Phrag. Red Lightning

[Drorchid]

Phrag. Red Lightning is popowii x sargentianum. We were looking through the greenhouse this afternoon, to look for plants to bring for judging, and came across this beauty; it has darker red colored flowers than any I have seen from this cross.

Robert

 

[Magicboy]

:drool::clap:

 

[John M]

Beautiful!

 

[Corbin]

What can I say but :clap::clap::clap:

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Ditto all of the above! :clap:

 

[biothanasis]

Nice colours...

 

[SlipperFan]

That is beautiful! I hope you will have it judged. Not only the colors, but the shape looks great.

 

[Phrag-Plus]

It is outstanding!

 

[phrag guy]

That is very nice,love it

 

[Gilda]

:clap:Nice coloring !!!

 

[PaphAddict]

great colors. Let us know how it does at judging.

Dave

 

[toddybear]

Stunning flower!

 

[swamprad]

Oh yeah!

 

[Kevin]

Excellent!

 

[Ernie]

great colors. Let us know how it does at judging.

Dave

How does an 82 point AM sound? Congrats! Was at a different table, but I think Creger was on the team, so she'll fill you in on the details. But...

Also, Jerry, Jason, Dr Rob et al sent down a Paph Jerry's Song 'Peach Wings' that our team awarded a 76 point HCC. If you go to the O Ltd site and search for the cross, you'll find a spread of four flowers- looks like the clone on the bottom left is 'Peach Wings'. The hybrid is Fumi's Delight X emersonii 'White Sail' (where FD=arm x mic). Guys, when you get the award description, the extra bit of "love" is my handywork. This clone seems to have taken all the nifty things from the parents and combined them into a very charming flower. This is also a case of an average sized flower doing ok because it has pleasing PROPORTION. It was just over 10 cm NS which makes it almost exactly AT the geometric mean for the AVERAGE expected size from those parents. Did we say "it's too small", no, we took it into consideration during pointing and voila. The staminode is absolutely eye-catching. It's strong points were its attractive proportion, excellent substance considering the parentage, and strong (but not perfect) form. Some stronger rose tesselation and a stronger stem woulda bumped it up a little, but the staminode color helped out. The bract and ovary are also lovely. The plant was in a 3.25" pot overflowing with pretty leaves- will be culturally spectacualr if you get a handful of flowers on it together! Looks like there is a lot of variability in the cross- can't wait to see more. Cheers!

-Ernie

 

[SlipperFan]

Nice job. Congrats to OL & all the folks there.

 

[goldenrose]

Thanks for the update Ernie!
:clap: Great job OL! :clap:

 

[li'l frog]

Quick pic of the Paph awarded with the Red Lightning.

 

[SlipperKing]

Quick pic of the Paph awarded with the Red Lightning.

Very,very interesting stami. Looks like a roth staminode with wings!

 

[Ernie]

Very,very interesting stami. Looks like a roth staminode with wings!

No, no roths in that staminode. In person, the emersonii cleavage is obvious.

-Ernie