Rothschildianum pictures megathread. Please post all your roth photos here.

[Park Bear]

Great color Peter

 

[Greenpaph]

I like the strong color contrast. Very nice.

How long have you been growing it?

Thanks. About 3 years

 

[Greenpaph]

Great color Peter

Thanks, Lowell! Welcome back!

 

[Drorchid]

Rothschildianum pictures thread

This is the first Paph. rothschildianum sib cross that I made here at Orchids Limited. It is a cross between Paph. rothschildianum 'Borneo Dark' x Paph. rothschildianum 'Dark Chocolate'. The background of the 2 parents are the clones Roth 'Rex', 'Mt. Millais' and 'Commander'. I selected both parents at the time for thier darker than usual flowers, and I think it shows in the progeny. The first seedling that bloomed had pretty dark flowers. We noticed that all the seedlings from this cross were pretty vigorous. I made the cross on April 16 2001. The first seedlings got planted out of the lab on November 8 2003, and the first seedling bloomed on February 11 2008, so that is in 4 years and 3 months after coming out of the flask!

Flower close up:

Flower side:

Whole plant:

Robert

 

[Candace]

Wow.

 

[Heather]

Dang, that's nice.
Can you add your photos to the roth. flower thread?
Here:
http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=75847#post75847

Nice name on the images, by the way. All of our Star Wars friends would be amused.

 

[goldenrose]

:drool:OH - by gosh - by golly - I must have a sibling!!!! I bought 1/2 doz slippers from a fellow this summer & this plant has a OL tag, it's one mature unbloomed growth with 2 new starts. Hopefully soon!

 

[Drorchid]

Heather,

Yep. I can add the pictures to that thread; I will add some pictures of our other clones as well. Yep, I gave this seedling the clonal name "Darth Vader"

Robert

 

[Drorchid]

Here is a picture of Paph. rothschildianum 'Darth Vader'. It was the first seedling from the first Paph. rothschildianum sib cross that I made here at Orchids Limited. It is a cross between Paph. rothschildianum 'Borneo Dark' x Paph. rothschildianum 'Dark Chocolate'. The background of the 2 parents are the clones Roth 'Rex', 'Mt. Millais' and 'Commander'. I selected both parents at the time for thier darker than usual flowers, and I think it shows in the progeny. The first seedling that bloomed had pretty dark flowers. We noticed that all the seedlings from this cross were pretty vigorous. I made the cross on April 16 2001. The first seedlings got planted out of the lab on November 8 2003, and the first seedling bloomed on February 11 2008, so that is in 4 years and 3 months after coming out of the flask!

Flower close up:

Flower side:

Whole plant:

Robert

 

[streetmorrisart]

The force is strong with this one.

 

[streetmorrisart]

(And, yes, that was meant to be terrible!)

Seriously, it's wonderful.

 

[tocarmar]

Robert,
Very nice color esp. the purple pouch!!! The roth. that I have is in early spike. Knock on wood I don't jinx it. I hope it is as nice as the ones posted so far.

Tom

 

[Park Bear]

wonderful

 

[paphioland]

Good color. Do you know the measurements? Good growing too!

 

[Corbin]

Very nice! I'm jealous

 

[Drorchid]

more roths's from Orchids Limited

Here are some more pictures of some of our "select" roths:

This is Paph. rothschildianum 'Borneo Dark' (The parent of 'Darth Vader'):

Paph. rothschildianum 'King Cobra' it is a seedling of Paph. rothschildianum 'Rex' x 'Mount Millais'; it was featured on the cover of our 2003/2004 catalog:

Paph. rothschildianum 'King Willem'. I am not sure what the parents are of this one. I believe both parents were "jungle plants":

Paph. rothschildianum 'Yosemite'. this is a cross between 'Green Valley' x 'FlyEagle':

Robert

 

[Elena]

Gorgeous

 

[cwt]

Great!!!!

 

[GuRu]

This is the first Paph. rothschildianum sib cross that I made here at Orchids Limited..... so that is in 4 years and 3 months after coming out of the flask!
Robert

That's a pretty short term to grow a P. rothschildianum to flowering size and flower it !!! I'm impressed not even by that but also by the beauty of the flowers especially the deep ruby/vine-red of the pouch.

Best regards from Germany, GuRu

 

[Drorchid]

I found a picture of one of it's parent's ('Borneo Dark'):

Robert