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Are you looking for a pinkish one or white?

Not all that surprising. Coerulea is due to changes in the pH of vacuoles that hold the pigments so they are more bluish than purple and semi alba is unable to make the pigments in the petals. The cross will be able to both make pigment (from the coerulea side) and have the normal vacuole pH...

The confusion stems from the fact that the natural hybrid is indeed correctly named x brasiliensis, but this is not the same taxon as Catt. bicolor ssp brasiliensis. The subspecies of bicolor are minasgeraisensis, bicolor and brasiliensis. People have suggested that the subspecies of bicolor...

Agree with Terry on this. Mossiae is quite variable from very floppy with a recurved dorsal to actually quite nice presentation as good as a nice labiata or gaskelliana. Albas are tough as the subtle differences in veining, location of coloration on the throat, etc are not present to shift ones...

Both Costa Rican dowiana and Colombian aurea are relatively warm growers. For these plants and many others, look at the elevation range to get a much better idea of the ideal temperature range. Aurea grows adjacent to warscewiczii in Colombia with a modest elevation overlap. The fact that aurea...

Mike, would love to hear both what kind of moss you are using - sphagnum or otherwise and as mentioned above, the temperatures you are keeping them at, particularly at night.

I've had some reasonable success growing them in the last few years. While everyone gets hung up on media, watering, pH and light, I really think temperature is the primary issue in why people struggle with this species. Like many mid to higher elevation plants, they would prefer day time...

It is 'Grande' x self that I got a few years ago from Orchid Inn. I have several that are in plastic pots - with growstone (an expanded recycled glass that is no longer available, but very large perlite would suffice), rock wool cubes, bark and oyster shell. Something like 35%:35%:25%:5-10%...

A few photos of a really nice kovachii that finally bloomed. 17cm

These are growing in a cool/intermediate house with a winter low of 52 and highs generally in the high 60s on the coldest winter days and mid 70s on most days. In summer, nighttime temps are high 50s to 60 and day temps are in the high 70 to mid 80s. Most of these are mounted or in wood baskets...

The jongheanas don't have much of a scent so far.

One of my favorite plants. Always a crowd pleaser.

Much electronic ink has been spilled on this topic. Any country not subject to CITES doesn't care. The Europeans that are subject to CITES have essentially decided that anything produced in vitro regardless of its origin is essentially OK. Whether this is specifically true by law in all...

These will take as much light as you can give them. I had a summer power outage a few years ago and greenhouse got to 120F. My amethestoglossas were right near the roof. Leaves were moderate damaged, but survived. Other species like Lueddemaniana and several vandas that will take a lot of light...

A classic. Nice.

Nice plant! Congrats on the well deserved award.

Beautiful. This is somewhat late in the season for aurea. Does it always bloom this time of year for you or was this in a second growth of the season?

Cattleya guttata coerulea and spotless. Both plants are a little over 2.5ft tall and appear to be mature at that size. Bloom like clockwork in the fall. Has a narrower lip, more yellowish vs. brownish and somewhat smaller flowers than tigrina, which blooms more in the late spring. In guttata...

Not out of line in size for a good trianae, but that species blooms Christmas to Feb after a clear rest, almost always with only 2 blooms per inflorescence and the petals are usually much rounder and sometimes overlapping near the column. Not sure what it is, but beautiful none the less.

The thinking is that the unique winged column on lueddemanniana is missing on 'CV' suggests that it is of hybrid origin as this is very stable in lueddemanniana and not present in other unilofiates. CV also has pretty rounded leaves and most lueddemannianas are more pointy. Does't take anything...