Hwks. Sogo Doll x C. violacea

[Leisurely]

The hybridizer sure mis-calculated the possibilities on this hybrid. The tag reads: Ivory to pink, tipped red, lip magenta. That is not what I see here. Anyhow, the flower is nice. This is the first bloom on this seedling. Growing seedlings can be a lot of fun but they can also be very disappointing.

The other plant is a Phal. of course, and it is one that I tried to grow like the Japanese by having the spike trained upright and then cascade downward. I would have been successful had the flower count been greater. The next time I will use a plant that produces a lot of flowers. The flowers on this plant are a huge 5 1/2" which is probably the reason there are not a lot of them.