Danny, how did you learn such perfect English? I have taught English to foreigners, and you have some of the best spoken English I have heard from a non-native speaker- your pronunciation, vocabulary, syntax, rhythm, everything!
@@censusgary I know, just saying a lot of us from this area speak English fluently. But most of us would say it's TV and films, not school. We don't have dubbed films nor series, we learn via subtitles and hearing how words are pronounced. That and music.
That is what I was wondering as well. She is from Romania. I would guess she must have lived somewhere where English is the main language when she was a kid.
Danny I'm glad I saw this video because I've killed so many of my cattleyas by re-potting them at what I now realize as an inappropriate time. I have not re-potted any for the past 3 years; I just decided to leave them to grow forever in the containers I bought them in, 🤞, and hoping I lose no more. Thanks for the guidance. 👌👍
I’ve had a blc Anna Balmores for about 8 years. It is my only cattleya. It has never bloomed. I have a dozen or so phals that sometimes rebloom. Loved your comment about being out of RAM and needing an upgrade, lol! 😊
Dani, (sorry if that's NOT how you spell your name, but it's how I think of you!). Thank you for all of your wisdom and knowledge on orchids! I had a marathon of your videos today, simply because I'm finally "branching out" to other orchids besides Phals! I purchased my first Nelly Isler last week from our local Trader Joe's, and have been back already since I saw SO MANY more that I would like to add to my collection, but I'm not sure how to care for them, just yet. So, I've been watching your videos and taking some amazing photographs (and notes) so that WHEN I go back, I might be able to figure out which ones I want to try out. Beginning, I think, with the Dendrobium Nobile I saw that was very similar to one you showed us. Very light color with purple and yellow. I have NEVER in my 71 years of life been so enthused with any plants, let alone, ORCHIDS! May family thinks it is because I've survived a heart attack... perhaps so. Wish me luck, and I'lll be back to watch more later.
I live in Brisbane Australia, so the climate is good for Cattleyas. I grow them in an outdoor shade house under shade cloth, so lots of filtered light for most of the day, and high humidity most of the time, and good air circulation. I bring them inside when they flower so I can enjoy the flowers. So far (touch wood), I have found them to be quite low care and low maintenance, but yes, flowering is a bit hit and miss - sometimes they grow buds and dont flower, sometimes they flower when you don’t expect it. I have found it best to put them in shallow pots, with a potting mix made up of Scoria gravel, pine bark, and a very small amount of potting mix (like maybe 5% - as I say VERY SMALL AMOUNT). This mix means the roots drain quickly, so in hot weather I need to water more often, but I never have problems with root rot. I give them orchid liquid fertiliser about once a month in winter, and more frequently in summer. I give them seaweed liquid too. In my situation, they are easy to grow and only require a small amount of care. I find them much easier to grow than Phalenopsis. I love Cattleyas, and I think that they are very under appreciated.
About the Laelia purpurata, I have some friends in my orchid society that have several varieties of it, and theirs are gorgeous and showy, but also at their most impressive when allowed to become specimen sized plants. I love seeing them every year when they bring them in to our meetings. I had one, the flamea variety, that I unfortunately lost right before blooming size due to a pest infestation that struck while I was dealing with some health issues myself and unable to combat the pests in time. My experience with the purpurata was that it was a one-pseudobulb-a-year, yet hardy grower. The only thing that was tricky about it was that it had a longer rhizome and a bit of a climbing tendency. I feel like whether a Cattleya has a climbing tendency is also information that is harder to find but good to know before hand, because it can make it more difficult to keep it growing nicely in a pot.
@@sylviabeichert943 That's what I generally see recommended for climbing type orchids. I haven't tried it myself, because I grow indoors in a home with humidity between 30-40%, so it would take a lot of work to keep a mounted orchid sufficiently hydrated. I've also been toying with trying to tilt orchid pots so that they're slanted by using adjustable stands that are meant for decorative plates, for some of my miniature sympodial orchids that I grow with window light, so that they won't grow completely sideways in their pots. This makes the pot surface a slope, which might work for gently climbing orchids too, but I don't know. It's a possible future experiment, I guess 🙂
You are so spot on! Observation and trial & error are the best cattleya teachers for me. Once I started taking notes on when the roots appear in relation to growth and flowering, that’s when I started having successes with cattleyas.
