Remaking an RHS Registered Grex...

[Pete]

If I were to remake a previously RHS registered grex and a cultivar of my remake were to earn an AOS award, would a second registration be required?


Another somewhat related question,,,How does the AOS verify the parentage of a cross? Or do they? For obvious reasons, I think that it would only be prudent to do so.

[cabnc]

No, but you would be able to name it, Phal Previous Grex Name 'Pete'.

[goodgollymissmolly]

Pete, the IRA for orchids at RHS registers only greges. Once a given grex is registered it can be made over infinite times with no further registration (this also applies regardless of which parent is the pod parent, a major flaw since the mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA's come only from the pod parent).

The cultivar names come only from awarding agencies like AOS and are documented by those agencies. This confuses many because in all other plants the ICRA actually registers cultivars. In orchids with approx. 2000 genera and 30K species this job was seen as vitually impossible and probably was before computers.

No, AOS (nor any other agency) does not verify hybrid parentage. I know of no way to do that even if one were to spend the time and money. Given that only the greges of the listed parents are normally known this would require much more work than, for example, doing DNA testing to verify the parents of a child when only two individuals are in question. I doubt that parentage verification is in our future.