Practice makes Perfect?

[Optimist]

I am not sure about the science that goes with this, but I understood that sometimes in the first flowering getting perfect flowers, especially on Paphs (because they are grown from seed, not cloned) can be quite a process.

This Paph. Berenice (lowii ‘Hsinying’ X Philippense) had some crazy flowers when first blooming. It only had 5 blooms.

The first flower, the petals were fused to the dorsal sepal, and the lateral sepals were not fused together:



Here is the last bloom. Perfect. Or, as good as it gets. The color is nice, the shape is good. The flower looks good now. I hope this will mean that next year I will have "normal" flowers.