Paph Delrosi 'Bessie' HCC/AOS and Delrosi 'Florafest' AM/AOC

[emydura]

It is rare for me to flower one of these, let alone two at once. In fact, I bought the 'Bessie' clone in 2010, flowered it in 2012 and it hasn't flowered since until now. Pretty similar looking flowers.


Paph Delrosi 'Bessie' HCC/AOS

Paph Delrosi 'Florafest' AM/AOC

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Congrats on this tough to bloom cross!!

Were these awarded as your plants?

 

[emydura]

Congrats on this tough to bloom cross!!

Were these awarded as your plants?

Thanks. No, I bought both of these as divisions. The 'Bessie' clone is a US awarded plant. So, someone has gone to all the trouble of importing it into Australia at some point.

 

[Justin]

Gorgeous blooms and great growing. They are indeed very difficult to flower.

 

[Ozpaph]

or they are the same plant.
They are always hard to flower, Delrosi. Well done

 

[emydura]

or they are the same plant.

Looking at the flowers more closely, the 'Florafest' clone has the better flower. It has a larger, rounder and flatter dorsal. It deserves its higher award.

 

[Djthomp28]

Congrats on blooming both of these lovely, yet stubborn plants.

 

[Murray F]

Delrosi 'Florafest' was plant I had awarded about 1984 (QOS) only as I didn't have Kodak film to comply with AOC award rules. Slow grower and very shy flowerer. Congrats on doing well with it. It never got an AM it was only a HCC and QOS only not AOC. Deserved an am though.

 

[NYEric]

Yeah, really hard to bloom. Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

 

[emydura]

Delrosi 'Florafest' was plant I had awarded about 1984 (QOS) only as I didn't have Kodak film to comply with AOC award rules. Slow grower and very shy flowerer. Congrats on doing well with it. It never got an AM it was only a HCC and QOS only not AOC. Deserved an am though.

Thanks Murray. I will correct my label. It was sold to me as an AM/AOC awarded plant. I got this clone in 2011. It has grown fairly well for me, as you can see it is in a pretty large clump now. Flowers sporadically though. I was looking closely at the plant this morning and noticed another spike just coming through. It is a much larger growth than the current flowering one. So I am hopeful it will have 3 flowers. I have flowered it with 3 flowers before.

 

[Murray F]

From memory (pity I cant find the flower will devote more time to that later) when it got the HCC had 4 flowers on board. I got the plant from Barry Jefferies as he was starting up Florafest, when it was awarded it also took Grand Champion of the QOS Autumn Show in 1984. I named the clone Florafest for Barry.

 

[Guldal]

Well done, David...congrats on your patience being rewarded!

Like you my preference too veers towards 'Florafest'...for the reasons you give. In addition I also find its colouring better and the overall impression of its flowers more harmonious (the parts of the flower relative to each other)!

 

[Ozpaph]

great hsitory update make these 'old' plants special.

 

[emydura]

From memory (pity I cant find the flower will devote more time to that later) when it got the HCC had 4 flowers on board.

WOW. 4 flowers. I don't think I have ever seen 4 flowers on such a hybrid.

 

[Ozpaph]

Your wish is my command!..... Delrosi Florafest (from Jim McCubbin's photos set)

 

[Guldal]

Your wish is my command!..... Delrosi Florafest (from Jim McCubbin's photos set)

Stunning....a bucket full of Delrosis! WOW!
Thank you for sharing!

 

[emydura]

Your wish is my command!..... Delrosi Florafest (from Jim McCubbin's photos setpg[/IMG][/URL]

Thanks Stephen. Those flowers match up with mine. I got my clone off the same person who sold me my Bel Royal (Possybaby).

So Jim flowered 2 spikes of 3 flowers each.

 

[Ozpaph]

I dont know whether its Jim's plant or not. I have a copy of his 'slides'. It could have been a photos from the award??

 

[NEslipper]

Really like that Florafest clone, congrats on getting these two to bloom. No small feat!

 

[Murray F]

I dont know whether its Jim's plant or not. I have a copy of his 'slides'. It could have been a photos from the award??

Definitely not from the awards. Jim got this plant from me