Rebuilding the collection...

[Orchidflowerchild]

SO as of the order I am placing this weekend, I will officially have every one of the classic labiate cattleya species represented at least once in my collection. And all of them of good breeding. As these are not all blooming size I will be anxiously awaiting the day when a labiate cattleya is in bloom every day of the year. It is very interesting to have almost two decades of experience with orchids and basically be in a position to start from scratch on a collection. I can set specific goals.

What is your next collection goal?

-Ceci

Edit: Silly me, I forgot three species. Hey, anybody know where to get good stock for C. mendelii, quadricolor, and eldorado?

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Looks like miranda orchids has a very nice selfing of eldorado....

I'm like an addict after crackrocks....

[DavidCampen]

My main focus is on cattleya species. I am trying to collect examples of all of the about 45 species that were recognized as of 1999. I still need about a half dozen - speaking of which, does anyone know where I can get a Cattleya mooreana?

I also have about a dozen catasetinae, a few angraecum and other miscellaneous. Mostly all species.

[escualida]

I want them ALL muahahahahah!

I have no more money or room at the moment but when I do, I think I will be focusing on rupicolous laelias and tolumnias, I'm obsessed

[Brooke]

Check the South American vendors and when they will be in the country. I just got two very nice quadricolor from Redlands from one of them.

All came to me bare root, one quadricolor was in bud and has bloomed already. The other one if a .v something and it is in bud.

Santa Barbara always has great out of country vendors, check their website.

Brooke

[Orchidflowerchild]

ugh the south american vendors. Let's not talk about how hard I lust after some of those Catts. Mauro may yet find me living under a bench like a black widow, in his greenhouse lol.

-Ceci

[Picotee]

Originally Posted by Orchidflowerchild

ugh the south american vendors. Let's not talk about how hard I lust after some of those Catts. Mauro may yet find me living under a bench like a black widow, in his greenhouse lol.

-Ceci

Mauro's cattleya collection is my idea of orchid heaven.

[tucker85]

Ruben in Orchids has some nice C. mendelii. He may have the others on your list also. Drop him an email. I visit his nursery so I've never ordered online. He may use Ebay for online orders.

Species - Cattleya and Allied Genera

[lepetitmartien]

As I have no interest into "froufrou"* orchids so exit Cattleya and the like, nor into Vanda and the like, I'm focusing on:

(I like strange series)
- Vanilla, I want them all (I'm mad, I'm in a flat…)(Nothing can grow fear in me, i' already have imperialis
- Phalaenopsis, mostly species
- Gongora, stans and over stanhopeae
- Non smelling or nicely fragrant bulbophyllums with a nice flower, I'm very partial.
- Brachypetalum paphs (starting up)
- And the latest of the series : hot restrepias (only got one for now, trying the genus to see if…)

If one day I have a GH, I'll collect all orchids with warze… Warzycz… Well: Warsaw in their name.

*Don't ask me to translate

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Warszcewiczella? (What a mouthful, right?)

They are some of my favorite orchids.

I seldom collect every species within a genus unless that genus happens to have a fairly small number of species grouped in it.

If I had to pick a genus to collect all the species to, idk, I'd probably say either Huntleya or Dracula.

[tropterrarium]

I collect Oberonia. 30 species, about 180 plants, 2 terraria (90/180 gals), 1 4x9' GH, and still plenty of space :-) There are anywhere between 150 and 300 species, many, though, unobtainable.

P.S. you'll also need a microscope ...