Monday, May 6, 2013

Cattleya percivaliana

We got this as a bare root cutting from Fred at Steven's work. We planted it in a series of successively larger small plastic pots in a standard bark mix. It kept growing it's roots out of the medium, and the roots tend to die when our plants do that, so we kept potting it to get the roots in medium. We now have it in an odd sized 5-6in wood basket, and it is doing really well. It finally has lots of roots and it has been putting on new growths. It's really small so it will be a couple of years before we see a flower, only 4 leaves. We water it when it dries out and use Dyna Gro- Grow every time I water. It takes a good amount of sun with our other cattleyas. This plant will be a lesson in patience!

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