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Mericlones of infected plants can still be infected. If a careful, more difficult technique is used for mericloning (done by only some people) you can produce some “clean” off-spring, but I would still test for a few years. Initially clean mericlones could also become infected again during the...

My plant has a sheath and I want to wait and see it bloom this season before making any judgments. Then I will describe some changes this last year.

I don’t think anyone is more careful than Deborah is now. There is evidence to support everything she does. I am a little less careful only because my plants don’t go anywhere and I hardly ever get a new plant (and then only a negative tested one). I also don’t have any insect pests in my plant...

A simple table shows the DLI achieved with various light intensities (peak photon flux density, PPFD) and two different day lengths. DLI is moles of photons per day.

Paphs and Phrags seem less likely to get infected. Southern belle and I did collection-wide testing about the same time and threw away a good proportion of plants, feeling awful. After getting “clean” we are very careful to only buy plants that have been tested and to be sure to disinfect tools...

Sorry, I didn’t know that. The automatic DLI part is very useful the natural light (including green house grower) where the light intensity changes greatly throughout a day. The constant change in day length is also being measured. With LED lighting, the intensity is constant and the calculation...

Deborah, that was an older version that we had. All the new 500 series now accurately measure within the PAR range.

I have not. I think an important issue is measuring the photons in the PAR range. I don’t think most FC meters and phone apps will not be filtering to the PAR range. For some light sources you will be measuring light intensity falsely high. I know the Apogee meters are relatively expensive, but...

I have grown Pharagmipediums for about 15 years, the last 13 under LED lights. I have decreased my Phrags over the years as I increased Cattleyas. I currently have only two plants of a tetraploid Jason Fischer, two plants of a triploid Fritz Schomburg, a seedling of a diploid Robert-Jan Quene...

Have you seen that the increased light intensity has shortened the new growths on many of the unifoliate species?

Is that a one-time price or a yearly subscription? How often is it updated?

David, the leaf and pseudobulb structure looks different on the two flowering growths, but I can’t see all of them. This would be the impact of your cultural change. Can you describe the difference for me?

The second one has better configuration and I agree the tall stems are an inconvenience for the indoor grower. There is a thickness to the flowers in the picture that fit well with polyploid. I have accepted that no matter how we shuffle kovachii, besseae, and dalessandroi genes, the best...

When I think about all of the moving around of plants that have happened during the last hundred years I am not surprised that we have lost track of where something has come from. I also understand how labels get switched or lost. Sometimes, Bow Bells might not even be Bow Bells! Some heritage...

Don’t you think the exhibitor should have the choice about that? I think anyone bringing a plant for judging must know that having an award registered requires a fee. I can imagine that someone who has grown a plant particularly well and gotten more and bigger flowers might want it judged to a...

I agree with you, Deborah. Already some impediments to going to judging. Why add another. An award officially designates a plant as an outstanding cultivar. This certainly matters to someone trying to breed or clone to trade and sell plants. However, if we are running of judges and judging...

I forgot that Colombia is just north of the equator, so still northern hemisphere. Seasons still correspond to ours in North America.

I have a similar cross from Orchids Limited made with kovachii 'Tesoro Morado'. The besseae 'Rob's Choice' makes these triploid (3N) since 'Rob's Choice' was confirmed tetraploid by a university lab somewhere. My Fritz Shomburg has become two large plants and they grow pretty quickly. The shape...

Which is early autumn/fall, correct?

I am so glad that you accumulated such an excellent collection of plants while you could.