Paph. vietnamense

[Paul]

Second bloom, second flower (1 old at the back, 1 other bud opening)
This one is quite huge (12cm natural size)

The first flower:

 

[NYEric]

Wow!

 

[Yang]

fabulous!!! Paul, it's quite pretty

 

[Paul]

well, the second flower is bigger, 12.5cm natural size in fact

 

[Corbin]

:clap::clap::clap:

 

[Candace]

Very nice! It looks very happy in your care.

 

[SlipperFan]

Interesting markings on the pouch, both times.

 

[Rick]

Looks great:clap:

You should breed it get the seed to Troy Meyers

 

[Hien]

Paul.

Looks like they came from the great German breeding line.
I love it very, very much

 

[jblanford]

What great looking flowers, nice photos also, thanks. Jim.

 

[goldenrose]

I like it as well, the pouch markings very interesting!

 

[Paul]

Looks great:clap:

You should breed it get the seed to Troy Meyers

I have crossed it with my bellatulum, if it works it should be a very nice primary!!

 

[papheteer]

Very impressive. It must be very happy! How do you grow it? what kind of media do you use? Lighting? Thanks

 

[Paul]

Very impressive. It must be very happy! How do you grow it? what kind of media do you use? Lighting? Thanks

It's still in rockwool (growcubes), temperate-warm, light-shade, and I fertilize about 100ppm of Nitrogen.

 

[papheteer]

Hmmm... Rockwool.... How big are the cubes? I might consider giving it a try. Do you grow under artificial lights? Fluorescent or HID? Thanks

 

[benilaca]

self

Recessive alba gene! Should do a selfing. This one more likely will produce very high percentage of pure albas. Such a lucky one!

 

[kentuckiense]

Recessive alba gene! Should do a selfing. This one more likely will produce very high percentage of pure albas. Such a lucky one!

If it was a purely recessive allele, then you wouldn't see it in the phenotype. Even if it WAS heterozygous for an album allele, you would still only get about 25% album offspring, not a "very high percentage."

 

[Paul]

Well, I don't really think of a "half-albino" but I could try to cross it with a pure alba in the future.
It's very easy to know if a vietnamese is pure alba or not (even for tiny plants), leaves are green at the under side and not dark.

 

[rdlsreno]

Nice pouch color!

Ramon

 

[smartie2000]

pretty colour and shape to them. interesting pouches