Cattleya dolosa var. alba

[DavidCampen]

Thanks, for the link, it is very informative.

[GardenTheater]

Lovely blooms!

[katrina]

Very nice!!

I picked up 2 dolosas about a year ago (a regular and a coerulea). I hear they can be a bit difficult to bloom so a big congrats! [and now I need to find an alba]

[james mickelso]

notice the environment in which they grow and bloom? that's what they need to bloom.

[Picotee]

Nice to see that one. Good growing!

[No-Pro-mwa]

Lovely just lovely. Do you just set it flat like that or hang it?

[Anglo]

They're not difficult to bloom, unless maybe they don't get enough light. About the same as what walkerianas need -- at least a few hours of direct sunlight per day.

- Or something commensurate with artificial lighting in intensity and/or duration.

[brsucculents]

Thanks for the info on the article. That explains a lot.
It is a beautiful flower. I think it prettier than either of the parents. Thanks for the picture of the plant too. What is the raft made of?

[DavidCampen]

The plant came from RF Orchids mounted on a section of tree limb of unkown type. It was mounted to grow vertically. I left it attached to the tree limb and attached that to a piece of cork bark. I mostly grow my mounted orchids horizontally instead of vertically; if you look at epiphytic orchids in nature you see that they mostly grow on horizontal tree limbs and not vertical tree trunks. If I receive a plant mounted to grow vertically I like to convert it to horizontal; sometimes I do this by growing the planted tilted at 45 degrees before changing to horizontal.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Makes sense to me, and it looked to straight up to be growing vertical.