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04-13-2013 12:36 PM |
Thanks for the kind comments.
And gotsomerice, this is a division of a seedling that I got on ebay late last summer from the seller "ovorchids." Ovorchids, located in California, is apparently a nursery, based on the large numbers of orchids they list. Nearly all of the Cattleyas they sell are seedlings. Most have been listed when they bloom for the first time, and many of them have very good flowers.
Since this intermedia is especially nice, maybe they decided to keep part of it rather than selling the entire plant like they usually do. Maybe they will list another division sometime. I might do that myself, but for now it has a capsule developing. I pollinated it with pollinia from another nice intermedia that bloomed at the same time.
I do think this plant could have some award potential.
CR7cristiano, The flowers were about 4.5 inches across. There were initially 5 buds on one inflorescence, but I cut three of them off just after they all emerged. I did that so the plant could devote more energy to the development of the remaining two.
And that was partly because the division is not very big. It only had three mature pseudobulbs and one still growing when it budded. The fourth one is still young.
- Yeah, I know that growing a seed capsule on a Cattleya that only has four pseudobulbs is pushing its stored energy reserves, but this plant seems pretty vigorous.
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