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Pearls from the near past...all of them are self crosses without exeption with disappointing flowers.
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I don t use hormones or chemicals.All of them are first bloomer grown from seedling.Hmmmm do you use systemic fungicides or bactericides? Growth stimulators like kelp and auxins? Have they bloom 2 years in a row like this?
Were all the selfing done by you? there must be siblings which look good ?I don t use hormones or chemicals.All of them are first bloomer grown from seedling.
Many thanks, Hien.I won t throw them out till next blooming.I have many other plants with good quality flowers , I just collect them here because all are selfings and all are first bloomer.They are suspect for some recessive genetical abnormalities.That is the reason why i prefer sibcrosses or divisions.Unfortunately divisions sometimes are abnormally high prized.That is the problem....Were all the selfing done by you? there must be siblings which look good ?
-if not by you, maybe the cloning effort produced mutation ( a lot of cattleya types are cloned instead of selfing)
-this is only first bloom ? the next one maybe better
-on the other hand I would not throw the green paph out, the tiny pouch is one of a kind , and one of a kind is very collectible in Asia, old money rich Taiwanese /Japanese collectors or new money rich Vietnamese/mainland China collectors might pay million dollars for it, ( I saw dendrobiums in Vietnam that sold for amounts which would make any of us faint, the reasons for the high price are always 'ONE OF A KIND'
I have a thought here, there maybe is a chance someone (who does not have the original mother plant to either perform the selfing nor the mericlone of the mother plant directly)Many thanks, Hien.I won t throw them out till next blooming.I have many other plants with good quality flowers , I just collect them here because all are selfings and all are first bloomer.They are suspect for some recessive genetical abnormalities.That is the reason why i prefer sibcrosses or divisions.Unfortunately divisions sometimes are abnormally high prized.That is the problem....
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