Thank you Danny my orchid whisperer ❤ You fueled my love for orchids. This year on your recommendation I purchased Chantilly lace, Hsing Yu gold Coast and Crystelle Smith. While the first two havent bloomed yet, oh my….Crystelle Smith is blooming for the second time already. Since i got it i have 5 new shoots❤❤ She is such a beauty… Can’t wait of the others to bloom. Also, what you said about the large fluffy cattleyas…growing at snail pace and taking forever to bloom…. I thought I was doing something wrong with them. But now i know😇
@@oranlkr thanks for replying 😊 I had a feeling that you didn’t live in the US because all 3 of the orchids you mentioned don’t seem to be available here. Happy growing!
I have given up growing my orchids indoors. So I moved them all under the pergola and my phals in front of my house where they get the full morning sun. I had leaf burns initially, but they are adapting well in their 2nd year. I gave cattleyas another try as I have killed all my old ones- I started planting with a water cup filled with mostly large pebbles, some moss(just enough to trail water from the cup), and some bark. They seem to be thriving with the pergola set-up, and growing much larger than the last bulbs- so fingers crossed. :)
I have a miniature cataleya blue Hawaiian. I have three in fact because I had to divide it. They all have multiple buds on each. I can't wait! They smell so good.
One of my favorite Cattleyas is C. Bob Betz - a huge floofy white with a bit of yellow in the center. It smells great. If its happy it grows more than one p-bulb a year and blooms freely. You can kill it if you are careless with the timing of the potting though! Otherwise I love my C. Toshe Akoe, which I have owned for a decade. It's another huge floofy flower, yellow and red, just stunning. It put up with my experimentation and, though it got set back, its survived! I hope to see it bloom again soon. For a medium size, free blooming bright red, C. Jewel Box grows and blooms like a weed and I love the RED flowers on it! One p-bulb division became a blooming plant in 2 years! (I don't recommend doing that, it was just extra.) We moved 5 years ago, the big floofies haven't rebloomed in our new home, I think its too cool, but the Jewel Box has merrily continued!
just ordered some, for first time. thanks for info. i had a disaster some time ago with phals and just getting back into orchids. when re-potting i plan to use 7-20mm pumice mostly with a bit of chunky coir. normal watering not semi-hydro.
Thank you, Danni!! This video helps. I was beginning to think I couldn’t flower a cattleya. I love them but am ready to toss and start over with catts. All my other breeds bloom, but not these beauties, so far!
Hey Danny, regarding the roots of your Cattleya species, my Cattleya dowiana is thriving. In the past, it had three new growths developing, and I remember some of them produced new roots even though those growths were obviously not matured. However, I had to remove those young pseudobulbs because they developed black rot, which was frustrating. Cattleya orchids are highly prone to black rot 😭.
Binosa Key Lime stars- brassavola hybrid. VERY fast grower, 2 directions of growth, it didn’t rebloom for me last summer, but hoping for 2 flower spikes this year.
I got a Bc. Binosa 'Key lime' at an orchid show last year, becareful when you repot. I killed most of the roots on mine by repotting it while it was cold here. However it is summer now and has 2 new growths! I hope your orchid gives you a ton of blooms this fall. 😊
Thankyou for this video. I have bought quite a few cattleya, one year on the sheath died. I thought it was something I did. Now I'm hopeful of getting flowers in the future.
BLC Hawaiian Paasion ‘Carmela’ I bought two of these seedlings because I absolutely adored the flowers and I was worried with my inexperience that one of them might fail. They are the most excruciatingly slow growers I’ve ever seen. These are the ones that taught me the lesson about seedlings. Yes they were only eight dollars each but next time I will absolutely spend a little more and purchase one that is mature. I’m glad they’re still living and growing, no matter how slow, but for goodness sake, I don’t know that I’m ever gonna see a flower on them.
