[QUOTE=Dorsetman;I usually find the perfume of cattleyas is best in the sunshine - we are promised some of that tomorrow
Well we didn'y get any - sunshine - the sky did clear , but only after sunset ; again I was pottering about in the greenhouse on and off in the day, mostly making long wire hangers, so that plants which normally hang directly on the wires which run along from end to end, ( above my supplmentary lighting) so as to get the most light in the roof of the greenhouse, now hang down below the reflectors, so as to catch some of the light spill from the lamps. The cattleyas, directly below the lamps get between 10 and 20K Lux ( 1k and 2K fc, approx ) as the lamps move too and fro on the light-track, but at the sides of the cattleya area, on these long hanger wires, these additional plants are getting up to 10k Lux, too. This is my latest idea to make the most of the lamps. It seems that this light was enough to trigger the perfume release from my Cattleya, the subject of this thread.
So yes, it is perfumed.
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