My Den. spectabile, which just took the blue ribbon at the recent orchid show here, is a hard cane type and needs to be tied or staked when in bloom. Those canes will snap in a heartbeat, especially if you load them in a car to drag to a show. I like to grow them in hanging plastic baskets and I tie the canes to the basket hanging wires. In fact, it is back in the truck as it will be a display orchid at the Tampa Bay Orchid Society show and sale this weekend. Are you coming up, Elaine?
And yes, they get huge. 3 to 4 foot canes are not unusual. I have 4 or 5 like that and I hang them all in the plastic baskets from the roof of the OC. They like lots of light.
Jim
