Cattleya dowiana

[dodidoki]

Last year with 5, this year "only"4 flowers.

 

[dodidoki]

 

[GuRu]

What a gem, Istvan .... and you are sure this is only C. dowiana and not var. aurea ?

 

[Paphman910]

What a sight! Beautiful dowiana and beautiful lady!

 

[monocotman]

Still stunning! Anyone who can consistently flower this species deserves much kudos!

 

[dodidoki]

What a gem, Istvan .... and you are sure this is only C. dowiana and not var. aurea ?

Yes Rudolph, aurea is correct...

 

[Guldal]

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Wow amazing!

Please let us know your culture? Specifically:

1. Media
2. Winter rest (aka watering schedule)
3. Lessons you learnt to grow it well

I have dowianas but they are just sulking… alive but not happy.

Thanks so much! And kudos!

 

[terryros]

And, add to Leslie’s list what your temperatures were over the course of the year. Do you have any Cattleya species that don’t grow and bloom well in your conditions?

 

[troy]

My fav cattleya

 

[dodidoki]

Wow amazing!

Please let us know your culture? Specifically:

1. Media
2. Winter rest (aka watering schedule)
3. Lessons you learnt to grow it well

I have dowianas but they are just sulking… alive but not happy.

Thanks so much! And kudos!

I will open a new thread here( because it is difficult and long) about this theme if i get home from job. Thank you and all you my Friends for kind comments.

 

[Ozpaph]

lovely lip

 

[dodidoki]

Growing cattleyas at me

Keeping cattleyas is a complex matter. On the one hand, it is easy because they are adaptable plants with good regeneration properties, but there are also difficulties. I keep the larger labiatas and large double-leaved cattleyas in coarse-grained bark, the smaller species and the seedlings in...

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[dodidoki]

This is why I hate dowianas. One week after first opening...

 

[DrLeslieEe]

You blink and it’s gone lol.

 

[terryros]

Do you think the environmental conditions at the time of blooming can influence the duration of the flowers? I would think that hot and dry would be worse than cool and more humid?

 

[dodidoki]

Do you think the environmental conditions at the time of blooming can influence the duration of the flowers? I would think that hot and dry would be worse than cool and more humid?

Yes, if weather is cooler, it lasts cca. 2 weeks.Last week there was very hot weather here, 36 C in shadow, that "fell down" to 26 C in early morning.

 

[NEslipper]

Congrats on the beautiful flowering! I do an amazing job of killing any seedling I purchase!

 

[paphlove]

Gorgeous flower!