Ascocentrum christensonianum

[Mahon]

I have a blooming plant of Ascocentrum christensonianum, I am trying to self cross the plant (as I can't get another Asc. christensonianum right now), but the flowers are not taking... they are new flowers, and they just won't take... does anyone know why this is happening? Now that the flowers have been open for about a month now, they are slowly fading and falling right off the spike. I tried to self cross last year, and evn cross with Aerides odorata, and Vanda coerulea, but it just wont take. The staminode is so tiny, that only the Asc. christensonianum pollen will fit, but on other Vandaceos genera, only one pollen sac fits, even Asc. curvifolium and Asc. garayii...

I can't seem to figure it out, I have a beautiful flowering plant, it has bloomed so far 5 spikes over the past year or so. I forgot, even the pollen from the Asc. christensonianum won't ferilize the other flowers of other Vandaceous genera. The 2 other Asco. species, I had stored some of their pollen, as they bloomed a while before the Asco. christensonianum bloomed... so I couldn't pollinate those plant's flowers. Can't figure out what is up, maybe it is a sterile plant?

-Pat