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Rhyncholaeliocattleya Memoria Anna Balmores Select that (now in bloom) to try to understand how to read the document Thanks! ---------- Post added at 01:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:54 PM ---------- Quote:
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If I may, I'd like to add a few comments on the question of blooming season based on my observations and in no way is it my intent to refute anything Roberta spoke to regarding genetics. Just want to add some other variables to noodle on.
As most here know Sade, I used to grow in a small greenhouse in New Hampshire within a hundred miles or so of the Canadian border. Then I smartened up and moved my collection to the Florida Keys which have a subtropical climate. I have close to 100 Catts in my collection. Since moving them here 5 years ago, the vast majority of the complex hybrids bloom 2-3 times/year. They DID NOT do that until I moved them here! That tells me that culture MAY BE equally important to genetics in its impact to blooming season. The question is, COULD I have coaxed them to do that if I had run my GH to the same environmental conditions (most importantly year-round warm temperatures (with an avg. min of say 65F) plus significantly longer exposure to bright light) than they experience here as provided by Mother Nature ? (the insane utility bills not withstanding) My suspicion is that all things being equal, the genetic background of the complex Catts gives them the ability for us to coax additional bloom cycles out of them if you can give them superb conditions where I have found that a species Catt is only going to bloom in its native blooming season and the net effect of good culture is quality and quantity of blooms and overall plant health. Again.......not meant to support or refute any other input here, just more things to consider. It's one more thing that makes this hobby fun. Maybe we should do a joint project on one of those complex Catts that has a background with like 15 different species and see what we can get them to do in different conditions and see if we can figure out who is contributing genes that affect what? |
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I totally agree even in the same environment if you go from one room to another or from one Green House to another the behavior is different, then imagine if the environment also favors the climate and other factors. please count on me for any lab or tests, I would love to. ---------- Post added at 03:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:11 PM ---------- Quote:
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