Phrag **** Clements x kovachii

[NYEric]

Sorry to hear that. Hope you have a stronger growth next time.

 

[Susie11]

I can't wait for my M/F to look like that. So far it is taking it's sweet old time and there is only about 1cm of the tip poking out. I think that I'll have grey hair before the whole sheaf has emerged!!
Patience patience patience ...

 

[goldenrose]

Unfortunately I blew this one by using the clip to hold the spike in place and inadvertantly piercing the spike with the clip. Ah well there's always next time!!!
Ed

:sob::sob: ... the first thing that crossed mine when I saw the pic, why is it staked so early?
Better luck next time.

 

[quaker]

:sob::sob: ... the first thing that crossed mine when I saw the pic, why is it staked so early?
Better luck next time.

Just trying to grow the spike straight. Still no excuse for 'spiking the spike'

Ed

 

[SlipperKing]

Susie11 writes"I can't wait for my M/F to look like that" Your what!

 

[quaker]

Susie11 writes"I can't wait for my M/F to look like that" Your what!

I think she is reffering to her Phrag. Mount Fallu.

 

[NYEric]

:rollhappy:

 

[SlipperKing]

I think she is reffering to her Phrag. Mount Fallu.

I would hope so!!:rollhappy:

 

[Fawkes]

This is essentially the same as the Andean Fire x kovachii cross that is pictured in another thread. I frankly would hoped for more red in that cross. Only time will tell if it is the luck of the draw or if the kovachii color dominates. Much work to be done on these hybrids.

 

[NYEric]

Red color is not a factor that you will get from breeding with kovachii. You will get large blooms with large pouches. Maybe with Gen 3 bessseae breeding a deeper red will come through. I'm waiting to see what breeding w/ fischeri and other purple color plants will bring! I'm also hoping the prices will soon come down to besseae hybrid levels.

 

[Fawkes]

One would hope that more than size will come form kovachii. Theoretically both size and color are _possible_. Finding out what dominates (or is recessive) requires many crosses and observation. When you cross Paph delenatii with armeniacum - the pink (and much of the yellow) seems to be suppressed. Without making sibling crosses and flowering out the progeny, we really don't know if it is a dominance issue. We do know in the case of Armeni White, the results are repeatable. Something similar could occur here. The color influence can come from multiple genes. And there is a fair amount of color variation in kovachii. We just need to make the same cross several times to see what is typical. I think that we sould take it further and make both self and sibling crosses and refine. Not much of that work is being done.

 

[NYEric]

We just need to make the same cross several times to see what is typical. I think that we sould take it further and make both self and sibling crosses and refine. Not much of that work is being done.

OK.