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09-22-2013, 10:48 PM
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I got my first orchid in the catasetum family. I like it but the flowers do not last very long at all. That is a one big issue for me with this group, but I still want to get the nearly black one and the wine colored ones. can't remember the names off memory, but those flowers look stunning!!!
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Actually the flowers on the black ones (Fredclarkeara) last closer to a month! You need to get one!! |
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09-22-2013, 11:22 PM
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Really? That sure is a great news!!!
Is it one of the easier types to deal with though? lol
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09-23-2013, 09:45 AM
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^+1 I was wondering the same thing NY!
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09-23-2013, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by NYCorchidman
Really? That sure is a great news!!!
Is it one of the easier types to deal with though? lol
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^+1 I was wondering the same thing NY!
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Since its a complex hybrid, it seems pretty easy. I've only grown two of them though. |
09-23-2013, 04:44 PM
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Did you get the Mestizos? Just looked it up and saw one looks really cool.
I currently have 3 (probably spelt wrong):
Cycnodes Wine Delight (seems very easy to me! Gave me a single flower last year when it should have been too young)
Catasetum interreginum: growing well. Hoping it will flower this year.
Catasetum galeritum: having a bit of trouble with it. I think it's out of the cycle I've been trying to grow it on and I'll just have to accept it wants to grow during my winter for now! Still it currently has 3 growths, if small ones!
I recently decided that wasn't enough and got involved in an online auction... seller had a load, many of them 'lost tag' plants. I got a great plant early on for a fair price, especially if it turns out to be something cool. Unfortunately I really needed to get something else to make the postage worth it and the prices started going a bit nuts! Late on I managed to pick up a plant listed as 'Wendling', probably because if you look that up nothing much comes up. But I managed to work out it's actually primary 'Wendlingeri'. Confirmed when I noticed the picture actually did show a tag on which 'pileatum x planiceps' could be made out. Most probably will have pretty dull flowers, but it made the postage worthwile!
Fingers crossed 'lost tag no 1' turns out to be something I actually want!
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09-27-2013, 10:26 AM
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nice catasetum for the addition, especially the Mestizos.
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Rowangreen, you got all the spellings correct except for the ctsm integerrimum and IMHO, one of the coolest looking one. i was hooked to it when i first saw the pic in internet.
as for x wendlingeri, it looks more like a planiceps except the sepals and petals are more outspread and not curving in to embrace the labellum like the planiceps.
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09-27-2013, 02:51 PM
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Just saw one catasetum (I think it was cycnoches hybrid) at a botanical garden this week.
It looked just like mine, Cycnodes 'Golden Shower', except the color was rather olive green/copper tone and one spike has around 20 flowers! would love to get that one, whatever it was!  |
09-27-2013, 02:55 PM
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I saw some flasklings of catasetums I am battling not bidding on!
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10-31-2013, 01:04 PM
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Black Pearl Catasetum and Mormodes hybrid
I have this one.
Fdk. After Dark ‘SVO Black Pearl’ FCC/AOS -
(Mo. Painted Desert ‘SVO’ HCC/AOS x Ctsm. Donna Wise ‘Kathleen’ AM/AOS)
Pure black in the shade but very dark purple / magenta if the sun shines through the flowers. Last season it had around 40 or so flowers and they lasted for about 3 months. Fred  (SVO) has some of the best plants on the planet!
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10-31-2013, 02:56 PM
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@^ I have seen them on ebay they are astonishing. I have a fdk after dark and cant wait for the blooms.
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Originally Posted by Rowangreen
Catasetum interreginum: growing well. Hoping it will flower this year.
I recently decided that wasn't enough and got involved in an online auction...
Fingers crossed 'lost tag no 1' turns out to be something I actually want!
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1 catasetum is truly never enough. And omg you have the one that looks something like the grim reaper!!! Seattle orchids had 9 of them and sold out I think wihin an hour I am now hunting for one. Where did you get yours if you dont mind me asking? |
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