Paph Season 2023

[annica.jarvela]

Hi Tony, I`m been meaning to say that your plants look really nice and healthy. Then I noticed from your pictures that you have several kinds of Tillandsias and other plants. You have e.g., a Stag`s horn fern, I think and behind Yang-Ji Apple is it a Hoya, the one with small leaves and flowers hanging? Then you have some others with bigger leaves, that look familiar, but I don`t remember the names now. Then in the picture of Wössner Sphinx on the left side of the flowers, there is hanging on the wall one that looks like Neofinetia/Vanda falcata and on the left side of that Tillandsia usneoides hanging, am I right or wrong?

Kind regards, Annica

 

[Tony]

Hi Tony, I`m been meaning to say that your plants look really nice and healthy. Then I noticed from your pictures that you have several kinds of Tillandsias and other plants. You have e.g., a Stag`s horn fern, I think and behind Yang-Ji Apple is it a Hoya, the one with small leaves and flowers hanging? Then you have some others with bigger leaves, that look familiar, but I don`t remember the names now. Then in the picture of Wössner Sphinx on the left side of the flowers, there is hanging on the wall one that looks like Neofinetia/Vanda falcata and on the left side of that Tillandsia usneoides hanging, am I right or wrong?

Kind regards, Annica

Thank you! Behind the Yang-ji Apple is Dischidia ruscifolia, a Hoya relative, and I do have a few Hoya scattered around. The rest you have correct, Tillandsia usneoides is a vigorous monster here, I hang it over the roots of my mounted plants to hold a little extra moisture around them between waterings.

 

[annica.jarvela]

Thank you Tony!

 

[Guldal]

I rather like this second Wössner Sphinx, I thinks it's about as good as you could hope for from a nonsense cross.

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It's certainly better than the first one...but I think, I tend to share your judgement on the cross.

 

[Tony]

Roths 'Legendary' x 'Tats' from Orchids Limited opening up now and I think I can see why pics of the parents don't exist




Busy today unpacking what is probably my last box of plants from Orchid Inn. If you're thinking about an order I strongly suggest you do it now, judging from the absurd number of bonus plants it looks like Sam is really making a push to clear out and fully retire. We're losing a giant in the community but I'm so glad I was able to get a good sample of his plants over the last few years to help keep his work alive.

 

[tnyr5]

Yeah, he sent me a free gigantifolium on my last order. I was like jeez, thanks, lol.

 

[Tony]

Yeah, he sent me a free gigantifolium on my last order. I was like jeez, thanks, lol.

In my last plant order before this my freebie was a previously bloomed supardii lmao

 

[tnyr5]

Now now. Supardii is wonderfully weird.

 

[Tony]

Now now. Supardii is wonderfully weird.

It is, and I have a dozen or so growing out but we all know what that old dried up spike means

 

[Duck Slipper]

Yes Tony….We certainly are “Losing a giant in the community”!

 

[Tony]

New PEoY from roths 'High Tower' x sand 'Sam Tsui'. Pretty average flower, I'll probably cull it.

 

[Guldal]

New PEoY from roths 'High Tower' x sand 'Sam Tsui'. Pretty average flower ...

I guess your average was computed after the lower 50% of this cross was discarded?

 

[Tony]

I guess your average was computed after the lower 50% of this cross was discarded?

I have better and I've certainly had worse lol

 

[Guldal]

I have better and I've certainly had worse lol

OK, and knowing your usual standards, Tony, I gather, this means the average outcome of crosses of very select parents - this narrows it even further down, i.e. the average of the best 20% or so of this cross!

 

[Tony]

roths 'Legendary' x 'Tats' did its best adductum impression and never developed past this point. I'm torn on whether I want to yeet it into the sun or give it another shot to see if the poor color and form was a one-off developmental anomaly or if it's really this bad

 

[kc6847]

roths 'Legendary' x 'Tats' did its best adductum impression and never developed past this point. I'm torn on whether I want to yeet it into the sun or give it another shot to see if the poor color and form was a one-off developmental anomaly or if it's really this bad

yeet it over my way if you decide to dump it

 

[Justin]

roths 'Legendary' x 'Tats' did its best adductum impression and never developed past this point. I'm torn on whether I want to yeet it into the sun or give it another shot to see if the poor color and form was a one-off developmental anomaly or if it's really this bad

Well it's a bell curve. They can't all be winners.

 

[Tony]

Stonei is painfully slow opening, which fits its painfully slow growth I guess. These things are worse than sanderianum.

 

[annica.jarvela]

That's what I have been hearing and also reading, that stonei can be a terrible nerve-wracking plant, regarding its flowering. They grow ones patience, or not.

 

[Happypaphy7]

Love the colors on the stonei buds!
They have character!!
Looking forward to open flowers. Where is this one from?