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DENDROBIUM house plant

TadsTads Posts: 210
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good morning 🙋‍♀️ forum members 😃 -  I wonder if another kind member can please advise me what to do with the 2 DENDROBIUM houseplants I was given a month ago, now that the flowering is over ? Can they over-winter, can I save them? & what must I do to care for them (where to house them, whether to water or not, etc) - a kind visitor bought them for us, & they are completely NEW to me 🤔🧐🤓 (I’ve managed to find another new one 🤗) 
thankyou,
Tads, Guildford 😊 

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    These are one of the group of orchids often sold as house plants.  They need a rest over winter with minimum temperatures of 10C, reduced watering and regular misting.   You'll find more detailed info here for the RHS - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=333 or you could google for specialist orchid sites.

    I followed the RHS advice with my orchids in my last house and they all grew well and flowered again but since moving here 2 years ago  - brighter, hotter, drier even in shade - they've grumped so 4 are now in the great compost heap and the remaining one is on its last warning.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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