C. Drumbeat 'Heritage'

[tucker85]

One of my oldest orchids. This has been growing around the outside of this 8" pot for many years now. Some years it blooms all at once but this year it's blooming on two or three pseudo-bulbs at a time.

[silken]

Just gorgeous!

[IncurablePlantHead]

Nothing like a nice big, healthy clump of cattleya stuff! Nice growing.

[plumania]

Beautiful. Does it smell good?
I love your large specimen size plants.

I would like to know how you deal with the 'back bulbs', as the plant keeps growing forward and out of the pot.Even if you put it in larger container(basket etc), you still have to deal with the space occupied by inactive old pseudo bulb.

[CR7cristiano]

STUNNING!!! I will have to call one of the catt growers from my orchid society to ask for one of these for sure.

[tucker85]

Originally Posted by plumania

Beautiful. Does it smell good?
I love your large specimen size plants.

I would like to know how you deal with the 'back bulbs', as the plant keeps growing forward and out of the pot.Even if you put it in larger container(basket etc), you still have to deal with the space occupied by inactive old pseudo bulb.

Yes, it's very fragrant. I don't do anything with the back bulbs unless they turn yellow and then I cut them off. I very seldom repot. This orchid outgrew it's pot three or four years ago and I just let it keep growing. Now days I grow all my cattleyas in wood baskets so I never have any root rot problems even when they get large. I've found that the bigger a cattleya gets, the better it blooms.

[Picotee]

Wish I had more room for big floofy catts. What a beauty!

[ron-in-norcal]

That's a wonderful cattleya. Great to see a nice large one that way. I think you're right that they do better just letting them get as large as they want without dividing.

[Orchids4ever]

Beautiful large Catt.

[pheli]

Beautiful.