Show & Tell - Cattleya tigrina; C warscewiczii 

I have a baby Tigrina can not wait until it grows to enjoy those beautiful flowers. Thank you for sharing Stephen.

Thanks for another great post. The first orchid is a stunner but the final specimen is intriguing. Gothic looking. Enjoy your holiday. Wet and a high of 60 here in western ma. Three days ago we had four to five days of record high 90s heat.

Yeah .. the weather is strange, even here... I have had a super mild spring and suddenly I have had 2 days of 84% humidity in July?? Thats new, but I will take it while it lasts 😅 tigrina 🤩 I will take the ugly in that ... I know, the amateur in me, right? I love me waxy plastic feeling orchid lips! Amazing 👍🏼

The famous line "it's a first bloom this is as ugly as it's gonna look"😂 great video thanks.

Your C. tigrina look lovely. Both of them. Sure, the first time bloomer has a bit of weirdness to the flower, but next year will be better. I for one don't mind the ruffling. As for the color of the possible polyploid - while some may not like that intense of spotting (so that the spots merge into blobs), I suspect as a parent into a complex hybrid it's offspring will have wonderfully colored flowers.

Thanks for another informative video. C. warscewiczii is the only cattleya that would grow for me for many years here in Holland. It was able to tolerate high humidity and a lot of moisture in my greenhouse, but now I switched to warmer temps and drier sunny Winter (thanks for the tips in your other videos!) in an attempt to also grow the others. C. warscewiczii also wants a lot of light here, but that is a lot less than Texas sun for sure!

Hi! Your cattleya Warcewiczii is very beautiful ! Hope your others warcewicziii are doing fine. My cattleya Warcewiczii is finally going to give me a flower !!!! Have a nice day !

I also like the uggly one for being weird and also for the sturdiness of the structures which always amazes me. The spotting certainly adds so much to the solid colour !!!!

I really really really want a Bedford!!! 😭😭😭 haha. 800€... I got some young warscewicziis. Two coeruleas and then two very distinctly - let's see how long it's going to take them. I have mine under grow lights and their leaf color seems fine. But I agree with the moisture - it seems thirstier than other plants. Cattleya

Hi, Stephen! Tell me about the crazy weather! We're bracing for our first major storm of the hurricane season down here. I think it's going to be another busy year this time around. Thanks for helping me correctly pronounce C. warsewiczii's name, too -- it has always been a mouthful for me for some reason 🤪. I would definitely love to add a Tigrina to my collection! SVO has a few selections right now but they're all labelled as C. leopoldii. Does that mean if I get one, I'll essentially have a Tigrina like yours? Also, I have 50% of my catts potted in baskets with the others in plastic pots. I use several large plastic pots (with holes) for my big cymbidiums. Would such a pot work with a Tigrina?

Hmm, I have my warscewiczii in quite bright light (full sun until around 11, under 40% shade until late afternoon, then the sun swoops back in). I do need to attach a pot to the mount as soon as roots start because they just shrivel and die if they hang in the air and I need to to produce A LOT more roots. The one thing Chadwick notes is to keep it dry until the new growth is at least 4 inches. I'm not sure you or I could do that as they would shrivel away in the heat I think. But that "starve" period he says drives it to produce a large cluster of blooms so next year I may try withholding water (assuming we don't get rain that is) to see if I get more blooms.

It's certainly steamy here with all the rain, awesome blooms! My tigrina had one bloom lol mine is sandbar giant. One of my warcewiczii has a sheath. I have to give mine shade also or it's roast city, and I've roasted a couple!

When you said it was cool that day, I was imagining like 18 or 20ºC not 33ºC. This scares me...

Holyshit your whole country was hotter than 33ºC ??? this world is burning!!!

Regarding climate change: the last time I looked at output from long range climate models, the consensus appears to be that the south-eastern part of the US will see increasing precipitation throughout the 21st century. Coincident with that will be temperature rises much less than in other parts of the US (because rain storms lower temperatures.) However, I don't remember TX being in that category. Most of the western US will see ever warmer temps, and with that more drought (as indeed this year.)

I have a young plant that is growing well and is called Catttleya Guttata. Is it the same? Thanks for video but just one small thing... your audience is from all over the world and you mention the names of local growers, which is fine but I, for example, live in Portugal, so haven't a clue where they are. But once again thanks and that tigrina is spectacular.

Hiiii Steph...can catts grow better in clay pot than plastic pot ? TFS those beautys 💕.

I have C Warscewiczii alba 'Leo Holguin'. It hasn't produced any new pseudobulbs in a little over a year. The plant came with some snails so I repotted it at a less than optimal time to get rid of them. It does have visible root growth and the existing pseudobulbs seem fine. I was giving it too much light but I have moved it so it gets a bit less light. The leaves have greened up some. My other Warscewiczii are producing new top growth. Do you think the plant is just in recovery mode after the repot? I think Leo Holguin has Firmin Lambeau in its background. I'm not sure if it's a sib cross or selfing. Do you know?

Mine (tigrina)smells like cinnamon chewing gum.