Bifrenaria inodora is SUCH a vigorous grower- filled up my biggest pot with roots in 1.5 years, but the roots were decimated when I repotted. I probably would have had its first bloom this summer if I hadn’t repotted. SUCH a bummer. It’s recovering extremely well with THREE new pseudobulbs- three directions of growth! So fingers crossed for next year that I don’t set it back too badly.
I just got my first Dowiana orchid i am so excited i dont know how long i have to go to get a bloom from it but im so excited, i have read so much on google about it. It seems to be so much different than most orchids 🤷 but exciting 😊
LOL your brain is out of RAM! I compare my brain to an old computer all the time-it spins and spins and if it times out I forget what I was trying to think of!😂😂
Hey Danny, love your videos, they have given me the confidence to get more than one orchid 🙂 I was hoping some day soon you could do a video on Cymbidium's. My wife recently purchased one for me (in bloom), the blooms have gone over now and I've done a little googling 😜 and cut back the flower spikes but would love a bit more detail from the Queen of orchids 🙂
Walkeriana Midnight Blue- a lovely fast grower, again in two directions, fairly constant root producer. I’m hoping for a first rebloom for me this year, so I am holding off repotting.
I was happy to learn that Potinara is a very forgiving choice (a quadri-generic hybrid with a new genus name) since some of the ancestors come from habitats that are cooler than those of the larger luxuriant "Classic Cattleyas". Because I limit my supply of heat to the mid-fifties Fahr. in the 3 coldest months, I'm limiting the selection of Cattleya Alliance that I can host. What gave me hope is my current Potinara Tricky Love 'Nelly'.
Potinara Shin Shang Diamond- another that I purchased as a seedling, And another that grows only one new growth per year. I am not holding my breath that it will flower this year, but at least it’s growing healthily and I’m seeing both unifoliate and bifoliate growths, so it’s an interesting hybrid to watch as I wait.
Hi Danny, loved this video, thankyou for all the cattleya info. I have a large no ID cattleya with lots of pseudobulbs that had only flowered once for me. It has very large deep pink flowers. Although I keep it under an led light, it doesn't bloom I live in BC Canada with mild winters and warm/ hot summers. What am I not doing for her?
Another excellent episode filled with so much good information 😄 Thank you for all you do to teach us! ❤ Two cattleyas I purchased last year are turning out to be problem children for me and I am so bummed that they might not make it. I'm sad because I fell in love with these gorgeous flowers when I saw yours in bloom. Amazing Thailand 'Rainbow" is dehydrated and I guess I need to repot her just to see if all the roots have died off. Myrmecatavola Frances Fox has lost all its leaves but the pseudobulbs are still green. Is there any hope for a cattleya without leaves?
Thanks for this video Danni! So so helpful as always. This absolutely explains why some of my kitty cats did not make it! Doing much better with them now but did just lose one after repotting that was completely healthy beforehand. Grrr! Won’t make that mistake again thanks to you. ❤
I got my very first orchid (!!) in May, and I went with a C. intermedia v aquinii fma coerulea seedling and mounted it up on some cork bark! Seeing lots of new roots so far, but still waiting on that first new growth 👀
I love them but here are my negatives. They only flowers for 3-4 weeks. They take a long time to form new growths. They must receive a lot of light to flower and grow well, sometimes tough for us indoor growers. If your new growth wasn't 100% happy it will not bloom, and you will have to wait till next year:( But I still love them lol
I was waiting 4 years for blooms from Catlleya dowiana x C. schrodereae.... Unfortunetly when bud was quite big something happen and it becomes black and bud dried and fell off
My Cattleya roots always stay too wet and they die. I have them outside in Florida. When I buy them they are in plastic pots. I've started cutting more big holes in the plastic pots and that is helping. What do you know about mounting cattleyas soon after buying them? Or should I grow then in leca to keep them dry?
