Paph Jerry Buote

[emydura]

I never get tired of seeing this one in flower. It is hard to appreciate from the photos how tall the spike is (55 cm). The gigantic leaves make it deceptive. I wish all my mottled-leaf Paphs grew like this one.

David


Paph Jerry Buote - wolterianum x sukhakulii

 

[Shiva]

Beautiful plant and flower!

 

[John M]

WOW! That's gorgeous!

 

[Erythrone]

Nice!!

 

[Justin]

nice, looks like a special plant.

 

[ohio-guy]

wow.....I like it. You can see each parent so well. Is it easy to grow?

 

[emydura]

nice, looks like a special plant.

Thanks Justin. While I haven't seen a lot of plants of Jerry Buote, I think it is an above average example of the cross. Of the couple I have seen, the spike length was closer to half the size of this plant. Wolterianum has completely dominated for spike length in my clone.

wow.....I like it. You can see each parent so well. Is it easy to grow?

Pretty straight forward. It easily has the biggest healthiest growths of any mottled-leaf Paph I own. This was actually the first Paph I ever bought so it survived all my early mistakes. It was grown on the window sill for the first couple of years.

The only thing is that it doesn't multiply very quickly. It doesn't have a lot of growths despite being a pretty old plant. At one point I did have a 2nd division but it died unfortunately. It didn't like the CHC mix I was experimenting with.

David

 

[carrilloenglish]

It definitely has a stately presentation.

 

[Jorch]

beautiful pictures of a beautiful plant! I like it a lot, too bad it doesn't seem to be a commonly available cross!

 

[JeanLux]

Beautiful bloom, and impressive leaves!!!! Jean

 

[paphioboy]

Gorgeous flower and plant!! Those leaves are amazing...

 

[fibre]

Great plant! And again wonderfull photographs!

 

[Mathias]

Wow, very beautiful plant, both the flower and the foliage. :clap::drool:

 

[SlipperKing]

Just fabulous David! I use to have Paph Johnny Shaw (urbanianum x sukhakulii) that grew like yours. The spike was never that tall but it put on a great display. Then I screwed up didn't change out the mix and finally lost it. A big bummer it was because I had gotten an AM/AOS on it the second time I showed it.

 

[emydura]

Just fabulous David! I use to have Paph Johnny Shaw (urbanianum x sukhakulii) that grew like yours. The spike was never that tall but it put on a great display. Then I screwed up didn't change out the mix and finally lost it. A big bummer it was because I had gotten an AM/AOS on it the second time I showed it.

Thanks Rick. That would hurt. Not a common cross either. You can never get them back. It is a warning to me that I need to get some more growths on my plant and get a 2nd division for security. I've never seen this cross for sale since I bought mine nor have I seen anyone else post one.

David

 

[SlipperKing]

Thanks Rick. That would hurt. Not a common cross either. You can never get them back. It is a warning to me that I need to get some more growths on my plant and get a 2nd division for security. I've never seen this cross for sale since I bought mine nor have I seen anyone else post one.

David

I totally agree David. In my younger, greedier days I didn't like to "share". I wanted to be the only kid on the block with the new toy! Lessons learned the hard way, I'd rather give away an excellent clone to someone I know is fully capable of growing the plant then to sell it off to an unknown grower.
I've lost so many good and great clones it makes me sick to think about them. Many were my own awarded plants. I must add the lessons learned were early and a lot of the lost plants were the result of not growing them well enough to get a division to trade or give away.

 

[SlipperFan]

Indeed a beauty -- and nicely photographed. I like how the spots in the petals echo the pattern in the leaves.

 

[PaulS]

You hardly need flowers when the foliage is as beautiful as that!