Yeah I put a little sticker on the plant with those notes so I won't forget. :)

I didn't even see them! Picked up a nice Paph. callosum and Dtps. Anna-Larati Soekadi 'Rainbow' instead. Good to know Paramount has them.

It was in the newsletter that he was bringing them! Was hard to pick one though! Decisions!

I got one of those Dtps. as well...they are very cute and tiny that's for sure. Can wait until the flowers open up!

"So, if the plant has less energy it will tend to be male. (please, ladies, no jokes )"

Sorry Tricho but :coverlaugh: :coverlaugh: :coverlaugh:

Susanne

I should know better! :lol:

Beautiful cycnoches!
 

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Absolutely stunning! Where would a newbie find such a plant? there doesn't seem to be any suppliers in my vicinity - where would I begin adding to my collection more than what is available through the "box stores?"

I am really interested in fragrant orchids! At this point, they seem like an enigma!

I feel like the devil's advocate here...I've gotten some very nice catasetinae from Clown Alley Orchids in Pasadena, TX; though I have never mail-ordered any, if they will be at a show or other close by, you can request that they bring you a little ~something~.
Catasetum Orchid Catalog
I think he has his show/speaking schedule on the website - perhaps an appearance in a town near you!
As luck would have it, John Stubbings will be speaking (on Catasetinae!) at our annual Orchid Short Course in December. Oh, lead me into temptation!
Cheers - Nancy

Thanks, Nancy! :-) Feel free to continue to be a devil's advocate! I needed a new obsession - er, hobby!

Very outstanding flowers, congratulations Tricho. Confusion between chlorochilon and warscewiczii is very frecuent in nurseries, actually most of the hybrids that were obtained from cholorochilon are actually from warscewiczii. Regarding the production of female or male flowers I have my own understanding made in the areas were commonly grow catasetums and cycnoches. I agree that if the plant is strong and robust, high probability to obtain female flowers, but also it must have to play the change of wet to dry season. Female flowers are synchronous with the end of the wet season (close to it), because the maturation of the seed pod takes place durind the dry season and it opens during the most dryer stage of the dry season a few weeks just before the beggining of the wet season. This happens in Venezuela, where I could observed this behavior in the forests near the place were I live. In the US or Europe and do not know whats trigger the female flower occurence, I agree that a strong plant it would.

Re: male and female flowers: at least in the catasetum, the male flowers are far more attractive and varied. But with cycnoches, the flowers of both sexes tend to be similar, both beautiful and fragrant, but the female flowers larger and fewer in number, while the male flowers are small but much more numerous.
No bad alternative, IMO.
Regards - Nancy