Hi Danny My favorits are cattleyas Got around 100 in the aliance I grow them under light But it seems like the leaves go purple if they have more then 12 hours So my questionn is How many hours light do you have with cattleyas? Do you have longer time light in the sommer then winter time? Kindly Lars 😀
Having such a tough time with my wrinkly cattleya. I know…overwater, underwater….I’m trying not to overwater, and with incredible heat this summer, I wonder if I’m waiting too long in between watering. I’m in North Carolina, the piedmont. 18:35
I’ve never been to a specialist orchid store I don’t even know if they exist in my part of the world. When I see orchids in places like garden centers and supermarkets, they are usually not labeled with their species or variety (or parents, if they’re hybrids). The label will say “Phalenopsis Orchid” or “Orchid-Cattleya,” and sometimes not even that much.
I don’t know what part of the world you live in, but if you just Google orchid nurseries near me, you should be able to find an orchid specific nursery that will ship to you in your country or region.
I'm about to give up on catts. 5 sheaths on one plant and not one opened. Very upsetting since I just don't know why. Not enough water, too much water? Not enough sunlight or fertilizer? 😢 No wedding ring?
The thing about Cattleyas is you have to have a lot of patience. It can take a few years. I was at an orchid show and an older lady was looking at a display Cattleya and asked where they were. The guy said “We have the little ones over here” and she said “I’ll be dead by the time that thing blooms!”. I bought one of the little one, the Young Kong, because I like buying them little, they’re cheaper and I like watching them grow.
@@Suzyq6131 thx. I have patience but I wish I could figure out why one time they look like they need water and next time they're growing roots.....without watering. 🤔
How about à vidéo about those nasty little bugs (scale boisvudale) that are eating all my Cattleyas?? It seems that even after applying 2 times the insecticide they are still there 😢
I’m sorry, scale is so very difficult to fully eliminate. Many growers toss theirs if scale appears. Maybe try a different pesticide before tossing? Also, have you isolated it?
What's a good place to determine the exact purchased orchid? Bought one as Cambria with a small sticker on the pot Brassia Su.... Can't find the right one. Someone who can help me?👍
I purchased my first cat this year (cattleya yuan dung sweet 'dragon fruit'); have it growing under lights in moss in a warm room (18-28°c). The roots are growing well, but the older leaves keep drying up on the orchid, and it looks a little 'pale green/yellow' - is this perhaps transplant shock or am I maybe doing something wrong in my care? The poor thing has the unlucky of being my first cattleya, but I would like to learn to grow them properly longer term!
Pale leaves are often a result of more light. If the new growths are good, just keep on. Patience! If the whole thing is dry, lower the stress level (light, temperature) a little and see if it will recover.
My cattelya orchids do not have leaves that grow straight up. They are all growing sideways, even the one that has bloomed twice for me in the past year (BC Golden Glory). What am I doing wrong? They get plenty of bright light and I keep them outside because our summer temperatures are usually high 80 to high 90 F.
Totally normal! Try using a med hair clip to anchor a new growth to a bamboo skewer to help it grow upright. Catts are often very messy growers - another thing that goes by the individual.
I have one cat and it’s very sprawling in its growth. Sideways, up, down, whatever. It takes up so much room on my end table. So I think it depends on the plant.
Danny, how did you learn such perfect English? I have taught English to foreigners, and you have some of the best spoken English I have heard from a non-native speaker- your pronunciation, vocabulary, syntax, rhythm, everything!
Welcome to Scandinavia 😅
@@twistedelegance_Scandinavian schools do have good English instruction, but I’m pretty sure Danny’s not in Scandinavia.
@@censusgary I know, just saying a lot of us from this area speak English fluently. But most of us would say it's TV and films, not school. We don't have dubbed films nor series, we learn via subtitles and hearing how words are pronounced. That and music.
That is what I was wondering as well. She is from Romania. I would guess she must have lived somewhere where English is the main language when she was a kid.
