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It has great potential.
Roy, do you think line breeding might result in this dorsal?
I love large ventral sepal in maudiae types. As an aside, Which species are used to make them larger in maudae-type breeding?
To my knowledge, there isn't a species that does that to the ventral. The feature seems to have appeared in Maudiae breeding out of Taiwan. How they got this feature is a mystery but one could assume that its to do with lab' modifications of the seed.
I think you are underestimating what generations of selective breeding can do, and overestimating what can done in a lab. But if a laboratory manipulation was involved it could as likely be done in a species callosum as in a hybrid anyway.
Underestimating selective / line breeding, I don't think so. Then why is this the only one that has been shown in the last 10 years when the mass produced paphs in Taiwan or Japan are yet to have it appear.
Line bred callosums have been around for decades and none have got anywhere near the ventral size of this. Line breeding can do great things but in the case of species, this usually improves the main features, which in P.callosum is the dorsal and maybe the petals. The enlarged ventral only started to appear with P.Pulsar, Hsinying Web, Ruby Leopard and the odd Mod Maude remakes plus crosses of all these. The 4n Maudiaes should produce this feature and don't.
There always has to be a first. I can't claim that this MUST be callosum, but your assertion that this can't possibly be callosum based on what is quite possibly a single gene difference in a highly selected line many generations from the wild is far from certain.
Thanks for the comments everybody.
Roy, one ofthe first questions I asked when I started growing orchids was, given all the differences that you see from different vendors for a particular spieces, how can I be sure which is truly a species orchid plant. The answer, from many on this forum, was you can not and for that matter you probably could not find a true species plant for most of the orchids outside of going out and collecting one from the wild.
And yes with the ventral is approaching that of the modern complex hybrids, which I don't like, but I bought form a very well known dealer and it was listed as a callosum. So do you trust nobody?
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