Another bag baby orchid that finally bloomed...

[Jeff214]

It's been five years since I bought this bag baby (Dendrobium Hawaii Stripes). The first few blooms have been a little different, even on the same spike. Some den-phal like, some more latouria? like.

It's not exactly what I was hoping for. After five years, I'm disappointed but mildly attached (being annoyed by it for years!)

If you have a recalcitrant seedling, how long have you waited before you "moved on"? I was just listening to Arthur E Chadwick's webinar that his father waited 19 years for one of his prized C. lueddemanniana to bloom! Among my friends and colleagues, most consider me quite patient... but maybe not quite that much!