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There is one more bud under the top one opening.

https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=EPMA3

I do have a couple more stonei on deck though

Are they really that difficult? One of the judges at Asheville commented that the one I had on display there was only the second he had seen in his life. The first was mine in our show last year lol Besides you have like 40 flowers on 'Mont Milais' right now, that's way cooler 😂

Check out past posts from @Happypaphy7 detailing his trash bag method.

Peak blooming season has passed but I'm still getting flowers here and there. Another stonei: Sunlight Rothschild: Xanthophyllum: Lastly a disappointing Wössner Black Wings. It had potential with four flowers on a first bloom and a nicely marked dorsal sepal, but as it opened the...

I think I have a few spare divisions out in my shade house, I'll find them and shoot you a message.

Yes I see from the thread that you already have all the answers. Best of luck.

Trying to judge flower quality on a near dead plant is pointless, it is not going to perform anywhere near its potential in such a state and likely won't live to bloom again anyway.

I couldn't resist this Wössner Giganitum at the Asheville Orchid Festival today, I'm looking forward to growing it up and seeing what it can do.

I don't see any reason mericlones should have a blanket exclusion from the judging system, though it does open the door to the problem of one clone being awarded multiple times under different names. I believe that discussion has been had here before with no real resolution given the difficulty...

It is generally thought that the pod parent carries slightly more influence because the seedlings inherit mitochondrial and plastid genomes entirely from the mother plant.

Crosses are being registered in flask now, may as well name it yourself.

We were talking about Magic Rainbow.

It's only a matter of time before they displace the true species in judging and breeding like we've already seen in spicerianum and primulinum.