mystic blue phal

[disalover]

i found some of these beautiful phals for sale at Exotic plant company. I would really love to have some but I know that there blue colour only last one time I wish they could make one that stays blue. I still would want some though. forgot to ask for the price. is there some way to die the flowers again to get blue blooms once more. they also had some LARGE paphiopedilums, and a clump of dendrobium kingrianum about 2 x 2 meter wide for R5000.

[Joseia]

That was actually the first orchid I ever bought. It wasn't till later that I learned that it had been dyed and would not rebloom that color. They inject the flower stalk with a blue dye, I never found out anything online about how to do that oneself. When it rebloomed, it had very beautiful white flowers and flowered for over 5 months. So in the end, I am glad I got it. Also, when I repotted the orchid, I noticed that the pot was tagged as a Phal Pure Silk, so it was not really a Noid after all.

[disalover]

I found I info online to mix black and blue food colouring and inject it to the stem before flowers developed

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This just came across me, what if we cross pollinate two of the blue phals and then sow the seed. Would the seedlings not come out blue? The yellow disa uniflora plant in nature only blooms yellow once, his offshoots being red once more. It was only until kirshtenboch found 2 yellow unifloras blooming together that they cross pollinated them and the seedlings flowers were all yellow and his offshoots also being yellow. This is just a suggestion, I do not know if it will work with a died plant? Or if this will only work with yellow disa uniflora. The info on the disas was found in Hildegard Crous and Graham Duncan's book 'grow disas'

[WhiteRabbit]

Because the color is artificial, it cannot be passed on to offspring.

[NYCorchidman]

I love that second picture!
I have bought this blue phal before, but the nice even blue tone on the flowers shown in your second picture is very appealing to me!!!
I would buy that any day!

[gngrhill]

I would buy that paph any day !

[disalover]

in was thinking why would i want to torture the poor plant i would rather buy a real colored probably an Encyclia tampensis