Need help deciphering label: Missing a "(" somewhere. - Orchid Board

plantluvver · #1 12-30-2016, 09:14 PM

I just bought a new plant at Trader Joe's and looking more carefully at the label, I realize there is the problem of a missing '(' somewhere in the name.

What are the possible places it might belong? And does this make the parentage ambiguous?

Paph. Supersuk 'Eureka' AM/AOS x
Paph. Raisin Pie 'Hsinying) x Sib

The label is written as shown, with the first line indented in relation to the second. Also, the "Paph." on the second line is blurred, with the "P" almost completely missing.

Thanks!

estación seca · #2 12-30-2016, 11:57 PM

I bought one of these a while back. Others were most helpful. Yours looks different from mine, but that is what would be expected from a sib cross:

Paphiopedilum (Supersuk x Raisin Pie) x sib

cricketerry · #3 12-31-2016, 02:19 AM

What you have is Paph Hsinying Alien

First to answer your question the missing ) can only go as shown in the first reply.Or to be more precise it should go before the P of the first word Paph. However (Raisin Pie x Supersuk) is Hsinying Alien and so you have (Hsinying Alien x self) which is Hsinying Alien

plantluvver · #4 12-31-2016, 04:44 PM

Thanks!

Both of your replies were very helpful. I am looking forward to seeing the flower when it fully opens.

I think you have also answered a naming question that occurred to me in reading some forum posts. But I want to be sure I am correct: When a grex is assigned, any further crosses within that grex share the same grex name, so the grex includes any further sibling crosses. Is this true?

Thanks!

estación seca · #5 12-31-2016, 06:50 PM

Yes, crossing two different plants with the same grex name, or selfing a plant, results in progeny with the same grex name.

Fairorchids · #6 01-01-2017, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by plantluvver

Thanks!

Both of your replies were very helpful. I am looking forward to seeing the flower when it fully opens.

I think you have also answered a naming question that occurred to me in reading some forum posts. But I want to be sure I am correct: When a grex is assigned, any further crosses within that grex share the same grex name, so the grex includes any further sibling crosses. Is this true?

Thanks!

If you want to be specific, the original cross is F1.
When you sib cross it, it retains the name but becomes F2.
If it is sibbed again, F3, and so on.