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What is that smell?
It is a pleasant smell, but it is driving me nuts anyway because I can't
figure out where it is coming from. I have four catts and a dend on the sill of an east facing window. They are doing marvelously, BTW, with plenty of new growth, and all are seedlings that have never bloomed before. One of these is presently in sheath right now, so that will be my first experience with a first bloom seedling, provided it doesn't blast on me. Anyway, every time I pass by this window (which turns out to be several times a day throughout the day), I am greted with a very pleasant, sweet scent quite unlike anything I have smelled before. What is driving me nuts is that I can't figure out where the scent is coming from. I can't tell which of the plants is responsible, or even if the scent is coming from one of the plants (though being able to smell it only close to the plants makes it highly likely that it is coming from one or more of the plants). The scent is quite faint, being detectable only within a half a metre of the plants, but if this is typical of some catts and/or dends, it would be worth while to have a room full of them even when they are not in bloom! What is even more intriguing is that, while I have had these plants from a minimum of four months to a maximum of 9 months, I only noticed this scent in the past week (actually in about the same time frame as I first noticed the sheath on the one little catt, but I have no idea if the two are connected). Any ideas? Cheers, Ted |
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What is that smell?
Ted,
Is the scent like juicy fruit gum? lol! Is it only in the morning? The Dends that I have had were only fragrant in the mornings as the Cats were fragrant all day. Try moving them around and see if you can track down the one that is scented. Lorri "Ted Byers" wrote in message .. . It is a pleasant smell, but it is driving me nuts anyway because I can't figure out where it is coming from. I have four catts and a dend on the sill of an east facing window. They are doing marvelously, BTW, with plenty of new growth, and all are seedlings that have never bloomed before. One of these is presently in sheath right now, so that will be my first experience with a first bloom seedling, provided it doesn't blast on me. Anyway, every time I pass by this window (which turns out to be several times a day throughout the day), I am greted with a very pleasant, sweet scent quite unlike anything I have smelled before. What is driving me nuts is that I can't figure out where the scent is coming from. I can't tell which of the plants is responsible, or even if the scent is coming from one of the plants (though being able to smell it only close to the plants makes it highly likely that it is coming from one or more of the plants). The scent is quite faint, being detectable only within a half a metre of the plants, but if this is typical of some catts and/or dends, it would be worth while to have a room full of them even when they are not in bloom! What is even more intriguing is that, while I have had these plants from a minimum of four months to a maximum of 9 months, I only noticed this scent in the past week (actually in about the same time frame as I first noticed the sheath on the one little catt, but I have no idea if the two are connected). Any ideas? Cheers, Ted |
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What is that smell?
Ted,
Is the scent like juicy fruit gum? lol! Is it only in the morning? The Dends that I have had were only fragrant in the mornings as the Cats were fragrant all day. Try moving them around and see if you can track down the one that is scented. Lorri "Ted Byers" wrote in message .. . It is a pleasant smell, but it is driving me nuts anyway because I can't figure out where it is coming from. I have four catts and a dend on the sill of an east facing window. They are doing marvelously, BTW, with plenty of new growth, and all are seedlings that have never bloomed before. One of these is presently in sheath right now, so that will be my first experience with a first bloom seedling, provided it doesn't blast on me. Anyway, every time I pass by this window (which turns out to be several times a day throughout the day), I am greted with a very pleasant, sweet scent quite unlike anything I have smelled before. What is driving me nuts is that I can't figure out where the scent is coming from. I can't tell which of the plants is responsible, or even if the scent is coming from one of the plants (though being able to smell it only close to the plants makes it highly likely that it is coming from one or more of the plants). The scent is quite faint, being detectable only within a half a metre of the plants, but if this is typical of some catts and/or dends, it would be worth while to have a room full of them even when they are not in bloom! What is even more intriguing is that, while I have had these plants from a minimum of four months to a maximum of 9 months, I only noticed this scent in the past week (actually in about the same time frame as I first noticed the sheath on the one little catt, but I have no idea if the two are connected). Any ideas? Cheers, Ted |
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What is that smell?
Ted,
Is the scent like juicy fruit gum? lol! Is it only in the morning? The Dends that I have had were only fragrant in the mornings as the Cats were fragrant all day. Try moving them around and see if you can track down the one that is scented. Lorri "Ted Byers" wrote in message .. . It is a pleasant smell, but it is driving me nuts anyway because I can't figure out where it is coming from. I have four catts and a dend on the sill of an east facing window. They are doing marvelously, BTW, with plenty of new growth, and all are seedlings that have never bloomed before. One of these is presently in sheath right now, so that will be my first experience with a first bloom seedling, provided it doesn't blast on me. Anyway, every time I pass by this window (which turns out to be several times a day throughout the day), I am greted with a very pleasant, sweet scent quite unlike anything I have smelled before. What is driving me nuts is that I can't figure out where the scent is coming from. I can't tell which of the plants is responsible, or even if the scent is coming from one of the plants (though being able to smell it only close to the plants makes it highly likely that it is coming from one or more of the plants). The scent is quite faint, being detectable only within a half a metre of the plants, but if this is typical of some catts and/or dends, it would be worth while to have a room full of them even when they are not in bloom! What is even more intriguing is that, while I have had these plants from a minimum of four months to a maximum of 9 months, I only noticed this scent in the past week (actually in about the same time frame as I first noticed the sheath on the one little catt, but I have no idea if the two are connected). Any ideas? Cheers, Ted |
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What is that smell?
Hi Lorri,
"MLL" wrote in message ... Ted, Is the scent like juicy fruit gum? lol! Is it only in the morning? No, but I have detected that kind of scent on my phal type dends when they were in bloom, and that seemed like it was present most of the time. My youngest niece loved that. However, the scent wasn't especially strong and you had to get your nose practically embedded inside the flower to smell it (I am sorely tempted to try my hand at breeding them to see if I can get a stronger scent from the dends). But at present none of my plants are in bloom. The Dends that I have had were only fragrant in the mornings as the Cats were fragrant all day. I would not be puzzled in any of the plants were in bloom, as all of the catts I have had in bloom were strongly fragrant, but at present I have nothing in bloom and yet I have this scent, and it is present most of the time, detectable within half a metre. What is more, is that all the plants in this window are seedlings which have not yet bloomed, with only the Cattleya skinneri C. coerulensens 'Orchidglade' x C. skinneri 'My Blue Heaven' having its first sheath (which is young enough that I don't expect to see the inflorescence for many many months yet). Cheers, Ted |
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