Thanks for the nice comments guys. I know I sound like the most ungrateful Phrag owner ever. I blame all the pictures of wonderful Phrags I've seen on several forums. They have caused me to get greedy.
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Originally Posted by Fairorchids
Color depends a great deal on light available, as well as temperature. In Oct it developed the spike in greenhouse(?), which probably would be higher light intensity than the Dec spike blooming now.
As to temperatures, cooler temps bring out deeper red shades. I can't guess at your temperatures vs the greenhouse.
Lastly, I wouldn't worry about color breaks, unless they repeat in all the flowers.
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It's standing next to my T5, so there's plenty of light. The problem could be that since it was trying to grow up into the T5, the developing bud became pretty warm. I've moved the plant further away from the T5 to see what the next flower will look like.
Last year, when I bought it and it flowered for the first time, all I know is that it was shipped from Germany to Sweden in spike, and then the bud developed in the flower shop at rather warm temperatures and not that great conditions.
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