Neofinetia falcata 'setsuzan'
 

her is my only neo, the first time ive ever bloomed it! i got it out of bloom in july 2010. im so proud. it smells INCREDIBLE! all the blooms are open now, so ill get some better pics for ya later. :)
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i also found two spikes on my noid dark purple dendrobium :biggrin:

beautiful! :wtg:

Really pretty!

thanks rosie

Nice! I have two Neos. blooming now, the smell is incredible!

pictures please!!! i can smell it at night from 4ft away. and i cant usually smell things without my nose being inside the flower.

Nice job! We just need 'smell-net!'

yeah. that would be great for some bulbos! rotten meet

Lovely - good growing!

thanks cathy. this is my first and only neo

You can see pics of my blooming Neos here:

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...s-spiking.html

nice blooms! i need to get myself some more neos

Bob, I must warn you... They are a bit addictive... With me, the more I got the more I wanted! :rofl:

I am anxiously watching spikes grow on my Neo I got last summer - once I got spikes, I felt I NEED more Neos! lol (I do have another - a small division another OB member kindly sent me - haven't got that one to spike yet, not sure if it's big enough). I was eyeballing the bags of bottles and cans in my garage, that were waiting to be brought to the recycling center - and in my eyes, I saw a new Neo! lol - that finally motivated me to take them all down for recycling, and I treated myself to a new one :biggrin: (fortunately they are small)

this i know!

Super photos! I Love Neos too! they are hard to find in the EU. I have had a 'falcata' a few years now & as It is
growing well & flowering, every year, I want to now expand on these...Thanks for showing us yours!

these little buggers can be so expensive

yeah - which is why it was good motivation for me to get my bottles and cans recycled ;)

thats a good way of thinking about it

im thinking of selfing this one. does variegation breed true? anyone think i should try to self it??

better picture as promised. ideas about selfing?
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From what I have heard, variegation is a mutation, so there is not much chances that it will carry on through breeding. What would be an interesting cross though, would be a Phal. violacea x Neo. falcata. If both plants are supposed to have heavenly fragrances, then I am sure that it should be carried out to the children. I have a violacea Sumatra with two buds developing, but it is far to young to carry two pods, and I already plan on using pollen from my cornu-cervi flava on the Sumatra. Maybe next year is someone is willing to donate pollen. GOODNESS! Why are these lines of such interesting intergeneric breeding more popular?!?!

I'm not sure about self pollination with these, It wont hurt to try now, and if a pod develops, you can research if it will be worth the trouble to propagate the seeds.

I did try to cross the two kinds I have blooming now. It will be interesting to see if they form pods.

im going to self it right now! see what i end up with.

cody- that would be an uinteresting cross. never heard a neo crossed with a phal though. technically they are both vandaceaous

They could be crossed, but due to chromosome numbers, the progeny would most likely be sterile. I would love to do some far flung intergenerics within the subtribe Aeridinae (Phalaenopsis, Vandas, Arachnis, Neofinetia, Trichoglottis, and Aerides, to name a few out of the 108 genera within this subtribe).

a phalxtricho cross would be cool too.

I am thinking of doing that when I get my Tricho to bloom once I get it. The question is, though, what Phal would I use?

thats a tough one! idk any of them would be cool

I am hoping that my Phal. venosa blooms at the same time, as I think that would be neat, otherwise, I will need a pollen donor!

Variegation is typically caused by mutations in plastid DNA (more specifically, in the chloroplasts). this means that the mutation is passed on from the seed parent 100% of the time. Variegation in the pollen parent is not passed on.
Other types of mutations, which affect nuclear DNA, have a 50-50 chance of being passed on from either parent.

cool!

i selfed it today so we will see if it even takes

:goodluck: :goodluck: :goodluck: Looking forward to sharing some seeds!

woohooo!!!! looking forward to getting that tricho x phal cross!