As some of you know, I spent last summer working in India, and that
while I was gone, the person I'd asked to care for my orchids didn't,
so almost all of my orchids died. One that survived was a catt.
Obviously, as would be expected, it sulked last year, and I didn't hold
out much hope for it to bloom this year. It had lost a leaf on each of
the two oldest pseudobulbs, and while the younger pseudobulbs are
smooth and quite plump, the older pseudobulbs are firm but a bit
wrinkled. This weekend, I discovered that its second youngest growth
has produced an inflorescence. There is no trace, yet, of anything
interesting happening on the youngest pseudobulb save some very healthy
leaves. But maybe in a month or two, this one will do something since
it is a few months younger than the one with an inforescence.

What adds to the interest is that the inforescence did not growth
within a sheath. I can see no trace of one, anyway. I may therefore
be reporting a successful reblooming os a catt (grown in a window sill
in Canada).

This was my largest catt, so I suppose the others were just too young
and small to survive a summer of neglect. But I bought it in bloom in
the fall of 2002, if I recal correctly. But this story should provide
some encouragement to those who have just begun to grow catts in that
it is clear that if you have a decent sized plant, it can not only
survive some of your abuse, but, once you figure it out, they can come
back and bloom for you.

Catts appear to be rather tougher than dends and phals since I had some
pretty large dends and none of them survived, and none of my phals
survived. Perhaps I shouldn't say this this way since a sample size of
one proves nothing, and I had another catt almost the same size that
didn't make it.

Cheers,

Ted