C. Jose Marti 'Mother's Favorite' in bloom

[sweetjblue]

Beautiful classic white!

Judi

[got ants]

I bought a specimen and 2 flasks of selfing from it, from Rueben Sauleda (Rubin In Orchids) and just deflasked today. I have 3 nice full compots.

The plant itself was pulled out of the pot, and placed on a mount, so no blooms this year.

With the vigor of the seedlings, I hope to see blooms within 2 years [crosses_fingers]

[Orchidflowerchild]

As for fragrance, it will have one, but it takes about 4 days or so for cattleyas to really be done "fluffing out" as it were, then start fragrating.

-Ceci

[Orchidflowerchild]

and let the morning sun hit it. Really gets the fragrance oils moving.

-Ceci

[terryros]

I know that names don't matter to most of us, but there is a little cautionary tale with this orchid.

Bob Betts x Bow Bells was registered as Jose Marti in 1959.

This same cross was then registered as Mother's Favourite in 1990. This is not supposed to be allowed, but it happened. It was in days before easy electronic checking of registration. A particular cross can only be registered/named once.

Thus, Mother's Favourite is considered a synonym for Jose Marti. Mother's Favourite is not the name of a particular plant that has been carried forward.

Technically, this should just be called Jose Marti (I am leaving out the diacritical marks that should be over the "e" in Jose and the "i" in Marti) and not Jose Marti 'Mother's Favourite'.


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[SJF]

Originally Posted by sweetjblue

Beautiful classic white!

Judi

Hi Judi,
Thanks
~SJF

---------- Post added at 08:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:43 PM ----------

Originally Posted by got ants

I bought a specimen and 2 flasks of selfing from it, from Rueben Sauleda (Rubin In Orchids) and just deflasked today. I have 3 nice full compots.

The plant itself was pulled out of the pot, and placed on a mount, so no blooms this year.

With the vigor of the seedlings, I hope to see blooms within 2 years [crosses_fingers]

I hope it blooms for you soon. They are beautiful flowers

---------- Post added at 08:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:20 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Orchidflowerchild

and let the morning sun hit it. Really gets the fragrance oils moving.

-Ceci

Thank you for the tip on the morning sun. I believe I detected a slight fragrance this morning

---------- Post added at 08:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:21 PM ----------

Originally Posted by terryros

I know that names don't matter to most of us, but there is a little cautionary tale with this orchid.

Bob Betts x Bow Bells was registered as Jose Marti in 1959.

This same cross was then registered as Mother's Favourite in 1990. This is not supposed to be allowed, but it happened. It was in days before easy electronic checking of registration. A particular cross can only be registered/named once.

Thus, Mother's Favourite is considered a synonym for Jose Marti. Mother's Favourite is not the name of a particular plant that has been carried forward.

Technically, this should just be called Jose Marti (I am leaving out the diacritical marks that should be over the "e" in Jose and the "i" in Marti) and not Jose Marti 'Mother's Favourite'.


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Thank you. I didn't know that.

[SJF]

The scent and more blooms arrived

[RosieC]

Looking wonderful!

[Picotee]

Stunning.

[SJF]

Thank you for all the compliments on the beauty. I wish I could take credit for the blooms.

Here are some more pictures. More flowers to come