Lc. Brian Wheeler ‘Grandson’ AM/AOS - Reliable Early Winter Flowers

[K-Sci]

Originally Posted by Dusty Ol' Man

It's working for me.
Try this
Let me see those huge flowers!!!

The broken link was this one: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v310/Bayard/
-K

[Shadeflower]

stunning pic from 2019.
Funny mix up.

I'm also really liking that little yellow phal in the background, I've been looing for something that looks like that.

[K-Sci]

Originally Posted by Shadeflower

stunning pic from 2019.
Funny mix up.

I'm also really liking that little yellow phal in the background, I've been looing for something that looks like that.

The yellow in the photo is Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Sunflower 'Yellow'. I've only seen one plant offered for sale ever - the one I purchased. It has very round very waxy 3" flowers that are very long lasting. I've had it 3 years and in that time it has only produced 3-4 flowers at a time. The plant is medium sized and has not been terribly vigorous growing for me until this year. In the store, and two years at home it has not flowered without dropping at least some buds before they open. I'm very excited about this plant this year because it has two spikes. It apparently liked the hot Mississippi summers. It is well on its way to its best display yet.

I-Hsin Sunflower 'Yellow' was one of several very high quality and very unusual and beautiful Phalaenopsis that arrived in a single Mother's Day orchid shipment at a local Lowes building supply store. No two plants in the shipment were the same. I have not seen Phalaenopsis of the same high caliber for sale at once anywhere...ever. And certainly not at any building supply or grocery store. I speculate that the group of Phalaenopsis the store received were breeders that were for some reason sold off by a large commercial grower.

The other phalaenopsis I purchased at the same time is P. Cleopatra. I'm attaching a flower photo for this one too. Cleopatra is a massive plant, very fast growing, and prone to putting out large numbers of flowers on multiple branched sprays. One leaf is 12.5 inches (32cm) long and over 4 inches (11cm) wide. The flowers are also longer lasting than any of my other phals. Two years ago the one plant had three spikes with 41 flowers. Last year it was grown indoors for the winter when fumes from our new gas strove caused about half my phal flowers to drop. I'm very excited about the Cleopatra this year because it has five huge branching flower spikes. The first bud began opening yesterday.

Cleopatra is a cross between P. Sunbeam registered by Mrs. L. McCoy in 1963 and P. Zada registered by Fields Orchids in 1958. It was named and registered in 1974 by the world's top orchid hybridizer at the time, Jones and Scully Orchids. Their nursery, also know by the moniker "Orchidglade" was alleged to be hurricane proof, but was completely destroyed by a hurricane in 1992. Very sad.

-Keith

[smweaver]

Your C. Betty Ford's quite a beauty. I know it has a great scent, but even if it didn't, those dark colors would be more than enough reason to want to grow this hybrid. Congratulations on the outstanding flower display.

Steve