@@stefpix I lived in Romania for a while for work and a lot of people do speak English really well. I guess it depends on area and how they grew up :)
Danny I'm glad I saw this video because I've killed so many of my cattleyas by re-potting them at what I now realize as an inappropriate time. I have not re-potted any for the past 3 years; I just decided to leave them to grow forever in the containers I bought them in, 🤞, and hoping I lose no more. Thanks for the guidance. 👌👍
I’ve had a blc Anna Balmores for about 8 years. It is my only cattleya. It has never bloomed. I have a dozen or so phals that sometimes rebloom. Loved your comment about being out of RAM and needing an upgrade, lol! 😊
Hawain star and secret love as my seller said their names. Beautiful orchids, easily grown, produces flower and fragrances are out of this world❤❤❤
Dani, (sorry if that's NOT how you spell your name, but it's how I think of you!). Thank you for all of your wisdom and knowledge on orchids! I had a marathon of your videos today, simply because I'm finally "branching out" to other orchids besides Phals! I purchased my first Nelly Isler last week from our local Trader Joe's, and have been back already since I saw SO MANY more that I would like to add to my collection, but I'm not sure how to care for them, just yet.
So, I've been watching your videos and taking some amazing photographs (and notes) so that WHEN I go back, I might be able to figure out which ones I want to try out. Beginning, I think, with the Dendrobium Nobile I saw that was very similar to one you showed us. Very light color with purple and yellow.
I have NEVER in my 71 years of life been so enthused with any plants, let alone, ORCHIDS! May family thinks it is because I've survived a heart attack... perhaps so.
Wish me luck, and I'lll be back to watch more later.
I live in Brisbane Australia, so the climate is good for Cattleyas. I grow them in an outdoor shade house under shade cloth, so lots of filtered light for most of the day, and high humidity most of the time, and good air circulation. I bring them inside when they flower so I can enjoy the flowers. So far (touch wood), I have found them to be quite low care and low maintenance, but yes, flowering is a bit hit and miss - sometimes they grow buds and dont flower, sometimes they flower when you don’t expect it. I have found it best to put them in shallow pots, with a potting mix made up of Scoria gravel, pine bark, and a very small amount of potting mix (like maybe 5% - as I say VERY SMALL AMOUNT). This mix means the roots drain quickly, so in hot weather I need to water more often, but I never have problems with root rot. I give them orchid liquid fertiliser about once a month in winter, and more frequently in summer. I give them seaweed liquid too. In my situation, they are easy to grow and only require a small amount of care. I find them much easier to grow than Phalenopsis. I love Cattleyas, and I think that they are very under appreciated.
Hi beautiful orchids one of my fav too ❤
About the Laelia purpurata, I have some friends in my orchid society that have several varieties of it, and theirs are gorgeous and showy, but also at their most impressive when allowed to become specimen sized plants. I love seeing them every year when they bring them in to our meetings.
I had one, the flamea variety, that I unfortunately lost right before blooming size due to a pest infestation that struck while I was dealing with some health issues myself and unable to combat the pests in time. My experience with the purpurata was that it was a one-pseudobulb-a-year, yet hardy grower. The only thing that was tricky about it was that it had a longer rhizome and a bit of a climbing tendency. I feel like whether a Cattleya has a climbing tendency is also information that is harder to find but good to know before hand, because it can make it more difficult to keep it growing nicely in a pot.
Would it be better to plant climbing types on a mount?
@@sylviabeichert943 That's what I generally see recommended for climbing type orchids. I haven't tried it myself, because I grow indoors in a home with humidity between 30-40%, so it would take a lot of work to keep a mounted orchid sufficiently hydrated. I've also been toying with trying to tilt orchid pots so that they're slanted by using adjustable stands that are meant for decorative plates, for some of my miniature sympodial orchids that I grow with window light, so that they won't grow completely sideways in their pots. This makes the pot surface a slope, which might work for gently climbing orchids too, but I don't know. It's a possible future experiment, I guess 🙂
You are so spot on! Observation and trial & error are the best cattleya teachers for me. Once I started taking notes on when the roots appear in relation to growth and flowering, that’s when I started having successes with cattleyas.
Thank you Danny my orchid whisperer ❤ You fueled my love for orchids. This year on your recommendation I purchased Chantilly lace, Hsing Yu gold Coast and Crystelle Smith. While the first two havent bloomed yet, oh my….Crystelle Smith is blooming for the second time already. Since i got it i have 5 new shoots❤❤ She is such a beauty… Can’t wait of the others to bloom.
