My first serious Catt: a Blc. Chia Lin from Lowes

[No-Pro-mwa]

Wow nice color if it is the color. I hope it stays that color. I tried to get a pic of a catt that I had gotten from Sun Valley but could not get the color right at all.

I didn't post it because the color was not the color of the bloom. I wish I could find a Lowes with orchids like this.

[rosemadder]

Oh right, the flash. Forgot about that, good point.



Up too close the texture of the petals throws off some really weird reflectivity.

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Very nice, love the color!

[Wrebbitrocks]

that's such a nice plant! I have a chia lin that hasn't bloomed and it doesn't look like it will either... it goes a little farther downhill each winter, it might not make it through this one.

and youre so lucky your lowes carries catts. my lowes only carries SUPER OVERPRICED phal noids in ugly ceramic pots half dead and flowers dying. sometimes dens, oncs, or cymbidiums but they always have broken spikes or are insanely overpotted to charge $30 when its a 7 dollar plant and the cyms always have a virus. and when theyre ALMOST dead on "clearance" theyre still 10-15 dollars, and the mgmt. wont even just let me pay less without the ceramic pot which is all theyre charging for. its sad really, I wish I could just save them :/

[james mickelso]

If you have a polarizer it would cut down on the reflections and back away from the flowers.

[Optimist]

That is stuning. The leaves look like a little too much sun.

[rosemadder]

Our Lowes here in SF seems to get a lot of orchids from Gubler. The Gubler orchids come with ID tags, for one thing, and usually look like they're in excellent health. Not sure where they're located exactly or how many other stores might source from them.

This flower is wilting now. It may have already been a little old when I got it, so maybe that influenced the color? It will be very interesting to see how it looks when/if it blooms again. Will repot it into S/H shortly.

There's a lot of purple splotches on the stems and the pseudobulbs look a bit shrively, but I think the color is probably mostly just natural or something from high light even though it really resembles bruises. Will post pics of the roots when I repot.

[james mickelso]

Gublers Orchids is located in Landers, Ca east of San Bernardino. They've been in business for a very long time. I have some cattleyas that they crossed. One is named for one of the Gublers daughters. C. Karen Gubler. White and very fragrant. They grow superb orchids.

[Optimist]

I have been complaining to my Lowes for a year and a batch of geublers orchids came in. In the red by 80$ but don't care.I was amazed by the quality of the plants. I got a Catt ina six inch pot---It is huge. It has one spike and another on the way. A pink emperess, which looks dark pink with an orange lip.

[euplusia]

Even with a good camera equipment and photoshop it is difficult to reproduce the true colour and beauty of this clone. For me Chia Lin was a "must have".