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How’s your flask doing? I also got a flask of CA912 and the largest of the group is spiking now for me.

what hybrid is this Eric? Love the spots

I have a few plants in mind. I’m growing out a flask of Chuck Acker’s white breeding (Acker’s Northstar x La Aldea Tersura) and a remake of his Acker’s Northstar. I probably won’t see flowers for another year or so though I also have a white blooming Margo’s Pinky that Marilyn LeDoux was...

Small world! I went to undergrad at VCU

Welcome! I just moved from NYC to Chicago, so I just missed you. I recommend reaching out to the Manhattan Orchid Society, great group of people

Reviving this thread after seeing Marilyn’s Mexipedium in bloom at her greenhouse (my first time seeing one in person!) and chatting about the possibility of hybrids with Phrags— has there been any progress made on this? I know using 4N plants is an idea that has been tossed around, but as far...

Such nice color!!

I love these crosses. Do you find that the plants from this cross flower readily?

Would love to see someone document the development of kovachii seedpods and protocorms on this forum!

I only have a small handful so I’ll keep these close. The parent plants are in sheath though, so I’ll remake the cross and see if I get better germination next year!

6 month update. These are hard to photograph because of the condensation on the walls, but here they are! I count 8 (9?) seedlings total. The first to germinate are the biggest, located in the middle of the agar. The three of them are all pushing new pale leaves while having green closer to...

Another attempt at alba multifloral hybrids. This time it’s an alba Brachypetalum hybrid as the pod parent pollinated with my Saint Swithin with philippinense alba as a parent. Pollination happened 10/13/22, pod was harvested May 2023 and sown 6/1/23. I saw germination mid-July, then I...

Thanks for the lead! Have any of yours bloomed yet?

Picked this seedling up at the Illinois Orchid Society show at the Chicago Botanic Garden. I’ve never heard of the clonal name ‘Tildy Babuska’, and a google search couldn’t get me any results either. Is anyone familiar with this plant? The tag also seems to have some info identifying the flask...

emailed!

could one coat with epoxy, paint to match the color as it was in real life, then epoxy again? i would be so worried painting a dried flower and breaking off a petal. was hoping that first layer of epoxy would give it some structural integrity

i’m currently fixated on all the different ways one could hybridize albino Paph species to produce a big, white multifloral hybrid, with a wide dorsal sepal. i’ve also started getting interested in big vinicolor multiflorals, too. a display with a black Paph opposite to a white Paph would be neat

this looks so nice! are these boxy frames specific to the insect collecting hobby? i may now have a use for all these dried phrag blooms lol

prepared 50uM colchicine in DI water and added enough volume to the flask to cover the seedlings. kept them in the dark for five days, and on day five put them under bright light to get the colchicine to break down as it’s photosensitive. when i find time i’ll pipette out the excess liquid in...

hi Roth, lots of people seem to cite this paper, saying the same thing referring to 0.05% colchicine treatment for 3-10 days yielding 50% tetraploid conversion. yet, i can’t seem to find the pdf itself. do you know where i might find it? curious to see what other doses and exposure times they used