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Nice flowering

'Joy' is superlative as usual. Some of the blue bellina are gorgeous. Very nice Peter.

Got a heat wave here while these were trying to open. My largest plant with the best flower quality got cooked while trying to open. At least the buds didn't blast. This is one of my smaller plants. This is one of my favorite parvi primaries; I love the leaves on vietnamense.

Very nice; good luck!

Gorgeous; love this species. Alas I grow far too cool for it.

Depends on how lazy I am; think they do flower better if given "bloom food", but the main thing is not too much nitrogen, or you can watch the emerging infloresences morph into new growths. These flower late spring early summer for me, and while I sometimes get a second flush of flowers, they...

Cute.

Maui Mist and the yellow are very nice. Miltoniopsis are really wonderful if you can grow them well.

As much as possible. Right now are in greenhouse under 80% shade, but grow them without shade during winter. Develop better color with more light, but having some rodent problems where I normally grow them. Rodents like to wait until the Neof are about to flower (with high value of stored...

Can almost detect the fragrance ...

Typical pink form. Made with large flowered Neof from Amani island. Orange Cherry Blossom made with orange form of ampullaceum. Flowers with other Cherry Blossoms, not with Peaches, which flowers earlier for me. Got this from Frank Fordyce many years ago. Very fragrant.

Very cool.

Very nice; particularly like the amboinensis and the Samera.

Nice.

Side-stepping the political issue of GMOs, if you need non-GMO cornstarch for any reason, it is not difficult to get. Here in the US where the powers that be do not subscribe to a full disclosure epistemology, I will only purchase cornstarch from the EU which is non-GMO.