Cattleya leopoldii
Also known as
Cattleya tigrina
Taxonomy
Cattleya tigrina
Cattleya
Orchidaceae
Asparagales

How to care for Cattleya leopoldii
How often to water your Cattleya leopoldii

every 9
Cattleya leopoldii 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 Cattleya leopoldii in your home

a window
Cattleya leopoldii 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.
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How to fertilize Cattleya leopoldii

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 Cattleya leopoldii after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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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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Good morning everybody. I was just checking my pretties more closely than usual and wanted to share some delightful #rootporn. After all those months of watching roots die and wither due to my killer fungus without any new growth, I'm now in #newgrowth heaven. Just look at those roots. apart from that cattleya, all of them have been repotted less than 2 months ago. All of this is new growth. Even the cattleya (repotted about 4 months ago). No dieback, just roots everywhere. I need to seriously stock up on sphagnum and bark 😍😍😍 #happyplants #orchidlovers #phalaenopsisorchid
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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
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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
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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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My little color changer. Still going strong, still intensely fragrant. She wishes you all a wonderful day. #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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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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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
Care Summary for Cattleya leopoldii
Cattleya leopoldii
Greg recommends:

0.5 cups every 9 days

< 3ft from a window

Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.
