Who went to the World Slipper Conference
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sergeharvey
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Could you namr 2011 2012?
Yes James has been using Lippewunder a lot but also Gege Hughes and little bit of crazy jolly type hybrids to get those colors. He also has a few with Annette and fall magic. There was a just a mother load of Crosses of all types
Linus asked about those too. Did not get the name but those two were excellent quality and color was better in person
Tom-DE
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Wow! Thank you for the photos, Charles. For sure, I would have picked up a few of those complex Paphs. if I were there.
I would like to know the names of imag. 1971, 1984, and 2688 if you don't mind me asking.
I would like to know the names of imag. 1971, 1984, and 2688 if you don't mind me asking.
Here you go
1971 - orangeade x crazy shell I believe called orange margarita. Cross from Japan. These were $200-$300 I believe
1984 - a division of a crazy jolly
2688 - Shirokane x white queen cool cross Teresa made as Shirokane usually not fertile. Hopeful that this backcross might get over fertility barrier
Tom-DE
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Thank you, Charles. Yeah, the good ones always come with a big price tag...but deservedly so.
Had a busy first day. I think the show had 11 AOS awards, mostly Paphs and Phrags. Will try to get pictures and names tomorrow morning before sales.
Do you know the name of the complex in 2023? I’ll bet that one was on a stud bench.
Was at Quintal and they were funny about pulling tags so not sure. And yes was in the stud house. I would estimate a Paph New Direction hybrid
Austin Creek
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I suspect 2023 might be QF Burgundy Blush (Laurie Lei Quintal x Satchel's Legend).
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Good call @Austin Creek what a cool hybrid
Tom-DE
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Dale, is this complex consistently good? Compact plant?
Austin Creek
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Fairly compact plants. I haven't seen very many flower, but there is certainly variation in flower quality as would be expected from a cross of this type. Some have been quite nice, and the grex has 2 AM/AOS awards to its credit. From what I can tell, the plant that Charles saw in Quintal's stud house was AT LEAST AS GOOD as the 2 that have been awarded.
Tom-DE
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What I really like about this complex is the intense color...being a compact plant is a big bonus for me. If you have BS/NBS plants available, please send me a PM and reserve one for me for spring shipping. TIA
Austin Creek
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Possibly 1 or 2 still hiding somewhere, but I probably won't find them until I go through repotting this spring.
All this talk about crosses! Any thoughts on the conference itself? It helps to make these types of events better in the future...
Best,
Best,
I really enjoyed it. Speakers were great. I am very appreciative of the effort put in to organize it. I just wish some more of the experienced and talented people on slippertalk and elsewhere could have made it. I had a decent number of conversations where the other person was not there because of slippers but because they’re involved in orchid digest, or from a local society etc… Great conversations anyway but just surprised me. I don’t know if there is any remedy to that really just depends on the interest in the hobby. Having it in Hilo is great for access to nurseries but it also probably has some effect on who can make it.
Ditto that for HOF only a handful of people were really hunting through the benches there. I would have thought with an event like this it would have been more swarmed.
So I don’t have many complaints for the event really just wish there were more people
Being in Hilo is cool but definitely a barrier to going. I hope to someday, I'm just not in a great life stage for a trip like that- but it's not for lack of interest. Probably a lot of people, like me, feel like it's really far away and just can't make the excuse to get away. It would be an amazing time of year to go though.
