Catasetum incurvum - Exercise in patience

[isurus79]

Imports are always tricky! Glad this one made it through the adjustment process. Looks like a big plant, so I bet will through multiple spikes for you.

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by isurus79

Imports are always tricky! Glad this one made it through the adjustment process. Looks like a big plant, so I bet will through multiple spikes for you.

No sign of a spike on the other new growth. Perhaps next year... it seems to have finally made the transition, though. But it took a really, really long time. My plant came from Peru. Other types that aren't so strongly seasonal transition fine, but I'd hesitate to get any more Catasetinae from the southern hemisphere. One little aside... I have seen posts where people comment on seasonal transition for plants from Ecuador... take a look at a map, Ecuador is squarely on the equator, and half of it is in the northern hemisphere - barely - and half in the southern hemisphere - barely. It's countries farther south where this becomes an issue, such as Peru and southern Brazil but not northern, Brazil is a really big place. Quite a bit of South America is in the northern hemisphere.

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by Roberta

No sign of a spike on the other new growth. Perhaps next year... it seems to have finally made the transition, though. But it took a really, really long time. My plant came from Peru. Other types that aren't so strongly seasonal transition fine, but I'd hesitate to get any more Catasetinae from the southern hemisphere. One little aside... I have seen posts where people comment on seasonal transition for plants from Ecuador... take a look at a map, Ecuador is squarely on the equator, and half of it is in the northern hemisphere - barely - and half in the southern hemisphere - barely. It's countries farther south where this becomes an issue, such as Peru and southern Brazil but not northern, Brazil is a really big place. Quite a bit of South America is in the northern hemisphere.

My Brazilian Catasetum imports also take several years to adjust, though luckily not 6!

Also of note, Cyrtopodiums are just as seasonal as Catasetum but are easy-peezy when it comes to getting them acclimated. They might be even easier to acclimate that Cattleyas from South America!