First and second blooms

[Fairorchids]

Differences on this scale are common, influenced by differences in:

Light
Temperature
Plant Size

[Jeff214]

Originally Posted by Fairorchids

Differences on this scale are common, influenced by differences in:

Light
Temperature
Plant Size

That's quite surprising that these differences are common. The first flower was waxy, glossy, with heavy substance like certain bifoliates. The current blooms are thin, matte, and are much more unifoliate like. While the spotting and lip pattern might be similar, I would have never guessed it was the same plant.

Well, please excuse my ignorance. I'll ask the moderators to delete this thread.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Fairorchids

Differences on this scale are common, influenced by differences in: Light, Temperature, Plant Size

Sounds good Kim. I had been wondering about that kind of thing in the past as well - where growers discuss first-time flowering, and 'improvement' with flower 'quality' with time/age etc. For first-time flowering, I can maybe understand it if the plant is still small and can't get enough water or something to the flower ----- or not enough nutrition/sustenance etc ---- then the flower shape could be just different than normally expected. Otherwise, I'm thinking that under suitable conditions, first-time flowers should be just fine. But not sure heheh ...... this is just thinking about it only.