Rlc. Memoria Anna Balmores 'Convex'
 

Rlc. Memoria Anna Balmores ‘Convex’. I’ve had the orchid for many years and it has lots of desirable traits. It’s a compact grower (about 12” tall). It has a nice fragrance. The pseudo-bulbs grow close together so it doesn’t ramble. It usually has two new growths on each lead and blooms on every new pseudo-bulb. The spikes are self supporting so they don’t need to be staked. The flower spacing and orientation is very good.

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Wow! Just wow! That is gorgeous!

That is just beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

Pure joy for the eyes. Love how healthy the plant looks too. And I'm impressed: that's quite a list of desirable characteristics.

Wow! What a gorgeous specimen!

Wow, amazing, that's true beauty! I love the use of wooden basket, what is the medium you did use inside, I want to try one of my cats in the wooden basket after I saw this!

Beautiful

Superbly grown and flowered.

Bravo! Great growing!!!!

Tommy, I grow it in a basket because it's outdoors in South Florida where it rains almost every day during the summer. I use large chunks of cork that I cut off a cork slab with a hacksaw. Tree fern fiber chunks that I buy from an orchid supply store and large lava rock from the landscape section of Home Depot. The cork and tree fern seem to work much better than the lava rock.

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Vivid contrast of colors, well grown specimen.

Good growing!

WOW! Fabulous!

Awesome Tucker, many thanks, this is exactly what I thought - tree fern chunks and cork chunks. I know your grow outside like me, I am in Miami, and actually you helped me pretty much not only keep my Cattleyas alive, but make them thrive! After I joined, I did read many of your threads and followed you tips - I have now all Cats out of the bark, either mounted on tree fern, or in hydroton pebbles! They are growing like crazy! But I want to place one into the wooden basket!!! I will drive to Broward Orchid Supplies this Saturday and get more tree fern chunks, I have some cork, and I will not use lava rocks - only tree fern and cork, I think it will be enough! Many thanks!!!

Thanks for posting Tucker. Great flower, plant, and photo. I also appreciate you sharing your growing technique. I recently aquired a clone.

That is beautiful Tucker. I wish I could try a basket but sense I grow in my house I don't think it would work to well.

Tucker your plants are always INCREDIBLE!!! What an excellent display!!!!!!!!

I agree. I wouldn't use baskets if I grew my orchids indoors. It's hot and humid in South Florida so orchids need to get more air to the roots.

Tucker,
How do you grow your plants outside? Are they under a shade cloth, lat house, or a bunch of trees? You must have a lot of plants.

I don't have a lot of plants by South Florida standards. I have about 60 or 70. Most of my orchid growing friends in the area have two or three times that number. I grow on a screened patio with a screen roof (about 25% shade) and partially covered by a gumbo limbo tree.

Tucker, that is gorgeous!!! Thanks for posting about all the great traits it has. Now I know what to look for in a Cattleya. In the past I did buy a gawky rambler and also some huge ones. This one is perfect. I've learned a lot about Catts from reading your posts too.

Beautiful display! Lots of flowers on a compact plant but they aren't crowded, each flower has its space. Very nice!

Very pretty...I have one that is still too young to bloom;always wondered what it would look like! Thanks, BettyE