Mormodia Green Tiger

[orchidsarefun]

Is due to bloom soon. Not much on the internet on this cross, plenty on Lime Tiger. In fact I'm going to be looking at the blooms closely as the tags may have been mixed up.

[AvantGardner]

Good job, looking forward to the blooms!

Green Tiger and Lime Tiger are very close relatives, sharing all the same ancestry at slightly different proportions. They would be indistinguishable to the eye.

[fishmom]

Lucky you! That looks like a healthy spike.

[Roberta]

Mo. Lime Tiger (Cl. Grace Dunn x Morm. elegans) and Mo. Green Tiger (Cl. Rebecca Northen x Morm. elegans) - and Cl. Rebecca Northen (Cl. Grace Dunn x Cl. rosea) So AvantGardner is very right, these two are really, really close in composition. Care would be identical, at any rate. The Clowesia part of both is what gets them blooming on bare p-bulbs this time of year, before they start growing. (Hint: even if blooming, doesn't want water)

[orchidsarefun]

Yep, I had looked up the ancestry and noticed. Fred says that Green Tiger blooms should have a rosy smidgeon on the blooms and last year these didn't. However the Green Tiger bloom on his website doesn't seem to have any rosy influence either. Maybe there'll be some other distinguishing feature, time will tell.
BTW I have been watering this weekly to no ill effect. The bulbs are not wrinkly at all and each spike (2) has 18 buds. It's potted in a small clay pot and dries out quickly in my relative humidity.

[No-Pro-mwa]

It's going to be a load of blooms.

[orchidsarefun]

Blooms mostly open. No pink and no fragrance. Has a nice presentation though.

[isurus79]

Nice! Too bad about the lack of scent, however.