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Fun look at your Catasetum blooms.Those are some happy plants!

Thank you, Stephen! Your videos help me to understand what I should expect from my few catasetums. My catasetum cirrhaeoides is blooming now. I am very excited because It is the first time a catasetum is blooming in my collection. However, it is not because of my care. I got it from SVO in the middle of August. I suppose the real test is whether catasetums will bloom next year.

Hi Stephen😌🙌Your catasetum denticulatums are such beautiful orchids💞The labiata has intense pink color🥰I just did a short video of my friend's labiata rubra on my channel. It's amazing. She will often leave cattleyas in sight so on my break at work I can film and take photos☺️👍

❤ Happy for you but I am sad as I never get female flowers.

the weather here has been so goofy, mine don't know what is going on. I have a couple plants that just started putting up new growths with the late season warmth and rain. I noticed a single spike starting on FDK After Dark, which is about a month later than normal. I have some Clowesia hybrids that have never bloomed and I don't know that they plan on blooming this year either.

My labiata 'Classico' is blooming. It looks like my labiata alba should be blooming in a few weeks.

Very nice can’t wait to see my first Blooms 🌸👍

Beautiful bloom colors for fall Stephen.🎉

Most of mine are slowing down. About half are spiking for the fall show. The may imports are 12" tall. No female flowers yet.

What’s your favorite simple or complex hybrid that has mostly Walkeriana in it?

Have you grown the Intermedia X Anythystglossa X Guttatta X Loddigessi hybrid “Monte Elegenate” before?

Another informative video Stephen, thanks! I wanted to ask if you could make a video about blooming Cattleya warscewiczii? I’ve read that they require a very particular watering regime to bloom and I’m curious about your experience with this species. Cheers!

Beautiful Cattleya

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Very important Information Thank y 🌸🙏👍

I bought a walkeriana thinking it would be just like the other cattleyas I can grow as houseplants but then I heard abt the darkness thing the day after I got it. It was my wishlist species cus I only heard good things abt it for a while and when I finally saw it I got it but I just had to hear abt the requirements the day after I got it. I grow my orchids in a bedroom window and I am up till 12 typically with some amount of light on in my room. Best I can do is go to bed a little earlier (which is probably good for me as well lol) but even then it would still only be 11pm-8am of complete darkness. In household conditions I might be able to get away with coarse bark+charcoal in a slotted pot tho. Best case scenario is it happened to have Loddigesii in it which changes the care requirement do not as much darkness is needed would be good in my scenario but I don’t think my division has any loddigessi in it based on what I know about it unfortunately. Otherwise should I just give up and get a hybrid/something else instead?

Great to see you back on videos Stephen 🤗🇧🇫😃

I will have tô check that calcimum refuctor as well 😅. Same problem in Algarve.

Great stuff Stephen

Just perfect....what I needed.

my problem with k-lite is that it is based on a really poor "experiment", where there was no control group, no control for confounding factors and no null hypothesis. Basically, it was no better than "this happened so this must be why". They also based it on in situ water collection, which fails to account for nutrient sharing with symbiotic fungi. More recent experiments with epiphytic and haemiepiphytic rainforest plants (including orchids) has shown that a 3-1-2 ratio is more appropriate. If the K-lite is working for you, no reason to change, just putting it out there.

Thanks,...a couple of mine are starting second round of blooms....that's not 550 ppm of nitrogen but total dissolved fertilizer amount ...all nutrients combined. Seems like mine under lights are still growing...a couple are done out of 10.

hey svkl, thanks for the deep dive into ferts! im thinking fertilisers are part of the reason we don't get catasetum flowers. we haven't really cared too much about ferts, but given the growth rate and characteristics of catasetums, i think we need to be a bit more diligent with the nutrients for catasetums....so thanks again!

I am going totally nuts just like my orchids due to the extreme hot weather we are still having mid 90F with humidity sometimes at 89%. My orchids are outside on a terrace no direct sun after 10am and some filter after 4pm. I just started using MSU😫😫thanks for the info.

Here in my area it is the C. cernuum that are in bloom! I have a few that I grew from seed on a Phoenix palm tree, and they are almost all blooming! Most of them with female flowers. They are fertilized by the native doves that nest above them almost all year round!

It would be interesting to just put water through one of your baskets into a cup and see what you PPM is. I’ve been following your recommendations this year and have big bulbs and a large flower spike! 🎉

Thank you for the video to wrap up catasetum season. I think I’m on the right course but even though I live in sw Michigan, my catasetums are not dropping leaves yet but I have cut back on water. Next year I will go back to Ray’s fertilizer when it’s time. (Thank you for not being scientific!). Most are young plants from SVO earlier this year, and I hope to see good growth next year.

