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08-13-2012, 06:33 AM
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Phal Sogo Lovely in bloom
Phal Sogo Lovely is a great harlequin phal. The flowers are relatively small for an otherwise standard size phal, but it always has lots of them on branching spikes.
I've let the spike grow un-staked the last few times and quite like the way it naturally hangs.
I'm not entirely sure how much I like the individual flowers as the lip shape almost looks like a jaw, and quite an agressive jaw. Cody (TheBlazingAugust) tells me that's coming from the Phal Golden Peoker ancestry.
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Susie11, tucker85, RebeccaBC, Wynn Dee13, FairyInTheFlowers, Mira-Claude, Picotee, jessicab, shushu45, Orchids4ever, topiarybud liked this post
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08-13-2012, 07:17 AM
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Nice one Rosie.
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08-13-2012, 09:04 AM
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Very pretty! Sogo nurseries puts out some high quality orchids. By the way, your country did a wonderful job with the Olympics. Congratulations!
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08-13-2012, 10:53 AM
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Super cool.
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08-13-2012, 11:30 AM
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Thanks Susie, Tucker and Kim.
Tucker, I was sceptical as the games started, but it went really well, and pretty smoothly overall  |
08-13-2012, 08:57 PM
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Beautiful! I really like unstaked spikes, but they can be so problematic for me!
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08-14-2012, 12:29 AM
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Nice cascade of flowers Rosie. These harlequins are not really my cup of tea, but this one is very floriferous.
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08-14-2012, 12:53 AM
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Nice Rosie! I like the unstaked spikes!
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08-14-2012, 03:57 AM
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Yep, I looked it up, and one of the parents is Golden Peoker. I spared Facebook from the fullout, geek explanation, but I think it would be appropriate here. Golden Peoker was just another normal, tetraploid novelty, which in this case is actually a combination of novelty hybrids with very long and complex standard hybrids (trust me, I looked it up, and it goes back around 10 generations!) Well, eventuality, after much cloning, a random mutation occured, and a clone with very saturated colours arose. This clone unfortunately did have quite the odd shape, but now with combining Golden Peoker with other tetraploids, there has been a whole new direction of breeding lines to explore!
EDIT: After doing some quick research, I found that the original mutation of Golden Peoker (clonal name 'BL') did not have too bad of shape, but through what I would assume were selfings and sib crosses, a much more saturated, and contorted Golden Peoker appeared.
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04-15-2014, 07:48 AM
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Just starting to open flowers again this year. Only a short spike though this year.
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