Cattleya dowiana aurea

[dodidoki]

I bougt it 5 years ago, flowered 3 years ago. I began to feed it with K-lite about 1 year ago, produced a very large growth with two very nice flower with very fine fragrange.


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[newbud]

Wow...really nice colors and beautiful lip. K-lite does it again.

 

[The Orchid Boy]

Awesome blooms and color! I've really wanted to get one but is it hard to grow or picky?

 

[Secundino]

Great lip - always fabulous to see dowiana and aurea!

 

[Paphman910]

Really nice!

I heard it grows great in warm temperature with a min of 20C for it to do well. One of my friends dowiana rosita flowered and died after that in his intermediate temperature greenhouse.

How tall does it get? 3 feet?

 

[SlipperFan]

Such a fantastic lip!

 

[JeanLux]

Very, very nice !!!! Jean

 

[dodidoki]

Many thanks for all comments.

I shared it because of two reasons:

Flower is beautiful, one of my favourite cattleyas

K-lite feeding did not cause any P or K deficiency, furthermore my catts are growing faster and stronger than ever before, pics are evidences.

Plant is about 70 cm tall ( 2,3 feets) and said to be hard to grow, but I think most important factor is continous warm and higher humidity ( like growing barbatas, but a little more light). paphs are harder to grow....MANY MORE. They are "just" challenge.

 

[NYEric]

..paphs are harder to grow..

that's crazy talk!! :crazy:

 

[Ozpaph]

fabulous lip

 

[limuhead]

Here is a picture of one of mine from last summer, one of my favorite Cattleya for fragrance...

 

[shadytrake]

Fabulous. I have this one growing from flask and they are doing great. I started them in s/h directly from the baggie and they were just moved to orchiata this spring. I keep each pot in a bowl with s/h with water to keep the humidity really high without soaking the roots. They were de-flasked 5/24/2010 so three years out. I'm guessing that I'll get a bloom size in a few more years.

https://lab.troymeyers.com/flasking/item.php?kind=plant&id=TN6127