Preparing Catasetums for dormancy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ย. 2023
- Another video on another less commonly encountered Catasetum species.
ALL my orchids featured in my videos are grown outdoors year-round in a sub-tropical climate.
Previous video on when to start watering Catasetums:
• When to start watering...
Previous video on how to repot a Catasetum
• Repotting a catasetum ...
Excellent information. I just starting with 2 catasetums a year ago, so all this is great information. Thank you
You' re welcome! CHeck out the other videos I made on the subject (when to water, how to repot, duration of dormancies etc..)
@@orchidhouse i will.. thanks so much
Always enjoy watching your videos. You've got me back in catesetums. I saw several at Krull-Smith that bloom a few times a year. That's just what I was looking for.....orchids that flower more than once a year.
A mature and happy Catasetum can bloom 3, 4 or rarely 5 times during the growing season. Some may have multiple spikes at once providing for quite the show!! Glad to hear you jumped back on the catasetum bandwagon!
@@orchidhouse Thanks for the info. I found some at Krull-Smith that flower 2-3 times a year. So, I'm back into Catesetums. I think you grow them in clay pots, right? What do you find to be the best medium for them? I'm a heavy waterer during the growing season. Am trying some Australian tree fern with a few orchids, sphagnum with bulbophyllums, lava rock for cattleyas and orchid bark with the rest.
I grow them in a transparent plastic pot to be able to monitor root growth at the onset of the growing season. Then I put the plastic pot in a clay pot for stability since these plants are top heavy.
Below is a link to my video on how I repot them with and you'll see I use sphagnum moss with charcoal and perlite at the bottom. I am now using tree fern fiber for Cycnoches and Mormodes and I love the result.
th-cam.com/video/Mn6Up7HsCzA/w-d-xo.html
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@@orchidhouse I'm trying the tree fern fiber on encyclias and a few phals. Very happy with the results. Will the tree fern fiber work well with the Cyncnodes? Thanks for the link to your page on repotting.
It works great on Cycnoches!!!@@patsfreund9164
Thank you for sharing.
Hi Olivier, I always love your video, so many information for newbie like me. I bought some of my collections based on your review such as Psychopsis Mariposa, it's not blooming yet.
I hope I can grow my orchids as excellent as you.. I live in Jakarta, Indonesia, so I guess the climate and temperature are not so much different from Florida hahaha. Thank you.
Greetings to Indonesia! I think you are more tropical than we are LOL!
I am sure you will do great! Don't forget to observe your plants regularly: that is the best way to learn. They tell you what they want and you can adjust your practices to your own environment.
Vielen Dank! Ich lerne viel von ihnen!! Lg aus Deutschland
Es freut mich sehr :)
Great tips!
Thank you Stephen. Hope you are well in San Antonio!
How many of your plants stay in the same pot for a second year? I too really appreciate all your videos, great information and collection.
Very few stay in the same pot. I would say 10%. If I overpotted the previous year, or if the plant is really perfectly positioned and has room to grow, then I keep it one more year but the policy is to repot every year.
Thank you very much for your kind words!! Happy to be of service :))
I very much enjoy your videos! May I ask, where do you find your orchids? Do you have a favorite supplier?
Thank you for your kind words!
No favorite supplier.
I buy my orchids from all over (US and abroad).
For Catasetums, my favorite suppliers are Fred Clarke at Sunset Valley Orchids (SVO) in California and Bela Vista in Brazil
Hey there! I was wondering if you had any videos on the growing media you use? I’ve seen some recommend moss with bark and some just do moss etc. thank you!
Here you go:
th-cam.com/video/Mn6Up7HsCzA/w-d-xo.html
Question for you. I see so many catasetums and it’s relatives in plastic. I understand it’s because clay leeches out the moisture, but my question is this.
Are plastic pots just something to embrace when it comes to growing catasetums?
Vendors use plastic because it is cheaper.
I use CLEAR/TRANSLUCID plastic pots because it allows me to monitor the root growth when the Catasetum starts growing after dormancy and this makes it easier for me to judge when to start watering. I refer to this video I made on the subject. moisture
th-cam.com/video/23wxzCaa11U/w-d-xo.html
The problem is that Catasetums are top heavy and hence you have to put the plastic pot in a clay pot for stability.
So in my own opinion, yes plastic is the way to go for Catasetums.
Always very good information. I don't have any catasetums in my collection but some of the others are getting yellow leaves so they are probably going into dormancy. Is there a list of types of orchids that are going into dormancy?
Yellow leaves do not indicate dormancy for most orchids but is just part of their normal life cycle: they drop older leaves.
Catasetums truly go dormant as they shed all their leaves and quit growing entirely.
Some Cattleya species go "dormant" for a month or up to a few months but they keep their leaves. They just stop growing for a while.
There are other genera that go truly dormant like Catasetums but I am not familiar with them. Some bulbous orchids like Habenaria vanish entirely when they go dormant and only a bulb stays dormant inside the medium, hidden from sight.
Many orchids reduce their growth substantially during the winter months or stop growing altogether. Others, like Phalaenopsis, most Vandas or Stanhopeas among others never really stop growing at all.
@@orchidhouseI came on to ask the same question and your reply was really helpful. I now feel a little bit more comfortable with simply reducing watering and feeding until Spring. I don't have any catasetums either, mainly because I'm not sure they'd survive..haha!
Give them a try :)
As to other orchids, in winter the duration of the days is much shorter and so less light = less energy and less growth. Lower temperatures also reduce the drive of orchids to grow SO: definitely less water and little to no fertilizing in winter. @@petrichor7121
@@orchidhouse Thank you so much.. I will 😊
What fertiliser are you u using for CATASETUMS ? And how often ?
I alternate different fertilizers (20/20/20, Cal mag, KelpMax etc..). In Summer, I fertilize every other day. Come October, I reduce a bit. All Catasetums that show signs of going dormant (yellow leaves), I stop fertilizing entirely.