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Originally Posted by Kevinator
Pescatoreas grow very similarly to Huntleyas. Although I've heard that they're easier to grow, I haven't seen any difference in their fussiness as of now. My lehmannii is doing well but my dayana is slowly growing and doesn't look too good. The main difference on how I grow these is that the Huntleya is in a basket with moss while the Pescatoreas are in bark in pots right underneath it, which means lower light. I've heard in brighter light they will flower more often. Andy said that he saw a P. lehmannii once with flowers encompassing the entire base of the plant growing in a little bit less than cattleya light.
Do you have any pictures of H. pallida and/or its flowers? I'm very curious since i can't find that species anywhere on the internet.
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That had to be an amazing sight. I've not seen any Pescatoreas in person but the pictures I've seen show really beautiful flowers. Good luck with them, I hope they do well and look forward to seeing pics!
I've got a thread I started under this alliance about Pallida having possible brown rot & I recently took some pics of the plant - which looks just like wallisii - but I don't have any of the flower since I got it this spring when I got wallisii. Really I took a chance getting it as I have no idea what the flowers look like either! Andy told me that he's calling it Pallida (not sure whether this is a species name so maybe I should be spelling lower case...) b/c right now there's a lot of confusion surrounding it in terms of what to call it. There was - not remembering at this moment - another plant, not a Huntleya, in the Zygo alliance that I thought maybe was it as I was searching for pics too I came across some literature relating the two. But Andy said it was not the case.
So when it blooms that'll be a first look for me as well I will certainly share pics.
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