Cymbidium from seed
It has been a frustration for many years, that cascading (or pendulous) Cymbidium plants are hard to find, so I decided to produce my own.
Flowers were pollinated in February 2019 and pods were sent to the lab in Sept.
Flasks came back the first week of Nov 2020.
After 6-7 months in community flats, I potted them up into individual pots (2.1/2"), and last spring into 4" or gallon pots, depending upon size.
I have 10-12 plants in bud now, and just saw the first flower open yesterday (26-27 months out of flask):
Cym. ([devonianum x Blue Nose] x Hazel Fay)
Significantly better than the (devonianum x Blue Nose) parent, but not as cascading as I had hoped for. Perhaps this will improve as more flowers open.
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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