[OGD] Re: bessae?

In a message dated 1/23/05 3:01:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "I recently obtained a couple of phrag. bessae, d'allessandro and hybrids. Now one of them is flowering and the flower is totally misshapen: the petals are concave and the pouch cannot separate. I posted a pic

[OGD] Orchids Down Under

http://www.orchidswa.org.au/ A visit will give you a chance to see the unique WA native orchids at their blooming best. And for a preview of WA's native orchids, see the url below. The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia (Inc) http://members.iinet.net.au/~emntee/page18.html Tony _

Re: [OGD] paphiopedilum rothschildianum

Ron, The time from flask to flowering for a Paph. rothschildianum will depend a lot on the parents of the flask. Some parents are very good at producing seedlings that will rapidly grow and bloom, while others seem to insure a very reluctant grower and bloomer. I find that seedlings with Paph.

[OGD] Bulbophyllum question

Hello everyone, I have a Bulb. frostii and a fraudulentum that simply refuse to bloom. Is there any trick to handling either of these two? They're currently growing under fluorescent lights in roughly intermediate conditions. They used to be mounted, but I recently moved them to shallow pans of s

[OGD] Cymbidium Society of America

The Cymbidium Society of America will hold its 30th Cymbidium Congress Saturday March 5th in Santa Barbara. Its webpage didn't have current information (as of Saturday 1/22), but other messages here talking about speaker line ups reminded me of the CSA's line up. They will have Hadley Cash ta

[OGD] Cymbidium Society of America

The Cymbidium Society of America will hold its 30th Cymbidium Congress Saturday March 5th in Santa Barbara. Its webpage didn't have current information (as of Saturday 1/22), but other messages here talking about speaker line ups reminded me of the CSA's line up. They will have Hadley Cash ta

[OGD] orchid breeder - Thailand

FYI : "Prasartporn Smitamana has for several decades devoted himself to breeding new species of hybrid orchids. He also plays a dynamic role in keeping indigenous species alive and flourishing in their original habitats across the northern region. ... Prasartporn is an orchid breeder and direct

[OGD] More on digitization of AOS Bulletin

Thanks, Charles, for your suggestion (putting a blackout on current issues and only making back issues after a certain embargo time has passed available on the web for all to use). Actually, this is commonly used in academic publications (see Highwire Press from Stanford as one example). And

[OGD] Masdevallia species for IOSPE

Dear OGD's I have been hard at working on expanding the Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia www.orchidspecies.com. I am just about to eclipse 5000 species in 540 genera. I need some help with the genus Masdevallia with which I have 250 difrernt species represented on IOSPE. The references

[OGD] references - genus Masdevallia

Jay : For some of the species you listed I have references which, hopefully, you will find useful : 1) Masdevallia corniculata Rchb. f. 1878 : Orchids and Ecology in Colombia, To the Rescue of Paradise, [p. 238]. Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Orchids, p. 283. Monographie der Gattungen Masdevallia,p

[OGD] deformed phrags

I do not grow many phrags, but for what it is worth, I had a Phrag. Eric Young which would regularly bloom with the first flower having no petals, but the rest of the flowers being just fine.  It got to the point that I just ignored the first one, as I knew the next one would be just fine.

[OGD] re: roth flask-to-bloom

Jim Pupelis, a well-known paph grower in the Chicago area some 10 to 15 years ago, potted out a flask of roths. The most precocious of the seedlings bloomed 3 1/2 years later. Jum gave it the clonal name "Three and a half" and it remains a conversation item to this day. I traded for a sib f