Resurrection of an old Catasetum bulb

[poluekt.sowranski]

Hello there!
I've just obtained almost for free an sole old but healthy bulb of marvellous Catasetum tenebrosum with new growth on it just started

what would be you strategy of giving it back to full live? it has no roots, but the bulb itself is all healthy

i for begin just putted it under the lights, without any medium, to make it to grow roots

conditions +26-20, hum. 75-85%

Thanx!

[Brooke]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

I just had the same situation and when the new growth produced roots two or three inches long I potted it up. The forum Catasetum specialist is on a short vacation so hopefully she will see this post and reply then.

Brooke

[RebelCowgirl]

well I am no expert and am sure there will be someone along pretty to that can help you mor than I can but from what I understand just leave it alone untill it gets a good root system going, then pot it and water it, no water untill then.

[BGGraham1]

Welcome to the forum! Lots of grea people and information to be found here. I hope I was able to grab the whole link for the Catasetum thread.

Check it out. Its very informative. Catasetum Alliance growing

[orchids4me]

Hello and welcome to the forum
BGGraham just posted the link to the thread of the person Brooke mentioned was on a short vacation you will find a lot of info there and hopefully she will be back soon to answer more quetsions for you
Good luck with it !!

[poluekt.sowranski]

Thank you! definitely a lot of stuff worth reading on the link)))

[rcb]

Brooke's advice is right on. When it has it's root system started, begin watering it, then fertilizing it.

It isn't the best time of the year for it to start a new growth - heading into winter, but eventually your plant will adjust itself to the seasons. Start a new growth in spring, grow in summer, mature in fall, and go dormant in winter. It may take a few growth cycles until it fully adjusts, but it will.