Cattleya quadricolor

Ohh, this is one I am excited for! Cattleya quadricolor  (syn. C. chocoensis) is supposed to get very large, and have around three 17.5 cm (7") flowers! Unfortunately, its' roots were dead, so it will get set back a bit, but this gives me the perfect opportunity to try semi-hydroponics. If it had any roots, they would have rotted in the semi-hydro set up anyways.

Here is the plant. Four p'bulbs, tallest one has about a 7.5 cm (3") p'bulb and a 15 cm (6") leaf.

My OS haul!

So, this last Sunday, Monica du Wit visited my OS, and she brought TONS of 'chids for sale. In reality, none of the plants there were from her personal collection. She is training to become an AOS judge, which is a purely voluntary process that can take around 6 or seven years to complete. So, people she knows donate plants for her to sell, and the proceeds go to her training. I am just going to post the one picture of everything, and do a separate post for each.