Anticipation...Chiu Hua Dancer 'Wacky Worm' AM/AOS x St Swithin 'Cracked Pepper'

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Impressive blooms, looks like it will earn it's keep from now on!
Is that tape holding the spike to the stake?
-Patrick
 
Congrats on the growing, the plant is beautifully grown and 4 years from deflasking to flowering is great! My general take-away on complex multi breeding, at least from what I’ve seen so far, is that you end up with a lot of PEOY or Saint Swithin-looking offspring. I think the multi primaries are some of the best hybrids in the orchid world (I’m thinking Chiu Hua Dancer, WBW/JB, Lady Isobel) but my personal, unpopular opinion is that the more complex hybrids have been somewhat underwhelming. That being said, it’s still a nice flower, and maybe there will be a few outliers that bloom out with the best of both parents. In particular, those CHD curls. Fingers crossed!
 
Unfortunately, wading through dozens of SS or PEOY-looking things is the price of finding outliers. I knew it was coming. The precursors to modern complex Paphs were all a bunch of Maudiae & Leeanum looking things, too. Those curls will come out in a few outliers, probably the slower-growing runts. From there, those curls plus a wide dorsal and bright red petals will be the next goal.
You'll all probably like my Wössner Kolorand x rothschildianum cross better. Primary x species minimizes variation, and the randsii grandparent tends to be pretty dominant. I expect we'll see the first one before summer.
 
Its a seed grown plant it will probably be dog ugly for the first few blooms *please do not set orchids on fire*
-Patrick
 
So the CHD carried the capsule? Wow, I'm impressed no gig shape influence at all. The overall colors are really cool, very earth-toned.
 
Seems like gigantifolium might get overwhelmed quickly in second generation crosses, I bloomed this Hung Sheng Eagle x anitum last year that just looked like a mediocre Wössner Black Wings.
 

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