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It wasn’t that hot in Cornwall this summer but the plants did get long days under the LED lights and temperatures in the mid twenties. Growth was good. Plenty of plants made two successive growths. I think I still need to play around with the conditions in the growth room just to optimise it...

Good news! I’ll amend my label.

Terry, who knows with my conditions? I am cutting down the lighting and the night temps lows are approaching 15c when it’s cold so hopefully things will be back to more normal flowering times next year.

Istavan, a very interesting article. Maybe one for the splitters rather than the lumpers?

This trianae is the one that I featured last year as a four year demonstration of bloom changes and improvements. It’s continued to grow with four new pseudobulbs this season, three of which and flowering. Chadwick writes “But it is the many delicate pastel shades of color that set C. trianaei...

Interesting Istavan. How does it differ from regular anceps?

Very nice shape and colour!

Terry, there are not enough climbers thankfully to make a meaningful assessment of this. Just three or four. The ‘worst’ climber has nice very flat reddish flowers. This is clone 1. Just about ok but unlikely to be a keeper in the long run.

Beautiful! I bet it’s a bit easier to grow than the straight species!

Very full flower! Do you know the parents?

Nice! No spots.

This must be its third flowering and it’s the best by a long way. Some of the other bloomings have been quite poor by comparison.

Interesting thought! There isn’t any sort of correlation between the pigmentation of the plants and the colour of the flowers in this grex.

Very cute!

It may be more Terry, at least for this year. You never know what the quality will be like in the unflowered seedlings. So far, about a third seem to be really nice. I’ve sold on four so far to the local orchid society.

A couple more have opened this week. The first is clone 25, a smallish(10cm) bloom. Probably not a keeper. Next is a decent one, clone 5, with a 12 cm flower. Neither of these is up to the quality of clone 8.

Very interesting Geoff!

The flower has matured on clone 8. This indoor photo is closer to the actual colour. For a first bloom, it’s big at 12.5cm wide and 5 cm wide petals, despite not being fully flat. Definitely a keeper!

David, thanks for all this extra information. So it is now possible that Mt Ito is within the range of variation from recent breeding work in this species in South America and Japan. Good to know!

Love it! Great form!