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HOP
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ninnin
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:clap::clap::clap: congratulation!!! The plant is too small. I think it will get better in the next bloom.
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toddybear
Awarded Stud
Unreal!
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jaxsprout
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wow... i've never seen like this before... Cute flower...
its a fine line between saturation and cuppyness. this one unfortunately, crossed the line. the fact that you have gotten that far in your breeding for color is excellent. however i feel that a flower with this much pigment will never open up truly flat, or maybe not even ever realatively flat. look at the end of the petals.. not a good sign. that one parent, GS76 sweetheart, despite the unproportionately small dorsal, is excellent and in my opinion, superior to this offspring.
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Howzat
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What can I say. It is the color that strikes my heart. Fabulous color. Now breed this with taller thicker spike. You have a wonderful base to work on.
eOrchids
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WOW!!! :drool:
All those cans of seeds..! :crazy:
Leo Schordje
wilted blossom
Arthur Freed mentioned in his 1960's book about breeding orchids; "stabilize the color you want first, this is often the most difficult task, then you can concentrate on size, form and presentation". Freed was instrumental in creating the big advances in color & form that made it possible to have the modern standard white Phalaenopsis. He also did a lot of the foundation work in the standard pink Phals. (I recognize Freed was not working alone, there were several great breeders active then and they all were in competition, and some collaboration between them in those days)
While it would be nice to select for all traits equally at once, reality is, if you did, modern line bred leucochilums would still look like jungle collected leucochilums. You need to select your breeding stock with a specific trait weighted as the most important selection criteria. Look at vini-color Paphs, the first were mediocre in color & pretty weak in form and presentation, the moderns are really top notch. A big box store Maudiae vini type is often better than the early FCC vini-colors of the 1970's
This leucochilum's color is fabulous, a huge step toward a solid color red. :clap: Now that the color goal is within reach, the selection can be for the other traits, but this is a huge step forward in color. I'd love to see what the next generations bring.
While it would be nice to select for all traits equally at once, reality is, if you did, modern line bred leucochilums would still look like jungle collected leucochilums. You need to select your breeding stock with a specific trait weighted as the most important selection criteria. Look at vini-color Paphs, the first were mediocre in color & pretty weak in form and presentation, the moderns are really top notch. A big box store Maudiae vini type is often better than the early FCC vini-colors of the 1970's
This leucochilum's color is fabulous, a huge step toward a solid color red. :clap: Now that the color goal is within reach, the selection can be for the other traits, but this is a huge step forward in color. I'd love to see what the next generations bring.
