{"id":23185,"date":"2015-10-18T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=23185"},"modified":"2015-12-10T07:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T15:08:03","slug":"the-blue-orchid-queen-victorias-dendrobium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/the-blue-orchid-queen-victorias-dendrobium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Orchid: Queen Victoria’s Dendrobium"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fragile-looking Dendrobium<\/a> species is tougher than it looks. Queen Victoria’s Dendrobium was named to celebrate the British monarch. It’s nicknamed the Blue Orchid, since some specimens have a blue hue, but my plant is decidedly purple.<\/p>\n

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In four years since I bought this orchid, it’s been through the mill, but somehow survived and flowered. As a cool grower<\/a>, this species lives outdoors<\/a>. It’s been sunburned, almost frozen, and become a favorite target for raccoons. On several occasions, it’s been reduced to a single cane (or pseudobulb<\/a>,) but managed to grow back. The plant adapted well last year after we moved from San Francisco to Pacifica<\/a>, and has been happily blooming despite all the damage.<\/p>\n

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Native to high elevations in the Philippines, Queen Victoria’s Dendrobium likes cool<\/a>, moist<\/a>, shady<\/a> conditions. It needs constant high humidity and good air movement<\/a>. This species can handle warm days, but needs cool nights down to 50\u00b0F (10\u00b0C.) Don’t let it go below 41\u00b0F (5\u00b0C.) Since the canes tend to droop, it grows best mounted<\/a>, not in a pot<\/a>. This variety can flower repeatedly throughout the year, always on older canes which have lost their leaves. The Blue Orchid is both beautiful and tough, perfect for cool, breezy conditions.<\/p>\n

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This fragile-looking Dendrobium species is tougher than it looks. Queen Victoria’s Dendrobium was named to celebrate the British monarch. It’s nicknamed the Blue Orchid, since some specimens have a blue hue, but my plant is decidedly purple. In four years since I bought this orchid, it’s been through the mill, but somehow survived and flowered. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-growing","category-photos","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23185"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23244,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185\/revisions\/23244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}