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Posted 5d ago by @WiseLilac69

Seems as if my Dendrobium stem has been broken. I’m new t...

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@Araceae
HelpIwantmoreplants
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5d ago
@Araceae
Cut the baby off from the stem with sharp secateurs. Yours has a very healthy crop of roots!

In southeast asia, we use charcoal, sometimes in baskets, or just the basket and no substrate at all, but coco chips or bark works too
@Araceae
HelpIwantmoreplants
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5d ago
@Araceae
One thing you can try is placing the broken stem into sphagnum, with some keiki paste. The chances of babies forming is kinda low, but worth a shot
@ChicPepper
Jeanette
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5d ago
@ChicPepper
Oh wow! Lovely 🤗
@WiseLilac69
Lorene
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4d ago
@WiseLilac69
@Araceae oh thank you for this. 🙏Very helpful. Do all the keiki roots need to be in soil/ charcoal or do I leave some roots out?
@Araceae
HelpIwantmoreplants
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4d ago
@Araceae
@WiseLilac69 no not necessarily so. You don't have to have some roots out too. They don't care [which is why we sometimes grow them in baskets without substrate]