Selfings of awarded cultivars?
Say you have a Cattleya, like Cattleya percivaliana 'Summit' FCC/AOS with excellent form, shape, and size. Then you create a selfing (Cattleya percivaliana 'Summit' x self). Will the results of the selfing provide generally better flowers than a "regular cross"? A "regular cross," as I'm defining it here, is just a random C. percivaliana without an award-winning cultivar name x another random C. percivaliana without an award-winning cultivar name.
The reason I'm asking is that I thought I bought a clone of an award-winning cultivar, but instead I received a selfing of that cultivar. Since genes shuffle around anytime seeds are created, I assume a selfing would be a bit of a gamble?
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