ID a Specific Cultivar of Miltonia

[Roberta]

That close to the coast, I think it's pretty temperate... A few hours of temps out of range won't be fatal, the cool nights will help. (I have given up on hybrid Miltoniopsis, have one species that is doing OK) But where I live, it's a bit warmer than where the OP lives. San Diego right by the coast is about as good as it gets for being temperate...

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A note about cloning in orchids... if a particular plant of a hybrid (cultivar) is particularly good, it can be cloned so that many identical copies can be made. A grex from a particular crossing of parents can produce offspring that are very different (think children in a family with the same parents) Clones are predictable, the result of a seed cross much less so. So you can see the commercial advantage of cloning where one wants thousands of plants that look like the original.

The only other way to get a genetically identical plant is by division, but of course that is very limited in the number that can be produced. (And the price will reflect it) If you have a plant with an award (AOS or other national body of judges) name like Genus Grex 'Cultivar' AM/AOS it is certainly a clone.