"Loose in the caboose", have not heard that expression in a while!! FYI a caboose used to be the brick red car at the end of the train in USA and Canada. It was a combo cookhouse/bunkhouse for the train crews on enormously long freight trains where they lived for weeks at a time. They've not been used now for decades, unfortunately. We used to make wishes on them as kids!
If you have a cheap seedling heat mat, I’d put that tray on it and I’d bet you’d get terrific root growth before winter. I’ve used them for warm growing phals and little seedlings with fantastic results. It uses a teeny amount of electricity (like 3 cents a month) but you do have to water slightly more often.
Good luck, Roger. I know where you're were with it a couple years ago. Too bad that the jenki is set back so far.... 😢But let's give it a try this way.... 👍👍
Hard to believe that this is all what is left from what use to be a big 🌱 .Looks like the most damage was at the bottom of the mount where the "gray mold." was. Hopefully new growths will push on 🤞. Time will tell . Good luck 🍀.
thank you for this video my den jenkinsii is on a wood slab but it is also failing even with constant water no new roots (viable) and it is shriveled condition so i decided it to placed it in semi hydroponic set up hope it work and not to late
This plant always did something in the old room. What's happening with your plants now (change of grow room) happened to mine too but much much faster, I lost at least half of what I had, most on mounts. It looks like potted plants can handle a move better then mounted ones
I tried the tree fern plaques and I was not impressed with them. They dry out way too quickly, the orchids never attached (and all of the old roots died) and they are just messy.
Looking forward to your Jenkinsii development, because mine is also mounted on one of those slabs (xanxim from Brasil) and is also looking terrible. Grows new canes and leaves and then, leaves are gone and nothing happens - just like yours. So for me it was a confirmation that those slabs are no good for these Dends and an incentive to do with mine the same you did with yours. 🙄
"Loose in the caboose", have not heard that expression in a while!! FYI a caboose used to be the brick red car at the end of the train in USA and Canada. It was a combo cookhouse/bunkhouse for the train crews on enormously long freight trains where they lived for weeks at a time. They've not been used now for decades, unfortunately. We used to make wishes on them as kids!
Good to know.
If you have a cheap seedling heat mat, I’d put that tray on it and I’d bet you’d get terrific root growth before winter. I’ve used them for warm growing phals and little seedlings with fantastic results. It uses a teeny amount of electricity (like 3 cents a month) but you do have to water slightly more often.
Thanks.
Fingers crossed for great success.
I hope so.
Good luck, Roger. I know where you're were with it a couple years ago. Too bad that the jenki is set back so far.... 😢But let's give it a try this way.... 👍👍
I will get it going again.
Oh, Roger! I remember that Jenkinsii quite well. It was stunning. I hope you get it back! Maybe a candidate for your lights? Fingers crossed!
It will go under the lights.
Good luck
Thanks.
Best wishes Roger, i think you'll be successful with these little babies. 🎀
Thanks.
Hard to believe that this is all what is left from what use to be a big 🌱 .Looks like the most damage was at the bottom of the mount where the "gray mold." was. Hopefully new growths will push on 🤞. Time will tell . Good luck 🍀.
What is left is more than I started with - hopefully it will grow back ok.
I hope it works since the blooms are so beautiful.
I'll get it back again but a few years off the plant it once was.
Try checking the acidity of the mount, tree fern mounts have a habit of the pH dropping as they age i.e. gets more acidic.
thank you for this video my den jenkinsii is on a wood slab but it is also failing even with constant water no new roots (viable) and it is shriveled condition so i decided it to placed it in semi hydroponic set up hope it work and not to late
Mine was a show-stopper once but some orchids just seem to do this - they do great for a few years and then just fail.
@@RogersOrchidsGardenandBonsaithats sounds reasonable okay i can forgive myself now
Sure hope it recovers.
Thanks - I think it will be ok.
Did you out any drainage holes in the tray?
Ignore that one. Just heard you say you did!
I don't want any drainage as I want the moss to stay damp all the time.
What a shame. Did you use the native moss as well as the tree fern on that mount? I'd remount anything left that still has the native moss.
It was just mounted on the slab. Others have not had a lot of success with them.
You had a Cuthbertsonii in a tray like that (a red one I believe)
Those never grew well. I think I gave what was left to Lynn?
Didn't you get it from Lynn ?
Can't remember.
😁
This plant always did something in the old room. What's happening with your plants now (change of grow room) happened to mine too but much much faster, I lost at least half of what I had, most on mounts. It looks like potted plants can handle a move better then mounted ones
Most of what I've lost were mounted Dendrobiums.
I tried the tree fern plaques and I was not impressed with them. They dry out way too quickly, the orchids never attached (and all of the old roots died) and they are just messy.
I certainly won't be using them. Brown water came out of this for months and months.
Looking forward to your Jenkinsii development, because mine is also mounted on one of those slabs (xanxim from Brasil) and is also looking terrible. Grows new canes and leaves and then, leaves are gone and nothing happens - just like yours. So for me it was a confirmation that those slabs are no good for these Dends and an incentive to do with mine the same you did with yours. 🙄
Mine will only stay in the try until the roots get going. I will probably end up mounting it on cork-bark with this type of moss in Spring next year.
The other thing roots need is oxygen. I'm not sure that damp moss won't go stale? 🤷♀️
The moss will evaporate quite quickly so the water will be replaced with fresh quite often.