unnamed crosses

[tmoney]

hi all,

so i just wanted to confirm some things about purchasing orchids from nurseries. so is it correct that if you buy an orchid labeled as phal “a” x “b” that is a hybrid grown between those two plants? so if it does not already have a name, that means that it is one of the countless plants grown from a seed of that cross and you will not know for sure what the flowers will be like? also, if one had a real super plant from that cross, this is how you would enter for an award and one could possibly register that orchid with a name?

im just asking because we bought many of these types in the beginning, not really knowing what we were doing. and it doesn’t help that our german is only passable and many of the german nurseries have limited to no translation on their pages. looking back, many do not have flower photos, or show only two flowers of the parent species. so i assume with all of the plants labeled as such that we are playing the lottery on what the flowers will look like? assuming we get any!

and also, for dull disclosure, we have no interest in having plants judged or trying to get a named plant or anything. this is just to clarify all the orchids we have in our collection....many with no name, just 2 parents shown on the tag.

perhaps this might benefit other newbies who are looking at websites