l. pupurata old ones

[tucker85]

Spectacular! Those are beautiful plants obviously very well grown.

[Roly0217]

Amazing !!! Love the purpuratas and the many blooms !!! That's what I call a specimen plant. Congrats !!!

[cday2inflorida]

Originally Posted by Orchidbyte

I have had these two for over 15 years and always outdoors here in the north Los Angeles area, they are mounted to large cedar plaques the largest being 3' x 3'. They grow under 40 percent shade cloth, watered daily in summer and nature takes care of water in winter.

I remember you had the couple of monster-sized Oncidiums. There should be a "sticky" where everyone can show their specimen sized monsters!

BTW: is that schuster?

[Kimbubbley]

Wow! my little Catt Purpurata is tiny in comparison!

Its got 4 leaves, and im so hoping that by chasing the UK sun (east side of the garden in the mornings, west side in the afternoons, and a spell under defused light at midday) that i can make it flower... just ONE of those beautiful blooms and i'll be in heaven! and i cant even bare to think what the scent might be like?!

When we had a couple of days of rain i put it under the halogen spotlight in the bathroom because i hear they need alot of light to flower!

Can you advise me tho, im a bit confused... some articles ive read say dont water when the pseudobulb is developing unless it starts to shrivel, as this will encourage it to bloom? Others say others say let it get to the point where its been almost dry for a day and then water?

So far in the sun its mostly dry about every 3-4 days so ive watered it! Ive had her 3 months and she looks healthy enough to me... PB is plump, no mould or rot, and its starting to shoot from the bottom of the newest PB maybe shes not mature enough to bloom this year?

HA! Sorry, written half a book here! Any advice would be really great!

[Otis226]

Amazing! You can see the love they've recieved over the years...it really shows. I have a little L. purpruata var. flammea C.H. #7 x L. purpurata var. flammea ’Xint’ that has some speckles on the petals, but nothing anywhere near as spectacular as these gals.

Good Growing,
Tony

[Kelo]

OK, I am seriously jealous! What a wonderful sight that must be to greet you after a hard days work. I could do that too if I wanted mine to turn to mush lol.

[Orchidbyte]

Originally Posted by cday2inflorida

I remember you had the couple of monster-sized Oncidiums. There should be a "sticky" where everyone can show their specimen sized monsters!

BTW: is that schuster?

No not a "schuster" just your every day run of the mill purps.


I tend to grow things to specimen size i hate to divide mounted plants. One purp is on a 20" x 20" cork and grows on both sides.
the other was first put onto a 15" x 15" block of fern, now is on fence boards.