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03-02-2013, 10:04 AM
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Blc. Chai Lin ' P.C.T ' FCC/OSROC; AM/AOS
DSC00005-002 by Bentleyuk, on Flickr
This plant hadn't been watered for almost 6 weeks whilst I had been on Holiday.
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03-02-2013, 10:43 AM
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Very lovely! Such a rich red! I have a Blc. Chia Lin 'New City' but so far it refuses to bloom. Does yours get really high light?
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03-02-2013, 10:50 AM
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Beautiful red cattleya!
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03-02-2013, 08:07 PM
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Gorgeous!
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03-02-2013, 11:03 PM
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Silken, they take quite high light levels and warmth. Needs to dry thoroughly between watering. I have 'New City' also and it has bloomed twice since I moved it out to the southern exposure in the shade house. Before that it grew but wouldn't bloom. I lost two because I watered it too much. Beautiful colors.
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03-02-2013, 11:08 PM
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03-02-2013, 11:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by james mickelso
Silken, they take quite high light levels and warmth. Needs to dry thoroughly between watering. I have 'New City' also and it has bloomed twice since I moved it out to the southern exposure in the shade house. Before that it grew but wouldn't bloom. I lost two because I watered it too much. Beautiful colors.
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Good to know. Maybe this year it will bloom for me. Thanks. |
03-03-2013, 10:46 AM
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Wow~ nice!
I can almost feel the velvety texture.
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03-03-2013, 01:40 PM
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Quote:
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Very lovely! Such a rich red! I have a Blc. Chia Lin 'New City' but so far it refuses to bloom. Does yours get really high light?
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Hi silken. It's grown in a greenhouse and does not recieve
any additional lighting and in this part of the world it probably gets 8 hrs of subdude light per day. just try and not water for three weeks after a watering and it may force it into spiking.
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03-03-2013, 01:50 PM
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But during your summer in the north of England when the orchid is making up it's mind whether to grow a flower or not you have 12-14 hours a day of sunlight. Around the time when the new growth is halfway to maturity is when the flower either starts to form or not. Some catts and their cousins need as much light as they can get to flower and that is in their ancestry. There are catts and laelias in brazil that grow in extremely limited areas. Some in less than 100 square miles. These plants have strict requirements as to light, time of watering/dry season, and if these are not met the plants don't flower well. It all depends on what the ancestry is. The more I look at this one the more I will have to get one. I love the flower color and form. Very nice.
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