I know this isn't anywhere near flowering, but I can't help but share my excitement!!!
Last spring I bought a stem-prop of Gelblieber 'Arianne' HCC/AOS from Patrick of Kingfisher Orchids. As far as I am concerned, 'Arianne' is the only awarded Gelblieber out there, and for an old cultivar, it is of very good quality. Anyways, it was a small, yet vigourous plant when I got it, and it is one of the few plants that did not produce a smaller leaf while adapting to the change of environment. Well, just a few days ago when I took it off the rack in my closet, I noticed something along the stem that I hadn't noticed the last time I checked. Lo and behold, IT WAS IN SPIKE!!!!
Since it takes a long time to get pictures from our digital camera on to our ancient computer (and my Photobucket account hates the laptop), I uploaded some pictures from my phone onto my blog via the mobile Blogger app (which is wonderful, btw). Anyways, here is a link to the blog post with pictures, and you can be sure that I will be posting pictures as the spike develops!
Phal. Gelblieber 'Arianne' HCC/AOS. I have some great breeding plans for it using my own pollen, and even better ones if I get some particular donations. . . Anyways, I was thinking on making something along the lines that Peter Lin of Big Leaf Orchids did here with his
Pylo's Tetra Gelb with some Phal.
speciosa pollen that should be arriving in the mail from a dear friend of mine, or if I were to get some
gigantea pollen, I would be hoping for something like Peter's
Pylo's Evergreen Giant. I also have a few other ideas for the Gelblieber pollen up my sleeve as well.
Phal. Gelblieber 'Arianne' HCC/AOS
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