Hi...which orchid hooked you first?

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by Graham

As I can't smell them, my next question is the 'death' one...how'd the Nelly Isler become compost fodder?

What happened is that I didn't repot it when I got it last year. I had poked around in it and decided it was only bark, and watered it accordingly. Little did I know, it seems that when this plant was a baby it was in sphag, and was repotted in bark by the grower without removing the sphag. And it was so gorgeous! I got it with 10 bulbs and 8 spikes for almost nothing: 15€!! During the spring it put out 7 new leads and I was looking forward to flowers. Died last month after spending 2 months in sphag n bag......

My cym is not like the one you show. It's very close to Cym. Baltic Honey x Red Beauty 'Mokotoff' so I think it must have similar parentage.

[Graham]

Ross...Dgmra = [Brassia x Miltonia x Odontoglossum]?

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Graham

Ross...Dgmra = [Brassia x Miltonia x Odontoglossum]?

Means it's a cross between all three genus's. Exactly which ones determines the exact cross name.

[GlennGibson]

Hi Gregg

Welcome Gregg and thanks for your greeting yesterday..... looking forward to see your future comments and photos. You requested photos from me and with the help of Susanne B. I uploaded a few..... all of them are currently blooming with the exception of two... their flowers died off last week.

Glenn

[GlennGibson]

Hi Graham
Welcome to the club.....
I need to apologize to you because I addressed my last comments to Gregg, they were for him.

To answer your question... it was a Cattleya it was a black and white photo, from an add in the back of a magazine. I had never seen an orchid before. It was the shape that spiked my interest.

Again welcome.

Glenn

[Tsuchibuta]

Originally Posted by Graham

Tsuchibuta, what do you mean by "variegated leaf varieties"?

I have seen a limited number of phals with variegated leaves. Its nice to have interest in the plant when it's not in bloom. I know many leaf variegations in phals are due to disease but there are few hybrids I have seen photos of in the past with variegated leaves similar to that of the neofinetas. Unfortunately alot of orchid hybridizers don't take in consideration the foliage of the plant when hybridizing.

[Becca]

Originally Posted by Graham

Becca, I found this Dgmra/Dmgra...is that the one?:



I'm not familiar with the naming of orchids... I get 'cars'; you know, you get a Make (Ford) and a model (Mustang), could you relate orchids in the same way? So, would Dgmra/Dmgra be the "Make" or the "Model"...

Hope I haven't just blacklisted myself from OrchidBoard.com with such an analogy!

Yep! That's the one!

[slipperfreak]

Welcome Graham!
The plant that got me hooked was Cypripedium reginae. It was the spectacular pouch on this plant's flower that amazed me. A photo was all it took to seduce me.

[Dorothy]

My first orchid was a cattleya but I had been seduced for years with orchids always amazed at their beauty.
A variegated leaf phal that comes to mind is Phal. schilleriana - http://www.anggrek.info/photo/sp/pha...riana_p01m.jpg
and here - http://www.goreorchids.com/GallerySt...eriana-DBG.jpg

[kavanaru]

my first Orchids were Catasetum macrocarpum and Schomburgkia splendes, but they were not "that interesting" for me as they grew wild on the trees around the house. But the ones that really hooked me and made an orchids-adict out of me were Catasetum pileatum (still my favorite one) and Cattleya violacea. You can see both in this HP: http://images.google.ch/imgres?imgur...%3Dde%26sa%3DN

the nice of the posted HP, is that they both are pictured next to each other and are exactly the forms you find not that far away from my parents house...

I have managed to get three different forms of C. pileatum in my european collection ['Oro verde', a white form (like in the picture) and a mottled form (also common in Venezuela) - and am working hard to increas my C pileatum collection. next one is in visier 'imperialis Pierre Couret' also from Venezuela ] but with C. violacea I have not been that succesful... first, it seems to be not that easily found in europe, and second it seems to be quite difficult to cultivate in temperate countries.... but I'll keep trying... next year there is an important orchids show in Thun (Switzerland) and a Nursery from New Zealand, that have two good clones of C. violacea is coming too..