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Using RAW instead of JPG or TIF there is no difference between "taking" and "making" a (digital) picture. You get all the information directly from the camera chip without the preprocessing of the camara software and without loosing any information. In a RAW program (not Photoshop) you do these...

Right, that´s what I say all the time. Maybe we have a misunderstanding, in the digital world the words "white balance" and "color balance" stay for the same: the correction of the color temperature of the light source, it has nothing to do with the brightness. The link will make all clear...

If you use a modern 3-band fluorescent light - yes ! The automatic camera white balance will surely fail, but the correction afterwords with a RAW program, Photoshop or another grafic program will correct this. That´s the advantage of the digital work flow instead of the photografic film: you...

Sorry Dot, but that is definitely wrong. "A gray card is a middle gray reference, typically used together with a reflective light meter, as a way to produce consistent image exposure and/or color in film and photography." (Wikipedia) I don´t want to write so much, please read here...

Yes, usually it gets blue. :rollhappy:

Now the flower lost all of her color but is still open:

In most cases the chip isn´t able to recognize the correct color temperature of the light you are using. Using the grey card you can adjust this later in your RAW or grafic program. This works with every camera you will use.

O&M in Germany has good plants (but bad service).

You can use a grey card and adjust the white balance in your RAW or grafic program (sometimes it´s called color balance). That´s your only chance, but if parts of the flowers color are outside of the color space of the camera chip the picture will never fit. I use this one...

Paphman910, Ramón and poozcard are right: I pollinated it with another flower of the same plant. The sticker says it is a violacea but I not sure, so I made a self crossing.

Hakone, who discribed this forma? Could not find any information about it. It´s not listed at IPNI.

What happens with my Phal. violacea? The left flower lost his color within two days. The right flower on another spike start flowering only 2 days later and looks perfect. I made the picture 4 days ago and the flowers look the same today. Any suggestion?

Indeed !

No, as you said in your first post: 'It is absolutely too big ... :)

Dark chocolate, yummy. But ... the plant has 3 parents? Are there some brackets missing?

Perhaps you should tell your friend the difference between var, forma and clonal name. Something that even a hobbyist should know. Or did your friend collect all these vars you showed us in the wild from stable populations?

It´s not the color but the shape that make it ugly.

Indeed! Anything seems possible but it is necessary?

Yes a common problem, because digital cams are blind for spectrum violet. So a bluish flower get pink.

John, with weed you mean ferns and other unwanted "guests" ? Well, they always try to grow in my 2. vivarium because they love the high humidity. Nice work to pick them up. :-) But I never found one in my paph vivarium.