On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:25:18 GMT, "Grace"
wrote:

Found this all dried up set out in someone's trash.
Brought it home, potted it in my cymbidium mix and
it's perked up. Looks like an orchid of some type.

I don't know what it is. I grow cymbidiums. It
looks diseased??? or are the discolorations from
neglect? Will it grow outdoors in semi-shade as
my cym.'s do? (Southern Calif. coast)

It has a tag that reads: #120 Blc. (Gold of Old x Marita) X Blc. Gorgeous
Gold

Here's a photo
http://tinyurl.com/3t33j
What advice can you give me?

Grace


Grace -
It will not like the cold that the Cym can take. When the
nights get below 55 it will have to be indoors. It would
probably prefer it closer to 60.

The mix needs to drain better than the cym. So water it lightly.
Let it dry out more than you would for your Cym. IT has had so
much trauma I would give it a rest say 3 months of Cym or
slightly lower light. Then repot with less particulate matter in
the bark mix. Less of the stuff that is small and holds water.
Then you can try a little more light (gently, they can sunburn)
until after several weeks you have it in close to full light. Do
not let the leaves get warm from the sun. That will be burn. Do
work it into bright light.
If it recovers it should bloom earlier in the fall.

Marita is a Stewart cross and Gorgeous Gold is a Jones and Scully
cross but I can not find anything under Gold of Old. There is an
LC Gold that just lists S and 1937 as the hybridizer. Sorry. We
can only guess that it will look like a Cattleya flower and be in
the yellow or yellow gold tones... best guess.

Good save and good luck growing it.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php