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It's terrible, I think you should let me take it off your hands. 😅 Well done in the culture!

Water technique? You mean keeping them on a tray with water?

So how are your previous seedlings doing?

This is about as close you can get to an rothschildianum var album (though not a "true" roth): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02uJBNvr5DuG6uDZbw5m8JfBX1rmXpUzGyvn1mjCSa9Ce141WxCGmRwk6X3t8JX45cl&id=100057325125474&mibextid=CDWPTG

Curious how your sand flask from littlefrog is doing.

I have both growing in the same conditions and the anitum is dark green and with a bluish hint. Not suggesting anything, it's quite possible there's variation among species or even maybe my source is untrue (yet to flower).

Not directly but they seem to prevent water absorption of the media.

You sure know how to grow these! I am slowly switching away from wooden basket culture for armeniacums due to problems with white rot on the wood. Don't know exactly the fungus sp. growing but the media gets full of white round little spore-balls. The plants in plastic baskets are clean...

Leaves are greener than what I would expect from anitum.

You might run into algae problems which may cause misters to become clogged.

Very nice, what's the source of this plant and parentage?

Where in phils are you located? Great looking plant/ flowers. I wonder how many of these in cultivation suffer from inbreeding depression as well.

Not to spoil the anticipation, but I'm guessing it will look like this? Thread 'Paph. anitum' https://www.slippertalk.com/threads/paph-anitum.46158/ Any worse then your reputation might be at stake Leslie! Might have to go with Mr. Leslie! Just teasing of course 😋

Yes, I asked this myself. I believe the dolomite acts like a buffer to keep the pH from going too low. As it slowly dissolves in the acidic water the plant uptakes the calcium. If I recall my long ago plant classes, calcium uptake is restricted when the pH is too high. Ultimately it should...

I sympathize with your frustration as I was having (and to some degree still have) erwinia problems and losing valuable plants. Some suggestions, we often forget about the disease triangle and focus more on killing the pathogen rather than adjusting the environment. I personally believe...

As Tony and Stefan said, it helps to have a goal in mind. For example, Bel Royal x roth could be a nice way to get a roth- like flower but more flowers per inflorescens. Or you could go the other way, Bel Royal x kolo to make a larger flower kolo with more color. I think it is a great...

Is he still around? He would post some of the most amazing photos and had some great plants.

I'm pretty clueless about photography (just look at my past posts) but I thought you want your iso as low as possible? Again, maybe this is a dumb question.

It is entirely possible I accidentally fertilized the flower while trying to collect the pollen and that hastened the flower to expire.

I have only collected from multiflorals, so can't speak about other types.