Cattleya trianae, a four year journey

[Royal Rea]

Well done , shows the valve of a few flowering before a potential cull, how cultural conditions ect can affect the flowering in a given season.

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Sound like, and am! 75 years. I would still buy green bananas, but as a physician I am realistic about my future. The probability that I am still growing orchids in 10 years is low. With that time horizon, holding on to a mediocre flower for multiple years to see if it will get better isn’t as attractive as buying a clean, blooming-size mericlone of something that is already great. Time for me to enjoy great flowers and leave the gambling on new crosses and long experiments on growing conditions to Patrick and other young ones in our hobby.

You had me fooled too. All of you are young (at heart) to me!

 

[GuRu]

David, it's nice to see the change of flower quality through the years due to different conditions and age of the plant.

 

[monocotman]

It is guru. What has surprised me is that the plant has always been growing well with good roots and several pseudobulbs, even when it arrived.

 

[SunsetChris]

Very nice flowers and great improvement, indeed. It is my experience, too, that several of labiata type catts show the similar thing: if plant is in good condition, flowers are much colorful with better shape and in many cases there can be seen plus flares or flamea like colouration.
Eg. my Mooreana improvement.
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Beautiful! But, I wondered about the discoloration on the leaves of thiscatt. Any ideas?

 

[dodidoki]

Beautiful! But, I wondered about the discoloration on the leaves of thiscatt. Any ideas?

Anthocyan.New shoot is almost red. I will take pic if i get home.

 

[Ray]

I know these quotes were from a long time ago...

culture trumps genetics???

I believe culture / conditions is a large percentage of flower quality.

The plant's genetics control its ability to achieve something. Culture determines how well - or not - it can do so.

So the bottom line is that if a plant is not living up to its genetically-programmed capabilities, it's a cultural shortcoming on the part of the grower.