With led lights I have found that two 15 watt par 38 bulbs at 3000-5000 Kelvin work at about 4 inches away from the leaves for each cattleya. These bulbs put out about 1300 lumens and illuminate an area of about 1/2 a foot. Converting to footcantdles equals about 2600 fc. I don't monitor or adjust for humidity and I live in Phoenix AZ. At some parts of the year the ambient humidity is very low. As long as you can get a healthy root system and water on time most common varieties of orchids will bloom just fine. I will admit that varieties such as oncidiums and Zygopetalums will have bad looking leaves at this humidity level, but they will still survive and bloom. I hope that helps!
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Great video and very informative. It is a beautiful orchid. I have always been pleased with all my Odom's purchases.
Thanks Blanca! Odom's is the best cattleya nursery I have bought from other than SVO. And Akatsuka.
That's beautiful!! Can you smoke it?
You can smoke anything if it is dry enough, but you'd only get high from carbon monoxide from this plant.
How much light do you provide for Cattleya Ana Balmores and what is the humidity you maintain?
With led lights I have found that two 15 watt par 38 bulbs at 3000-5000 Kelvin work at about 4 inches away from the leaves for each cattleya.
These bulbs put out about 1300 lumens and illuminate an area of about 1/2 a foot. Converting to footcantdles equals about 2600 fc.
I don't monitor or adjust for humidity and I live in Phoenix AZ. At some parts of the year the ambient humidity is very low.
As long as you can get a healthy root system and water on time most common varieties of orchids will bloom just fine. I will admit that varieties such as oncidiums and Zygopetalums will have bad looking leaves at this humidity level, but they will still survive and bloom.
I hope that helps!
@@azdesertorchids8758 Thanks for such elaborations, it really helped.