wilhelminae

[tnyr5]

Decent. Needs to grow up a little & get 3 or 4 flowers. NS 13.9cm, dorsal 2.7cm, synsepal 2.4cm. Going to put the dark St Swithin on it and make some high-color Lyro Blackhawks.

 

[Ozpaph]

that's is very nice!

 

[Justin]

Great color!

 

[GuRu]

This is an extraordinarily dark clone of P. wilhelminae.....very pretty. Good luck to you breeding intention.

 

[Happypaphy7]

I like that one!!

 

[tnyr5]

Pods seem to have taken

 

[BrucherT]

I love it for itself…hope you self someday.

 

[NEslipper]

Love this species, but 4 flowers is certainly ambitious!

 

[mar11]

super cool i being looking for one for a well ! back in the day the was all over look like no one grows anymore! make super nice hybrids congratulations

 

[spujr]

super cool i being looking for one for a well ! back in the day the was all over look like no one grows anymore! make super nice hybrids congratulations

I believe Paph Paradise has some plants to buy, and he is in your state if I recall correctly.

I agree, this is a nice species. Curious what it would look like crossed with anitum.

 

[littlefrog]

I have a well developed capsule (selfing) on mine but that is a long way from seedlings. If it even makes it through the lab. It was everywhere in the late 90s if I recall.

Back when Susan Booth was popular the good dark ones were made with wilhelmineae. But they changed the name and they are all William Ambler. Someone needs to remake those too.

 

[mar11]

I believe Paph Paradise has some plants to buy, and he is in your state of I recall correctly.

I agree, this is a nice species. Curious what it would look like crossed with anitum.

i ask they are to small now! is k i have time to wait my anitun and adductum are 2 years or more to flower!

 

[tnyr5]

Well since this thread's been resurrected, I sowed the Lyro Blackhawk remake on Monday.

 

[SelectOrchids]

Love this species, but 4 flowers is certainly ambitious!

Not quite. Klinge in the Netherlands sold a lot of Paph praestans x wilhelminiae in the late 90's-early 2000's.

The only difference with a true wilhelminiae is that they are easier to grow, and usually have 3-4 flowers per spike. A large batch went ( along with jackii x malipoense... ready at the same time) to the US, to a famous Paph nursery. Though I never saw them sold as hybrids.

 

[tnyr5]

Agreed, the old AnTec plants always had 3-4 flowers per spike. It used to be the norm, not the exception.

 

[DrLeslieEe]

My two large wilhems refuse to bloom. Any tips?

 

[tnyr5]

Chill them down to 10°C(50°F) for a couple months in winter.

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Chill them down to 10°C(50°F) for a couple months in winter.

Freeze them till they get scared lol.

 

[tnyr5]

Indeed. And show them pics of a salad.

 

[Guldal]

Indeed. And show them pics of a salad.

I gather... with them in it!