Cycnoches cooperi ('SVO III' FCC/AOS x 'Memoria Pat Worthington' AM/AOS)

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kc6847

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2nd blooming with wider flowers. Emergency photoshoot after I knocked this over once trying to get plants out for the Huntington show. It launched all of its pollen. It knocked itself over again and was on the floor when I got home. Half of the spike broke off. I guess this thing really doesn't like me, even after using lava rock as a bottom media layer to give it more weight.

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SVO breeding?

yup! from the 2021 release. This was the last plant of this batch that I managed to dredge up from the benches when they told me they no longer had the cross in stock.

Hopefully next year you'll have a studier pot for it. I usually set mine in a large, heavy cache pot for blooming. Or you can hang it.

Photos with a white background might be nice too.

yeah I'm thinking probably going to need to use either more lava rock or just straight up put it in a clay pot, but even then it toppled itself over last year when I brought it for our show display. I should probably get a white background sometime.
 
A clay pot would help certainly but may I suggest for these types of top heavy orchids that you use an internal wire stake with enough girth to get the job done? It might be tricky to visualize but they are fashioned out of a pretty stiff wire formed into a circle at one end. That end goes into the clay pot. I use a few clay shards for a little extra weight in the bottom of the pot. The other, straight end to the wire extends up and out of the pot. So now you can stake or tie up the newest pseudobulb to the vertical wire. Stake it fairly early on so when it blooms it is as close to vertical as possible making the entire plant less tippy when it flowers.
When you try to stake a plant any other way in most medias, the looseness of the media adds to the overall floppiness of the stake. It becomes difficult to keep it upright and to do its job.
 

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