Two cattleyas in bloom!!! (That I don't love!!)

[@polinapechenkina2453]

One of my cattleyas is very similar to these two, and she's one of the favourites. I love freckled flowers, but I totally see why someone wouldn't 😆 I'm sure it won't be hard to find a new home for this one

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

"it's the spots" I feel the same way about most spotted Catts.

[@angiebarnston6946]

I love spotted orchids especially Catatleyas 😅😅😅😅 thank you!

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!!

[@christinenorton2510]

How could you even think of parting with either of those beauties. Gorgeous gal's so they are.

[@helloplantlovers]

!! Thanks for watching!!

[@chantalvillemure2595]

Yes! This happens! it gets easier to let them go when they are not exactly what you love… there is always someone who will like it though! 😅 The bonus is it makes space for new ones! Have a beautiful day and in the meantime, enjoy them from a distance! 😉

[@helloplantlovers]

I will! Thanks for watching!!

[@MrKylesorchids]

I completely understand, we only have so much room. I counted my collection this morning and was a little startled at the total...I have a few I could give away myself and I don't baby sick ones, I just get rid of them. I hope you have a great weekend and thank you for sharing! Beautiful blooms BTW

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!!

[@channeliman521]

Beautiful 🌸👍

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!!

[@LizE2654]

I know what you mean about being ruthless. I’m starting to get that way about orchids that I’ve been trying to bring back to life and I’ve tossed a few that have just been stalled. I do, however, like the one you have with the darker lip! 😅

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!!

[@wandashaw3551]

Hi Matthew, I love both of them, but I totally understand your point. I have about 90 indoor houseplants, and 45 are various orchids. Come spring, I'm going through the orchids, and anyone that's not bloomed for me since 2019 are going to new homes. No joy, bye boy. They have to go.

[@helloplantlovers]

Oh that's TOUGH!!!! Thanks for watching!!

[@LadyAlriandi]

I love spotted cattleyas, I would love to take them off your hands. Though they would be traveling up to outer western Sydney which has single digit celcius winters and hot summers. I do notice my first cattleya, Guaritonia Rosy Jewel 'Ahuimanu' AM/AOS, flower at the same time each year and threw the order out cause it bloom over winter this year. Said orchid is just a vigorous orchid in general just like your Cattleya Claesiana 'Flamea' , no luck in making divisions from it yet.

[@annadaccione332]

I think the spotty ones always look 'dirty' and that's the reason I don't like them, but I know what you mean about not having enough room, I divided some of my plants and now have too many but cannot bring myself to get rid of them. thank you for the video

[@tomfurmby88]

yes regardless of temperatures they run on a 12 month calendar. Well the temperature does need to be in the right range still. It's the same with phalaenopsis. They geneally start spiking at the same time of the year regardless of temperature as long as the temperatures are in the right range. Then while the spikes are developing higher temperatures up to 26 degrees C will accelerate the growth of the spikes and temperatures down to 15 C will slow the growth down so the flowering time can be accelerated or slowed down by a month or two. If you were to give orchid growers a quizz on this topic though 9 out of 10 would get it wrong. I guess it's not perceived as important - apart from a few.

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!!

[@tomfurmby88]

@@helloplantlovers thanks but I'd prefer to not be in the minority with my views. I know you watch MissOrchidgirl and thus what I have said will sound to you like a democrat telling a republican they voted for the wrong guy. And you disagreeing with me. So I know you disagree with me. But hypothetically, if you were in my shoes, how would you convince someone that what they have learnt from someone else isn't based on facts? Like just hypothetically, I am obviously not very diplomatic. My beliefs are not the most popular. How would you convince someone what they believe is not beneficial or correct?

[@soberplantguy]

This cracked me up--I don't like either of these plants, and in a few years I'll decide which one to pass on 🤣

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching!!

[@wathiknoori5640]

Hi, thank you for sharing, I think you should keep the one was in your hands at 13:00 min of the video, they perfect flowers shape, as the top part very straight up un like the other plant as the flower bends in the top backwards, judges always will see that and will make much different decisions..thank you again and all the best.

[@beeeingmeee]

This is why I only buy them in bloom now! No way to know with most hybrids what the flowers will look like or if it’ll have a fragrance at all 😢

[@helloplantlovers]

True! Thanks for watching!!

[@johncowper3499]

Good morning. I love your show. I watch it every week , I have a Orcutt here and I don’t quite know it’s background. I saved it from a flower shop a year ago. It was mostly dead when I brought it home and no flowers on it. I love to send you a photograph of it so maybe you could help me tell me what species it is for sure I think it’s the same kind you were showing today. But the flower is White

[@helloplantlovers]

The easiest way is to use google image search - its remarkably accurate! Thanks for watching!!

[@AnnasOrchids]

This happened to me recently 😆 took me years to get a cattleya to bloom and I don’t love the flowers 😬

[@helloplantlovers]

Ha! Hilarious - Thanks for watching!!

[@michaeln3125]

Hunt out varieties of Cattleya purpurata : beauties !!

[@helloplantlovers]

I think I do have already. Thanks for watching!!

[@carolesykes7955]

Hi again from Wales UK, are they too big to plant the newest sections together in one pot? Just an idea 🤷‍♀️

[@roslynbarclay1000]

I feel your pain about having to be ruthless! I sell mine cheap on Facebook Marketplace for pickup & feel good about passing my baby onto a grateful parent!

[@Garnetspagrud]

The heave ho! Give them away! Be ruthless There are many others to discover 💚

[@helloplantlovers]

Well that's a fact! Thanks for watching!!

[@Naturamorpho]

Intermedias are not really cool weather orchids. They are native to the Brazilian coastal areas, where you will have very few cool days per year, seldom below 10°C. Most of the year it ranges between 20° and 30°+... And they are very resistant to higher temps than that.

[@helloplantlovers]

They seem to be loving life for me! Thanks for watching!!

[@Naturamorpho]

@@helloplantlovers They are very tolerant, and are present in a wide North-South range, so it is no problem growing them in cooler areas. I just meant to say it is not going to thrive in cool areas only, and they don't like too cool either... They can take the heat too! But, yeah, your plants are surely loving it there! Thank you for posting! Love your channel! You have a very unique perspective at times, and I think it is great!

[@paulakreinberg1448]

don't grow what you don't love!

[@helloplantlovers]

Thanks for watching - too true!!