Excuse the absence of the diacritical marks in the names Jose and Marti.
A nice and informative post on Cattleya Bob Betts and Bow Bells was started by monocotman:
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CambriaWhat contributed a comment about Cattleya Jose Marti in the chain, so I thought I would close the loop.
Jose Marti was registered in 1959 as (Bob Betts x Bow Bells). I have never seen which cultivars of Bob Betts and Bow Bells were used in the plant that was registered. The only AOS award for flower quality to Jose Marti was in 1965, to the cultivar ‘Fetzer’. In 1990 Cattleya Mother’s Favourite was registered with RHS but it was subsequently determined that this was a mistake because it was the same cross as Jose Marti so Mother’s Favourite became a synonym for Jose Marti.
A few years later the cultivar Cattleya Jose Marti ‘Mother’s Favorite’ appeared (notice the change from British to US spelling of Favorite) and received AOS CCM awards in 2000 and 2001. This is a confusing cultivar name, given the confusion between the hybrid names Mother’s Favourite and Jose Marti. I can imagine a tag that said Cattleya Jose Marti (Mother’s Favourite) being easily mis-transcribed on a next tag to Cattleya Jose Marti ‘Mother’s Favorite’. We all know how tags go. I think someone’s 'Mother's Favorite' plant was mericloned some years ago because I have almost exclusively seen this cultivar of Jose Marti available in recent years.
However, CambriaWhat's post noted a Jose Marti cross of (Bow Bells ‘Snowflake’ x Bob Betts ‘White Lightening’), which would not be a division or mericlone of the ‘Mother’s Favorite’ cultivar and could be a superior plant. My plant of Jose Marti ‘Mother’s Favorite’, purchased from Orchids Limited, has bloomed several times and currently has been open about 1 week, so I thought I would attach a picture. The flower is 16.5 cm horizontal natural spread.
Nothing most of us can show in our pictures of Bow Bells, Bob Betts, or Jose Marti is going to come close to what was achieved by the amazing older cultivars of these plants shown by Jeff Bradley in the video linked in monocotman’s chain. I need to accept what we can obtain (and afford) and grow these as well as I can.
A nice and informative post on Cattleya Bob Betts and Bow Bells was started by monocotman:
Cattleya Bob Betts ‘white lightening’
Just to show that all is not doom and gloom with rot issues. Here is a success story. This arrived with me only about a year ago from Orchids Limited via Germany. There were transport issues and the consignment probably spent about a month in transit. One of the growths still had viable flowers...
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CambriaWhat contributed a comment about Cattleya Jose Marti in the chain, so I thought I would close the loop.
Jose Marti was registered in 1959 as (Bob Betts x Bow Bells). I have never seen which cultivars of Bob Betts and Bow Bells were used in the plant that was registered. The only AOS award for flower quality to Jose Marti was in 1965, to the cultivar ‘Fetzer’. In 1990 Cattleya Mother’s Favourite was registered with RHS but it was subsequently determined that this was a mistake because it was the same cross as Jose Marti so Mother’s Favourite became a synonym for Jose Marti.
A few years later the cultivar Cattleya Jose Marti ‘Mother’s Favorite’ appeared (notice the change from British to US spelling of Favorite) and received AOS CCM awards in 2000 and 2001. This is a confusing cultivar name, given the confusion between the hybrid names Mother’s Favourite and Jose Marti. I can imagine a tag that said Cattleya Jose Marti (Mother’s Favourite) being easily mis-transcribed on a next tag to Cattleya Jose Marti ‘Mother’s Favorite’. We all know how tags go. I think someone’s 'Mother's Favorite' plant was mericloned some years ago because I have almost exclusively seen this cultivar of Jose Marti available in recent years.
However, CambriaWhat's post noted a Jose Marti cross of (Bow Bells ‘Snowflake’ x Bob Betts ‘White Lightening’), which would not be a division or mericlone of the ‘Mother’s Favorite’ cultivar and could be a superior plant. My plant of Jose Marti ‘Mother’s Favorite’, purchased from Orchids Limited, has bloomed several times and currently has been open about 1 week, so I thought I would attach a picture. The flower is 16.5 cm horizontal natural spread.
Nothing most of us can show in our pictures of Bow Bells, Bob Betts, or Jose Marti is going to come close to what was achieved by the amazing older cultivars of these plants shown by Jeff Bradley in the video linked in monocotman’s chain. I need to accept what we can obtain (and afford) and grow these as well as I can.