Also, what you said about the large fluffy cattleyas…growing at snail pace and taking forever to bloom…. I thought I was doing something wrong with them. But now i know😇
Your comment helps me, so thank you!!
May I ask where you purchased your Crystelle Smith?
@@shirleytaylor9267
I live in India so i got it from a local seller here.😊
@@oranlkr thanks for replying 😊 I had a feeling that you didn’t live in the US because all 3 of the orchids you mentioned don’t seem to be available here. Happy growing!
I have given up growing my orchids indoors. So I moved them all under the pergola and my phals in front of my house where they get the full morning sun. I had leaf burns initially, but they are adapting well in their 2nd year. I gave cattleyas another try as I have killed all my old ones- I started planting with a water cup filled with mostly large pebbles, some moss(just enough to trail water from the cup), and some bark. They seem to be thriving with the pergola set-up, and growing much larger than the last bulbs- so fingers crossed. :)
I have a miniature cataleya blue Hawaiian. I have three in fact because I had to divide it. They all have multiple buds on each. I can't wait! They smell so good.
Love my cats! They were shipped from a nursery in Hawaii and did indeed take 3-5 years to bloom. But the flowers are huge and they smell wonderful.
Great Video!! Entertaining, Informative and Funny! Thanks for making my day 😊. ❤Carol
thanks, I had just purchased a C dowiana f aurea so I will be extra careful when I start thinking of repotting it!
One of my favorite Cattleyas is C. Bob Betz - a huge floofy white with a bit of yellow in the center. It smells great. If its happy it grows more than one p-bulb a year and blooms freely. You can kill it if you are careless with the timing of the potting though!
Otherwise I love my C. Toshe Akoe, which I have owned for a decade. It's another huge floofy flower, yellow and red, just stunning. It put up with my experimentation and, though it got set back, its survived! I hope to see it bloom again soon.
For a medium size, free blooming bright red, C. Jewel Box grows and blooms like a weed and I love the RED flowers on it! One p-bulb division became a blooming plant in 2 years! (I don't recommend doing that, it was just extra.)
We moved 5 years ago, the big floofies haven't rebloomed in our new home, I think its too cool, but the Jewel Box has merrily continued!
just ordered some, for first time. thanks for info.
i had a disaster some time ago with phals and just getting back into orchids. when re-potting i plan to use 7-20mm pumice mostly with a bit of chunky coir. normal watering not semi-hydro.
Thank you, Danni!! This video helps. I was beginning to think I couldn’t flower a cattleya. I love them but am ready to toss and start over with catts. All my other breeds bloom, but not these beauties, so far!
Hey Danny, regarding the roots of your Cattleya species, my Cattleya dowiana is thriving. In the past, it had three new growths developing, and I remember some of them produced new roots even though those growths were obviously not matured. However, I had to remove those young pseudobulbs because they developed black rot, which was frustrating. Cattleya orchids are highly prone to black rot 😭.
Binosa Key Lime stars- brassavola hybrid. VERY fast grower, 2 directions of growth, it didn’t rebloom for me last summer, but hoping for 2 flower spikes this year.
I got a Bc. Binosa 'Key lime' at an orchid show last year, becareful when you repot. I killed most of the roots on mine by repotting it while it was cold here. However it is summer now and has 2 new growths! I hope your orchid gives you a ton of blooms this fall. 😊
Thankyou for this video. I have bought quite a few cattleya, one year on the sheath died. I thought it was something I did. Now I'm hopeful of getting flowers in the future.
BLC Hawaiian Paasion ‘Carmela’ I bought two of these seedlings because I absolutely adored the flowers and I was worried with my inexperience that one of them might fail. They are the most excruciatingly slow growers I’ve ever seen. These are the ones that taught me the lesson about seedlings. Yes they were only eight dollars each but next time I will absolutely spend a little more and purchase one that is mature. I’m glad they’re still living and growing, no matter how slow, but for goodness sake, I don’t know that I’m ever gonna see a flower on them.
