Striking flowers and aptly named.

Marci

Geez, Mark, This is torture - seeing these gorgeous plants when I'm determined to keep cutting back. Sigh. Whitecat8

"sorry" said eve to adam-holding a big, wet, red, juicy, delicious apple--
mark

Funny, funny Mark! Love the dots.

Sheila :)

Oh, I like this one! I love spots! Now, this one doesn't look that scented to me. Yes, no?

Carolyn

You dog, Mark! LOL If I could have just one... Do you have a Web site w/ pix of all your beauties, or most of them? Then I could see all the "apples" on the tree at once and pick just the right one. WC8

P.S. Where's Kendall? Do you ever let drooling addicts visit? Maybe DH and I could stop by on one of our trips. He'd keep me from stealing anything.

Carolyn-most of the ctsm's have a smell, but I'd be lying if I said yes and what it was----WC8-kendall is south of miami (just a bit) and visitors are welcome, but being as winter is the best time to leave MN and come to fla-my place looks like a sleeping bulb city, very drab, cone shaped plants, not many leaves to be seen.
Mark

Wow-What a beauty Mark! (No pun intended). hehe.

I have this cross, and one of its "parents", Ctsm. schmidtianum, for 4-5 years. Neither has bloomed as yet. The Dapper Dots has 3 p-bulbs and the largest is 11.5" from bottom to tip of leaf. The schmidtianum is just a tiny bit larger.

They have taken a giant step this year and are on a growing spree. I fertilize them weekly, make sure they are watered well, and given lots of sun that would scorch some Catts. Thanks for any info.

Carol

Carol: you'er on the mark (pi). You've got your plants on the carol-sel (pi) of the holy trinity for catasetums. Heavy watering, regular heavy fertilizing, and heavy(?) sun. In Canada, I don't think the sun could ever come close to scorching these plants.
mark

Mark, LOL! Thanks for the math lesson. Algebra was my worst subject!

Well I'm going to put them in with the Vandas-under lights! Just slowly getting them used to it. I used to bloom many of them quite well under natural light.

Must be global warming! (Less reflection of the sun. (?)

Carol