Potinara Oconee Circle

[estación seca]

In the last six months I received some of the above from Fred, all in 3" / 7.5cm pots:

L. tenebrosa ('Stewart 68807' x 'Rainforest' FCC/AOS)
L. Pacavia (L. tenebrosa 'None Darker' x L. purpurata f. atro-purpurea 'SVO')
(Bl. Sunny Delight x Bl. Richard Muller)
Bl. Yellow Bird (Bl. Richard Muller x B. nodosa)
L. sanguiloba 'Red Lip' x L.ctenebrosa 'None Darker'

Each is currently making 3-5 new growths. Plants in 3" pots!

[silken]

Originally Posted by estación seca

In the last six months I received some of the above from Fred, all in 3" / 7.5cm pots:

L. tenebrosa ('Stewart 68807' x 'Rainforest' FCC/AOS)
L. Pacavia (L. tenebrosa 'None Darker' x L. purpurata f. atro-purpurea 'SVO')
(Bl. Sunny Delight x Bl. Richard Muller)
Bl. Yellow Bird (Bl. Richard Muller x B. nodosa)
L. sanguiloba 'Red Lip' x L.ctenebrosa 'None Darker'

Each is currently making 3-5 new growths. Plants in 3" pots!

Sounds like you got a couple that we got. My sanquiloba x tenebrosa is the same. But it has no new growths and was almost rootless. So I am just trying to keep it alive. The plant itself looks fine and had to come into Canada bare root and then get packed and shipped bare root to me from another province. Several plants had really good roots.

[Leafmite]

Originally Posted by silken

And I really didn't have space for them! So I may have to weed out some doubles of others, or ones I don't love as much.

Space. I went crazy this spring and I am trying not to think where they will all go when autumn comes. I just cannot get rid of any, not this time. :|

Have fun, both of you, with all the new orchids!

[No-Pro-mwa]

I'm just trying to keep my hands from ordering more, just can't afford it right now. I would just love to have one of his L. tenenbrosa but just how big do those get?

Now let me brag a bit.

Lc. Sergio Araujo (L alaorii x C. trianiae) 4 new growths, sadly I see no sheaths so I don't think it is going to bloom.

Lc. Mem Wensei x Sc. Beaufort 5 new growths and I broke one off re-potting.

Slc. Jillian Lee x Slc. Cosmic Delite this stinker has 7 new growths, I'm hoping a few will bloom. It has bloomed with only 1 bloom this spring.

[silken]

Wow! Do you do anything special, like SuperThrive, to so many growths?

[No-Pro-mwa]

Originally Posted by silken

Wow! Do you do anything special, like SuperThrive, to so many growths?

Assuming it is me doing it as it may just be the plants. But I use kelpmax and I have also been using Ray's inocucor on my orchids. But I will also say it is my newer ones that seem to be growing more growths. I got my Blue Hawaii from Fantasy Orchids and it also has 5 new growths. But it may just be blooming on 1 of them. These are the first mini's I have had so I was maybe thinking it was the way some of the mini's grow.

[Leafmite]

Wow! I need to have a chat with my orchids, I think.

[estación seca]

Laelia tenebrosa is a big plant, like L. purpurata.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Laelia tenebrosa is a big plant, like L. purpurata.

I thought so, thanks.

[Leucadian]

Here's a pic of L. sanguinea x L. tenebrosa from SVO (same cross as yours) , bloomed in July this year. Thought you might like to see it.

Edit to add a big Cattleya (L.) tenebrosa ‘Windflower’ AM/AOS 85 pts.- grown by Betty Kelepecz here in San Diego. It's a big plant alright!