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Old 05-25-2019, 12:02 AM
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Wow, @Roberta, my catasetums are also well leafed, but the biggest got all dark/damaged it seems. Even the new leaves. But no squishiness. Doesn't look like too much light purple (don't know if they go purple actually) Anyway, I think it'll be OK, it was nice and warm today And I feel better having the old heater. I thought it was broken, but it's working just fine, so I'm all set
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Wow, @Roberta, my catasetums are also well leafed, but the biggest got all dark/damaged it seems. Even the new leaves. But no squishiness. Doesn't look like too much light purple (don't know if they go purple actually) Anyway, I think it'll be OK, it was nice and warm today
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I pulled away the layer to see if it went deeper (was concerned about the new growth, the old growth had most of that dark spotting when I got it) It seems they're fine.

Still, May 26 and 59 degrees at 2 PM in the San Fernando valley is just insane! The year I decide to try orchids again after 35 years, it is a record cold one! I gots no luck at all!!!
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Pot’s way too big, especially with the LECA.

Could be getting too much moisture in the root area.
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I don't think it matters in leca, how big the pot is. I'm growing Ray's way, so there is a reservoir of water on the bottom, but it's pretty dry and airy all the way up. However, the leca makes things colder in there, compounding the problem, though I have a heater going now. Being a catasetum, it created fresh roots when it started to grow and is already well established in the pot. even if it looks odd. I planned on growing it as large as I could and didn't want to repot in a couple of years though maybe I'll still have to to get rid of old roots? I am still new to this :P
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Still, May 26 and 59 degrees at 2 PM in the San Fernando valley is just insane! The year I decide to try orchids again after 35 years, it is a record cold one! I gots no luck at all!!!
You have lived in southern California how long? Really not all that atypical (last two years had abnormally warm spring, May gray and June gloom are more normal) It's about the same at my house. Orchids will be fine. (I don't try to heat the Great Outdoors, and they don't seem to care) It's the summer heat that you have to worry about... it's a lot worse at your house than at mine, and last year it lasted until late November.
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You have lived in southern California how long? Really not all that atypical (last two years had abnormally warm spring, May gray and June gloom are more normal) It's about the same at my house. Orchids will be fine. (I don't try to heat the Great Outdoors, and they don't seem to care) It's the summer heat that you have to worry about... it's a lot worse at your house than at mine, and last year it lasted until late November.

It seems like every Canoga Park Memorial Day parade it's boiling hot out there! But you're probably right and I'm exaggerating? I tend to do that in my old age.

Oh, I'm an exciting person! I've moved 5 miles from the house I grew up in, lived in the valley all my life, LOL. Yah, I just honestly think it's 100 degrees here year round because I hate that, and when it's not, it seems impossibly odd :P
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