Plantidote of the Day 2011-12-28
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Following the beautiful orange roses that twig gave us on Monday, here are matching orchids. These are Cattleyas.
This guy says they are easy peasy to grow:
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Great video!
I've never heard the part about misting the fertilizer on before -- that might be why a couple of mine are a little bedraggled. Thanks for this, if only I had known ....
Too bad
cattleyas look so boring out of bloom. Maybe that's just sour grapes because I can't grow them well up here. Then again, I rebloomed a vanda for years, so why can't I grow cattleyas? Rhetorical question, don't answer!