Blc. Pink Empress Ju Shen - Growth and blooming pattern

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by chicken_wing

so, reading your comments I understand that even if the orchid is growing a new growth, this doesn't mean necessarily that the older growth with the sheath couldn't bloom later.

What you mentioned is true. A sheath on a mature (flowering size) catt on any bulb - regardless of whether there are new sprouts/shoots on some other portion of the plant ------ can indeed still develop flower buds from that sheath.

Also ----- what I was meaning in my previous post --- is that a new bulb that has new leaves that hasn't finished growing yet --- may also have a sheath --- and that sheath can begin to have buds popping out of the sheath well before the leaves are fully grown and fully extended ----- such as seen at this link here.

[chicken_wing]

Originally Posted by SouthPark

Also ----- what I was meaning in my previous post --- is that a new bulb that has new leaves that hasn't finished growing yet --- may also have a sheath --- and that sheath can begin to have buds popping out of the sheath well before the leaves are fully grown and fully extended ----- such as seen at this link here.

Yes! I've understood that! And I'm amazed by the unpredictability of cattleyas - hybrids especially!
I also know that some type of cattleyas can bloom both with a sheath and without!