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Old 10-05-2010, 07:27 PM
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Hey all,
I have two Cyc Jean E. Monniers that are now in bloom. They are from the same seedling batch. One looks like a traditional Jean and like the pics I have seen on AQ plus and orchid wiz, however, the other one, that is blooming female looks greener than I have seen them. I think its very nice but I am a little confused. Could it be something else? I have attached two pics of the 'green plant' and the other more typical flower. Does it make a difference that the green is female and the brown/red is a male flower? I am fairly new to this group of orchids and this may be a dumb question..

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Micah
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Old 10-06-2010, 04:50 AM
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there is a very strong diformism in Cycnoches (and Catasetum) depending on the sex of the flower. Female flowres tend to be greener and more similar among species/hybrids than male flowers. Therefore the differences you see here are ok.
You know that you have two different groups of Cycnoches: (1) Swan-like, e.g. chlorochilon and hagii and (2) "fingered-Labellum", e.g. barthorium, peruvianum, cooperii... the male flowers are easily identified in any of these two groups, based on the structure ofthe labellum, however all female flowers look similar, and "swan-like". This is why your female green flowers don't have "finbgers on the labellum as the male flower does...

P.S.- consider yourself lucky, to have female flowers it's not easy to have female flowers, as normally the plants need to be very strong and mature (this is the first requirements) and then you need to provide more light to the plants (very often reported in the literature as the main trigger for female flowers, but it actually fails in the plants are not mature/strong)
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Ramon,
Thanks, I appreciate your answer. The female flowering plant has received much more light and it also has much more blooms on it...
Micah
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Your darker colored flower will most likely have the best looking male flowers next year. I bet they are very dark and tinted red. Should look really nice! Gotta keep them more shady though.
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