new growth of catasetum

[jrguevar]

Sure here it goes;
first pic is of the plant I asked in the thread, second and third are from another catasetum which also is showing his neew growth. The last one is a special one, since I found it besides a river bank last year I haven't removed it from the watering schedule when found It seemed that it had flowered a couple of times that way. Probably not the best call for a catasetum, but Ive read ists also posible to induce flowering just by temperature change, so there it goes nothing. Best regards to everyone!

[Roberta]

I wish I knew what the trigger for growth is on these plants... on the equator, it can't be day/night lengths because those don't change much Maybe temperature or rainfall pattern, which could be different in different places.

[jrguevar]

Better late than sorry... haha, hate the fact tapatalk is not working for the board, could make things a lot faster, anyways I post a pic of how the bulbs are planted, also the flowers it just gave me last week (shame they last so little and even less when visited by their particular pollinators...) http://www.youtu.be/MTCXaVACQX4

On the other hand has anybody tried to make a catasetum KOKEDAMA?....

[Roberta]

Well done! Those are female flowers. It is possible, as the season progresses, that you may get another blooming, could be either males or more females. But they can bloom more than once in a season

[isurus79]

Some very cool pics!!

[bil]

Originally Posted by jrguevar

Better late than sorry... haha, hate the fact tapatalk is not working for the board, could make things a lot faster, anyways I post a pic of how the bulbs are planted, also the flowers it just gave me last week (shame they last so little and even less when visited by their particular pollinators...)

On the other hand has anybody tried to make a catasetum KOKEDAMA?....

Thanks for posting those pics.

Someone was asking about triggers. I had a dozen backbulbs I liberated, I wrapped them in a wet cloth, left them in a black flowerpot under 50% shade cloth and left them to cook for a couple of days. All bar two have sprouted.

Now here's the crazy thing. According to the rules, they should now be kept dry till the roots are blah, blah, blah.
OK?
Well, I did that and they all stalled. I watched the one, which had had the base cut off due to rot, and after cooking had thrown three shoots to my joy, proceeded to lose the first shoot, and then the second. When the third showed traces of dying off, I went crazy and shoved it into sopping wet moss.
Suicide, right?
Wrong. The damage reversed, and the last shoot is doing well so far.
I potted all the backbulbs in wet moss, and they are all starting to move again.


Duh?