Good minicatts?

Sophronitis? S. cernua et al but there's a Soph argh... very small, coccinea shape...Rubra? (an old name...) anyway J&L has these, but you'd probably do better to get them locally or from Andy's. L alaorii (Alan Koch has these) Or any of the L pumila types - plus the L. dayanas at SBOE looked great.(you had some good one's in your recent page)

I mention species becasue I know you are a species nut.

What else is fun.... golly I can't think. Most Mini cats are going to be rather big... or sprawly.

K Barrett

S wittigiana is what I was thinking of. brevipedunculata is nice too. Fordyce had some of the best coccineas - a 4N from Japan that he uses in breeding, but maybe a piece escaped into other hands. Fred Shull is selling off his collection, he may have some of these, or at least some advice. Dennis Olivas may have some too. I *think* Fred Shull will be selling at the Paph House's (Fred & Francisco) open house Dec 2. Alan Koch made a hybrid with L praestans and L alaorii that I thought was gorgeous. No name yet.

Kathy,

I got a Sophronitis cernua from SBOE ($$$ btw!) I thought my case was too warm for Sophronitis coccinea. Tom Perlite has a bunch of 4N S. coccinea coming out of community pots and he's growing them with his Masdevallias.

I have a Laelia alaorii - a division from a plant we had at OrchidMania, originally from Gold Country. You were with me when I got it at Alan's open house a couple years ago!

Believe it or not, I'm actually interested in the hybrids. Something I

I'm trying to find a Cattleya luteola - those are supposed to be easy growers/bloomers. Ecuagenera usually brings one or two, but that's the only place I've found them.

I was wondering about things like crosses involving C. aclandiae with any of the small growing rupiculous laelias and/or the small sophronitis or C. luteola. Most of those are antique crosses, and I've googled around a bit for them, but no luck. I *love* the brazilian bifoliate catts, and C. aclandiae is one of the smallest growing ones.

Thanks!

-Eric in SF

I think I paid 15 dollars for my specimen S. cernua... They were common as dirt around here for a while. Drop me a line if you are interested in C. luteola, I think I have several.

Some nice hybrids that I like are Sc. Crystelle Smith and Slc. Barefoot Mailman. And Tiny Titan. And... There are lots, actually.

Eric Hunt wrote:

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You might want to check with your mail ISP - a lot of your mail could be getting rejected in this manner. I'm using Outlook 2002.

Drop me an email - snipped-for-privacy@erichunt.com - I'm interested in some of your stuff!

-Eric in SF

I'll look into it. Not that I know how I would fix it... Anybody else having a problem getting mail to me?

-- Rob's Rules:

Complain at your hosting provider to not "trap spam" this way or to include valid windows code pages. The theory being it cuts out the foreign language spams. The practice being it blocks things you don't want blocked.