Cycnoches maculatum

[Gena]

Thank you, Kim!

[Bruno De Toni]

Originally Posted by Gena

It is great information! Thank you so much! And absolutely lovely pictures!!!
By the way, the flower spike starts growing on my second Cycnoches maculatum, it will be rather interesting to compare them.
How yours are doing, Bruno?

Gena may be in Sweden you do not have the same deseases we have in the tropics. Mine got recently a rot at the base of the new bulb and I saved from death. Now is doing good and even is giving me a flower spike but the plant is still weak. The second one I gave it to a friend who likes also catasetums and I think is doing OK. Yours is really in good conditions, I was wondering how do you can succesfully cultivate this plant in such a cold place, actually you have only a few fully sunny months year round.

[Gena]

Originally Posted by Bruno De Toni

Gena may be in Sweden you do not have the same deseases we have in the tropics. Mine got recently a rot at the base of the new bulb and I saved from death.

Oh, Bruno, from time to time I do have the same problem and particularly with Cychnoces. Especially this problem occurs with young and not established plants ... so, I'm quite familiar with that.

Originally Posted by Bruno De Toni

I was wondering how do you can succesfully cultivate this plant in such a cold place, actually you have only a few fully sunny months year round.

Yes, it is true that here, in Sweden, the summer is not long, but it works, Bruno. I do grow all my orchids indoors and Catasetinae is my favorite subtribe. There is a small help for me, which is south orientation of my windows and, actually, in clear sunny days I have to protect them from the sun in the middle of the day. But it works, I mean, to grow Catasetinae even in Sweden.

[Gena]

Will show some of mine

[kavanaru]

WOW!! Gena, you are my new idol!!! You have great Catasetinae...

At the beginning I was also (like Bruno) to see your spectacular Cycnoches. I also know it only from Venezuela (as Bruno said, very rare there too - I have seen it only once in my life in the wild!), and have never seen it in Europe... Fantastic!!! Congrats!

and your Ctsm.s are just WOW WOW WOW!!!

[Gena]

Thank you, Ramón, thank you very much!

Ok, then here are some more

[Bruno De Toni]

Gena very impressive your plants, my mouth remained open while I was looking at those spectacular pictures, by the way they look like post cards. Pileatums fantastic, and the tabulare is really gorgeous. Is the fourth pic a callosum alba ??. I have to say like Ramon, WOW WOW. Do they also come from Venezuela ?.
Congratulations for such a nice and very well kept plants.

[kavanaru]

Bruno, I'll meet you in Caracas in August and we fly together to Sweden to invade that house...

[isdaojon]

You know thats not fair!

Why are always the most beautiful and impressing species the rarest!

[Gena]

Originally Posted by Bruno De Toni

Gena very impressive your plants, my mouth remained open while I was looking at those spectacular pictures, by the way they look like post cards.
Congratulations for such a nice and very well kept plants.

Thank you, Bruno!

Originally Posted by Bruno De Toni

Is the fourth pic a callosum alba ??

Well, Bruno, I'm not sure. The matter is that I bought this plant for two years ago from Ecuador labelled as Catasetum microglossum, but of cause, this plant has nothing with microglossum to do. I could not identify it and still have label Catasetum sp. (Ecuador).
Do you have any ideas? I think, I do have couple close-up pictures of it.

Originally Posted by Bruno De Toni

Do they also come from Venezuela ?

No, pileatums are from Holland and Belgium, tabulare var. rhinophorum is from Holland as well. But I prefer to buy Catasetinae from South America, mostly from Brazil and when I do have possibilities also from Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.

Originally Posted by kavanaru

Bruno, I'll meet you in Caracas in August and we fly together to Sweden to invade that house...

A gentle voice inside me start already scream "Run, Gena, run!" .....