I take the point of all the replys.
I am taking delivery of a flask of paphiopedilum rothschildianum next week, so will see how they grow.
One thing I learned from this exercise, was the time frame. Not the old idear of 15 to 20 years if you were lucky.
So hopefull I can let your all know how things go.
Say, about 4 to 15 years from now
Cheerio to all whom replyied and helped Ron Boyd in rainy NSW (15mls)
. Uri said I have 3 different clones of roths (or at least from 3 differents sources)35-40 cm leafspan, none of them has flowered yet, got one of them as a 5cm seedling back in 1991. The third which I bought in 2000 from a nursery in the uk is growing faster and is sending out a new growth.
The new growth indicates that the plant is "capable" of flowering.
And just for the record, I did a sibling of P. stonei in 97 and deflasked late 98. I kept 6 seedlings, 2 of them are developping flower sheats
Regards
Uri Baruk in France
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