This is only from testing on about 10 plants. The rest of my Cattleya hybrids do not flower from sheaths or have very small sheaths, and they flower as soon as the growth is mature. I only see it in plants that produce the sheath then wait 4 to 6 months to flower, typically the growth is produced in the summer and matures in the Fall, and flowering is in the Spring.
At 8:52 PM +0000 9/13/04, K Barrett wrote:
For the past 2-3 years the inflorescences on my catttleyas have barely gotten out of the sheath before the buds open http://www.orchidtrek.com/sheath2.JPG and http://www.orchidtrek.com/sheath1.JPG
This year I've been very good about using a balanced fertilizer with micronutirents and taking better care of my orchids in general, but the flowers still don't emerge from the sheath. If anything they are getting worse. The plant pictured is Lc Royal Emperor x Blc Jeremy Island, but it really doesn't matter what catt we are talking about. This year only my coeureans have grown a decent spike.
Why do they do this? What am I doing wrong? Are they just trying to tick me off?
K Barrett N Calif, USA
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