Grow Laelia Zip?

[Kelo]

Does anyone here grow Laelia Zip? I have a NFS plant and I was wondering if anyone grew it or had pics of one you have grown. Any other info on this plant would be useful.

[sumognat]

I recently purchased one of these as a 3" seedling. I repotted it from bark into 100% hydroton and a clay pot. I am using standard catt culture, but I am also growing outside in S. Florida, so my conditions are quite different from yours.

I searched for pics a ways back and here is the best I could do:

Laelia zip - Floratech | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

laelia zip | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

L. Zip - Orchid Forum by The Orchid Source

Waldor Orchids

[Kelo]

Thank you. I saw those pics last night and wondered if some were not L. Zip because they were, in one case, so different from the other. Beautiful flower too.

[buckie]

Kelo,
When you cross Cattleya tenebrosa with Cattleya melleri ( that makes your plant Cattleya Zip ) you can get a HUGE variety in flower shape and colour, it's when plants are a M/C that they should look the same.

Warren

[Kelo]

Ah! Right, that explains it. Thank you!