Rlc. Memoria Helen Brown 'Sweet Afton'

[SouthPark]

A few extra pics in the sun - bringing more nice colours.

Google drive links (higher res) :

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[Fuerte Rav]

Thanks for the pictures SP, I've been drooling! (Not a pretty sight )

[SouthPark]

Fuerte ----- that is hilarious hahahaha! Nice imagery! oh geez ....... looks like it is not just imagery hahaha.

But genuinely ------ you are most welcome! Thanks for coming in to enjoy the flower pics too!

[SouthPark]

These links below are both from google drive (including the displayed image itself).

Reminds me of bubble gum hehe

Google drive link : pic link

[SouthPark]

Looks like I really have run out of file attachment space (70 MB maximum for OrchidBoard).

But google drive image links appear to be holding up well at the moment.

[SouthPark]

[K-Sci]

Originally Posted by SouthPark

Merita ----- if we focus on the question of --- can some cattleya orchids (eg. hybrids) produce flower spikes from dried up sheaths - especially ones that have been sitting around dried up for a while ------- then the answer is yes ----- there are possibilities for flower spikes/buds eventually coming out from dried sheaths. There may be times where a dried sheath might not result in any spiking/budding. But it's true that spike/bud formation can occur with some relatively long-standing dried sheaths.

My Laeliocattleya Brian Wheeler ‘Grandson’ AM/AOS and Cattleya Betty Ford ‘York’ AM/AOS flower in mid-winter on dried sheaths. They both also occasionally produce a sheathelss growth that flowers along with the sheathed ones.

re: The pics. It makes no sense to me that I do, but I just love pale green flowers, especially on large flowered orchids like catts, phals, cymbidium.

-Keith

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by K-Sci

My Laeliocattleya Brian Wheeler ‘Grandson’ AM/AOS and Cattleya Betty Ford ‘York’ AM/AOS flower in mid-winter on dried sheaths. They both also occasionally produce a sheathless growth that flowers along with the sheathed ones.

re: The pics. It makes no sense to me that I do, but I just love pale green flowers, especially on large flowered orchids like catts, phals, cymbidium.

-Keith

Thanks for mentioning those sheathed and sheathless behaviours for those two nice cultivars! Very interesting behaviour in that some cultivars have a mix. Quite nice too in that they do that!

Thanks for letting me know that you like pale green coloured flowers too. That colour is very nice indeed on flowers. I'm a fan of chartreuse (yellow/green) and pale green, and have another Rlc. Memoria Helen Brown with buds coming out at the moment --- this one has always been sheathless, but will be interested to see if it gets any sheath development in the future.

[Fuerte Rav]

Originally Posted by K-Sci

re: The pics. It makes no sense to me that I do, but I just love pale green flowers, especially on large flowered orchids like catts, phals, cymbidium.

-Keith

I'm with you on that - I'm smitten! Seriously thinking of flying to mainland Europe to get some plants! No one will deliver here as our post and courier services take too long/are totally unreliable.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Fuerte Rav

Seriously thinking of flying to mainland Europe to get some plants! No one will deliver here as our post and courier services take too long/are totally unreliable.

Flying to mainland Europe to get the plants is a nice idea. Some memorable times will come of that. I flew to Brisbane - also in our state of Queensland once, and brought back some orchids - such as some juvenile Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Ruby' (I guess they have to give it a name ----- as odd as it appears heheheh), and this one is still sort of juvenile and had been growing in scoria, and finally produced 1 flower spike! It may still take a while though, as it is currently a spike only. And hopefully progresses to budding and flowering stage!

Will be awesome to see what you bring back if you get some more orchids via a flight trip!