The dwarf form of Dendrobium kingianum!

[@cheriparks5162]

putting the native dens out in the sun for the winter is the best tip ever!

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!

[@LauraStansfield-tw7xb]

My new obsession is yo find second hand orchid books at srcond hand. Only ever found one. But i love your collection so much. And look forward to you reading from them

[@helloplantlovers]

@@LauraStansfield-tw7xb They are around! Happy hunting!

[@LauraStansfield-tw7xb]

And i just got a suffusum! A natural hybrid of kingianum and gracilicaule and its a dwarf form. Im so excited cause it looks so beautiful in pictures. But im a little unsure of whether i should actually be keeping it outside. So then i remembered your channel. Tis helping me a lot. Thank you.

[@helloplantlovers]

@@LauraStansfield-tw7xb Interesting! Good luck with it!

[@mt2766]

Mahalo, Mathew! Because of your teachings I have learned to extend the life of the few orchids I had and have since expanded to six orchids.

[@helloplantlovers]

Well good luck with them and thanks for finding me!

[@JonesJones-np2kq]

Great video

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!

[@trufflehunter58]

Matthew, it's me again. Sorry! Today I picked up two Delicatums from Facebook Marketplace. Just a suburb away, in Newcastle. A sweet lady had dug them up, divided them, and potted them in... garden soil! Anyways I bought two for the princely sum of $18 a piece. I asked her if they were Delicatums and she replied: "Rock Orchids". Turns out they are, indeed, delicatums. i've been on a massive quest to find them, so I grabbed them. Now I have the dilemma of needing to repot them out of that garden soil, which happened, apparently, two weeks ago. Should I do it now, mid October, in medium bark, perlite and a bit of charcoal? Or wait, after their HORRIFIC shock of being potted in garden soil... for a while... while I, meantime, panic? Please help!

[@helloplantlovers]

Don't panic! They're as tough as nuts. Re-pot them now - its the perfect time! Don't over pot though - they do like to be quite snug in the pot. Great find!

[@annadaccione332]

my friend bought me a hanging basket full of keikies of all different kinianums and this year three of them bloomed and there are still more that have not, already there are three different colours , from pale pink to white and a vibrant purple/mauve beauty, they are beautiful. ANOS is having a show tomorrow, so I'm going, thanks for the video

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching - and what a great gift - lucky you!

[@MostlyIC]

about 30 years ago I had a compact / miniature kingianum with purple flowers, that grew so vigorously I had to divide it twice and had three pots of it, and it was very floriferous and fragrant too. only thing is it was a no-name when I got it, and sadly the shop where I got it no longer exists. the search is on !!!

[@helloplantlovers]

Sounds wonderful!

[@coasterblocks3420]

Great to stumble upon your channel! I love my orchids which produce keikis. The Dendrobium speciosum I’ve had since childhood produced a few seven years ago but never before and never since. I’ve also had some on my Zygopetalum, Oncidiums and a Cymbidium from the tips of old back-bulbs.

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!

[@roslynbarclay1000]

I now have 2 dwarf kingianums but boy do they pack a punch with their honey fragrance!

[@helloplantlovers]

Fabulous isn't it!

[@masondanshortyfaddoul2596]

Nice one mathew, love dendrobiums such beautiful orchids

[@helloplantlovers]

Thank you!

[@Muffin21814]

Thank you for sharing, maybe I can keep mine alive this time.😊

[@helloplantlovers]

Yes! Good luck!

[@tomfurmby88]

one of the hottest days of the year here in the UK and over there you are in a wooly jumper. The size difference is incredible. The smaller one is the same size as my D. falcorostrum. The lack of flowering in a year on dendrobiums is what puts me off. Even on long flowering D atroviolaceums where flowering can last up to 4 months I am contemplating getting rid of mine. They take up a lot of space and they are pest magnets so mine all got attacked and are a good 2 years away from recovering fully from that again so I'll probably replace them. I got rid of my nobiles this year for space reasons already. I got like 100 flowers off my main plant but again pest magnets and they get huge after a while. Ones you would expect to take up more space would be like dendrobium chrysanthum or anosmum but they don't because those grow line vines but the pot can stay small for a long time. The australian dens grow like bushes outwards filling a pot in no time neding a bigger pot taking up more space. Anyway great flowering, I don't think you need more kingianums. But I can recommend an anosmum, chrysanthum or falcorostrum althoguh admittedly I have not yet gotten the last to flower yet - hopefuly next year will be the first year it does so.

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching - I do indeed have anosmum - I'll look forward to it blooming!

