Paph Lunacy

[Ross]

This is a first bloom seedling of a remake of Paph Lunacy = Hellas x Skip Bartlett. The cross was originally made in 1988 by Terry Root. There have been 11 awards given to the grex, with the most recent in 2007. This was a collaboration with a friend who had Skip Bartlett pollen available. We used the Hellas 'Sunset' HCC/AOS cultivar, an F2 Hellas as the seed parent.

 

[JeanLux]

fine color!!! is it all creme or are there completely white parts? Jean

 

[paphioland]

not too bad, especially on a small plant. Congrats on blooming a cross you made. How many more left do you have to bloom? Was this the first one?A re you going to breed on with it or wait to see if there is a bette one?

 

[Ross]

fine color!!! is it all creme or are there completely white parts? Jean

The dorsal is more of a pure white with spots. The petals are streaked with green/yellow. This may fade somewhat as the flower gets older.

 

[TyroneGenade]

What a pleasing and happy looking flower. I would love to have it in my collection. Congratulations on such a fine bloom, and on a 1st blooming as well.

 

[Ross]

not too bad, especially on a small plant. Congrats on blooming a cross you made. How many more left do you have to bloom? Was this the first one?A re you going to breed on with it or wait to see if there is a bette one?

Thanks, Ken. This is the first to bloom for me. I'm happy with the form, but will let the plant mature to evaluate the size. I plan to bloom more and evaluate them before deciding to breed with any. I'm not sure the actual number I have, but the seed production was relatively good for a white complex. I started with about 100 seedlings out of flask. Not counting the small ones, I probably have 30 nice seedlings that are NBS and should bloom in the next two years. I'm not sure how many my friend has left, but he started with a few more than I did.

Standard complex whites are not my specialty, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity when the Skip Bartlett pollen was offered. Strangely, because of my interest in miniature breeding, I'm hoping some of the smaller plants come around, too.

 

[NYEric]

Good looking; but are you concerned about that ghost/transparent effect on the dorsal?

 

[Ross]

Good looking; but are you concerned about that ghost/transparent effect on the dorsal?

I'm not really sure if I should be concerned or not. Maybe someone with more experience could comment.

 

[tenman]

Excellent form; the petals are much wider than others of this cross. Well done!

 

[Shiva]

I like it.

 

[fibre]

Thank you for sharing the pictures! They are really interesting! I think it is a well shaped flower!
I didn't know, that the stem is so short, because most pics of Paphs show only the flower. Is the stem of Skip Bartlett 'White Pepper' short too?

 

[jblanford]

Hey Ross, here's my Paph. Lunacy as you can see I'm not far behind you, and again thanks for the plant...... Jim.

 

[John M]

This is really very nice. Congrats on a successful remake!

 

[NYEric]

I'm not really sure if I should be concerned or not. Maybe someone with more experience could comment.

We saw the same thing here.
http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11891&highlight=transparent

 

[smartie2000]

beautiful! good job

 

[etex]

Nice job! The bloom is very beautiful!!

 

[Bob in Albany N.Y.]

Very nice Ross. Now your talking my kind of language, or should I say flower. Beautiful.

 

[Ross]

Hey Ross, here's my Paph. Lunacy as you can see I'm not far behind you, and again thanks for the plant...... Jim.

Looks like the dorsal has a good chance of being "locked in" by the synsepal. That will keep the dorsal from reflexing. I look forward to seeing the bloom!

 

[SlipperKing]

By the looks of it....there will be more awarded soon! Nice match making Ross! As for the clearing on the edge of the flower parts. I was told that was a sign of polyphoidism. I sure if that is true or not.

 

[Bolero]

It's a great flowering! I would love to own that one, it has some amazing colour and I really like the shape.