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Originally Posted by isurus79
Oh wow, I wish I'd seen this thread earlier!
I love thefish's post above. Rarely do we get to see a grower get better and better with a tricky species in a single post!
MJG- I'm glad my videos are useful! Let me know if you have more questions. Also useful for you, check out these two videos from an indoor NYC grower that I know who has been growing Cattleyas for a loooong time!
Walkeriana Indoors
Part I- How I Grow Bloom Cattleya walkeriana - YouTube
Part II- More How I Grow Bloom Cattleya walkeriana - YouTube |
Rafael's videos inspired me to grow
C. walkeriana indoors. The one thing I can't do indoors is keep temps high- which really helps the plants dry out and keep their transpiration rates high.
My biggest mistake early on was learning on divisions. Since divisions and larger plants's roots often die off with environmental change ESPECIALLY if you are learning or being a dense idiot. I ended up with a lot of plant mass and not enough roots to support my first division properly. I narrowly avoided disaster on the second. Every root is precious. I should have bought some medium sized seedlings so that they could establish their root systems in my culture. Pretty much every professional grower I've bought these plants from has their own "system" for growing these plants in their horticultural conditions. Some of these plants are so far from what will work in my grow space it's just going to be a trainwreck to transition them to the media I need to grow them in. I've seen ebay listings with medium sized walkeriana in sphagnum... I just don't even know how that's possible.
Hybrid Mode