Those female flowers are so cool looking! Thats awesome! I never had luck with k-lite. It caused massive nutrition deficiencies in my phals and my cattleya! I had huge yellow spots in leaves and leaves fall off phals. I dumped it quickly and went back to Jacks 😂 then my spots went away. Yea better squish that caterpillar if its eating on your blooms! Nasty little fella! 😂 I get asked all the time for a teaspoon measurements for Jacks 2 part system. Im like I cant give it! Has to be figured out with a TDS meter. No way around it. 😊thanks for the update.

Thank you.

Can a Catasetum denticulatum spend the winter in an Orchidarium? It just arrived from SVO and is bone dry. It’s a seedling.Orchidarium . It is usually 70 percent humidity, and 18-20 Celcius in the Orchidarium. Southern Ontario, Strathroy, Canada

those catesedums are cool, would love to have one someday

youtube's war on adblockers and persistent spam popups are making it nigh unusable. Disliked for begging for likes.

Stephen, i texted with you last spring from southwestern Ontario. Outside temps here are getting too cold to leave them out any longer...lately getting down to mid 40s overnight, but tonight is 39°. Based on your video, my leaves are still light green to white in colour, with only 1 small leaf that went yellow. Should i keep them under grow lights until they all go yellow. My Ctsm Louise Clarke has a couple of new growths coming from the base...hoping they are flower spikes. Cl Rebecca Northern 'Mikkabi developed 3 pseudo bulbs, although one is very small...so far no flower spikes noticeable.

Do you have update for how your deflasking went? I'm learning about basic tissue culture just for suck an emergency.

Stephen, thanks again for catasetum video. Hey I have a few Catasetinae that never sprouted this year. Bulbs are still firm - no rot. Is there a chance they’ll sprout next season?

I’m in California and it’s still hot. Where does the spike come from? The bottom?

I love Cattleya lueddemanniana. A friend of mine has had one in her collection for over 50 years. The flowers on that one are HUGE and intensely coloured. Love the fragrance. She got it in the early 70s from Venezuela. I agree that the color on yours is INSANE!!! The contrast of the striation is very nice.

Hello! It's been rather chilly here lately and my two Catasetum hybrids show no signs yet. Let's see when they feel like getting ready for dormancy

Hi Stephen😌🙌I enjoyed watching! The Catasetums are looking great🥰I have a new video of an orchid Collection here in Japan all grown outdoors.

Ohhh waooo absolutely beautiful 🌸👍👀

man, your catasetums look great as always, and tons of blooms! we are still slogging away as another growth season ends and no flowers :( but alas, we shall keep trying! hope you have a great week...

William. It looks like your paphs pot has cyanobacteria. It doesn't look like algae, and of course I can't truly tell but I will say based on whatitlooks like and based on what you said about it declining... I am proned to that here in my environment and it is not just like unharmful algae, because algae I don't mind and kind of like. But cyano has caused a couple of my plants to die very slow simply cause I didn't know I needed to do something about it until the last one to die, and I was able to make it stop declining, with flushes and treatments and covering the light from reaching the inside of the clear pot. Replaced the media on top and I think it's something to consider at least. Stephen. Your walkeriana is absolutely jaw dropping gorgeous. Mann so beautiful -L

damn, good thing you didn't show your kids or talk about a lemonade stand in this video, we wouldn't want to make anyone mad.🤣🤣 Mine are all in weird mode this year because it is still hot, humid and raining. I know they are thinking about trying to go dormant but the weather just isn't cooperating. (I've lived in Florida 20 years and I have never seen this much rain in October. Ooh, and maybe a cat 4 hurricane to boot.)

Uk growing and mine one does show dormancy signs too . But they are really tiny in comparison with yours, bit bigger than a finger . Hopefully they will make it through the winter . Just my Monnierara had a decent size but got what seems to be symphylas in the pot and dropped all her leaves while ago . I just repotted in fresh media with no water and she’s gone to sleep maybe one month ago 😂

My catasetum has one yellow leaf left, so I assume I should stop watering? Also, do you leave it in the medium with the old roots or do you remove it and cut off the roots and just lay it on a shelf or put in a new mix?

한국어 자막도 되는군요! 감사합니다. 번역이 될지 모르겠지만 저도 Catasetum SVO after dark을 키우고 있습니다. 잎사귀 1개 떨어졌어요. 다음주에 Catasetum Hybrid를 한 개 더 구매할 예정입니다. Catasetum은 매력적인 품종이에요.😊

Can you let me know or do a post about feeding Catasetum types during the fall? Especially the ppm . I'm using 550+ a bit. About every 4-5 days...with pouring the feed through at 3 days.

Can we repot it in Fall

My two Catasetums have bloomed and are done. The leaves are still green. The third one ( seedling) hasn’t bloomed, but already lost 2 leaves and the other leaves have all turned yellow. Should I stop watering that one or wait until all the leaves have fallen ? 🤗👏

Was that a Brassavola you have in bloom, at the end of the shelf? Also looked like you had an orange and purple orchid in bloom?