I conquered the auction section!
I just posted a widely sought after Laeliocattleya.
Lc. Marcia Foster 'Dark Beauty', AM/AOS
Please excuse the poor photo of the bloom. This plant just went out of bloom and I almost didn't get a picture before it was totally gone.
Here is the actual cutting that is up for bid.
I left my coffee mug in the photo this morning hoping to show the scale of the plant. My wife pointed out that the oversized coffee mug actually worked against me and made it look smaller than it is... live and learn :P
As you can see from the auction photos this cutting has 3 eyes (nodes from which knew growths generally start).
This cutting is an in pot division. This simply means I did not remove the entire plant from it's medium and divide. Instead I simply cut away a 5 bulb division leaving the remainder of the plant in the pot.
I hope someone likes it.