Happy New Year!
 

The red one is Cattleya coccinea, the pink one is Cattleya wittigiana. Enjoy!

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They're beautiful! happy new Year!

Happy New Year!
spectacular!!!
can you pls provide some culture conditions and media/potting details?
Thanks

Yes, I'm also interested, especially about min temps and lowest humidity values.

Happy New Year!:)

Thanks for the comments!
They are all mounted on pieces of cork nested into clay pots. Night temperatures in winter are around 60F. Days can run up into the low eighties, even in winter. I think the key to growing them is an evaporative cooler plus a misting fan that hangs above. The mister will wet them with RO water all day in summertime. They are irrigated daily with RO unless it is especially cloudy and cool. I fertilize them with 50ppm nitrogen maybe once a week.
Another factor which may help is that they are tetraploids, which is said to make them more temperate tolerant. The light is quite bright, as they grow in the greenhouse with all of the other Cattleyas. The humidity is never lower than 70%. Hope this helps!

Happy New Years Day! Glad I went to bed well before midnight... that coccinea is so vibrant it hurts my eyes. Its color depth is amazing. I can only imagine what it would do to my head after a younger years NYE celebration.

WOW...better than fireworks on the 4th! Sober eyes can really appreciate all the best here.

Thanks Bayard!:)