Bc Yellow Bird

[Joseia]

I'm envious - I've had one of these for 2.5 years and still no spikes! This is the only orchid I have that I have not been able to flower. It sits under a metal halide light right next to a B. Little Stars and various mini vandaceous orchids that flower regularly. This one is about to join my office orchids to see if I can get it to flower there with my other home rejects.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

I was thinking that nodosa is the origin of the spotted lip, as it becomes more pronounced in its hybrids.

It's a very pleasant flower to look at. You might replace 'underwhelming' with 'subtle'

I can't see how that could be as it has no spots, very strange.

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Originally Posted by Joseia

I'm envious - I've had one of these for 2.5 years and still no spikes! This is the only orchid I have that I have not been able to flower. It sits under a metal halide light right next to a B. Little Stars and various mini vandaceous orchids that flower regularly. This one is about to join my office orchids to see if I can get it to flower there with my other home rejects.

I suggest it needs threatened I just got mine last May it's not that big and it already is blooming oops I don't mean to be bragging. I just think if every thing else is blooming it must have enough light so it's just being a bugger. But I have a David Sanders that I have had at least 3 years and it has never bloomed for me. So I guess I need to threaten it

[estación seca]

I wrote to Fred Clarke that his seedlings are far larger than other vendors', with more double growths breaking. He said he fertilizes all seedlings but the tiniest ones just out of flasks with MSU fertilizer, 1/2 teaspoon / 2.5ml per gallon / 3.78liters of water.

[katrina]

Originally Posted by No-Pro-mwa

Katrina thanks I was wondering what the cross of the Richard Mueller was. So it's 3/4 nodosa? Where in the world did the spotted lip come from?

The spotting comes from nodosa. Some nodosas have a solid white lip but many have varying degrees of a dark red/purple-ish spotting in the tube of the lip. I'm no genetic expert but, from what I've seen, it seems to readily pass this along to it's offspring.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Originally Posted by estación seca

I wrote to Fred Clarke that his seedlings are far larger than other vendors', with more double growths breaking. He said he fertilizes all seedlings but the tiniest ones just out of flasks with MSU fertilizer, 1/2 teaspoon / 2.5ml per gallon / 3.78liters of water.

Well I know his plants are very nice. I also was very happy with the 2 I got from Fantasy Orchids. They had lots of growths and both have bloomed already for me. I am not sure where they get there plants from however.

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Originally Posted by katrina

The spotting comes from nodosa. Some nodosas have a solid white lip but many have varying degrees of a dark red/purple-ish spotting in the tube of the lip. I'm no genetic expert but, from what I've seen, it seems to readily pass this along to it's offspring.

Well you learn something every day. Mine doesn't have any spotting that I can see. But it sure is pretty when it comes through.

[tryingtoflower]

I just purchased this one from SVO at a orchid show this weekend along with a B. Little Stars and Bl. Morning Glory from Kawamoto. I absolutely love the color and shape of yours. Thanks for the inspiration.

[RosieC]

Beautiful, interesting about the colour change.