Hello again!

Both buds are now open, it`s a white florer with yellow lip! It has a very
nice fragrance, kind of a mix between lilac and lilly of the valley!

I followed your advice and lifted the plant a bit. Now, I can see where the
cane are attached to the rhizome. Is this ok?

Thanks

Claude

"Susan Erickson" wrote in message
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| On Sun, 29 May 2005 09:10:59 -0400, "Phalguy"
| wrote:
|
| Thanl you!
|
| The leaves are very leathery and are a nice pale green. I placed it on my
| balcony where it can get lots of shadowed light! I`ll see!
| There is an old cane where I can see an old flower spike, yhen another
cane
| with a kind of capsule with 2 buds ( don`t remember the name of it ) and
a
| third cane which seems to grow another capsule!
|
| Does almost all Cattleya are flagrant?
|
| Claude
|
|
| The 'capsule' with the buds is a sheath. If you can see the bud
| shadows the development is well along. I hope the division has
| some roots to support this so your buds will not blast. Good
| luck and please try to post a photo of the blooms. Sounds like
| you have a good place to summer the Catt. If you summer it
| outside, It should bloom regularly for you even if it gets less
| than optimum light under the grow lights in the winter.
| SuE
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