[@trufflehunter58]

Hi Matthew, I recently found a trove of those little dwarves at my local Bunnings in Newcastle. Needless to say I had to have one. Such a little charmer. Unfortunately the cultivar is not specified.

[@helloplantlovers]

Lucky you! Good luck - they are wonderful wee things!

[@sschul5886]

Thank you for this inspirational video, and all the others, too. I read that the D kingianum is hard to kill, so i went right out and found one. It is now half the size and minus the keiki it came with, but I think it has made peace with my care. Thank you again.

[@helloplantlovers]

Oh no! Good luck with it and thanks for watching!

[@Gigi-pf6ik]

Another great video! My pink Kingianum flowers are almost coming to the end. I divided my Kingianum when they had flower buds but they survived. By watching Japanese professional grower, I used sphagnum moss this time. I really love your yellow one and I hope I can find it one day. I’m in northern NSW.

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!

[@Hazel_Dazel]

Thank you for the great video! I was just wondering what I was doing wrong with my kingianum because it was so short and stubby. Now I know!

[@helloplantlovers]

There you are! Thanks for watching!

[@OriginalDramagirl]

Really enjoying your videos, Matthew. Thank you! It's about to be Carnival of Flowers time here in Toowoomba but already the city is looking gloriously floral - blooming lovely as Peter Cundall used to say. The Orchid Society has its second show and sale next week and I can't wait to go on the hunt for some new girls for the collection. BTW, what is the difference between Dendrobium Delicatum and Dendrobium Kingianum - the mini version? Not sure how to tell them apart. Cheers!

[@helloplantlovers]

Delicatum is a much larger plant with palest of pink white flowers.

[@AlmarPostma]

Would you give the D. gracilicaule a comparable care to the D. kingianums? I have a very young D. gracilicaule I need to raise to flowering size here in Melbourne.

[@helloplantlovers]

Hi there - yes - I'm going to give it the same conditions.

[@AlmarPostma]

@@helloplantlovers thanks Matthew! I'll treat it mean.. 😉

[@carolesykes7955]

Hi Matthew, this is my first year of growing Kingianums so have found your information really helpful going into their first winter with me in the UK thank you. Do you grow Berry Odas? I presumed the care would be similar but the leaves seem much more sensitive to strong light 😔

[@helloplantlovers]

Hi there - no I don't I'm afraid! At least sun damage you can correct - with a bit of patience!

[@lisaallen7219]

I have a dendrobium kingianum sweet fragrance. I water and feed weekly every 7 days. There are no new canes yet. I got this orchid October of last year. I live in New Hampshire. There are no new canes yet . Should I water it less or not. It looks like it bloomed bloomed from the one cane it has. What should I do?. When I water it I soak it for 15 minutes. Should I stop soaking it for 15 minutes every watering.

[@helloplantlovers]

Hi there - I'd suggest as you are in winter I'd really ease off the watering and let it dry out between watering - rather than water it every 7 days water it when it's dry which will change in relation to the relative temps it's kept in. They generally produce new canes in late spring after they have bloomed. Good luck!

[@lisaallen7219]

Thank you very much for the information. I will not water for a while and see how it does. I will keep you updated.

[@sabikeralasafarabi2103]

പ്ലാന്റ് kodukunundo

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

that's the thing with kingianum, there are plants out there that are difficult to bloom because the genetics lean toward asexual propagation rather than sexual. I have one that I bought as keikis at least a decade ago and it has never bloomed but it produces loads of keikis. Another one I bought in bloom a couple of years ago blooms easily every spring. Last winter was unusually cold here and I thought the extended cold would be the trigger for the older one to bloom, didn't happen, so I don't know what to do with it. It isn't a lack of light, it gets nearly full sun all winter. So it just hangs out there until the day it decides to bloom I guess.

[@helloplantlovers]

That's commitment!

[@BlackCat-fr4ue]

I think there was something about last year that we have missed. My Dendrobiums have flowered spectacularly for years yet this year they were miserable in bloom. I don't think we had the heat in Melbourne that we usually have had or was it the one and only frosty night? Matthew, you mention only 2 forms, I have a Kara Special * Lorraine that I would classify as a 3rd. form, that being long fatter 20mm canes similar to qin form to "Lauren". It certainly is not slender like "Lauren" nor pendulous like "Speciosium?

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching - yes mine aren't as showy this year, and very late. There are many forms now - and you see a huge variety of form at shows - bewildering amount of hybridisation going on!@@BlackCat-fr4ue

[@loribadgero1035]

Thank you Matthew! Now I don’t have to be afraid of Dendrobiums anymore. 👍👏🏻💯🫠🐞🪴

[@helloplantlovers]

Don't be! Thanks for watching!