Watering Catelleyas ?

[DavidCampen]

Originally Posted by tucker85

...large cattleyas get a lot of their strength from the fact that they're so big with lots of leaves for photosynthesis and lots of pseudobulbs to store water and nutrients. ... Some growers here in South Florida have old cattleyas that have completely grown around the outside and the basket isn't even visible anymore.

According to some people posting in the "Early K-lite Results" thread on SlipperTalk; having all these old pseudobulbs with leaves is highly abnormal. Those South Florida growers need to switch to K-lite so that the leaves will fall off these old pseudobulbs as new leaves form.