I am somewhat suprised at the result, especially if its sibling had no spotting at all. How sure are you of the label. I don't know much about the breeding in this group. I would have expected a lot more parvi influence, with a rose ground and red pink veining
Really, I intend what follows as a friendly helpful criticism. In fact everyone has been polite, which I commend highly. Trithor is not the only one, nor the worst offender for this comment. His post was convenient, I selected it for this comment, mostly out of convenience, I'm not singling him out. Most doing the comments are valuable contributors to this forum, I am not flaming any one individual. In several recent threads some of you have questioned provenance of hybrids that to my eye look correctly identified. I say this from my 40+ years of orchid experience, at least 20+ years as part time business and lecturer. I have done some hybridizing with paphs over the years, registered my first orchid hybrid in 1988. I think I know a little about orchid hybridizing.
First, it is perfectly okay to question the identity of a cross once. But please,
before you insist that a plant couldn't be a certain cross, I urge you to buy a flask of a paph hybrid cross, best if one parent is a hybrid itself, though some primaries are quite variable.
Grow out at least 12 seedlings to blooming, 25 would be better, but takes space. Compare all 12 seedlings and make notes for yourself on how much variation there is. Once you see how variable seedlings from hybrids can be, you will relax, and be more willing to accept other peoples labels on their plants.
If the grower/poster is confident the provenance of his cross is correct, accept it at face value. Hybrids are quite variable. Most of you don't realize just how variable a hybrid can be, even primary hybrids. There is an "average" look to most hybrids, and if you only bloom or see one or two of a cross, you won't get a feel for the variation. But the variation is there, and sometimes one gets lucky and a purchase of just 2 plants might capture the extremes in variation. To get a good feel of the grex variation, one really has to see a larger number of the seedlings bloom, 25 or more is ideal.
You are all good growers, you are all valuable contributors to this forum, but you need to see more groups of seedlings from the same cross bloom to get a better feel for what is the normal range of variation one can expect from seed pod. Many of you seem to think all the seedlings should look like a photoshop merge of the parents. Dominant, recessive, co-dominant, partial expression, suppressors, intensifiers, and distribution genes don't act like a photoshop merger program.
They will not all come out looking the same.
