LOL! It's fun to hear your passion about these wonderful flowers! They are all absolutely beautiful.... Tell me, do you ever name your plants? .... 😀 .... For me the first thing came to mind when I saw the Cattleya amethystoglossa was 'Freckles". 😎
Lueddemanniana is my favourite species. Those are two very well grown plants! They really love your conditions, they’re a bit more of challenge for a windowsill grower in the UK. I’m sure you know but Armando Mantellini at Orquiverde has some stunning and very choice clones of lueddemanniana for sale in the USA at the moment, but you have to be quick!
Love the C. amethystoglossa also. In regards to triploids - yes, they can be more vigorous than the diploids and thus for the floriculture trade they make sense. One of my favorite hybrids from years ago is Lc. Garden Delight and it grew like a weed outdoors here in SoCal and it was bred as a triploid (diploid L. anceps by a big old tetraploid Cattleya.) However, for a species I'm a bit against filling up collections of triploids. We (humans) are causing a great extinction and that certainly includes most orchids. I believe it is best to propagate diploids as widely as possible, distributing them as widely as can be done, so there is a large pool of extant orchids as long as possible. It is possible, maybe even likely, that there won't be any native C. amethystoglossa left in the wild a century from now.
The luddemanniana that you are keeping has an amazing lip!! I would love to grow this one. The amethystoglossa is wonderful! You definitely do a great job and thanks for sharing.
Beautiful plants as always. I wouldn’t have passed up the lip on that leuddemaniana either. I have been dying for one of the big amethystoglossa plants from H&R since you first shared it. But the one I got died 😒 So beautiful.
So beautiful 😍😍😍 and what a great success! Thanks for sharing! Hopefully everything with moving house is going to be smooth, and hopefully there will be enough or even more space for your beauties. Looking forward to see more videos then. 😁
That amethystoglossa is stunning, I wish I had the space for one. I already got in over my head with a tigrina that I think I'll have to sell because I overestimated its size and mess of roots. Luckily for the orchid hobbyist H&R are finally selling selfings of their 4N lines as they edge closer to retirement- I picked up a 4N luddemaniana and some 4N walkeriana babies last fall.
@@SVKLOrchids their spring list should be out soon! their plants are on the small size so you can grab a lot and figure out where to fit them later! haha
Your Cattleya amethystoglossa and Cattleya lueddemanniana are stunning. I am still getting to grips with looking after my Cattleya amethystoglossa so no blooms yet but I did get one bloom off my C. lueddemanniana. It blooms well late summer/early fall but this is the first time for winter/spring. I am hoping to get it to bloom twice a year. It is one of my favourites.
@@SVKLOrchids Yes, I wanted a 12 hour minimum. Seems to have worked with the lueddemanniana. I got my watering wrong with the amethystoglossa, it didn't loose all its roots but they weren't happy. Hopefully I will get it right this growing season.
@@SVKLOrchids I usually have new growths in spring and fall with only the spring growths maturing. Previously I tried 10 hour days in the winter but it still was not enough.
I ordered a lueddemanniana rubra from the annual Bela Vista import. Let's see. I would actually prefer a mossiae rubra but what can I say? I really like the contrast on your amethystoglossas. I got an aurea a few months back and it is working on roots - still a bit shrivelled. Love the nefarious 3n business. Gotta protect your intellectual property! Have a good move!
@@SVKLOrchids haha. Same here! They also had an extremely dramatic coerulea… maybe I should have gotten that one as well. It’s all your fault I don’t hate bifoliates anymore.
Those lueddemanniana look amazing! I got a rubra from plantio orquidea and now I wish I bought some other color forms while I was there... Not sure how to feel about polyploid plants. Triploids seem like a crappy thing to make (though h&r is no longer doing so for most of their stuff). It seems like it will become a major obstacle for future generations of breeders. Tetraploid species is also kind of a weird thing, I know that line breeding can make some major alterations (see some of the new walkers), but isn't the point of species plants to have a relatively accurate representation of what exists in nature? If you are going to make it into a genetic freak to improve its characteristics, you might as well add some trace ancestry of other species, so long as it's not noticed.
I’ve been collecting some of the amethystoglossa colors as well! I’ve got a few years to wait before seeing any flowers though! The tetraploids were created specifically so that the Asian breeders couldn’t steal H&R hard work and start their own breeding lines., Seemed to work for Harry and Roy!
