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Old 12-25-2007, 10:00 PM
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First, Merry Christmas to all.
Second, my two cents to time to repot. I've got this catt in beginning of September in bud, it was outbound and three last grows were hunging in the air with plenty of areal roots, but after finishing flowers it was sitting for about two months doing nothing only roots were drying and drying (my humidity isn't so good as in greenhouse, I suggest) and I felt I was about to loose the plant. So I repotted without any new growth and any new roots and also had to trim all dried areal roots. As plant grows in one direction, I didn't put in big pot but used blueberry basket (Tom, like your suggestion about windowsill planter, I'm almost there too). In two weeks after repotting there were new growth and a lot of new roots not only from last flowered growth but two growths back also.
I read somewhere that it is possible not to divide cattlea but just cut the rhizome somewhere in the middle right in the pot to force the plant to produce additional grows. Is it good idea?
Natalia
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