Guaricattonia Wataru Kimura

This is one I am really excited to see bloom! This is a cross between two primary hybrids, so the parentage is [(C. bicolor x Bro. sanguinea) x (C. guttata x Gur. aurantiaca)]. This is supposed to look like the famous Ctna. Why Not, but richer and deeper colours. This is a massive 'chid (relative to the rest of my collection), and it even has two sheaths!

Here is the whole plant.

And the one sheath that is just starting to split open and show the spike!

I am totally going to do breeding with this one! I have had several different types of pollen donated to me from a few different people, and I want to do the following crosses: x Blc. Victoria 'Blue Bird' and x Laelia rubescens aurea.

My OS haul!

So, this last Sunday, Monica du Wit visited my OS, and she brought TONS of 'chids for sale. In reality, none of the plants there were from her personal collection. She is training to become an AOS judge, which is a purely voluntary process that can take around 6 or seven years to complete. So, people she knows donate plants for her to sell, and the proceeds go to her training. I am just going to post the one picture of everything, and do a separate post for each.