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Indeed, but as I said, people take, but if you are alone, with problems, or bankrupt, no one is going to save you. Not even the traders who used the permits to make tens of thousands of dollars of profit... So it is not worth the effort.

Indeed, but basically, AnTec had to make a lot of agreements, propagate the plants from seeds... and at the end back then it legalized all the wild plants that were on the market in those days ( that are dead today anyway...) So the problem is to find a total *****, to work with a conservation...

The problem lies with the collectors too. They may mix a few dalessandroi with a stockpile of other colonies from ' nearby' and sell the whole batch as 'dalessandroi'.

Yes, then it allows one ***** who believe in artificial propagation to legalize all the wild stocks, including the ones already in the US. AnTec did it with vietnamense, it was a fantastic opportunity worldwide to have vietnamense legalized everywhere, for a very cheap price. I am not certain...

We will add another story, for many people to spend a nice day. In the 90s the Orchid Zone released a lot of sanderianum 'Deep Pockets' x 'Jacob's Ladder'. I have been the first one to bloom them, and it was PEOY. When I told Terry Root he was kind of angry. When the Taiwanese bloomed a year or...

Well that's the point, I know a lot of those things, New Horizon x Raptor, Canadian Club x Idontremember, and others bloomed around the world. Until today, none of those plants has bloomed even remotely close to one of any of those parents. The ones from Tony are the Taiwanese generic. You can...

I remember the dalessandroi at the Eric Young and in the 90s... What was sold under that name had kind of dropping petals, but the most shocking part was that the flower spikes were like a Christmas Tree, huge, with side branches. We rarely see those plants today, if ever, and it was not a...

Mmmmh the problem is that they bloomed true to rothschildianum species... Actually I am one of a few that can speak with experience. I have bred rothschildianum for a very long time, ordered flasks from several sources to complete as well my breeding park. The general rule: - Any roth cross I...

Orchid Inn/Sam Tsui of course... You know, the problem is that I am in the professional world, and I supplied most of the Paphiopedilum growers directly or not. I bought from many as well, so I know what happens and how. I know as well when I see a plant that I was offered by a Taiwanese...

Yes, as Tony said, it works great in inorganic media... In fact the Eric Young back then when they had all the awarded plants in floculated rockwool in the 90s were using a tomato feed with ammonium for hydroponics, and were adding a lot of urea. And no worries about 'forcing' plants or...

Excellent cross.... I have bloomed the earlier generation from Paph Paradise, and there were no runts. Unlike an infamous US source now defunct, the seedlings all bloomed similar to one or the other parent, with many intergrades between them.... Urea is essential for most orchids to grow them...

Use an urea-based fertilizer on it, and it will green up instant. It is indeed not the normal leaf color, and the plant suffers a lot, the newer leaves are getting smaller and smaller, plus there is an intense chlorosis. It would be helpful to know what kind of fertilizer you use and the...

Looking at the flowers, it looks more like the kalinae type than the latifolium one. the kalinae type has as well large round leaves, but they are very rare nowadays. The leaves of latifolium have a different structure and color as well... The other one is definitely not a victoria-mariae, it...

Indeed, well I use Dolokal on top of the potting mix quite frequently, but that's to correct the pH, as I use an urea/ammonium based fertilizer.... For the ratio, I never would go over 30ppm calcium and about 10-15ppm magnesium at the roots for constant feed. Potassium is way more important, in...

Well that's the problem as well... With the fragments we have of the analysis, there are a couple problems, and we cannot rely on it for certain. Actually they are kind of useless... Organic matter at 1.7% suggests that there will be acidity around the roots that are in that, a little bit...

Mmmh just in short for the kovachii: - When we see the photos in the habitat, there is a lot of moss, possibly growing on top of limestone or calcite... That's where the roots are, not in the rocks... - The analysis shows that they used leaves that were very old, which is a common mistake. The...

It is much more complicated than that unfortunately. Wild plant analysis, that depends when they were sampled, and which leaves. Old ones ' not to disturb the plant' wil have typically a very low potassium content if they start to be senescent. Roots need to be sampled aside ( we do that in...

Well, from the package there are a few problems: - It says it contains iron sulfate, but it is nowhere to be seen in the analysis... and it looks more like a fertilizer to sprinkle on the ground for agriculture purposes rather than something to be used to water plants with. Iron sulfate in...

Really beautiful flower!

Yes, that Don Wimber is definitely award quality! If it has not been awarded somewhere yet... There were not that many produced by the EYOF back then, plus they tend to proliferate in flask, so there could be 'divisions' that were though to be seedlings as well. We will never know. But it is...