Not dead yet

[jasonmom]

Just wanted to come back on here and say thank you to all the members who have given me advise. I guess I've had my 4 seedling catt for about a month, and they look exactly the same as when I got them. They are in new pots, and I guess I didn't kill them (yet).

When I bought them on the clearance rack I had no idea how to care for them. All I know I've learned mainly from this site. They don't look any better than when I got them, but they don't look any worse.


How fast do they die or show that they are damaged after repotting them?

[Bud]

Show us pictures so we can observe its progress. Cattleya seedlings are usually sold a year and a half to two years old....there is a possibility that it will bloom in a couple of years.
Being a month in your care and it didn't shrivel and die means it is getting accustomed to your environment and you are giving it the right culture.

[Optimist]

I have around the same number of rescued seedling catts. Most came with dried useless roots. Really, just keep them in a fast draining medium, and water every week, more in summer. I have inch long roots on most, longer on others. Healthy white with a green tip. It took about a year. Err on the side of too little water. Treat like a cactus.

[leslieann79]

I bought a catt seedling months ago from Lowe's. It had root rot and is growing very slowly. It has lots of new roots now and a sheath or something is finally opening but its been very very slow going. It was in a pot with a moss sphag mix and that wasnt working so I started growing it bare root and watering it with my vanda daily and that is when it finally started putting out a lot of new roots. I recently put it in semi-hydro so we will see how it goes but yeah it took a long time to see any change.

[jasonmom]

Sorry, don't know how to post pictures. I'm just kinda thrilled they are still alive. When I transplanted I found little in way of roots. I had to work on the transplanting a second time because I hadn't done a good job and they moved around in their pots with the slightest movement.

[WhiteRabbit]

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