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03-08-2024, 11:36 AM
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Monster Sized Cattleya mossiae Flower
Finally back on a schedule after ruining it's photoperiod and seasonality during a series of moves during my home renovation. Bloomed with 4 flowers on an absolutely beefy flower spike. Funny thing is that it made one giant flower and the rest are about what I've seen in the past. Nice to see a higher potential I can aspire to! It does seem to posses the ability to bloom twice a year depending on how many leads it produces in the early spring, vs summer produced leads which almost always will bloom during normal mossiae times.
6.25" x 6.5"
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03-08-2024, 11:52 AM
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Truly spectacular!
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03-08-2024, 01:48 PM
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Beautiful! Any idea of the parents on this one or who bred it?
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03-08-2024, 02:04 PM
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It's a Christofferson creation. He divided and sold a ton of his selections and seedlings from a cross between Llamarada x Valerio a few years ago. I have seen people growing Valerio from Japan to Sunset Valley Orchids. It's a breeding line that seems to be from Venezuela
SVO has a picture of the parent:
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03-08-2024, 02:56 PM
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03-08-2024, 07:53 PM
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thank you, for some reason my phone's clipboard couldnt transpose the link properly
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03-08-2024, 09:47 PM
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thats nice!
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03-09-2024, 09:33 AM
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Very pretty. I have the same cross and it's getting ready to bloom. Hopefully there will be some big ones! Congratulations on your wonderful flowers.
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03-09-2024, 08:18 PM
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*whew* that's an attractive flower. And huge!! Gosh, wish I had the room to hunt for a S/A mossiae.
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03-10-2024, 01:17 PM
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That's one beautiful beast of a bloom!
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