I have trouble keeping roots on divisions I buy or make and repotting Cattleya. I wish you would address that next time. I know there are proper times but we can't always repot or buy at those times.
Incredible process...from seed to flower. How all of this happens in nature, well an even more amazing thing. I kept track a beautiful epidendrum type orchid in the Costa Rica cloud forest. It was so beautiful the first year with a large number of waxy white flowers. The following year I found it again with a spike and second spike which had a large seed pod on it. The following year I noticed the plant was in poor shape....hoping that the seed pod was successful and managed to generate seedlings somewhere somehow sometime.
@@MyGreenPets I don't know the fate of that single orchid but you could be right. I never saw one quite like it again. Many of these epiphytes would get blown off their tree trunks after the windy thunderstorms high up @2200 meters. I found on a few occasions whole orchid plants with flower spike on the forest floor. It was difficult to figure out genus. But I did see my very first telipogon EVER. All this to say I was there for birding and the orchids were a bonus.
No matter what cattleya you have and no matter the clone. The first flowers are never a good representation of real flowers. The way I see it, you need number of pseudobulbs and probably roots to support those flowers to full potentials. I got to that conclusion with a Cattleya Eldorado fantasy that I have. The flower of that plant did not opened the flower completely until the third year of flowering. Now it is a monster with probably 80 pseudobulbs and have not a problem handling the flowers. What media you used for the seeds? Peruvians use a variant of Murashige and Skoog for repeating, but I do not know what they use for the seeds. My seeds do not develop that well on P723.
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Good job guys! That was very different and informative 🤗
Orchid pollination is pretty cool
magnifico ejemplar¡
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Spasibo!
This was so interesting! Love your chats!
Thank you!!
I have trouble keeping roots on divisions I buy or make and repotting Cattleya. I wish you would address that next time. I know there are proper times but we can't always repot or buy at those times.
That's true, it seems there are ways of stimulating root growth, such as letting the plant dry out or using chemicals or rotting hormones.
Incredible process...from seed to flower. How all of this happens in nature, well an even more amazing thing. I kept track a beautiful epidendrum type orchid in the Costa Rica cloud forest. It was so beautiful the first year with a large number of waxy white flowers. The following year I found it again with a spike and second spike which had a large seed pod on it. The following year I noticed the plant was in poor shape....hoping that the seed pod was successful and managed to generate seedlings somewhere somehow sometime.
Making the seed pod must 'cost' a lot in terms of energy. I wonder if that was the cause of the plant's decline?
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I don't know the fate of that single orchid but you could be right. I never saw one quite like it again. Many of these epiphytes would get blown off their tree trunks after the windy thunderstorms high up @2200 meters. I found on a few occasions whole orchid plants with flower spike on the forest floor. It was difficult to figure out genus. But I did see my very first telipogon EVER. All this to say I was there for birding and the orchids were a bonus.
These were fun chats! I look forward to our next one! Thanks!
For sure, the next Catasetum update will be cool. I'm so proud of how big they've gotten!
Such a great species.
I'm a fan!!
No matter what cattleya you have and no matter the clone. The first flowers are never a good representation of real flowers. The way I see it, you need number of pseudobulbs and probably roots to support those flowers to full potentials. I got to that conclusion with a Cattleya Eldorado fantasy that I have. The flower of that plant did not opened the flower completely until the third year of flowering. Now it is a monster with probably 80 pseudobulbs and have not a problem handling the flowers.
What media you used for the seeds?
Peruvians use a variant of Murashige and Skoog for repeating, but I do not know what they use for the seeds. My seeds do not develop that well on P723.
I do not germinate my own seeds. I send them to a laboratory, then I receive the seedlings when they are 2-3 years old.
@@MyGreenPets Holly Cow, a 2-3 years old is a teenager
Could you put his Instagram account name in your info?
Yes, will do
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