should I cut the flower spike?
dendrobium orchid lost it's leaves due to bacterial infection and now is leafless. not sure if need to cut flower also. do I cut at the purple arrow as indicated?(bulb tinted cause of cinnamon powder)
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So they’re leafless orchids, I just recently discovered. 🤦♀️ But since you say yours lost the leaves… in some orchids you don’t cut back the spike because the flowers come back every year in the same place, same branch. But I’m not the greatest person for orchids, but luckily I do know of a few beautiful people that can maybe help. Let me make a second post of them, because I’m terrible at # or @ .
@MariansOasis @debbiedo @Dawgfreak @MusicalRedmint @DreamMachine @Jho @princesspitstop @MamaLinne @Boymom-plantmom @CutePolypremum @Lynsplants @Just1More all of these people give great advice and really know their stuff. I would see if any of them could help
Hi @eternalwatcher and thanks @Idplantthat for the tag and kind words 😊.
So sorry you battled a bacterial infection. Looks like there’s lots of green growth still. Dendrobiums naturally lose leaves during the blooming cycle so it’s not like most other orchids where loss of leaves 🍃 could be catastrophic. I wouldn’t trim the flower spike until the flowers have withered. And you’ll want to trim it at the thinnest portion where it connects to the cane. Don’t trim the canes.
AI 🤖 🆔 says it’s Catasetum orchid, not traditional dendrobium. And that loss of leaves is its natural cycle. It also says to stop watering it for a while since it’s in its leafless stage of the cycle.
So sorry you battled a bacterial infection. Looks like there’s lots of green growth still. Dendrobiums naturally lose leaves during the blooming cycle so it’s not like most other orchids where loss of leaves 🍃 could be catastrophic. I wouldn’t trim the flower spike until the flowers have withered. And you’ll want to trim it at the thinnest portion where it connects to the cane. Don’t trim the canes.
AI 🤖 🆔 says it’s Catasetum orchid, not traditional dendrobium. And that loss of leaves is its natural cycle. It also says to stop watering it for a while since it’s in its leafless stage of the cycle.
@Idplantthat @eternalwatcher @MariansOasis I do not have this orchid, but a search on my end turned up Dendrobium Enobi Purple 'Splash' ? Looks pretty close 🧐
I’m going to tag @MusicalRedmint @smushface as it’s been a long time since I had a dendrobium 🤔
I’m going to tag @MusicalRedmint @smushface as it’s been a long time since I had a dendrobium 🤔
My only dendrobium is a dendrobium secundum, which has much taller pseudobulb canes. The secundum is semi-deciduous in that it will lose all the leaves on its older canes (my understanding is some lose all their leaves annually).
IMO you should be fine to keep enjoying your bloom. It has multiple pseudobulbs and they look green and healthy from what I can tell; those pseudobulbs have months and months of nutrient storage, and the fact that they’re green means they can still photosynthesize — they’re just not as efficient at it as leaves. As long as nothing is mushy, just monitor its water and health closely to make sure you don’t have a recurrence of that infection and let it keep blooming… you’ll probably see a new pseudobulb with leaves grow in no time.
IMO you should be fine to keep enjoying your bloom. It has multiple pseudobulbs and they look green and healthy from what I can tell; those pseudobulbs have months and months of nutrient storage, and the fact that they’re green means they can still photosynthesize — they’re just not as efficient at it as leaves. As long as nothing is mushy, just monitor its water and health closely to make sure you don’t have a recurrence of that infection and let it keep blooming… you’ll probably see a new pseudobulb with leaves grow in no time.