Cattleya walkeriana & nobilior- Summer Care
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Cattleya walkeriana and nobilior are often considered tricky species to grow. Not so! They love heat, high light, and fast-drying roots. Come with me as I do a quick tour of the collection in mid-summer and tell you what conditions they need to thrive. Enjoy!
I really like your care videos. Thanks for your time!
Glad to do it! 😃
Love your channel. I'm learning so much. I just ordered a Blc Prada Green Deluxe cattleya and a catasetum expansum so your videos really help ❤️
Very cool, looks like a nice Cattleya cross! Let me know if you ever have questions!
Love seeing your Cattleya nobilior and walkeriana. I think the average plant losses 400 molecules of water to the absorb 1 molecule of Carbon dioxide. Watering night time respirators in the evening is optimal if you can. I have started to simplify my growing regime. Leaves more time to enjoy my orchids. Thanks for sharing and all the helpful advice and information.
Patricia's Orchids I honestly think the key to good orchid growing is simplicity!
From trinidad,love to listen toyou, l learn alot from u ,especially,cattleyas nobilor,walkeriana,happy growing,
Angela Harrilal Glad to help! Please feel free to ask questions!
Very informative video... great cattleya tips. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, I'm glad its useful!
What a terrific channel! I'm so glad I stumbled over your channel, thank you for sharing such great information!
Alexandra Tsy My pleasure! Please let me know if you ever have questions!
I absolutely do :) I’ve been keeping my dozen or so orchids pretty happy. I’m excited to get into Cattleyas and try a new challenge- is this the best place to ask a question? Or FB?
Steven, I am in Houston & recently got 3 cattleyas. 2 have new growths coming out. Can I repot them? 2 are in spaghnum moss and the other in some type of twig medium. I haven’t moved them outside yet. Thanks
Sally Jo Crowson I think I was able to answer this in another location. Let me know is this is incorrect!
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! My pleasure!
Just discovered your channel. I have one that I think is a Cattleya walkeriana. I'm in central CA and have had a lot of hot weather. In the last year we've had temperatures from 28*F to 115*F, and the plant has survived. Love seeing your setup and hearing how you care for them. Do you recommend any other types of orchids for growing outdoors in hot climates?
Most of the Cattleyas do well for me here in Texas! They’re not all great with light frosts. However, if you’re growing outside all year you should check out Laelia anceps, Cattleya purpurata, and C. intermedia. Those species are great with heat and with cold.
@@SVKLOrchids thank you! I usually cover or bring plants in during frost, but one night this year I forgot! Frost is very rare for me. I will have to check those out. I love all your cattleyas and hope I can get mine to bloom too.
@@canadianstar85 let me know if you have questions!!
@@SVKLOrchids I'm going to try 40% shade cloth. Any tips for dealing with low humidity?
@@canadianstar85 That’s tough without a dedicated enclosure! You can water the roots more frequently. It’s not easy to find that higher wetness without over watering th roots.
Excellent video! Really appreciate your efforts to explain, in detail, the best cultural practices of Walkeriana and Nobilior. Usually the youtube videos about these two species are always in Portuguese language, so a little hard to understand! Anyways, I have been growing orchids for years but just started acquiring some Walkerianas a few months ago. I live in South Florida, our growing conditions are a pronounced dry season from Nov-May with very little rain, and then a rainy season from May-October, and we get a deluge almost daily, with very high humidity. With these growing conditions I have mounted all my walkerianas so far and they seem to be responding well. Look forward to future videos of yours!
Bruce Nesbitt Thanks for the kind words! It really does sound like you’ve got the perfect conditions for the species! You’ll love the blooms and the scent!
It's strange how these are so huge compared to mine, but I live i Canada. Great cultural suggestions to obtain mastodon sized walkerianas and nobilors. My recent purchases all took time to adjust but the worst looking plant, variety Amaliae is the one that is doing the best for some unknown reason. I like the idea of time release fertilizer but I thought it would interfere with the winter rest for some reason.
You have the best walkerianas and nobilors I have ever seen. Continued success with your orchids!
ResQuetzal Thank you so much! I add time release fertilizer so they run out of juice during the cold season. My plants basically get no fertilizer from about November through March.
@@SVKLOrchids
Excellent. Thank you.
