Phal Pylo's Sweet Purple

[bigleaf]

Phal Pylo's Sweet Purple
(pulchra 'Orchidglade' X Samera 'Pink Diamond')

Parents - pollinated Aug 19, 2008. Flask recevied from orchid lab on September 9, 2010

Note Phal pulchra 'Orchidglade' was purchased as Phal speciosa 'Orchidglade' SM/SFOS

First bloom seedling Aug 19, 2012

This opened yesterday. I made this to have shorter spike and better flower form. Also Phal pulchra is easy to grow - so the hybrid will take on the vigor of Phal pulchra and produce frequent keiki.

Since this is a first bloom on a small plant in 2.25 inch pot, it is too early to say if I met my goals with this hybrid. I still have to grow this plant better and see how many flowers it can produce next season. It's exciting nonetheless to flower your own hybrid.

what I like (desirable attributes):
fragrance, seedling vigor, bright texture, better form than species parent (full segments- i.e. rounder sepals and petals)

what I don't like:
the wide opening of lower sepals is not desirable. big gap between the sepals from Phal pulchra.

Compare to Phal pulchra 'Orchidglade'

Compare to Phal pulchra 'Orchidglade'

Compare to Phal Dragon Tree Eagle - digital camera (in my case iphone 4S) has difficult time capture the dark purple color. So I put this flower next to a gold yellow-green flower to get a more accurate color for my record. I may or may not want to pair these two together.

 

[SlipperFan]

Good for you, Peter. That's a lovely flower, and fragrance is a bonus!

 

[W. Beetus]

Beautiful purple color.

 

[Hera]

I like how that turned out. Awesome color and I like the shape.

 

[bigleaf]

Thank you.


Peter Lin

 

[abax]

Sometimes I hate monitors. The lovely flower looks hot
pink on my monitor, dangit. I hear that you don't like the
gap between the lower petals, but I like it. The perfectly
round mania of recent years seems like over-doing it just
a bit. I like the "species" look.

 

[rdlsreno]

Good Job Peter!:clap:

Ramon