sides of the plants leafy stems. Its no different from how you should maintain and look after your orchid plant all the time.