DEBUNKING Dendrobium Nobile Winter Care Fertilising Myths with PROOF & other Easy TIPS #ninjaorchids

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My nobiles thank you for this post Nina! I’m definitely listening to all your tips- I’ve been so conflicted with nobile care. I bought my first one in October 2022 in full bud , I got to enjoy her flowers but she was out of season and a bit confused. I didn’t realise that wasn’t the usual time for flowering. I had one book from the RHS that says to treat them one way & I have another from Kew Gardens that contradicts it. All I want is for my plants to be happy , I got flowers galore this year & im over the moon. What a reward these beloved plants give us! Each new root & growth brings such excitement & the flowers are a beautiful bonus. Wishing you a beautiful weekend 🌸🌺

Hi Nina, all my Dens. Were outside in the 100+ heat last summer. Not happy campers, my bad. I did rest the nobiles over winter with a little spray every week. Early spring new growth no buds. Began fertilizer on sings of new growth. That's thanks to you Orchid Master. All the Dens and Catts are going inside above 85F or there abouts. Cooked them all last summer.😢. Great video, thank you.

🦒💖💐 I absolutely agree. My cooksonianum species is always the first of my nobile Dendrobium to start the new growths, even before the nubbins on the canes show up and so I never stop watering completely and still give them some calmag. I always have wondered where that idea of eliminating water completely during winter came from. After all, where the nobile species are native too, it still rains every week during the cooler/drier season although much less than in summer. I have seen pictures of huge nobile species with the most beautiful array of flowers but looking more atentively one could spot the very shrivelled canes. Stressing a Dendrobium to its limits may induce many blooms but it will be so depleeted of energy that it will colapse the next season. In my opinion, the drop in temperature with nights cooler than the days for a period of several weeks, is what really triggers the blooming. Keikis are more prone to grow when winters are warmer and the drop in temperature at night is not significant enough. I have also noticed that hybrids are not as demanding on that drop in temperatures as the species. My species cooksonianum grew some keikis this year which it had never done in past years, ( except for the two keikis it grew during last summer) and that's because winter was milder than ever, the warmest in 95 years, hardly any drop in temperature at night. None of my hybrids had keikis and are still bloomig as per usual. In fact I even had some blooms from the hybrids on the tree during last summer. The cooksonianum is now planted on the tree, I am looking forward to see how it performs side by side it the hybrids 😊😊😘😘😘😘

Great Video Nina, very good explanations about Dend nobile type care. Have a wonderful weekend my friend

yes, I cannot stand when people say "no feed or water from Thanksgiving (mid-November) to Valentines Day". If the plant is still growing in November, sorry, it still needs to be given the materials to mature that growth. IME, so long as you have the light and temperatures, you can keep them going into December without sacrificing blooms, you only need around 45 days of cool, drier rest to get them to bloom. And even then, the drier isn't as important as the cooler. Winter canes usually won't bloom until the next bloom cycle (so a cane that grows in the winter of 23/24 won't bloom until 25)

My dendrobium nobile started growing canes in January. Thank you so much for this video! I'm sharing it to Facebook and I have yet another transcription of your lessons in a word document. You are a trailblazer for us all!

Excellent video. My only nobile is on a coir mount, and if she’s growing anything, or blooming, she gets feed and watering. If she’s doing neither of those things, she gets water. Last year, I did move her from her eastern under-cover position over the harsh summer months to the northern side where she gets better light over the winter. She gave me a beautiful blooming. So I’ll go the same route this year. Right now, in early Autumn, she’s not doing anything. So just water every couple of days when the mount is dry.

Thank you so much for this, Nina! I was feeling very guilty and inexperienced for ignoring the status quo and not giving my dendrobium nobile hybrid any sort of winter rest. I kind of just instinctively cared for it according to what the plant was doing and this video has made me feel so vindicated 😅❤.

Great work as always Nina! My Rainbow Dance grew new growths all fall and winter for me the past 2 years. I did have lower temps, but I've been watering and fertilizing as is appropriate for a growing orchid. Just made sure my low temperatures didn't get too low for the watering. Had a beautiful bloom display! Not a single keiki for 2 years now, just flowers :)

Nice Q and A video. It made me want to retry a Den nobile. Yours are wonderful.

Very interesting, indeed! Totally agree with you about these orchids. Glad to see that someone else has debunked this issue. I firmly believe that the plant's care should be directed by what is happening with it. FYI, I have a Nobile that bloomed over a month ago. I did water it throughout the winter as I believed it needed that. I also have a mounted, very small Nobile that opened its flowers about 3 weeks ago and is still in flower. (I live in US Zone 10-11). I find your comment about there being a difference between hybrids and species requiring different care to be true. Do you have any Catesetums? Any comments about the dry winter rest for them? I know some US growers (in Hawaii) who recommend no winter rest for them as well, especially for those of us in zone 10-11. By the way, my replacement Den. antennatum is doing well. It has just a few flowers this year. And the Catt. guatamalensis (which I potted in small lava rock in late winter) is starting to show signs of new growth. HOORAY! Was surprised yesterday to see that my Den. secundum alba is pushing flower spikes. Isn't orchid growing a WONDERFUL hobby? May you have a great weekend and enjoy your gardening and other activities. Your videos are the BEST!

