Spotled Cattleya, Oncidium Sharry Baby and Maxillaria Tenuifolia

[Sunset]

After I discovered this forum I become addicted to orchids and I look all the time for bargains, I was able to have flowers from a lot of Phals and Oncidiums and Cymbidiums, thanks to you all from here.

Today I found three orchids at Lowes( $2.99)
I copy from the tags:
Spotled Novelty Cattleya
Oncidium Sharry Baby
Maxillaria Tenuifolia

and I have an other Cattleya that I bought like a month ago. Please give me any advise to rescue them!

From the pictures you can see how they look like and I want to rescue them.
The Cattleya bought a month ago:





Spotled Cattleya from today:







Oncidium Sharry Baby



The roots:



Maxillaria Tenuifolia





The pseudobullbs are so so dry:

[Merlyn]

About the tenuifolia, you'd have to try very hard to overwater it ! I take mine (and my whole collection !) to the sink and use the sprayer to make sure the pbulbs up high are wetted down because that's where most of the blooms will be coming from. I have it in a saucer like the one yours is in and when I water and fertilize (also the higher pbulbs) I leave about an inch in the saucer and in my environment right now it disappears in about 3 days and either then or a day later I water again and leave the same amount in the saucer ! Your environment may be different so just watch the saucer and adapt your watering timing. Since I started doing it that way mine has gone bonkers ! Been doing it that way for approx 6 months now. It put out 2 blooms in December while it usually blooms between March and June ! Can't help with the others, someone else will pick that up.
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[Bud]

Chryss has found an effective watering regimen according to his zone...I think you should too.

Your plants are dehydrated...

soak all of them in room temp water for 5 min
dont use cold water

every other day water the cattleya then after two weeks do it only once a week..but make sure it is well soaked in the sink really dripping wet

the oncidium needs to be repotted ... I have a sneaky suspicion that it has a large moss ball at the center of the root threatening to root rot it...use a good oncidium media mix found online...that can still survive in that condition for a couple of weeks then it will deteriorate...
read the Baker's culture on oncidiums and follow the watering guide

use the same pot for repotting just change the media to any oncidium mix

as for the Maxilaria, let it dry before watering but dont wait until its too dry...it has to have even moisture and good drainage. Look at Chryss' media repot yours in a similar one on the same pot...I think Chryss uses medium mix of coco chips, lava rocks, charcoal and hydroton(I may be wrong)

Good Luck!

[bballr4567]

That Sherry Baby doesnt look too bad. A tad underwatered which is amazing seeing how much Lowe's will water plants.

Great buys!

[Sunset]

Thanks a lot!!!!! Now I am sure I will save them.

[Sunset]

I think I do something good look at the roots at one of the Cattleya that I bought. After the last post I had two more trips to Lowes and I end up with two more Cattleyas and one Encyclia and they look great right now!

I will take more pictures after a while.