Deflasked cattleya, first time need all advice

[ninad]

Originally Posted by orchidsarefun

Next step - individual pots. These were deflasked 5/16/16 and I already have spiking occurring.


These are a phal cross. I have a catt cross ready for deflasking, I know it's going to be years before I see a first bloom.

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Wow looking amazing in almost 8 months for you. Mine is cat hybrid, lets see how I will go about but currently plan is 22nd week repot in fine bark

[isurus79]

FYI- I haven't had success with fine bark. It never seems to dry out, even in 2" pots. You might want to use larger grade bark considering how high your humidity is.

[ninad]

Thanks for the idea

[ninad]

Growth going strong
added sensor which stores data of humidity and temperature, took me 3-4 days of this week to figure out perfectly.

Temperature inside greenhouse : sensor temperature

humidity goes to 90-92% for 15-20min due to PC fan it comes down to 65-70%, temperature in the morning varies 75-86 F and in night it goes down to 60-64F

[ninad]

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by ninad

Very cool. What type of sensor is it?

[ninad]

I am using following sensor for this
La Crosse Alerts Mobile

[ninad]

Good new root growth almost on all babies
New leaves on many babies
Look like too much activity in week 8 because of I guess warm temperatures

[ninad]

temperature constantly hitting above or around 83F for most of the week

[ninad]

Not extraordinarily fast growth but with good pace, due to kelpmix root growth is amazing.