yes, "ladies first"

I knew I couldn't be the only one to use this mnemonic to remember the
capsule/pollen parent order of a cross.
Wendy, Queen of the Misfit Tag, strikes again. It's like the Island of
Misfit Toys. Your greenhouse is the "'Greenhouse of Misfit Tags". Or maybe
I am thinking about Wendy6 or even Wendy5. I get confused.

C. walkeriana X L. sincorana HCC/AOS

You can not know why that HCC is stuck there based on the way the tag is
written.

It could mean (C. walkeriana X L. sincorana) 'Missing Cultivar Name'
HCC/AOS, which would refer to the award being granted to a cultivar of the
grex Lc Love Knot (C. walkeriana X L. sincorana) but without that cultivar
name, the HCC means nothing. Lc Love knot has four or five different
'cultivars' with an HCC. Since the RHS lists the original grex parents of
LC Love Knot as (L. sincorana x C. walkeriana) you can assume you are
probably talking about a remake of the cross that reverses the parents.
However, ever since the original grex registration was accepted those two
parent species, no matter which order they are used in the hybrid make the
grex Lc. Love Knot.

or it could be
(C. walkeriana X L. sincorana 'Missing Pollen Parent Cultivar Name',
HCC/AOS) which would mean somebody put pollen from an awarded L. sincorana
on the capsule of an unnamed cultivar of C. walkeriana. But without that
cultivar name, that award designation means nothing. L sincorana has six
named cultivars that received an HCC.


"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Just remember the basic ettiquette: ladies first.

K Barrett

"wendy7" wrote in message
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Thanks Ray, now I am not as confused as I was before???? *g*
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Cheers Wendy

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Ray wrote:
Hoo boy.

Isn't in "Pollen" on "Pod"??

Actually, now that I think of it, the RHS form had the "seed" parent
first, so my original guess of Pod x Pollen was apparently correct/


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"Kenni Judd" wrote in message
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Correction: Sorry, I apparently mis-typed. The _pod_ parent is
supposed to come first. [I could swear that's what I typed G].
But in actual practice, this is often unknown, esp. with crosses,
like Love Knot, that have been re-made more than once. For example,
if I got in a batch of Love Knot, they would probably be labelled
only with that name, and not with the actual parentage as well. So
for purposes of giving parentage on my tags, I go with the way it
was first registered, but it is always possible that that particular
batch could have been made by the reciprocal cross.


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Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com


"Kenni Judd" wrote in message
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No, Wendy, the pollen parent is supposed to come first. However,
if the plant were registered, the reciprocal cross would get the
same name [you would have to maintain the parentage info to know
which way it went].