Short bloom duration

[terryros]

I am trying again to find out whether you have Catt alliance species or hybrids that routinely only bloom for two weeks. I have a nice Gs hybrid that has bloomed twice in the last year but each time for only two weeks. Cultural versus genetic?

[tuvoc]

I'm going to guess genetic.Two weeks is not bad at all. I have one or two that barely make it eight to ten days.

Kim

[terryros]

Thanks. Looking up the genetic background of this Gs (Lc) Acker's Spotlight 'Pink Lady' I find that bowringiana is the species that seems to have a short bloom life. With all the complexity in the genes I am sure it is hard to tell about bloom duration when you make a cross.