Fritz Schomburg

[tnyr5]

Welp, here it is. Blooming on a plant approx 13" wide at 1 year & 7 months from flask.
besseae 'Mega' x kovachii 'Leonardo Andre'

It's alright. Hasn't had time to reflex yet & probably still growing. NS 9.2, PW 3.8
This is the third one to bloom; the first two were deformed. I made a bad cultural mistake with these about 4 months ago that messed them up pretty badly. They've recovered, but it stunted a few of their leaves and messed up their spikes. Oh well.

 

[My Green Pets]

Looks like it is going to be very nice

 

[NYEric]

Yay besseae hybrids! I'm blasting a bud on a flavum one right now! What cultural mistake did you fix?

 

[tnyr5]

The one where I was away on a singing trip and the plants completely dried out and got nasty salt-build-up chlorosis cause I forgot to water them before I left.:rollhappy:

 

[e-spice]

I've seen a lot of Fritz Schomburgs. IMHO this one is really great, especially for a first blooming.

 

[tomkalina]

Looks like a keeper.

 

[theorchidzone]

Thanks for posting. Happy to see, as I made the cross.
The pod was made Feb 2014, so outrageously fast growing. Sowed about 4 months later.
As mentioned by others, it should improve a lot when the plant gets larger.
kovachii influenced Phrags are very dependent on plant size and temperature for flower quality.
JC

Welp, here it is. Blooming on a plant approx 13" wide at 1 year & 7 months from flask.
besseae 'Mega' x kovachii 'Leonardo Andre'

It's alright. Hasn't had time to reflex yet & probably still growing. NS 9.2, PW 3.8
This is the third one to bloom; the first two were deformed. I made a bad cultural mistake with these about 4 months ago that messed them up pretty badly. They've recovered, but it stunted a few of their leaves and messed up their spikes. Oh well.

 

[theorchidzone]

Two more points: color looks good. Dorsal is a little more prominent than what we see with our first grex of FS.
JC

Thanks for posting. Happy to see, as I made the cross.
The pod was made Feb 2014, so outrageously fast growing. Sowed about 4 months later.
As mentioned by others, it should improve a lot when the plant gets larger.
kovachii influenced Phrags are very dependent on plant size and temperature for flower quality.
JC

 

[tnyr5]

It's certainly not a BAD flower, I just hate the petal stance lol. Were it not for that, I would think it was quite lovely. It has good segment width for its size and is very flat.
As far as bloom time...this just seems to be how fast I bloom things lol. I employ special methods to bloom things far ahead of schedule. Methods I'm still developing & not willing to share lol.

Now that you've seen one, do you think they are 3n?

 

[troy]

Temperature sensitive? It favors cool temps? Nightime 60 and day 75? All year?

 

[NYEric]

The one where I was away on a singing trip and the plants completely dried out and got nasty salt-build-up chlorosis cause I forgot to water them before I left.:rollhappy:

Oh yeah!
Well, if you want to get rid of it...

 

[theorchidzone]

These plants are quite temperature tolerant for growing, but for flowers on kovachii or kovachii hybrids, cooler temps produce quality.
Cooler temps produce less reflexing in our experience. The difference versus higher temps can be quite severe.
Those temps sound reasonable.
JC

Temperature sensitive? It favors cool temps? Nightime 60 and day 75? All year?

 

[theorchidzone]

Give it another chance. The two parents didn't have upward petals, so this one might flower nicer or others from the grex should be better.
JC

It's certainly not a BAD flower, I just hate the petal stance lol. Were it not for that, I would think it was quite lovely. It has good segment width for its size and is very flat.
As far as bloom time...this just seems to be how fast I bloom things lol. I employ special methods to bloom things far ahead of schedule. Methods I'm still developing & not willing to share lol.

Now that you've seen one, do you think they are 3n?

 

[Migrant13]

Very nice FS!

 

[abax]

Perhaps the petals aren't perfection, but I rather like that
happy look. The color is lovely. There's all kinds of beauty
in this world and I'm glad there are lots of differences.

 

[Phrag-Plus]

Gorgeous! I like the color!

 

[tnyr5]

Matured to 10.5 cm with a bit more classic fritz color. petal width hit 4.1

 

[tnyr5]

Okay, I think it is, at last, done fidgeting.
NS 10.9 x 8.8, PW 4.2, DW 2.5

 

[eaborne]

Outstanding!

 

[Ozpaph]

that's very nice