Calling All Members! I Need Help Picking A Cattleya!

[Jerry Delaney]

[QUOTE=Cattleya17Right Now im stuck Between The Best, pamela, And Chia Lin![/QUOTE]

If you are more impressed by size, try the Pamela Finney. If color and form are your thing then Williette Wong or Chia Lin Could be choices you MIGHT like. Everyone has their own favorites.

[Cattleya17]

I took the advice of my friend Mehitabel and the great and carefully put together info that Black Orchid put together and decided to not settle for one but get 2 So i am getting the Chia Lin and Another on that i found Which is Lc. Drumbeat 'Heritage' HCC/AOS which is just perfect and exactly what im looking for! it worth the price in my eyes!

[tuvoc]

Two great choices. Keep us posted.

Kim

[Dorothy]

It's a beauty! Cattleya17
Here is Lc. Drum Beat 'Heritage' HCC/AOS photo - Lc. Drum Beat 'Heritage' HCC/AOS: Carter and Holmes Orchids
and it's fragrant! BONUS

[blackorchid]

Great, Hausermann carries both clone, neat!
Lc. Drumbeat: Orchids By Hausermann
Blc. Chia Lin 'Shinsu #1' AM/JOGA: Orchids By Hausermann

[Cattleya17]

They said not Advised for under lights culture. so does that mean that it wont do well being strictly grown under lights? Cuz i go to lights for the winter! thats what we all do right? i can put it under them just for the winter right? Im gonna order it them nextt friday when i get paid

[blackorchid]

You will be fine. They say it probably because they can get pretty big since they are standard-size cattleya. Therefore, you cannot accomodate them under the light setting.
I have no experience growing under light but I don't think there's strong enough light to bloom the standard catt (I could be wrong). About winter, if you can put them in a light stand for additional light during the dark winter, that's definitely a plus, better than no light at all.
One thing though... I was wondering if any of those two blooms during winter. It would be funny if you don't have enough light to get them to bloom in winter. Maybe it's the shorter day length and a cooler temperature that flower winter-blooming orchid. I hope someone with experience will come in.

[Cattleya17]

Yeah i went to a speciaty shop for lights and hydroponics in Nyack, NY, and he gave me some flourescent tubes to grow with over the winter and i actualy bloomes a standard cat that was a little smaller than the Drumbeat and Chia lin, it was campobello mendenhall. i brought it inside for the winter just a little bit after the the new growth opend the leaf and exposed the sheath. and that was october of last year. it made it al the way to blooming with just one 40 watt tube. i plant to get a about 4 or 5 more for this winter. The light guy said that this would do you good and i guess he was right .The place where im ordering the plants from said that plus the pot that the whole thing would stand about 20 inches or less. but i am working up a new desk for the both of them so i think thy will be okay just for the winter. I put back together a light garden each winter and last year was a complete sucess. they are all still alive!

[blackorchid]

Great, post us more pictures on your light area!