Cattleya hybrid seedling variety

[stonedragonfarms]

Hello all:
This afternoon I was potting/mounting a number of Pot. & Rlc. seedlings and noticed wide variety in leaf structure and plant appearance among individual plants of the same cross; a couple of the hybrids in particular showed seedlings resembling one parent or the other... This got me wondering about how common this occurs..? Anybody else observe this?


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[dounoharm]

genetics, a deep mystery!....you get many different appearing plants with the same parents.. it really is a mystery! hit and miss with orchids...

[estación seca]

Cacti are the same way. Spine density... thickness... color... stem thickness... tendency to offset... speed of growth... highly variable from seed. Many line-bred species in cultivation hardly resemble their cousins in the old country.

[silken]

A few of us here have recently had an SVO un-named hybrid blooming for us and there are sure some large variations in the blooms from it. In pics I saw the leaves varied as well, with some being more long and slender and others shorter and rounder.