two recent catasetum blooms

[catasetum-ian]

two of my recent catasetum bloom, haven't been posting much, had been sloppy in fertilizing the catasetums. guess had to brush up my gardening again. hahaha
the yellow lip is the denticulatum and the white fang is the barbatum

[Parryaw]

The flowers sure look interesting! My catasetums always get smaller and smaller aft every growth have not seen the blooms on my pileatum or Penang for ages!
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[ksriramkumar]

Looks awesome. Thanks for sharing Ian.

[78Terp]

Always cool plants and you grow them well!

[Sheryl]

Really nice! Especially love the color combination of the first.

[catttan]

Nice shots, Ian. Suffering from the same malaise here - harder to overcome this with advancing age.

[floridagarden]

Awesome ! Especially the denticulatum.

[catasetum-ian]

first of all, my apologies to everyone. the catasetum barbatum is wrongly labeled. the white fang is actually catasetum cristatum, not barbatum. the barbatum barb is pointy at the apex, while cristatum is rounded like this one. thanks to a forum member who pointed it out.

The flowers sure look interesting! My catasetums always get smaller and smaller aft every growth have not seen the blooms on my pileatum or Penang for ages!
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you may want to repot them and in the same time check out their roots, if your fertilizing regime is correct, their bulbs should always be similar or larger than their predecessors.
common causes for bulbs to be smaller and smaller are unhealthy roots or infection,

Nice shots, Ian. Suffering from the same malaise here - harder to overcome this with advancing age.

thanks.
i guess other than age, sometime doing the same routine every day could also worn out the enthusiasm inside us.
well, let's encourage ourselves again here....GAMBATE!!! LONG LIVE ORCHIDS =)

[JDT]

Ian, you always have beauties.

Yew-Sung, I know the feeling about advancing age, it's a bummer especially when the mind does not feel old.

[Parryaw]

Time to repot them then! They have probably been in their pots too long
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