As Promised a few Orchid pictures.

[JB_Orchidguy]

Hello everyone. Just a few chids to brighten some spirits or just to look at. I hope you enjoy. I will be rotateing these out to conserve space.

[Jeanne]

OOOOooooOOOOO VERY PRETTY! I want one like the top..but I am afraid I would probably kill it if they are hard to care for. So pretty to look at though! Keep the pics coming.

[JB_Orchidguy]

Jeanne that orchid on top is not hard to care for. Its really pretty easy to be honest. Just like keeping BPs once you know what your doing its really pretty easy. They are just different than regular houseplants. Follow a few sinple rules and you will have lots of flowers like that one. That plant accualy had over 120 of those dragon like flowers and is fragrent. Not a flowery smell. I like it but dad thinks it stinks. Hard to explain. Wife doesn't like it either. But mom and I do. Go figure. In fact that is called a Gongora tricolor 'Live Oak' The Live Oak part os that particular crosses name. So unless I gave you a devision of that plant no other will have that name, unless someone clones it. Gongora tricolor is the species name. I was able to get the thing to bloom while it was hanging in a north faceing sliding glass window. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask. I don;t mind shareing info. Everyone here has helped me out tremendously with my BP's and am truely greatfull. Thank you everyone.

[JB_Orchidguy]

This is SCL Eleatha #23. I;m not sure if the #23 is part of the name. I;m sure its not it is probably just the 23 plant of this crossing. Each sibli8ng from the seedpod has the potential to look different than the other flowers from a seedpod. Sometimes drasticly different in terms of color when doing Hybred orchids.



This flower grew to 6 inches across before it faded. I didnt get a chance to take a picture of it when it was 6 inches across.

[Jeanne]

Jeanne that orchid on top is not hard to care for. Its really pretty easy to be honest. Just like keeping BPs once you know what your doing its really pretty easy. They are just different than regular houseplants. Follow a few sinple rules and you will have lots of flowers like that one. That plant accualy had over 120 of those dragon like flowers and is fragrent. Not a flowery smell. I like it but dad thinks it stinks. Hard to explain. Wife doesn't like it either. But mom and I do. Go figure. In fact that is called a Gongora tricolor 'Live Oak' The Live Oak part os that particular crosses name. So unless I gave you a devision of that plant no other will have that name, unless someone clones it. Gongora tricolor is the species name. I was able to get the thing to bloom while it was hanging in a north faceing sliding glass window. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask. I don;t mind shareing info. Everyone here has helped me out tremendously with my BP's and am truely greatfull. Thank you everyone.

Its sooooo pretty! Wow, I learned something new.... THANKS!

SO is that a cross you did? Why would no other plant look like it? And how to you cross them? Now you got my interest going......


and I was thinking about getting a venus fly trap.... hehe..... now you got me lookin at orchids.

[cassandra]

Wow...those are beautiful. I have such a black thumb, I kill even fake plants. =P

[JB_Orchidguy]

Traps are even easier to gro. Full sun inch or so rain water and let it go. Mother nature puts them to sleep and will wake them up. Unless your someplace that freezes up harder than a cave man frozen in ice. No I didnt do this cross. This is one of my first orchids I bought. Its a cross between two species tricolor or another tricolor crossed back to itself. The flowers will look the same as far as shape and size, but the markings and coloration patterns may be different. I have seen 5 sibbling orchids grown in the same greenhouse range in color from orange to pink. Thats why you could have 5 different gongora tricolors and all have different names like Gongora tricolor 'live oak' or Gongora tricolor 'Jeanne' and then say Gongora tricolor 'Red dragon' or something. That way if say your plant gets awarded and its name is Gongora tricolor 'Jeanne' and someone wanted to buy a plant that looked like yours as in having the same exact color patern and colors of your flower they would have to get a devision from you or you would have to get your plant cloned to produce exact copies, because if you say cross your Gongora tricolor 'Jeanne' back upon itself (self polinate) then you will still have Gongora tricolor because its a species crossed back to itself or even another tricolor, but the flowers will still have some variation in them. Some being more red with less green some may have more green depending on the recombination of genes. Then if one of those plants get awarded then you can register another name like say Gopngora tricolor 'green Dragon' if there is alot of green in the offsprings flower. Just helps to seperate the plants down even more than just to species level. So if I got this plant awarded and you want to have a plant just like it then you would look for seedlings that have the name Gongora tricolor "live Oak" ( the " means its a clone) or Gongora tricolor 'Live Oak' (the ' means its a devision of the original plant) If you looked for just say a Gongora tricoor you will get the same flowe same basic shape, but the flowers may not have as good of form or color as mine because its not the same plant, and therefor may not be of award quality. Or better say its not proven award quality. It could be better, but just hasn't recieved an award yet.

If you look at this thread http://forum.theorchidsource.com/cgi...;f=38;t=003822 you will see 5 different plants from the same seedpod. This is a guy who hybredises and these are 5 of the offspring blooming. Notice that all 5 are different. No say one of those was awarded and someone wanted to buy one of those and they go get a plant that is just the same cross they may not get the same flower look. So to get the same flower color and shape and all you need to get that particular named cross because a sibling or a prodigy will look different.

Just like crossing two BP all the siblings are going to be differently paterned. And like some BP orchids that have proven to pass on certain traits can also demand a very high price.

BTW I did cross this plant back to itself and have the seeds being flasked( a whole nother story on how to grow chids from sed) and as soon as they are big enogh I will get them back. Should be about 25 plants or so. Any more questions just ask. Even about Carnivorous plants. I grow them too. My traps are all dorment at the moment though. A requirment to keep them living more than a few years.

[JB_Orchidguy]

Cassandra there is even a few orchids for you too. there are some that like to stay so dry that it would seem almost impossible to kill unless you over water. BTW over watering is the biggest killer of orchids. And heck I duno why I do so good. I kill Aloe and most folks do well with those. Just takes a little practice and of course you willhave some deaths of orchids, but anyone can grow them. Even the black thumbed Cassandra.

[cassandra]

Hehe, thanks for the vote of confidence...I might have to try some sometime....but in meantime, keep your pictures coming! =)

[xdeus]

but anyone can grow them. Even the black thumbed Cassandra.

Wow, that sounds like a cool orchid!