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I tend to think that the reason Justin and I did buy the Mt Millais at a point was that we were just pissed off by those ' selected seedlings' or 'selected divisions' that are not even remotely close to the nice photos... For me, I bought batches and batches of roths, I did breed mine since the...

That may well be Green Valley x Dou Fong.... In Taiwan, it is very weird, but the rothschildianum clonal names are changed by anyone getting pollen or divisions, to their own, usually with a reference to the pedigree/type. Green Valley would not be a clonal name another Taiwanese would keep, as...

Well I would have a theory actually. It might be as well a Charles E x Borneo... When the Tonkin closed, they sold all their rothschildianum stock. This stock fully and completely disappeared, and it was kind of massive... and extremely cheap, the last days were at 2US per pot to liquidate...

Blooming them 3 times or 50 times won't change the parentage of it unfortunately... It is a commercial urban legend in fact to say ' wait some more years before making a comment or claim'. The size of the flower, number of flower will improve, but any fatal flaws in the genetics won't change by...

I have a little bit experience with blooming entire batches of rothschildianum seedlings maybe... The dorsal is off, the shape and twisting of it, the petals are off, and the pouch does not have the proper shape for the type of cross it is supposed to be. It is neither cultural nor the...

That's definitely not the correct pedigree however, there is no doubt about that unfortunately. But it becomes a standard with the roths from a certain source...

There are no Luckily for us, but it comes from Vietnam in truth, I have to know as I was there back then, and the Chinese traders, including a famous one, came to pick up big batches in Dien Bien... But for CITES sake, let's say they are propagating a mysterious canhii from China legally, and...

There might well be 1 tiny one, possibly two, but it will be years before it blooms, and it is not in Taiwan for certain... When I mean tiny is leafspan of 15-20cm max... So it will be a long while if any of those 2 by 2 different growers blooms, and if they don't die before...

The problem is that many wild In theory they are legal because they 'discovered' canhii in China. Just have to wait that they discover intaniae and bungebelangii in China now. This said, the problem is that most of the market are wild collected plants, and they have inherent diseases and basal...

Indeed, but it appears that it is something more than just pale dots. As a parent it dilutes the color of the other flower in hybrids, hence the name of 'dilute' types. There were quite a few wild plants of that type that appeared about 10-15 years ago. Most had plain green leaves, like a...

The only Green Valley x Dou Fong I ever saw that looked like Dou Fong is this one, by Fabrice Lacour.... He was very lucky, as it is really a beauty. Dou Fong, there is a photo in Paphiopedilum in Taiwan II I remember, but the flowers are very similar. Except two tiny divisions that are...

Dou Fang was wild collected Green Valley was Rex x Mt Millais Fly Eagle was apparently a Charles E x Borneo if I remember correctly Song Sparrow no idea. There has been a lot of bogus seedlings of Fly Eagle x Dou Fong that were sold, all extremely ugly with the exception of 2-3 plants, by...

Looks like it has the dilute bellatulum in its parents, in that case it is a Fx of bellatulum dilute and concolor. For the lack of red on the leaves, it is typical of some concolor that were 'selected' in Thailand, themselves hybrids of concolor and ang-thong ( that gives those light pink or...

That's the problem as well, it is not very certain that it is a kalinae... It can be a complex hybrid involving kalinae as well... Most of the cochlos were bred in all direction by the pot plant traders in the Netherlands in the 90s... The only way to know more is to self it, and see what comes...

The 'sanderae' type has some brown spots, the sanderianum does not in fact, but it is a recessive albino. In some individuals the spots can be quite faint, and you need a light to check really well....

That would be what some call a 'sanderae' type of lowii. Real albinos are recessive, and when bred with coloratum, give coloratum progeny. those 'sanderae' types, like the eponymous insigne var. sanderae are definitely not recessive, and in fact when bred with coloratum plants can give...

That's a cross of exul and a background of insigne sanderae... I did buy some in the 2000's as well in Thailand... until I found that it was breed by Doi Tung, totally unaware that it was used as a 'species' by unscrupulous local sellers. Doi Tung did cross exul with several insigne sanderae...

Rainmix is a copy of MSU, and both can induce very weird things in orchids, chlorosis, etc....

The problem is that as well https://www.ebay.de/itm/145567426579 Sold as urbanianum, that's a hybrid from a famous wholesaler... You can have as a bonus the option to buy it as agusii, the name is better, or sp. nov. Papua, like in Dresde last year. Chose the tag... If you like a 'California...

Mmmmh for certain Deep Pockets died a long time ago... though it would not deter certain persons to sell 'divisions' of course....