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Cattleya reccomendation

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Let me double-check my ref. again and I’ll post you something. Regards, Paul University of South Florida      "Time wounds all heels." -Frank Case Bayboro Campus                       ("Tales of a Wayward Inn") St. Petersburg                  <Eventually I plan to procrastinate. Florida                       Agricultural Zone 10 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi Paul and others, Thank you so much for the reccomendations, they have been very helpful. One thing about C. nobilior though. You mentioned that it differs from walkeriana by bieng mostly unifoliate and having basal inflorescences. Isn’t walkeriana unifoliate with a basal inflorescence. Maybe nobilior is bifoliate? Ok, now I’m a bit more confused. I understand that it is in the bifoliate group. The Baker’s say that it is usually unifoliate, with an occasional bifoliate growth. This is consistant with my specimen. Pridgeon lists it as having a pair of leaves. Could someone shed some light on this?? Please!? Thanks, Scott

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Somewhere along the line I heard where you can tell if a p/bulb is going to flower by whether it puts out 1 leaf or 2. The 2 leaved type won’t bloom, the one leafed type will. Interesting if true. I presently have a walkeriana var coerulea in bud and the bud is coming from the tip of the bulb (the base of the leaves)(I’m sure Iris could tell me the anatomical name for the region) – not from the base of the bulb. Hope this helps, K Barrett – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi Paul and others, Thank you so much for the reccomendations, they have been very helpful. One thing about C. nobilior though. You mentioned that it differs from walkeriana by bieng mostly unifoliate and having basal inflorescences. Isn’t walkeriana unifoliate with a basal inflorescence. Maybe nobilior is bifoliate? Ok, now I’m a bit more confused. I understand that it is in the bifoliate group. The Baker’s say that it is usually unifoliate, with an occasional bifoliate growth. This is consistant with my specimen. Pridgeon lists it as having a pair of leaves. Could someone shed some light on this?? Please!? I’m confused too. I’ve got an as yet unbloomed plant whose tag says, C. walkeriana.  About half its growths are unifoliate, half bifoliate. Go figure! Susan Before you buy.

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Hi Paul and others, Thank you so much for the reccomendations, they have been very helpful. One thing about C. nobilior though. You mentioned that it differs from walkeriana by bieng mostly unifoliate and having basal inflorescences. Isn’t walkeriana unifoliate with a basal inflorescence. Maybe nobilior is bifoliate? Ok, now I’m a bit more confused. I understand that it is in the bifoliate group. The Baker’s say that it is usually unifoliate, with an occasional bifoliate growth. This is consistant with my specimen. Pridgeon lists it as having a pair of leaves. Could someone shed some light on this?? Please!?

I’m confused too. I’ve got an as yet unbloomed plant whose tag says, C. walkeriana.  About half its growths are unifoliate, half bifoliate. Go figure! Susan Before you buy.

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Hi Paul and others, Thank you so much for the reccomendations, they have been very helpful. One thing about C. nobilior though. You mentioned that it differs from walkeriana by bieng mostly unifoliate and having basal inflorescences. Isn’t walkeriana unifoliate with a basal inflorescence. Maybe nobilior is bifoliate? Ok, now I’m a bit more confused. I understand that it is in the bifoliate group. The Baker’s say that it is usually unifoliate, with an occasional bifoliate growth. This is consistant with my specimen. Pridgeon lists it as having a pair of leaves. Could someone shed some light on this?? Please!? Thanks, Scott

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I’ll second the intermedia recommendation. There are people that have entire collections devoted to nothing but intermedia varieties. Others to consider that would seemingly suit your conditions (or maybe because they’re just my personal favorites): C. luteola, C. violacea, C. gaskelliana. I flowered my first C. granulosa recently. It had never really appealed to me from pictures, but really blew me away in real life. Oh what the heck, try ‘em all. You know you will anyway. WE know you will. Good luck. Bruce Pickholtz

