What about the scent ?
Oh Angela, these are not leaning back, they are curling back. I think these are cute!!! Seriously, it's never been awarded anything but a CCE, which clearly would not be that hard to get with this cultivar. So, I suspect its charm is in its proclivity to grow and bloom a lot. When @DrLeslieEe posted the photo of his spectacular plant here in late April/early May 2020. I fell in love with it and went on a search (since he's in Canada and I couldn't bribe a division out of him). No one I could find, but Jerry Fischer, had it and his was a division of the original. He said it needed dividing, so voila!! It's my most expensive plant, so thankfully it performs very well. Flower is not huge, but very pretty because of the splash (I'm a sucker for that), even though it probably won't be ever awarded on form, but the #s make it sensational. So at least, she works for her dinner.
We'll see, I'm exhibiting it this week. Judging is so subjective, I've stopped getting my hopes up.
Wow! Difficult indeed! But think of the potential in this plant!! I’d have to ck with Jerry, but if my memory serves (now that you mentioned it) he got it from Rogerson and Jerry’s tag says, “division of the original plant”. I don’t think I will ever achieve the size of the CCE already given, because of my space limitations. It’s in a 7.5” pot now and 8 or 9 is my limit. After division, it grows out of the pot in a little more than a year! Right now, it has 16 growths (plus 2 leads about 2” tall), 10 flowers and 2 immature sheaths.
The others who are judges will know, but my reading of the AOS manual indicates that since the award is given to the grower, and not the plant, that there could be multiple awards to different growers. You could get a CCM with a smaller plant than Rogerson's. I looked at the three AOS CCM awards given for trianae and they all still d 20+ flowers on the plant so we would probably need 10 blooming growths with 2 flowers each to be within reach. Leslie will know.
What a joy.
There can be multiple cultural awards. While there is some consideration to the number of blooms I.E. If the plant is known to be floriferous yours should show that potential , however most of the focus is on how well the plant is grown, how well it displays I.E. flowers on all sides, well held etc.
