I am sure the number of flowers is what prevented a higher award. I'm not sure how to not have a crowded display with 7 flowers, but if I had pinched off a few buds, it would have been 4 larger flowers, better-spaced. Recent awards have had 3 flowers, 4 tops.
I have to think tenebrosa can bloom with 7 (even more?), but from speaking to various people who grow/trade the Brazilian cattleyas nobody had seen a tenebrosa with 7 flowers on a spike, so of course I wanted to let it do its thing.
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