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You too?! Must be supardii season.

Generally, breeders do backcrosses to reinforce recessive traits that they're trying to bring to the front. A backcross can often work better than a sib cross for this, because the results can be more predictable, but the parent in mind must be of sufficient quality to be worth the effort...

Don't give up. My Orchid Inn supardii is just opening and it looks real.

Mine are white with pink blush on the petals. I seriously doubt any Spiranthes could grow in a dense enough colony to displace anything, but hybridization would definitely be a concern, especially with our native Spiranthes lacera. To add insult to injury, the horticultural hybrid between the...

What Clark said. Don't let them sit in water, unless you happen to be growing Habenaria repens.

Yeah. All of mine came from either Sarah or Leon G.

13 flowers up from 9 last year. Should be able to get 30 as an adult.

Here's the pic you've been waiting for.

Why wait? Feel the bumps.

You might want to have someone with experience harden them off for you. Dendrophylax are not known to be forgiving.

Grrr you got a dark pink one

The buds are turning black 😍

I guess I'll have to give rockwool another shot. Maybe I got a bad batch but last time, using Xavier's formulas, and after pre-soaking for days, I couldn't get a paph to make a single damn root into it.

Did you give them a sniff? Platanthera dilatata smells FANTASTIC.

Hopefully yours won't turn out to be fake like mine did, lol. It looks more real, though.

This is a post from 5 years ago.

It was my irresponsible midlife crisis purchase.

This was with the 105mm macro.

My friend and I were playing with my D850 and his macro rig & photo stacking software. Phalaenopsis pollinia at 2:1 magnification at the camera's sensor in DX mode. 50 stacked shots

Take good care of it, it's a pretty darn good one. You might enjoy this species more if you let the spikes bloom out horizontally.