Phrag. desormes

[Shiva]

What do you think of this one? Second flower in first flowering.

Sorry, I thought I wrote Desormes in the title, but obviously not.

 

[toddybear]

Love the colour!

 

[koshki]

Love the colour!

Me, too!

 

[SlipperFan]

Lovely color, but the petals and dorsal seem a little out of sorts.

 

[Shiva]

I agree! I wonder if it can improve in shape. I have another one just as funky. I'll give it some time.

 

[SlipperFan]

Tom Kalina told me that he doesn't know for sure how good a slipper will be until the third blooming, so do wait and see. The color is superb.

 

[W. Beetus]

Nice bloom! I like the color also.

 

[NYEric]

Is there a number on the tag?

 

[Shiva]

Is there a number on the tag?

I'll try to find the old tag.

 

[biothanasis]

Great colour!

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Pretty color! I have this one from J-P; just waiting for it to bloom.

 

[NYEric]

Phrag Desormes = Hanne Popow x Sorcerer's Aprrentice. This is not the cross, but rather Desormes x something, most likely x Waunakee Sunset. I will try to look up the cross by number later.

 

[Shiva]

Phrag Desormes = Hanne Popow x Sorcerer's Aprrentice. This is not the cross, but rather Desormes x something, most likely x Waunakee Sunset. I will try to look up the cross by number later.

I got that plant and another one from J.P. Faust. They look very much like the pictures I have of his Desormes but those are much better than mine. I still hope that my two clones will get better in time. It's no mistake so far as I know. They are #120 and 178 of J.P.'s collection. One was supposed to have a white flower and the other a pink one. But both turned out pink.

 

[Erythrone]

Nice color.

Is it a vigorous plant? How is the foliage?

 

[Shiva]

It grows well enough to me and the foliage is nice and strong though medium in size. It does resemble Hanne Popow.
One thing though, I decided to give all my plants a little more fertilizer. I've always been skimpy with no more than 130 ppm. I'm going to give them over 200 ppm once a week for the rest of the summer and see what happens.

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Mine is #178...

 

[Phrag-Plus]

I got that plant and another one from J.P. Faust. They look very much like the pictures I have of his Desormes but those are much better than mine. I still hope that my two clones will get better in time. It's no mistake so far as I know. They are #120 and 178 of J.P.'s collection. One was supposed to have a white flower and the other a pink one. But both turned out pink.

Hi! Michel, one was not supposed, but had a chance or the potential to be white…. Little difference!
I did made two different cross of Desormes both using Sorcerer’s Apprentice as pod parent a green one and a red one and 2 white Hanna Popow as pollen.
Expecting different coloration in the progeny, I was very please to see than some of them turn out as almost white but many of them were pinkish to deep pink…

 

[Shiva]

OK. Bad choice of words. I stand corrected.

 

[NYEric]

OK, there you go. This is a nicer, for me, result than the ones on Phragweb.. BTW there's a photo of the white Desormes from my visit to JP's in my miscl stuff thread!