Your advice/experiences-Help!
Okay, here we go again. I have many orchids but my cattleyas are confusing me lately. It seems that the psuedobulbs never mature with sheaths. Even previous blooms I had when I first purchased the plants had sheaths. The bulbs in my care do not produce sheaths or if they do they are only a cm long or the bulbs mature with just a little nub on the top (similar to that terminal type nub on nobile dendrobiums). I have never seen this nub once start to grow into buds. The only time they bloom is when the new growth is just about mature and then they go immediately into bud without a sheath. If the bulb matures and the nub is there, the bulb never blooms. I only have a few explanations.
Perhaps these bulbs that grow and mature without sheath or going straight into bud are growth initiated by the plant at the wrong part of the season (winter) and haven't recieved the proper environmental cues to mature enough to bloom?
Perhaps, the bulbs are maturing too fast and not able to mature at the proper intervals/steps in order to bloom?
My catts are all around my porch and on a few windowsills and all receive good quality light at good durations. Growth is sturdy, fat and robust.
Just this evening I was inspecting a huge mounted cat I have and looked at all the new growth getting reading to open the leaf crease (inifolar) and felt two big buds poking out of only ONE new growth with no sheath. I'm expecting the other new growths to mature with that "nub" and no flowers....
I'm confused! Has anyone ever had their cats bloom from these seeminly dormant nubs on the apex of the psuedobulbs?
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