A few more blooms
 

Aside from the Brother Spring Dancer, I have a few other things in bloom at the moment
Pics 1 and 2 are Phal Pink Panther. The newest flower is strange and look nothing like the other, the stripes are closer together and very dark. There are 2 spikes, so it must be a happy plant!

Pic 3 is my Beallara Peggy Ruth Carpenter 'Morning Joy' I disappointed with it this time, the column is all deformed on all 4 blooms. The blooms only lasted a few weeks, I put it on the coffee table yesterday to enjoy it and stupidly lit some inscent right next to it. The next morning the blooms were all wilted...:duh: Last time it bloomed I also had no luck, half the blooms were white instead of purple (??:dunno: ). Must be a bad plant.

Pic 4 is the very first bud of Phal Mini Mark starting to open!! :D

Very beautiful! I have a Phal. Brother Spring Dancer too, but isn't blooming for me right now. :( I'll just have to enjoy your photo's!

Camille

Your Pink Panther is lovely. Perhaps the green ting on the new bloom is an indication that it could use more light. I too have similar flowers in the Winter but enjoy any flowers I get.

Nice bloom, Camille! I have a Pink Panther as well, but it is just spiking, no blooms yet. When I got mine, I searched for registration information, and Pink Panther is registered as being (Phalaenopsis Zondine Rose x Phalaenopsis Zauberrose), so I doubt that this is the correct name, as there are really no spots in the background of these, so it remains a mystery to me.

Sorry to hear about your Beallara - hope it behaves better for you next time!

That would be very strange for it to be misnamed! I thought that maybe I had it wrong, since I IDed it off the growers website (cameleonorchids), but I know several other people who have it, and they all look like mine. If there is a mistake, it was made higher up. I had looked up the parents, but never saw pics of them, so nothing seemed strange to me.

Mine was bought as Pink Panther, and it looks just like your's - I think this is a 'trade name' under which it is being called.

You can see a photo of Zauberrose here:
PHALAENOPSIS AND DORITAENOPSIS HYBRIDS
(half way down the page)

I couldn't find a photo of of Zondine Rose online, but given that it is 38% schilleriana and 26% sanderiana with the only thing in it close to spots or stripes is 1.6% stuartiana, I didn't expect it to be something that would produce the spotting of an amboinensis, gigantea or hieroglyphica novelty hybrid.

I could be completely wrong - wouldn't be the first time! - as I am certainly no expert with Phals. But the breeding just looked all wrong for that the be the correct name.

Now that I see the pic, I think you may be right. None of the parents of grandparents are striped/spotted, and the thing I noticed is that Pink Panther has thick, almost waxy, blooms. That's why I was thinking that there was so gigantea and hieroglyphica in it's background somewhere, which are spotted and also have thicker flowers.

Here is what mine looked like when it flowered last:

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...bcce2297dc.jpg

Hi Camille...more beauties indeed! Well done. :bowing

The darker and closer stripes on the newest flower on the first plant here may be due to it having more light now when compared to when the first bloom opened...did you move it to a higher light area between blooms opening? :dunno:

As for the strangeness in your Beallara...and it is a beautiful photo of a beautiful plant, by the way...might actually be due to genetics or a virus...again, it's hard to say. It is a complex hybrid, so that could give its behavior to the genetics angle. Some viruses will cause successive bloomings to look and act differently, and that could explain its behavior from a viral standpoint. again, :dunno:

In any event, they are all beautiful, as I've mentioned above. :D

Dave, I was thinking it was the light as well. I moved the plant off the windowsill (to lower light) since the spikes stick out and I'm afraid of knocking it over. Now I think it was just a weirdo flower since the 4th bloom just opened today and it looks normal.

I found the pic on my hard drive of the odd colored Beallara spike. It'll be interesting to see what color the blooms are once the new growth (off the growth that bloomed white) finally puts out a spike. I might have a 2 colored plant!