Summer 2024 plant project - plant selection

[camille1585]

I noticed that the spring 2024 project never got off the ground. Since that thread has been dormant for a while, I thought I'd go ahead and start a new one.

Anyone interested in a summer project? I'm hoping we can select a plant within the next couple weeks so we can start shopping early July.

Tolumnia was the current proposal in the previous thread, but that's not an easy plant for many people. We can stick with that if that's what everyone likes, however I think it would be nice to find a plant which is more likely to succeed for the majority of growing conditions we all have.


We could pick a species as we often do, or all hybrids within a species/type (like we did with Sarcochilus) or maybe do something like 'any primary hybrid of species xyz'.

Any ideas? Ideally something that can be found somewhat easily in both the USA and EU.


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Current project idea : Select a species. It and all primary hybrids of it can be purchased for the project

List of possible candidates so far

• Brassavola species (B. nodosa?)
• Onc sotoanum
• Vanda (Neofinetia) falcata
  
• Paph species

Final project idea : Any Paph primary hybrid. Choice is up to participant, so they can choose a cross matching their experience level and growing conditions.