Bifrenaria inodora is SUCH a vigorous grower- filled up my biggest pot with roots in 1.5 years, but the roots were decimated when I repotted. I probably would have had its first bloom this summer if I hadn’t repotted. SUCH a bummer. It’s recovering extremely well with THREE new pseudobulbs- three directions of growth! So fingers crossed for next year that I don’t set it back too badly.
I just got my first Dowiana orchid i am so excited i dont know how long i have to go to get a bloom from it but im so excited, i have read so much on google about it. It seems to be so much different than most orchids 🤷 but exciting 😊
LOL your brain is out of RAM! I compare my brain to an old computer all the time-it spins and spins and if it times out I forget what I was trying to think of!😂😂
Hey Danny, love your videos, they have given me the confidence to get more than one orchid 🙂 I was hoping some day soon you could do a video on Cymbidium's. My wife recently purchased one for me (in bloom), the blooms have gone over now and I've done a little googling 😜 and cut back the flower spikes but would love a bit more detail from the Queen of orchids 🙂
Cattleya intermedia and forbesii tend to grow a little bit faster.
Walkeriana Midnight Blue- a lovely fast grower, again in two directions, fairly constant root producer. I’m hoping for a first rebloom for me this year, so I am holding off repotting.
I’ve been mounting all my Cattleyas
Thanks for this video! Cattleyas are so different from one another. So much to learn, but I really love them, especially the compact ones❤️
I was happy to learn that Potinara is a very forgiving choice (a quadri-generic hybrid with a new genus name) since some of the ancestors come from habitats that are cooler than those of the larger luxuriant "Classic Cattleyas". Because I limit my supply of heat to the mid-fifties Fahr. in the 3 coldest months, I'm limiting the selection of Cattleya Alliance that I can host. What gave me hope is my current Potinara Tricky Love 'Nelly'.
Keowee is very easy. Several growth every year, no sheath… and wonderful color changing flowers!
Potinara Shin Shang Diamond- another that I purchased as a seedling, And another that grows only one new growth per year. I am not holding my breath that it will flower this year, but at least it’s growing healthily and I’m seeing both unifoliate and bifoliate growths, so it’s an interesting hybrid to watch as I wait.
Hi Danny, loved this video, thankyou for all the cattleya info. I have a large no ID cattleya with lots of pseudobulbs that had only flowered once for me. It has very large deep pink flowers. Although I keep it under an led light, it doesn't bloom I live in BC Canada with mild winters and warm/ hot summers. What am I not doing for her?
Another excellent episode filled with so much good information 😄 Thank you for all you do to teach us! ❤
Two cattleyas I purchased last year are turning out to be problem children for me and I am so bummed that they might not make it. I'm sad because I fell in love with these gorgeous flowers when I saw yours in bloom. Amazing Thailand 'Rainbow" is dehydrated and I guess I need to repot her just to see if all the roots have died off. Myrmecatavola Frances Fox has lost all its leaves but the pseudobulbs are still green. Is there any hope for a cattleya without leaves?
Thanks for this video Danni! So so helpful as always. This absolutely explains why some of my kitty cats did not make it! Doing much better with them now but did just lose one after repotting that was completely healthy beforehand. Grrr! Won’t make that mistake again thanks to you. ❤
I got my very first orchid (!!) in May, and I went with a C. intermedia v aquinii fma coerulea seedling and mounted it up on some cork bark! Seeing lots of new roots so far, but still waiting on that first new growth 👀
I love any lovely miniature plant, so I will check out your videos on that.
I love them but here are my negatives. They only flowers for 3-4 weeks. They take a long time to form new growths. They must receive a lot of light to flower and grow well, sometimes tough for us indoor growers. If your new growth wasn't 100% happy it will not bloom, and you will have to wait till next year:( But I still love them lol
Hey Danny
Can you please give an update on your foxtail orchid😊I always anticipate to see her in your orchids in bloom video😢
I was waiting 4 years for blooms from Catlleya dowiana x C. schrodereae.... Unfortunetly when bud was quite big something happen and it becomes black and bud dried and fell off
Great information. Thanks
My Cattleya roots always stay too wet and they die. I have them outside in Florida. When I buy them they are in plastic pots. I've started cutting more big holes in the plastic pots and that is helping. What do you know about mounting cattleyas soon after buying them? Or should I grow then in leca to keep them dry?