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Scott, Consider either Cattleya nobilior or C. walkeriana.  Native to Brazil they both stand 6 to 7" tall and are closely related.  C. nobilor differs from C. walkeriana by producing basal inflorescences and by being generally unifoliate.  The flowers are similar but differ in the structure of their lips and the size of the disc on the midlobe.  Both need a rest period after making up a new growth. Cattleya luteola from Peru and Ecuador is under a foot tall and produces clusters of 1-1/2 to 2" yellow flowers with a white ruffle around the margin of the lip.  This species is pollinated by night-flying bees (Dodson & vander Pijl) and is fragrant just before dawn. Cattleya bicolor and guttata are also from Brazil and while normally are 1-1/2 to 3 feet tall or taller, both have short races which meet your requirements. All of these are relatively easy to cultivate if given their needed requirements.  All are generally available from various orchid nurseries. (I supsect that all could be gotten reasonably inexpensively from Oak Hill Gardens in Dundee, Illinois. (See the Orchid Mall on the net.) For a guide to culture I would suggest McQueen, "Brazillian Orchids" or Fowlie, "The Brazillian Bifoliate Cattleyas and Their Color Varieties", the 2nd one esp. for its fine descriptions of habitat and ecology of these species.  Sadly, both are out of print, but can be located from used booksellers on the net.  Otherwise they can often be found in Orchid Society libraries. HTH… Regards, Paul University of South Florida      "Time wounds all heels." -Frank Case Bayboro Campus                       ("Tales of a Wayward Inn") St. Petersburg                  <Eventually I plan to procrastinate. Florida                       Agricultural Zone 10 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey folks, I have been bitten by the Cattleya species bug recently and am wondering if you could help me choose a few to put on my wish list. Here is my list of criteria: -compact stature (maybe around a foot tall or less) -conditions intermediate/warm, flourescent supplemented Eastern window         with 50%+ relative humidity. Mounting is a possibility if it’s fussy -not walkeriana, skinneri, or loddegesii ( I already have these) -has to be a species Thanks for any suggestions!! Scott By the way, if anyone has a division, seedling, etc of a Catt that they think I may be interested in drop me a message, maybe we could work out a trade?

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I have been bitten by the Cattleya species bug recently and am wondering if you could help me choose a few to put on my wish list. Here is my list of criteria: -compact stature (maybe around a foot tall or less) -conditions intermediate/warm, flourescent supplemented Eastern window         with 50%+ relative humidity. Mounting is a possibility if it’s fussy -not walkeriana, skinneri, or loddegesii ( I already have these) -has to be a species

araguayensis porphyroglossa rex schilleriana velutina aclandiae-probably wouldn’t do well with window-sill culture, though

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Scott, Cattleya intermedia.  Compact grower, not fragrant, will work on driftwood/baskets, rugged as heck, and good flower substance.  Mine grow well in tall plastic pots. Cattleya intermedia var Aquinii http://www.gate.net/~fourmick/flasks/intaquinii.jpg Cattleya intermedia http://www.gate.net/~fourmick/flasks/intermediastd.jpg Mick

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey folks, I have been bitten by the Cattleya species bug recently and am wondering if you could help me choose a few to put on my wish list. Here is my list of criteria: -compact stature (maybe around a foot tall or less) -conditions intermediate/warm, fluorescent supplemented Eastern window         with 50%+ relative humidity. Mounting is a possibility if it’s fussy -not walkeriana, skinneri, or loddegesii ( I already have these) -has to be a species Thanks for any suggestions!! Scott By the way, if anyone has a division, seedling, etc of a Catt that they think I may be interested in drop me a message, maybe we could work out a trade?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey folks, I have been bitten by the Cattleya species bug recently and am wondering if you could help me choose a few to put on my wish list. Here is my list of criteria: -compact stature (maybe around a foot tall or less) -conditions intermediate/warm, flourescent supplemented Eastern window         with 50%+ relative humidity. Mounting is a possibility if it’s fussy -not walkeriana, skinneri, or loddegesii ( I already have these) -has to be a species Thanks for any suggestions!! Scott By the way, if anyone has a division, seedling, etc of a Catt that they think I may be interested in drop me a message, maybe we could work out a trade?

Scott, Strictly Catts or Catt Alliance? The rock Laelias tend to be short in stature. Under a foot, easy. Some under 6". -Rod- Rod & Susan Venger, Venger’s Orchids http://www.vengers.com/ Our IRC (Chat info) http://www.vengers.com/page.htm

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Hey folks, I have been bitten by the Cattleya species bug recently and am wondering if you could help me choose a few to put on my wish list. Here is my list of criteria: -compact stature (maybe around a foot tall or less) -conditions intermediate/warm, flourescent supplemented Eastern window         with 50%+ relative humidity. Mounting is a possibility if it’s fussy -not walkeriana, skinneri, or loddegesii ( I already have these) -has to be a species Thanks for any suggestions!! Scott By the way, if anyone has a division, seedling, etc of a Catt that they think I may be interested in drop me a message, maybe we could work out a trade?

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