dendrobium lowii

Hi Peter, I grow it and have bloomed it, though I apparently didn't take a photograph, so you'll have to take my word for it. I can't say it was a great blooming, but I have a couple of plants and both bloomed this last winter. I had them several years before I bloomed them. It seems to be a slow grower for me and I had the first on 3 years before I bloomed it. I grow them intermediate (56F minimum winter), high of 80 in the summer (occassionally higher, but not often). They are potted in a fine bark mix and growing in the southeast corner of the greenhouse in moderately bright light (enough to bloom a Cattleya) with a lot of other Himalayan Dendrobium species. They are watered and fertilized as they approach dryness during the growing season and are quite dry during the winter. I decrease water in October/November and then mist occassionally until February/March. I haven't tried them in one of the cooler greenhouses for the winter. Baker suggests that they don't receive much less water in winter than the rest of the year. I think I gave them the dry rest because I wasn't paying attention, but this year is the first time I've bloomed them. Now that I have looked them up again, I may try one with regular water in the winter.