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Walker's Cattleya
Taxonomy
Cattleya walkeriana
Cattleya
Orchidaceae
Asparagales
How to care for Walker's Cattleya
How often to water your Walker's Cattleya
0.5 cups
every 9
every 9
Walker's Cattleya needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
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Water 0.5 cups every
9
Finding light for Walker's Cattleya in your home
3ft
or less from
a window
a window
Walker's Cattleya may have difficulty thriving, and will drop leaves 🍃, without ample sunlight.
Place it less than 3 feet from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
Select your region to see how the current weather in your area affects the placement of Walker's Cattleya in your home 🏡.
How to fertilize Walker's Cattleya
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Walker's Cattleya after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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It's Chantilly Lace Twinkle time. It opened the first bloom yesterday and started developing its fragrance today already. So, of course, I've already moved it to the coffee table to enjoy the event all day. Enjoy your week, happy blooms to all your #orchidlovers who've managed to fight your way through the spam to this post. #plantsmakepeoplehappy
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Cattleya Story Time My first extreme cattleya success story. May I introduce Rosamond Oliver? She is my only really real flouffy "cattleya" cattleya. For all intents and purposes, she should have a horrible time in my dreary old German apartment, though I try and compensate that by showering her with love and artifical light. and now I think something beautiful is happening that I really didn't expect. I think I might have gotten her to produce a sheath. In record time given the circumstances. She came to me only last summer in the most interesting medium ever (compared to the normal ones on the European market). Just tightly bound in two big pieces of bark. It looked absolutely fascinating, and I would have loved to leave it like this but no way I could make that work in my surroundings. So I repotted. Immediately on arrival. Had to even pry her loose at some spots and put her into " normal"bark. If you know anything about cattleyas, you can imagine my fear concerning the timing, the effect on the roots and setback. And sure enough, many didn't make it. However, I was left with two small viable ones, after all which apparently were enough to hydrate it. Then, only after some months, I noticed the snails. I had proactively treated against them during the repot, but must have missed some eggs. They had been munching on the emerging pseudobulb since then (which I knew I needed to protect at all costs given the state of the roots) and the remainder of the roots. I first tried to treat them superficially to avoid another repot, but in the end, had to repot again to get rid of them. A second repot within a few months. No new roots in sight for half a year. Transplant stress. Snail damage. Subpar light conditions. Cattleya novice. And now, after considering all that: look at that new pseudobulb. It grew so fast. It is so much bigger than the older ones, no sign of setback whatsoever. Even without the sheath, I'm over the moon with that result. And as for the sheath itself, I'm not certain, but it might even be growing a spike inside. I'm beyond words. Under the best conditions I could give, I was uncertain I would get it to bloom and was prepared for lots of wait time and a huge learning curve. To have it grow a big new PB in little more than half a year and maybe even produce a spike on the first try is beyond my wildest dreams. So, #orchidlovers, go forth. Get wildly inappropriate species. Give it your all and see what happens. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy your #happyplants. Because seriously, #plantsmakepeoplehappy.
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My little color changer. Still going strong, still intensely fragrant. She wishes you all a wonderful day. #plantsmakepeoplehappy #orchidlovers
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Yay 🌸🌿🌸The Snow Flake Frosty🌸🌿🌸 the gift that keeps on giving. I knew she was a color changer (primarily bought her because of that), but wow. I'm in love. Isn't she precious? Especially with the side by side of older and newer flowers. #happyplants #orchidlovers #plantsmakepeoplehappy
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Short snowflake frosty update: Though far from being in full bloom, the fragrance is in and it's... special. The first days, the first whiffs smelled like a very well balanced, elegant, sweet expensive perfume. It still does in the morning or from further away. Close up, it's more like a heavy sweet and a bit overbearing scent. More like a teenagers first perfume experiments 😀 I love the first, not so much a fan of the second. 😀 and those buds... aren't they pretty? As beautiful as the flowers are, I wish they would never open #orchidlovers #happyplants
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What a difference a day makes (or two). I just posted about the upcoming snowflake frosty blooms. Yesterday evening, two buds abruptly changed color - as gorgeous as can be already, and this morning.... well, would you look at that. I guess I'm not done orchid spamming this feed for now. Will update when completely open, and the fragrance has arrived. I am sooooo excited for my first own catt bloom. #plantsmakepeoplehappy #orchidlovers
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Hear ye hear ye, this is the first of an onslaught of a blissful #orchidlover's and newly converted #hoya fan's spam posts. So much is going well - at least in the plant realm, and that's what we are here for, isn't it? First off: cattleya bliss 😀. just look at these two. The first (unless Greg messes up the order of my pictures again 😉) is my snowflake frosty. She is the first catt whose bloom will be 100% the result of my (and her) effort. Just imagine all those blooms. I only took the plunge into the cattleya realm last year, and I was very skeptical about being able to provide enough light in my dreary northern conditions to get one to bloom. But hey, let this be your sign to get a cattleya 🌸🌸🌸 And the other one, the nakornchaisri ruby? Just look at that plump new pseudobulb. Isn't it gorgeous? And those new roots? She arrived wrapped tightly into a big piece of bark - which might have made sense where she came from, but made 0 sense in my home, so I had to throw caution out of the window and repot immediately. Cattleya lovers will know the risk. She lost all but one root, and I realized later that she must have had some snail eggs on that remaining one, so snails snacked on it for a long time before I noticed. so she was basically rootless. But she pulled through. After months and months, the new bulb is coming in, as are the roots. And she doesn't even seem too stressed. These plants are marvelous. #newgrowth #happyplants
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Is this a pest!? First cat orchid so I need help. Lowe’s rescue and packaged. Still learning about what cats need vs phal. #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #CattleyaOrchid #OrchidLovers #OrchidOrg #PestControl #IDKwhatIdidButItsWrong #help #TropicalPlants
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🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 months of waiting and empty sheaths .... and now: what a nice surprise this evening. Soon. 🔍🌸🌿🌸 #orchidlovers #happyplants
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😆 can anybody tell me, what she is planning to do with that root? I mean, I know they grow them any way they want, but this has to be the most eccentric one I've seen as of yet. Give it some time, and it surpasses the leaves. To the heavens! #orchidlovers
Care Summary for Walker's Cattleya
Walker's Cattleya
Greg recommends:
Water
0.5 cups every 9 days
Placement
< 3ft from a window
Nutrients
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.
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