Question about primary hybrids - Orchid Board

Oyarzabal · #1 10-15-2023, 12:02 PM

I did some cattleya crossing and i have a bunch of little babies growing, but I am missing their hybrid names. I would appreciate it if somebody posted the names, or pointed me to a site where I can find their names.

C. Rex X C.warscewiczii
C. Rex X C. Violacea
C. El Dorado X C.warscewiczii

Thanks in advance.

Ray · #2 10-15-2023, 02:49 PM

C. rex X C.warscewiczii = C. Clymene
C. rex X C. violacea is unregistered.
C. El Dorado X C.warscewiczii is unregistered

SG in CR · #3 10-15-2023, 03:29 PM

You can look on the OrchidRoots site under the Immediate Offspring tab to see a list of the registered hybrids with a specific species or hybrid. Here is a link to the C. violacea page: Cattleya violacea

Louis_W · #4 10-15-2023, 05:14 PM

Cool! That means that you can name them if you want to register them. Does anyone know what that involves?

What stage are they in? And how did you do it?

Oyarzabal · #5 10-16-2023, 03:08 PM

Thanks all for your input I have been doing crosses for years with pretty bad results and, after some changes in the process this year, I have nearly 100% success.

tmoney · #6 10-17-2023, 12:03 AM

excellent! can i ask exactly what changes you made that led to greater success?

thanks for sharing!

orchidman77 · #7 10-17-2023, 01:03 PM

Following because I'm also quite curious!

Oyarzabal · #8 10-22-2023, 09:52 PM

I am afraid I will be disappointing all those waiting for the ultimate secret, but I just made modest changes and they worked for me.
I used to take my flasks to my greenhouse. The idea of this was two fold. First, the flask would get solar light instead of artificial light. Second, the seedling would be acclimated to the same environment where they would be growing later.
One night while doing something not related to orchids, downed on me that the temperature separation between nights and days was not conductive to proper seedlign growth. I live in Florida and the temperature separation between day and nights is very narrow. So, I rigged a stand with cheap LED lights in a room that is not in use and opened the windows during the day and turned on the AC at night 75F = 24C. Lights 12h on a timer. Another change was to switch to the real agar from the artificial one and use regular MS with no vitamins. For those in Europe and South America, 3mg of Krystalon orange per liter works as good or better than any commercial mediums.