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Thanks. My sense from killing armeniaca multiple times in the greenhouse is that a period of at least down the low 50s at night for a dryish winter rest is essential and probably lower might be better. Sounds like you might be time shifting that a bit, but are getting into a range that is closer...

I have a very good friend at Illumina and we have discussed this a bit. The key is finding a lab that does this all the time for other plants already and has brought the cost structure down and simplified the logistics of sample processing and data generation. If I could send a leaf or root +...

Not the best picture, but Cattleya warneri coerulescens. Very unusual color from tropical orchid farm. Pretty much like a concolor , but the overall color is different than a tipo, but not exactly coerulea. Has the tiniest hint of yellow way back in the throat.

Chapeau. That is a fantastic plant. Wondering how cool and/or dry do you grow in the winter? It's a pretty high elevation plant in the wild.

This is something that I am super curious about. There are actually some good papers on molecular barcoding markers, for example walkeriana compared to loddigesii that have shown 'kenny' and 'pendentive' are of hybrid origin. Telling apart individual plants of a single species requires more...

Thanks Terry. I've been wrestling with this myself as I do some amount of hobby breeding. Perhaps better as its own thread at some point. Would be great to hear more from others experience both from a collecting standpoint and a breeding standpoint. There are numerous examples of "fishy"...

Nice. What a beautiful plant. A little bit hard to tell from the photo, but looks to be the lighter colored var. amaliae rather than a darker tipo. Chapeau

I've often wondered as an orchid aficionado that grows only species if I am aiding in the making of metaphorical golden retrievers over time or preserving wolves. In my collection, I have good representation of various Cattleya species from line bred coerulea tetraploids to tipos that are pretty...

Often just looking at the flowers of the unifoliates is really difficult to tell the different species apart or a primary hybrid. Typical for jenmanii would be blooming Oct-Dec after a short to several month rest from growth and from a single fairly narrow, tall upright sheath. The do not have...

I used to be somewhat of a unifoliatist when it came to cattleyas, but have come around to appreciating the bifoliates as well. If you have lots of space and sun, leopoldii/tigrina, gutatta, amethystoglossa are awesome. Aclandiae, schilleriana, walkeriana, nobilior, kerrii are great and take up...

Happy to share my experience with the sub-group. I've come to appreciate that "Cattleya conditions" is not a very useful shorthand for a group with a lot of diversity in terms of optimal cultural practices. Don't know if you have these, but a lot of the smaller sized "Brazilian Laelias" like...

Hi Terry, In N. California, used to be in San Diego. Pretty well represented collection. Coccineas, pumilas, sincoranas, purpuratas, jongheanas, most of the Colombian and Venezuelan Cattleya species, and a good cross section of the bifoliates - aclandiae, schilleriana, velutina, guttatas...

Opinion of 1 human: Quadricolor is a bit like a poorly colored and shaped trianae. Nice, but not fantastic. Rex is a very cool plant, just not that available. Worth tracking down. Lawrenceana can be very hit or miss. Some clones are super vigorous and have big heads of flowers and others are...

Very nice plant. You should read the bloom times with a bit of a grain of salt. It depends a lot on how much sun and the consistency of the temperature while growing. A lot of the books have been written by authors that grow in more temperate places where they are running temps in the mid to...

A little late to this. As I understand it, the narrower more upright leaved plants are Paph gratrixianum var christensonianum or Paph christensonianum whether you want to go with Kew or Koopowitz. Same plant. For me it blooms Dec-Feb. I also have a much wider leaved rangy grower which is the...