Hi Danny
My favorits are cattleyas
Got around 100 in the aliance
I grow them under light
But it seems like the leaves go purple if they have more then 12 hours
So my questionn is
How many hours light do you have with cattleyas?
Do you have longer time light in the sommer then winter time?
Kindly Lars 😀
Having such a tough time with my wrinkly cattleya. I know…overwater, underwater….I’m trying not to overwater, and with incredible heat this summer, I wonder if I’m waiting too long in between watering. I’m in North Carolina, the piedmont. 18:35
do u still have indoor rose plants ???? I try to grow rose indoor but there seems not a lot of videos of it on TH-cam 😅
youre the best!!!!!
Hi Danni,
I also Google before i go to sleep😂😂 i Google when i wake up 😂😂 and READ Google alot of the time 😂❤❤
I’ve never been to a specialist orchid store I don’t even know if they exist in my part of the world. When I see orchids in places like garden centers and supermarkets, they are usually not labeled with their species or variety (or parents, if they’re hybrids). The label will say “Phalenopsis Orchid” or “Orchid-Cattleya,” and sometimes not even that much.
I don’t know what part of the world you live in, but if you just Google orchid nurseries near me, you should be able to find an orchid specific nursery that will ship to you in your country or region.
I'm about to give up on catts. 5 sheaths on one plant and not one opened. Very upsetting since I just don't know why. Not enough water, too much water? Not enough sunlight or fertilizer? 😢 No wedding ring?
The thing about Cattleyas is you have to have a lot of patience. It can take a few years. I was at an orchid show and an older lady was looking at a display Cattleya and asked where they were. The guy said “We have the little ones over here” and she said “I’ll be dead by the time that thing blooms!”. I bought one of the little one, the Young Kong, because I like buying them little, they’re cheaper and I like watching them grow.
@@Suzyq6131 thx. I have patience but I wish I could figure out why one time they look like they need water and next time they're growing roots.....without watering. 🤔
What is the yellow with purple edges Cattleya you in the video?
How about à vidéo about those nasty little bugs (scale boisvudale) that are eating all my Cattleyas?? It seems that even after applying 2 times the insecticide they are still there 😢
I’m sorry, scale is so very difficult to fully eliminate. Many growers toss theirs if scale appears. Maybe try a different pesticide before tossing? Also, have you isolated it?
I think I have seen a scale video on her channel…
What's a good place to determine the exact purchased orchid? Bought one as Cambria with a small sticker on the pot Brassia Su.... Can't find the right one. Someone who can help me?👍
American Orchid Society is a great resource in identifying orchids.
Hello, any suggestion about bugs in orquid ?
I purchased my first cat this year (cattleya yuan dung sweet 'dragon fruit'); have it growing under lights in moss in a warm room (18-28°c). The roots are growing well, but the older leaves keep drying up on the orchid, and it looks a little 'pale green/yellow' - is this perhaps transplant shock or am I maybe doing something wrong in my care?
The poor thing has the unlucky of being my first cattleya, but I would like to learn to grow them properly longer term!
Pale leaves are often a result of more light. If the new growths are good, just keep on. Patience! If the whole thing is dry, lower the stress level (light, temperature) a little and see if it will recover.
My cattelya orchids do not have leaves that grow straight up. They are all growing sideways, even the one that has bloomed twice for me in the past year (BC Golden Glory). What am I doing wrong? They get plenty of bright light and I keep them outside because our summer temperatures are usually high 80 to high 90 F.
Totally normal! Try using a med hair clip to anchor a new growth to a bamboo skewer to help it grow upright. Catts are often very messy growers - another thing that goes by the individual.
I have one cat and it’s very sprawling in its growth. Sideways, up, down, whatever. It takes up so much room on my end table. So I think it depends on the plant.
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