C. gaskelliana
 

This is C. gaskelliana

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Cattleya gaskeliana JCL_1757 by kentucky4, on Flickr

The whole plant -

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Cattleya gaskeliana JCL_1754 by kentucky4, on Flickr

When I purchased this species it was on a tree fern mount with the roots embedded in the fibers. I put the mount into a 6" basket and treat is like any other mount.

It has a great fragrance.

Brooke

A stunningly beautiful display and photo of a beautifully grown plant. Great growing!

Wow! Fabulous! :wtg:

Looks great! How often do you water during active growth?

That is beautiful for sure. Love the colors when they aren't all washed out.

Also Beautiful

Wow! That is one gorgeous plant and the blooms as well.

Totally awesome.

Kim

Wow, wonderful!

It gets watered daily during active growth. If not putting out new growths it gets watered on sunny days.

Brooke

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Thanks everyone - glad you like it.

Brooke

WOW!! now that is amazing!!! just scored an Alba of this species! I am over the moon!!!

They say it produces buds in the sheath right away have you noticed this to be true?

Also i looked at you flickr and your photos are AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! These included!! i just got my SLR 6 months ago and i wanna be as good as that one day! we will have to talk photography one day!!!

Beautiful, very nicely grown. I'm experimenting with this species outdoors along with dowiana. I thought dowiana would be the one most likely to suffer from the winter weather but it's doing fine, it's the gaskelliana that is suffering (although the worst is Brassavola nodosa).

Cattleya17 I also have the alba version and it just opened. It's a first time bloomer for me and I can't wait for it to grow up.

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Cattleya gaskelliana var. alba JCL_1795 by kentucky4, on Flickr

Outdoors what do you mean by suffering? What is it doing? If you water it with short new growths you can lose the growths.

I wish you luck with the dowiana - I had mine for 7 years and then it committed suicide.

Brooke

The leaves developed black spots then some of them dropped off the pseudobulb. Gaskelliana lost its newest leaf and B. Nodosa lost all of its leaves. Dowiana surprisingly is looking perfectly fine which is odd as everything I've read say it's extremely cold sensitive.

They say cold and wet in winter is deadly to the dowiana but I lost mine to black rot in the middle of summer. Good luck with keeping it going.

Brooke

yup they do that, they flower out of the green sheath. just after the pseudo-bulb become 90% mature,

my gaskeliana alba (seedling) started opening today. :)

how big is the flowers in yours? (both alba and type?)

Very, very beautiful indeed and purple is my favorite color. Great photography also. do you do it professionally or just as a hobby?

Palm I didn't measure the blooms but it was bigger than I expected - particularly for a first time bloomer.

SHag my husband takes the pictures and it is his hobby.

Brooke

Both are beautiful...I, also have had black rot on an Emerald Isle cattleya. Had to cut way beneath the rot, spray with alcohol, then treat cut with sulfur powder. Saved the plant, but lost new growth & buds it would have produced. BettyE