Phrag. besseae 'Carlisle'

[tomkalina]

Thanks, Angela. Here's a photo I took this morning with the flower fully open. HNS = 8.4cm and PW = 2.8 cm. Wish I could get an AOS judging team out here to judge it because IMHO, it's awardable and I don't think it'll last until the Madison show in 11 days. Fingers crossed, though.

 

[tomkalina]

Not sure why the photo is side-ways. If you click on it, it rotates to right side up. Gremlins.....

 

[MorandiWine]

Great flower Tom! Do you know the parentage?

Tyler


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[tomkalina]

The original plant came from OZ years ago. For some reason, Z6777 sticks in my mind as being on the tag, but not 100% sure of that.

 

[NYEric]

Yay besseae! Tom, what's, the ploidy of this plant, 4N?

 

[Dandrobium]

Wonderful bloom & colour Tom!! I've been trying to self this cultivar for a while now, but it has resisted my efforts. It would be nice to know the ploidy. I've also got one in bloom at the moment in a bonsai pot.

 

[tomkalina]

Not sure of the ploidy, but the plant is very robust and the flower has heavier substance than our other breeding clones.. We were able to self this clone a year or so ago and the seedlings are currently in compots, so they'll probably be available as individual seedlings this fall or next spring; current leaf spans are 2 inches so they have a ways to go.

 

[littlefrog]

I use these (http://www.orchidmix.com/cat7.htm - look for the bulbophyllum pots). Not for everything, but a lot of my besseae/schlimii type plants. I'd say they were breeding plants but I don't have much luck breeding phrags anymore. Anything that I want to show, for sure.

 

[NYEric]

Thanks. The leaves suggest extra chromosomes!

 

[eaborne]

A beauty!

 

[tomkalina]

Thanks, Angela. Here's a photo I took this morning with the flower fully open. HNS = 8.4cm and PW = 2.8 cm. Wish I could get an AOS judging team out here to judge it because IMHO, it's awardable and I don't think it'll last until the Madison show in 11 days. Fingers crossed, though.

Turns out _I'm_ the one who didn't last until the Madison show last weekend. Fighting a cough and cold the week before the show and it just kept getting worse instead of better. Ended up with pneumonia, and steroids + antibiotics became the order of the day. My sincere apologies to the folks up in Madison; hoping to do the show next year.

In any event, slowly improving over-all and looking forward to the upcoming MOS show in Madison Heights in late March. Here's the latest photo of 'Carlisle' with two flowers open on the same stem.

 

[NYEric]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing.

 

[tomkalina]

......and here's the final photo before we breed this clone. It's amazing, that the original flower lasted for 19 days before it fell off.

 

[Don I]

Beautiful.
Don

 

[Silverwhisp]

Eric, could you elaborate on this, please? Thanks~

Thanks. The leaves suggest extra chromosomes!