Rlc. Memoria Helen Brown 'Sweet Afton'

[Merita]

I remember last year almost most of my cattleyas bloomed without sheats. In this flowering only one plant has done it in both ways, all are with the pod and some drying them to later bloom in them. Why will this happen?

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Merita

I remember last year almost most of my cattleyas bloomed without sheaths. In this flowering only one plant has done it in both ways, all are with the pod and some drying them to later bloom in them. Why will this happen?

That's a very interesting thing about some orchids like these ones. The behaviours are super interesting.

A Ctt. Porcia 'Cannizaro' appears to have maybe budding activity with no sheath on the latest bulb. But will have to wait and see if anything progresses from that.

A C. Caudabec Candy has some developing buds right now .... and this one has always done sheathless.

I noticed that some catts with dried up sheaths will just provide an interesting surprise --- as in producing spikes after we think that nothing will come from dried sheaths ----- even though there will be times where nothing will eventuate from a dried sheath.