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Sep 12, 2019 10:13 AM CST
Name: Big Bill
Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a)
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Good luck Glenn.
Jungle Eyes is one of the best compact spotted yellows around, bar none. Because of the difficulty of getting Cattleya aclandiae to bloom, that tendency gets passed down to its progeny.
The best advice I can give you is to "abuse it a little". When you grow aclandiae and you hover over it, you water it, you feed it, you triple check the light, they don't bloom.
But if you keep the light up, let it go dry and suffer a bit with limited feeding, it may in fact bloom.

Sometimes when people want something to bloom so badly that they fuss over a plant, they really get intense and worry about it when the key might be to abuse it a little.
It is just a suggestion based on my experiences. Good luck!!!
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.

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