Rlc. (Port Royal Sound 'Big Red' x Chia Lin 'Shinsu #1' AM/JOGA)
My giant orchid order from Hausermann arrived yesterday. Since there are so many orchids (6), instead of one giant post, I will introduce each individually.
So, without further ado, here is my new cattleya hybrid: a seed grown cross. The tag says "Blc." for "brassolaeliocattleya" but a search on the Internet Orchid Register indicates that both parents were reassigned to the genus "rhyncholaeliocattleya" sometime around 2009. Both these genus names are obscenely long, so I will refer to the orchid either as a 'cattleya' in general, or as 'Rlc'.
The orchid has 4 single-leaved pseudobulbs. The longest leaf is 5.5" and there is one new growth. According to the vendor, it is 3 years away from blooming size.
The picture above are hits on google image search for the parent names. Both seem to make large showy red flowers. I expect and hope that my resulting hybrid will come out looking similarly.
Bare root Rlc. Port Royal Sound x Chia Lin
Since the orchid looked like its roots were trying to crawl out of the pot, I immediately went to re-pot. I soaked the orchid for a while in water+superthrive to loosen everything up. Then I pried the whole thing out of its 2.5" pot. The roots inside were better than I had expected, actually. Compare my Tolumnia Genting Orange, which arrived similarly with tons of roots outside the pot: the roots from inside the pot were mostly dead.
I trimmed back a few of the dead and broken roots, and repotted into a 4" clear plastic pot with medium orchid bark.
Looks great! I just got this in the mail today (3/20) and think I should immediately repot too.
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