Yellow lycaste bradeorum leaves

[Cooper baby]

Is there something wrong with the leaves or is it going dormant. I bought it From California recently. Live in Georgia. Maybe the weather change is making it go dormant.

[rbarata]

I don't grow any of that but common sense tells me this is not the right time to go dormant, at least in the vast majority of the orchids.

[katrina]

It appears to be normal leaf drop. Some of my mature deciduous lycaste are already leafless (Some blooming already!) but some are about the same place yours is in the pic...looking ugly. If yours is mature enough, you should begin to see spikes before too long.

[Roberta]

Typical Lycaste behavior. Different species have different times to drop leaves, but they all do. Not particularly dormant... Looked up photos, this one looks like it is in the group of yellow/green Lycastes (some others are Lyc. aromatica, consobrina, cochleata) that lose their leaves in the winter/spring, and bloom on leafless psueudobulbs in the summer (Baker culture sheet in Orchidwiz actually shows blooming in late summer/early fall), then they do the new growth. So no worries, this one is doing what it is supposed to do.

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I don't have bradeorum, but do have the other three. I don't stop watering them (they get less in winter because they don't dry out as fast when it is cold, but that is true of everything I grow outside) This group tends to be really floriferous, and temperature-tolerant. I see that Andy has it listed as intermediate to warm. It may come from a somewhat warmer region than the others, but I would suspect that it to be pretty tolerant of cooler temperatures - I certainly would not expect it to be particularly fussy.