Help me pick some new mini/micro-Catts! - Page 4 - Orchid Board

Keysguy · #31 07-11-2020, 10:50 AM

Jim and Jonathan are really good guys and have great plants. I do the vendor contracting for NH society and they have done our shows forever. They always keep a nice inventory and are always looking to add new and interesting things to keep it fresh.

Have fun with the newbies!

DrDawn · #32 07-11-2020, 01:05 PM

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I do the vendor contracting for NH society and they have done our shows forever.

Awwww, does this mean we might meet IRL when we can all leave our houses again? I want to come up to the NH show in hopes of getting some good stuff from Piping Rock someday!

SouthPark · #33 07-11-2020, 05:13 PM

I notice that SVO has at least one its own Rth. Dal's Emperor mini-catt. I haven't got the 'SVO' cultivar - I don't know if they sell that one, but I have a couple of other cultivars. Not sure if some aussie cultivars made it overseas, but wouldn't be surprised if they did.

Developing some buds right now here is a mini catt Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Allan'. I'm also growing the 'Michelle' cultivar. Both of these apparently develop some red on the lip in cold regions. But in my region, I only had been getting full yellow lip. The 'Allan' develops a red throat in my region, while 'Michelle' is full yellow, like a daffodil.

The attached image shows buds of Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Allan' (captured recently). I didn't know that the plant had formed buds, as the leaf was rolled up - which occurs on some leaves (not all) for this particular cultivar. I manually pryed open the leaf and just found those buds in there haha. I gently lifted the buds out from the curled leaf - to help them put their 'foot in the door' so to speak. The door sales-person tactic heheh.

The image shows the buds having grown more, and grown out away from the leaf - as the spike grew longer. Seeing some pink/violet on the frilly bits poking out indicates maybe not full yellow this time!!!!!

SouthPark · #34 07-11-2020, 05:15 PM

I agree that members of the cattleya {mini purple} cross are very nice to acquire.

JScott · #35 07-12-2020, 09:06 AM

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You're most welcome DD.

I can definitely understand what you mean about 'sheath' - because the outside of a developing leaf certainly has coverings or layers ----- AOS (or people) call those layers 'sheathING bracts'. Any covering layer that surrounds a developing LEAF will be these sheathing bracts. They probably don't consider them as sheaths as such. Sheathing bracts.

Then later, if a cattleya does develop one - a 'pocket' compartment that sort of protects any future developing flower spike or flower buds -------- is a 'sheath'.

I attached some pics here ------ where one of the pics does show an old sheath (all dried up), with both the dried flower spike and the dried sheath snipped off ------ but with still some remnants of the sheath still visible.

Another pic is a photo of a fairly long cattleya leaf. The flower bud is from a different cattleya (not on the plant with the long leaf). And if I peer into that long leaf, I see something ------ maybe it is flower buds and flower spike ----- but not sure yet.

Whatever it is, the feature appears to be not situated right at the base of the leaf.

It doesn't appear to be a 'stub' or whatever it is officially called - which would normally be green-coloured and located in the region where the base of leaf meets the top of the pseudobulb ------ a green stub with no spike and no sheath would mean regular leaf with no flower to be produced.

Some catts can produce seemingly sheath-less flower spikes, as well as sheathed ones.

I mentioned in some other thread that I set the bar high ----- as in, I don't think anything of a sheath or flower spikes or flower buds until almost right at the end when the bud is just about to open. It is a 'will believe it when I see it' approach hahaha.

I have some plants, like Busy Bev 'Blue Jewel' that NEVER has a sheath. I've also got LC Dinard 'Blue Heaven' (actually one of the parents of Busy Bev) that sometimes has sheathes and sometimes not. But when the growth is mature, you can tell by looking at the point where the leaf meets the pseudobulb whether that growth is going to bloom or no. If it is not going to bloom, there's just a little rounded nub at the apex of the pseudobulb. However if it is going to bloom, you can see a little pointy structure that almost looks like a pointy metten, or maybe like a very tiny sheath just a couple millimeters in size. Do not let the absence of a proper sheath get you down. A lot of plants bloom from sheathless growths. Maybe later when I have time, I can take some pictures to show you what I'm talking about.

Fairorchids · #36 07-12-2020, 10:13 AM

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They're just like potato chips!

Once you pay shipping & handling for the first plant, the 2nd, 3rd and perhaps 4th & 5th ship more or less for free.

---------- Post added at 09:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:08 AM ----------

On a different note, there is a wholesaler, who is offering a lot of small/tiny Cattleya hybrids to the trade. I have some, as does Diamond Orchids. I ordered mine last fall, and some of them are approaching 'large enough to sell' (= within 12-18 months of BS).

C. Bright Spark (Tiny Rubies x cernua)
Circle of Life x Kat E Sun
L. anceps x C. cernua
Lc. Jo-Ann Dean (Tiny Rubies x anceps)
Maikai (nodosa x bowringiana)
Nodosa x Prada Green Deluxe
Nodosa x Rlc. Taeko Tamaki
Rlc. Shin Shiang Diamond x B. nodosa
Waipuna (nodosa x cernua)

SouthPark · #37 07-12-2020, 10:46 AM

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Do not let the absence of a proper sheath get you down. A lot of plants bloom from sheathless growths. Maybe later when I have time, I can take some pictures to show you what I'm talking about.

You're absolutely right JS! Some catts (a single plant) can develop spikes sheathless at some times, and develop with sheaths at other times. And then there are those ones that always seem to develop sheaths before getting the spikes. And then those ones that always develop spikes without sheaths. Amazing variety and behaviour!