From the time that you can clearly see the bud, it only takes 'Maudiaes' (mottled leaf hybrids) 4-6 weeks to open the flower. However, the bud formed several months before you could see it (buds develop very slowly initially).
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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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