Cattleya schilleriana

One of not too many cattleyas I am really excitied about is schilleriana.
My seedling from Clouds is doing great. It grew whole bunch of roots and now started a new pseudobulb:



It is a small species, so maybe after this new bulb matures - I will get some blooms?



This catt is pretty demanding about conditions and likes high humidity, bright light and temp changes between day and night. All these requirements are met in the orchid tank, so I moved there my schilleriana together with cattleya bicolor and couple other non-phal plants.

That place is getting really crowded...

Cattleya schilleriana adjusting

I got Cattleya schilleriana at the end of September potted into plastic pot with sphagnum, so I really needed to repot it. But since they are known to be quite sensitive to repotting during the wrong time of the year (fall is wrong, spring is right) - I was somewhat worried about its adjustment.
Apparently worried for nothing. Newest pseudobulb started to grow several roots at once.



Another observation - the newest leaves are getting more reddish purple in color then when it just arrived. I am not sure if it is supposed to be or plant gets too much sun and I should move it to a shadier spot.



Plant descriptions on the web mention that leaves undersides are purple, but in my case it is the surface too. I don't know...

Cattleya schilleriana

For some reason I always order catts from Clouds in the fall. This year I just randomly looked through their catalogue and found catt. schilleriana listed there. I wanted it for a while and decided to get one even though it is just a seedling.
Naturally it had to have a travelling companion(actually three), so I got four cattleyas.
Here is the one that is responsible for the whole order - Cattleya schilleriana:



I like ordering from Clouds, their plants are always extremely healthy and something listed as medium seedling usually looks substantial enough to pass for a large one.

Cattleya schilleriana is a small sized fragrant catt. that originated from Brasil. You can see the bloom picture here.
On the website about orchid species its synonym listed as C. aclandiae var. schilleriana. So, I guess my schilleriana is a close relative of aclandiae - another small fragrant cattleya I would like to get, especially the coerulea var.
Leaves are a bit dark comparing to my other cattleyas and, I checked, they are supposed to have red tinge on the underside.

My plant came potted into plastic pot with moss - road to death for any cattleya under my care, so I repotted it into clay pot with chc right away.

Hopefully it will adjust to the new conditions without problems.