Great video. I have some walkeriana primary hybrids like the Charlie Marcotte and Heathii, but I'm nervous about getting a pure walkeriana because they can be so finnicky.
o_o I bet walkeriana will do well for you once you’ve got the primaries mastered! Then it’s on to nobilior and then on the amaliae! Then you’ll be an addict like me lol
hi Stephen and thank you for all the information you have given us in this beautiful video. I would like to ask you what you think about growing Walkeriana in clay pots with an expanded clay substrate as written by an expert Walkeriana collector in a dedicated orchid forum. In your opinion, could it be a good substitute for the orchiata with a longer duration or does it have some defects and is it always better to handle the big size? Thank you for your answer.
That can certainly work and would be good in a very wet, humid area. The downside would be if you live in a dry or hot area like I do. You’d end up watering a lot, if so!
@@SVKLOrchids Thanks a lot, I live in Florence (Italy) and my orchids are in a south west facing terrace with the sun from 10am until sunset
@@SaverioPestuggia No problem! I suspect those conditions would trigger the need to water 2x per day during summer!
@@SVKLOrchids no Stephen I’ll follow your method with large orchiata and clay pots. THANKS A LOT
@@SaverioPestuggia you’re welcome!
I repositioned my seedling cattleya luddermannia as I heard they like sun, but the leafs got burnt😕. I have also have a rescue skinneri Alba -it’s growing but I repotted due to spider webs but it started reshooting _ only cattleyas doing okay. I’think catasitum are fast becoming my favourite plants ... in pet method and they doing good so far. Any ideas on ludermannia?
Yes, lueddemanniana certainly loves a lot of sun! However, you have to think of them as a pale skinned person. They need to be introduced to strong sunlight slowly otherwise they get burned.
the walkeriana I have from h&r seem to have a smaller growth habit than the walkeriana I have from Fred Clarke. I have a division and a seedling from SVO that are absolute monsters and I have a bloom sized plant from Harry's private collection that he sold me and its has smaller bulbs and is more compact. I guess its just two different preferences from the breeders? im excited to see if any bloom for me this fall I've cultivated a lot of roots and given them a steady diet of light.
Some varieties are a little more "squat" than others, and this seems to change with growing environments. Also, genetic influences from loddigesii will increase bulb length.
@@SVKLOrchids i've got a lot to learn about this species. thanks for the info-
Hi Stephen, do you water all your orchids at night or just the catts?? Do you know what would make the buds try and open before they are totally out of the sheth? ( I thought maybe the heat, but that can't be right). I love the blues, but seem to purchase other orchids first. Lol!! Thank you so much for the growing tips!! Very helpful!!😊😊👍👍
Hi Valerie. All my orchids get watered at the same time. Sometimes a spike will try to open early for reasons I don't entirely understand (my Callistoglossa was kind of like that this year) and sometimes you get a plant with genetics that do that repeatedly.
Thank you for this video. You have probably said in previous videos but how many months per year are your orchids outside?
I'd say my plants are outside from April 1-Nov 15ish.
Hello Stephen, very very nice plants! I have question about your Walkeriana, do they do better potted or mounted in your opinion? Thanks for your input. I am curious because I just got a Coerulea and it was 3 plants so I mounted because I sure didn't need 3 new pots
Paula Marsh It depends on your conditions! I grow all mine in pots because its so hot and dry. A lot of people in cooler or more humid places prefer mounts.
Hi Stephen please can you tell what ratio of nutrients nutricote you buy and where you get it from I have seen it on amazon but it’s no longer available I live in the U.K. and the little dispensers are they easy to acquire
thank you
Mary Lawton I prefer to buy the balanced fertilizer and couldn’t find it. So I bought the one with an 18 value for the nitrogen.
How do you transport the double side to side pots when cold weather/freeze comes?
My goal is to pick up both at the same time, but I also might try to move the whole rack instead of individual plants.
Thanks
Did your seed germination on wood ever work ?
Unfortunately not! I’ve never been able to make that happen. I’ll keep trying though!!
I have watered in the evening for years. The people who claim it's not good for their cattleya have other cultural problems to deal with if an evening water is too much.
for real, it rains in the evening here all the time,
Spencer Most of summertime monsoons and thunderstorms I’ve seen happen in the afternoon! Seems odd to only water in the morning!
@@SVKLOrchids Depends upon one's local climate. Some places get morning rain. Here in southern California, I discovered morning watering worked best for me, but our nights are much cooler than yours. And in late fall and winter, during Santa Ana conditions, it can be 100F by 11am, and 7% RH, and almost freezing right before daybreak, so morning (around 9AM) watering becomes a must to provide local humidity. The CAM requirement is not difficult to meet if the medium is still moist by evening.
@@TheDanEdwards Exactly! Knowing your local conditions and paying close attention to weather forecasts is key!