Sue
evil genius
So, Jane's Mark Hasegawa, along with my recent purchasing trend, has made me think I should ask you all some questions I've had.
I recently had the chance at local auctions to pick up a few Brachy x Poly crosses, which I am quite excited about. Tom Ott's comment when I got one of them (Rolfei, if I remember correctly) was something like "You're young; maybe it'll bloom before you die."
So, before I pick up any more of these (I was just looking at a Psyche x kolopakingii var. topperi), please advise:
1. Do any of you have any of these that do bloom regularly?
2. Which of the Brachys do you think is easiest/hardest to bloom?
3. Which of the Polys do you think is easiest/hardest to bloom?
4. Can we expect ease-of-bloom traits to transfer over to these hybrids?
5. And, as long as I'm asking questions, who's got these, which do you have, how often have they bloomed, how many growths did they need before blooming, and do you have pics around?
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To provide what little I know, I'll say that none of mine have bloomed yet, but I haven't had any of them for too long, I know nothing about comparative ease of bloom among Brachys, and among Polys, well, I know roths is quite reluctant, and I have the impression (perhaps quite mistaken) that haynald. and lowii are rather easy to bloom, among the Polys. But I have no idea where to put, e.g. kolopakingii along that spectrum.
So far, in this group of hybrids, I've got:
Paph. Conkoloco (concolor x kolopakingii) 3 growths, unbloomed
Paph. Rolfei (bellatulum x rothschildianum) 4 growths, unbloomed
Paph. Summer Snow (niveum x haynaldianum var. album) 1 growth, unbloomed
Paph. Woluwense (niveum x rothschildianum) 6 growths, unbloomed
I recently had the chance at local auctions to pick up a few Brachy x Poly crosses, which I am quite excited about. Tom Ott's comment when I got one of them (Rolfei, if I remember correctly) was something like "You're young; maybe it'll bloom before you die."
So, before I pick up any more of these (I was just looking at a Psyche x kolopakingii var. topperi), please advise:
1. Do any of you have any of these that do bloom regularly?
2. Which of the Brachys do you think is easiest/hardest to bloom?
3. Which of the Polys do you think is easiest/hardest to bloom?
4. Can we expect ease-of-bloom traits to transfer over to these hybrids?
5. And, as long as I'm asking questions, who's got these, which do you have, how often have they bloomed, how many growths did they need before blooming, and do you have pics around?
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To provide what little I know, I'll say that none of mine have bloomed yet, but I haven't had any of them for too long, I know nothing about comparative ease of bloom among Brachys, and among Polys, well, I know roths is quite reluctant, and I have the impression (perhaps quite mistaken) that haynald. and lowii are rather easy to bloom, among the Polys. But I have no idea where to put, e.g. kolopakingii along that spectrum.
So far, in this group of hybrids, I've got:
Paph. Conkoloco (concolor x kolopakingii) 3 growths, unbloomed
Paph. Rolfei (bellatulum x rothschildianum) 4 growths, unbloomed
Paph. Summer Snow (niveum x haynaldianum var. album) 1 growth, unbloomed
Paph. Woluwense (niveum x rothschildianum) 6 growths, unbloomed