I never see bees around my orchids. Ants, plenty of ants. So.Many.Ants I'd have been inclined to keep the rubra lueddemanniana, I think the color is better and, maybe, the blooms would get bigger as the plant matures. Although I still just don't like the smell. When I had to move the plants into the garage for a couple days and mine was in bloom, stunk up the place. My dad asked me, "what is that smell?" I pointed to the luedd and he said, "I thought orchids were supposed to smell good?" 😅
@@michaelmccarthy4077 I've always found the various interpretations of orchid scent fascinating! Epi. magnoliae smells like cooked shrimp to me, but like honey to most folks!
LOL! It's fun to hear your passion about these wonderful flowers! They are all absolutely beautiful.... Tell me, do you ever name your plants? .... 😀 .... For me the first thing came to mind when I saw the Cattleya amethystoglossa was 'Freckles". 😎
Ha! Freckles would be good! I only name the ones that get awarded!
Lueddemanniana is my favourite species. Those are two very well grown plants! They really love your conditions, they’re a bit more of challenge for a windowsill grower in the UK. I’m sure you know but Armando Mantellini at Orquiverde has some stunning and very choice clones of lueddemanniana for sale in the USA at the moment, but you have to be quick!
Great plants. Greetings from Germany. Good luck for the next week. I would also fight for it 😀
Ha! Thank you!
That amethystaglossa 🤩
I know what you mean!! ❤️
Qué maravilla de cattleyas !!!!!!! Se nota el cariño que le das
Felicidades
@@juanigallego6161 😃😃
Love the C. amethystoglossa also. In regards to triploids - yes, they can be more vigorous than the diploids and thus for the floriculture trade they make sense. One of my favorite hybrids from years ago is Lc. Garden Delight and it grew like a weed outdoors here in SoCal and it was bred as a triploid (diploid L. anceps by a big old tetraploid Cattleya.) However, for a species I'm a bit against filling up collections of triploids. We (humans) are causing a great extinction and that certainly includes most orchids. I believe it is best to propagate diploids as widely as possible, distributing them as widely as can be done, so there is a large pool of extant orchids as long as possible. It is possible, maybe even likely, that there won't be any native C. amethystoglossa left in the wild a century from now.
That is certainly a real possibility! All good points!
The luddemanniana that you are keeping has an amazing lip!! I would love to grow this one. The amethystoglossa is wonderful! You definitely do a great job and thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Beautiful plants as always. I wouldn’t have passed up the lip on that leuddemaniana either. I have been dying for one of the big amethystoglossa plants from H&R since you first shared it. But the one I got died 😒 So beautiful.
Oh no! Might be worthwhile to buy another or get an import!
So beautiful 😍😍😍
and what a great success!
Thanks for sharing!
Hopefully everything with moving house is going to be smooth, and hopefully there will be enough or even more space for your beauties.
Looking forward to see more videos then. 😁
Thank you! Hopefully I’ll have a greenhouse up by next fall!!
@@SVKLOrchids Can´t think about you without a greenhouse...
All fingers crossed!!
Oh! My amethystoglossa has a huge amount to grow looking at the size yours has grown into. Mine would be lucky if its 5 inches tall!
Sounds like they've got a few years before blooming! I love it when they reach the age where each new growth is twice as large as the last one!
That amethystoglossa is stunning, I wish I had the space for one. I already got in over my head with a tigrina that I think I'll have to sell because I overestimated its size and mess of roots. Luckily for the orchid hobbyist H&R are finally selling selfings of their 4N lines as they edge closer to retirement- I picked up a 4N luddemaniana and some 4N walkeriana babies last fall.
I'll have to look at their list again! It's been a while and if they're selling their 4N stuff, I want to scoop it up!
@@SVKLOrchids their spring list should be out soon! their plants are on the small size so you can grab a lot and figure out where to fit them later! haha
@@Spencer_Plant_Projects You just described every orchid growers dilemma!! lol
Your Cattleya amethystoglossa and Cattleya lueddemanniana are stunning. I am still getting to grips with looking after my Cattleya amethystoglossa so no blooms yet but I did get one bloom off my C. lueddemanniana. It blooms well late summer/early fall but this is the first time for winter/spring. I am hoping to get it to bloom twice a year. It is one of my favourites.
You're growing under lights, right?
@@SVKLOrchids Yes, I wanted a 12 hour minimum. Seems to have worked with the lueddemanniana. I got my watering wrong with the amethystoglossa, it didn't loose all its roots but they weren't happy. Hopefully I will get it right this growing season.
