I saw my little plant back in flowering mode today after having a tough start of this year. I had an infestation of what I think is called mealybugs attacking my cattleya plants while I was travelling and my wife was taking care of my plants (she waters when she remembers to!). I lost quite a few young plants during the battles with the bugs, which took me months to win in the end. They know exactly where to hide so that I can not find them and seem to like to attack the newest growths as well. Sleazy bas**rds! Anyway, the lundii alba survived, but it was severely weakened. My plant is therefore still small.
It was only days ago when I saw that one of the rather small new growths was preparing to flower and that made me really happy. It is a delicate flower, even more so than the normal lundii. The rhizomes are shorter than a common lundii, so the plant is more compact. I simply like my lundii alba more than my common lundii. I would say it is an easy grower and bloomer, but I guess my current location makes most of the job.
I am happy that it survived and especially that it is flowering again.
I was looking for an existing alba thread, but did not find one so I created a new one. Sorry for the tilted pictures
Lundii alba
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