Various blooms June

[Optimist]

Hi, I went out to the shade house to grab these orchids before I forgot about them.

This is Dykia Hendersonia. The flowers are too small to really get a good picture of.


Next is Mystacidium distichum (really cute leaves)


Cattlea Intermedia Var. Coerulia 'carmela"


Paph. Godfroyae (this one has almost black leaves)


My Olof Gruss Phrag looks like it will bloom in July!

Happy June!

[Leafmite]

All of them are very nice but I do really like the Cattleya. I have a distichum. It is a great little orchid. Is it now Mystacidium distichum (not that I plan to change the tag or the entry in my list but....)? I hate how all the names are changing. To me, this will always be an Angraecum.

[Optimist]

I have two of the cattleya Intermedia ceurulia, the other one is much smaller though. I am not fond of the name changes myself. I feel that once you name them once you can't keep on naming them other things. I am probably wrong.

I think if they kept the names you would have far less of these teenage/youngish orchid gurus on You-tube saining, "It's a Yada-Yada. I am not going to even pronounce this word. Here, you read it." (Holds out out of focus plant tag).

The profound truth is that Latin and Greek are not taught in school, and most of these names mean gobblety goop to most people.

[silken]

Lovely blooms. I have two C. intermedia's that were seedlings but aren't anymore. I have yet to get them to bloom. Despite them growing with lots of other blooming Catts. Do you do anything special for yours? Do they get a cool winter and do they get fairly high light? I don't know what mine are lacking.

[Optimist]

I got them, took them out of their packaging and put them outside under a tree. They are in my shade house under a tree. Except when I water, I really do not see them much. I think it is the light. Catts can over winter in the house, but they are more like outdoor plants. If you get some hanging baskets and have a squirrel proof place outside, some shade cloth or a tree, they will do well.

[silken]

Originally Posted by Optimist

I got them, took them out of their packaging and put them outside under a tree. They are in my shade house under a tree. Except when I water, I really do not see them much. I think it is the light. Catts can over winter in the house, but they are more like outdoor plants. If you get some hanging baskets and have a squirrel proof place outside, some shade cloth or a tree, they will do well.

Mine grow in a greenhouse with a lot of light and in winter directly under HO T5's. That's what I don't get. they are lovely healthy looking plants.

[Optimist]

Oh, I am sorry, yeah, it is another rock dwelling lithophite cattleya from Brazil. I think also that Intermedia Cerulea is a cross with Walkeriana. The Mios Journal article A Few Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleyas
(by) R J Ferry has been very helpful to me for growing these. Look at the map on the Rt of the page facing you. That is very helpful. These are very "small range" plants and very specific in their keep. (Aka might only grow in the wild on one slope of one mountain which is a corridor of oceanic mist). They want warm to hot weather/ mist or frequent watering, and very good drainage. A hanging basket is good. Being in Saskatchewan may be a hindrance to growth, and you may need to address the proximity to the equator in mechanical ways. ( I am in the "American South" on the 35th parallel). I really feel that on the 35th parallel, just watering will get them to grow.

A Few Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleyas

[silken]

Our summers are hot and sunny. Winter of course not, thus the T5's. But a friend who has 2 sibling seedlings of mine bloomed hers 2 years ago already! And it was done under lights. I do use shade cloth so I guess I could hang them out in the summer in a very sunny spot where they aren't shaded. Only thing I can think of to add more light really. They have a pot full of awesome roots in medium bark and grow well. I use a balanced fertilizer and don't overdo the nitrogen.

[Optimist]

Depending on the cloud cover you should shade cloth anyway. Anything even the Schomburgkia cross I have will burn in full sun. That is a very craggy area of Brazil and the cloud cover intermontaine is always there. They never have a drying out period, because they are always "misted." Night, day, summer, winter.

[Tindomul]

Gorgeous Paph, great bud finds. Thanks for posting.