I've had a small variety of the species growing on a shefflera in my garden for over a decade.. it's never amounted to much but it does flower and just finished...i was keeping my hybrids on the dry side..i got lots of nubins.. but after your video i just stuck them out in the rain.. I'll give it a go with more H2O...they have been looking sad and shriveled... the subject of how to water soft canes in off season has by confusion for me... thanks!

I had one but I brought but didn’t do very well studied of the said in my living room but I don’t think the conditions were very good so I don’t grow those but is a beautiful plant and thanks for the info my lava today so will be cleaning it laterhopefully tomorrow catch you soon❤❤

Hi nina, been a while since I posted. Sometimes it feels like what I say or what any youtube viewer says often gets ignored. I was pushing this idea on to you last year and I'm glad to see you had the same good results. Same with the myth that phals need a cool down in autumn to get them to flower. Or that orchids are light feeders. As new growers we get told these things and recently mathew also said something that actually makes no sense at all: certain orchids will not flower if you water them in winter. Or another one is that the same temperatures they get in summer would kill them in winter time. These notions make no sense but new growers don't know that. I have often wondered if there is a conspiracy to make new growers learn mistakes and thus become bad growers on purpose or if it is just a lack of knowledge. Or if people mean well but end up lying. For example keeping certain species dry in winter is beneficial to prevent root rot. That is the reason. There is no reason to lie and make up a different reason to get people to do it in my opinion.. I hope most people know that orchidboard is the biggest scam in existence and anything posted on that sham website should be ignored. To start with I did not know this. The main posters on there post so much rubbish I know they don't grow orchids or if they do they must not be able to keep anything alive for long. Following someones advice who consistently kills orchids is not really what new growers should be doing. What is really sad is thus that there is no proper website out there online where people can discuss orchid culture without being lied to and told bogus advice that they might believe in but is not good plant growing practice. It's a shame really. Like said at one point I started wondering if it was a conspiracy for nurseries to give out the same generic advice that is in my opinion is either wrong or not very helpful. I was wondering if they wanted customers to come back to buy more over time. Or that they don't want as much competition being successful breeding. Back to orchidboard, listening to their advice and seeing so many youtubers listen to the advice, cool orchids, keep them dry, don't fertilize them. All maybe good for a beginner but someone wanting to advance past being a beginner those are all terrible things to follow long term. And there is nowhere with knowledgeable orchid growers (not the pretend type) where it can be discussed in a meaningful way I feel. I have tried on a couple forums but it always ends up feeling like I am talking to an AI bot. Ie someone with zero personal experience from observing how orchids grow themselves. Anyway thanks for giving a good video on the subject, debunking one of the big ones and me agreeing lol.

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Quite informative video.Not good at growing den.nobilees.I got one nobilee mounted snd another potted.Both of them are growing but not making me happy with their blooms.Harsh climate here with day temperature at 39 degree Celsius with low humidity.So watering only these plants in the morning daily.I hope time will do wonders with my nobilees Nina.

Cara Nina come sempre, ripeto, dico che i tuoi video, e soprattutto questi che sfatano miti molto radicati, sono interessantissimi. Tuttavia vorrei proporti un quesito forse schematico, la cui risposta mi aiuterà a capire cosa dovrò fare data la mia piccolissima esperienza nella coltivazione SH. Fino a dicembre di solito il clima non mi crea grossi problemi; temperatura notturna 5°C quindi penso che se le radici sono bagnate non sarà un grosso fastidio per il DNO. A gennaio per circa 1-2 settimane la temperatura può scendere anche improvvisamente a -5° C. Ecco!!! In questo periodo cosa devo fare? Tolgo l'acqua e lascio la roccia lavica bagnata? Porto in garage durante la notte? Scusami per le domande un pò troppo...da inesperta, ma gradirei proprio un grande dettaglio che sicuramente tu hai la pazienza di fornirmi. Grazie mille Nina e buon week end

I recently got the Dendrobium Peng Seng (50% tobaense x 50% cruentum) and so far it seems to have the same growing conditions as other Nobiles, but I've heard that they prefer cooler temperatures and do not require the winter rest since they are evergreen. I'm planning on repotting in early spring, but it has buds that apparently take a very long time to open. Should I continue with repotting? 🤔