Phragmipedium Faust's Elegance

[Phrag-Plus]

longifolium x andreetae
Not what I was espected for, I was looking fo more white flower...
The flower is huge too...
I was very surprise of the result... At first desapointed but the flower is very interesting still...

 

[SlipperKing]

Somebody has been busy posting!

 

[John M]

That's got andreetae as one parent? Are you sure? Look at the extreme horns on the pouch. NOT what I'd expect at all.

 

[Phrag-Plus]

Somebody has been busy posting!

Hi Rick! Yes! I tried to up date for the last few moths...

 

[troy]

Whats yur secret to blooming phrags? I have a china dragon and silver eagle swelling, but not blooming, been swelling for a month? They will be my first phrags that bloom under my care, I've had them for just over a year

 

[Phrag-Plus]

Whats yur secret to blooming phrags? I have a china dragon and silver eagle swelling, but not blooming, been swelling for a month? They will be my first phrags that bloom under my care, I've had them for just over a year

Good water, cool to warm environement... Some Phrags need time to bloom especially the long petals one, sometime more than a decade...
But they worth the wait!

 

[Phrag-Plus]

That's got andreetae as one parent? Are you sure? Look at the extreme horns on the pouch. NOT what I'd expect at all.

Yes! I was shocked too... If I didn't made that cross myself I had trouble to beleive it...
The flower is even much bigger than the one on a usual Sedenii... I can't wait to see the flowers on a specimen plant...???

I used a 4n longifolium as pod parent too... I only got a dozen of seedlings from that cross and I'm waiting to see!!!

 

[SlipperFan]

Somebody has been busy posting!

...and breeding...

Yes! I was shocked too... If I didn't made that cross myself I had trouble to beleive it...
The flower is even much bigger than the one on a usual Sedenii... I can't wait to see the flowers on a specimen plant...???

I used a 4n longifolium as pod parent too... I only got a dozen of seedlings from that cross and I'm waiting to see!!!

Many years ago, Glen Decker, in a talk I went to, said breeders use longifolium for the red it makes in it's hybrids. I would think you might get closer to white with pearcei?

 

[NYEric]

One parent is longifolium v hinksianum?

 

[Phrag-Plus]

One parent is longifolium v hinksianum?

No! This one is from my big longifolium'Big Fellow' a 29cm petals spread flowers ..

 

[NYEric]

Wow! So dark.

 

[eteson]

It is a really nice cross JP. I made the same cross using a 2N longifloium and about 20 plants survived... but they would be blooming in about 3 years.

 

[eaborne]

Not what I would have expected either. But this goes to show how dominant a tetraploid is in breeding.

 

[PaphLover]

Don't know what it's supposed to look like, but I think it's gorgeous!!!!!!
I love the colours and shape.

If you continue to feel disappointed, Jean-Pierre, you know who to contact. I'm only an expedited parcel away.

 

[NYEric]

In Canada, from the Eastern Providences to BC, about a month expedited!!

 

[PaphLover]

Heehee! Not even close.