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Excellent thaianum!! You should get that judged - if that appeals to you, if possible - looks better than several awards I've seen!

FWIW - When I use those clips, I put the tips of the claws around the flower stem. If you look at the inside/base of the claws some clips have blocks, and others have a very narrow angle, that might pinch closed and cause problems?

Springwater has them, the dark magenta purple flowered type..

FWIW - in my experience Dor./Phal. pulcherrima grows slightly drier than the typical Phal., and slightly brighter - almost 'Cattleya light'. In-situ photographs largely bear this out. YMMV :D

Krull Smith Orchids is just a few miles away and has all the Cattleyas you could want!

Did the plant get too dry while attempting to bloom? As mentioned above, the Brachy X multi hybrids are problematic and I agree with blooming it 1-2 times more to see what it does. Too much potential to not try again!

MorandiWine - how cold is it at night currently at your location? I've always thought Magic Lanterns would have better color in cooler weather - not May/June in the Southeast. Yours is gorgeous!!

Overhead spray to runoff into pots. 22oz/100gal

Lady Bugs and Lacewings disperse rapidly in my experience, never to be seen again. I use Orthene 75WP and/or Talstar.

Harold Koopowitz is the worst for me - does that about 25% of the time for me, don't know why. Those plants bloom normally the rest of the time.

Mine bloom every year, unless they don't bloom in a given year. If I occasionally lose a plant it seems to happen mid-year and not connected to blooming.

IMO - it will get better and better in the next 2 years! :D👍

FWIW - the breeding strain that Thanh/Springwater has for sale has received several awards so far.

Many thanks everybody! I had the pollen in a gel-cap for a day or 2 and it was already starting to desiccate. I moved it to wax paper, put it in a ziplock, and into the butter drawer of the fridge.

I usually smell them mid-morning, 10-11. AFAIK not all of them smell - maybe 40%? - but maybe different plants smell at different times of day.

Is it fragrant?

I've never really trusted storing pollen, probably because it rarely works for me! Now I have some pollen I really want to save for my fall bloomers. A friend stores them in gel-caps at room temperature; another friend says the gel-caps dry out the pollen too much. So: Gel-cap alone, or...

Sam's got the goods! I always considered my best moquettianums to be the ones from a Taiwan flask I got years ago - but my BEST one is a seedling I got from Sam!

Are there any punctuation marks or multiple lines to the name? Examples: (A x B) x (C x D) A x (B x (C x D)) (A x B) x (C x D) A x ((B x C) x D)

Parvi pollen is a PITA! I refer to Parvi pollen as 'chunks of candle wax' as opposed to the gooey jelly of most other pollen. Things I have done to get the Parvi pollen to stick to a stigma: - Cattleya, Den, or even Phal stigmatic fluid. I understand there might be plant hormones in the fluid...