@@patriciasorchids3999 Some species will bloom more than once per year under lights but only once per year under the sun. Not sure why that is!
@@SVKLOrchids I usually have new growths in spring and fall with only the spring growths maturing. Previously I tried 10 hour days in the winter but it still was not enough.
I ordered a lueddemanniana rubra from the annual Bela Vista import. Let's see. I would actually prefer a mossiae rubra but what can I say?
I really like the contrast on your amethystoglossas. I got an aurea a few months back and it is working on roots - still a bit shrivelled. Love the nefarious 3n business. Gotta protect your intellectual property!
Have a good move!
Thank you! I also got an aurea and am hoping it turns out golden!
@@SVKLOrchids haha. Same here! They also had an extremely dramatic coerulea… maybe I should have gotten that one as well. It’s all your fault I don’t hate bifoliates anymore.
@@MattbyNature Bwahahahaha!!👹👹
Those lueddemanniana look amazing! I got a rubra from plantio orquidea and now I wish I bought some other color forms while I was there...
Not sure how to feel about polyploid plants. Triploids seem like a crappy thing to make (though h&r is no longer doing so for most of their stuff). It seems like it will become a major obstacle for future generations of breeders.
Tetraploid species is also kind of a weird thing, I know that line breeding can make some major alterations (see some of the new walkers), but isn't the point of species plants to have a relatively accurate representation of what exists in nature? If you are going to make it into a genetic freak to improve its characteristics, you might as well add some trace ancestry of other species, so long as it's not noticed.
I’ve been collecting some of the amethystoglossa colors as well! I’ve got a few years to wait before seeing any flowers though! The tetraploids were created specifically so that the Asian breeders couldn’t steal H&R hard work and start their own breeding lines., Seemed to work for Harry and Roy!
I would fight for it too, what a stunner !!!!
Thank you!
I am interested in buying the other ameythstoglossa. I love all 3!!
If you're able to drive down and grab it, you can have it!
@@SVKLOrchids I wish I could. Funny thing is my brother was just there a couple weeks ago.
@@Muffin21814 Ah, he could have picked it up!
beautiful
@@hermon1415 thank you! 🙌
I would pay whatever and pick amethyst up from your place if I live closer! 😭 I need it in my greenhouse!
It really is a great species! I also really need to get rid of the giant polyploid lol
I upticked this Live Chat because I KNOW it's gonna be GOOD :)
Uh oh, the pressure is on!! 😅😅
@@SVKLOrchids I Had to wipe the Drool off my keyboard after seeing BOTH of these in Full Screen !
@@BBQNBLUES For sure ... fullscreen and 4K!
@@garylewis8346 I do like that I can shoot in 4K now!! So much clearer than even 1080!
@@SVKLOrchids yep, and with your subject matter, so much more enjoyable!
Have you grown the Intermedia X Anythystglossa X Guttatta X Loddigessi hybrid “Monte Elegenate” before?
I have not! Those complex hybrids are usually pretty easy to grow though!
I never see bees around my orchids. Ants, plenty of ants. So.Many.Ants
I'd have been inclined to keep the rubra lueddemanniana, I think the color is better and, maybe, the blooms would get bigger as the plant matures. Although I still just don't like the smell. When I had to move the plants into the garage for a couple days and mine was in bloom, stunk up the place. My dad asked me, "what is that smell?" I pointed to the luedd and he said, "I thought orchids were supposed to smell good?" 😅
Really? They smell like typical Cattleya's to my nose! You sure it wasn't a percivaliana?
@@SVKLOrchids No, it is definitely luedd, you saw it on my IG. It just stinks to high heaven to me. Nothing at all like the nice perfume of jenmanii.
@@michaelmccarthy4077 I've always found the various interpretations of orchid scent fascinating! Epi. magnoliae smells like cooked shrimp to me, but like honey to most folks!
@@SVKLOrchids it is definitely an interesting topic. Most people describe Rhy gigantea as honey and jasmine, I smell cat pee. 😂
@@michaelmccarthy4077 Perfect example!
7:03 that’s good to know! (3N) no breeder
@@JonesJones-np2kq yes, it could get very frustrating if you are trying to breed with a3N!
I love both of the luddeamannia. I have the rubra. Like you the lip is what sells it!!!
The lip really is something special!
Hey Stephen I am druling too, have always wanted one of those beautiful big gal's 💖...and just maybe 😉. I would trash a cymbidium for room!!
They really do take up a lot of space!!!
@@SVKLOrchids I would make space!!