Hi, those are spectacular blooms I have been watching your cat talks regularly and I agree with torture, so many baby orchids and they are tortured in the wild nature invironment. If you ever decide to piece it up I would really love a division will pay you for it... I am in oregon but our climate is dryer and getting hotter, more like California these days....
Big, pretty thing. Chadwick mentions in his Cattleya warscewiczii chapter that it is a species that requires some tricks in order to get it to bloom well.
Ya, that might be needed in this case. I was hoping the hybrid would breed that out, but I might have to start doing that. I just hate giving some plants special conditions!
Absolutely STUNNING ! as far as purpurata growing conditions.. I'm still "trying" to find the right spot for my 3. currently under a covered porch with Eastern exposure. Memphis is hitting 95 almost every day now with 50% humidity.
She's lovely, but it seems as though it loses something being an alba. I agree that only one spike for that much plant is disappointing. Perhaps this one needs a bit of torture, as Chadwick recommends for warscewiczii, to promote better blooming?
I have both parents. I can never pronounce or spell the other one, not purpurata! 😆 I got my not-purpurata 2 years ago but just not get going… not dead but not thriving. I am not really Alba fun in general but the shape is just gorgeous. I have a feeling you like rubura better? I can see why you would think about selling it.
With a cattleya that size and only one spike is far too little. I did this with my warscewiczi last year leave it in it's pot and just split the plant with a few bulbs per new growth wile still in it's pot but now many divisions and this year my new growths are smaller but every one bloomed.
