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Unregistered orchids
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:21:13 GMT, "Gene Schurg"
wrote: Last summer I was at Home Depot and found two out of bloom Ascocendas labeled Pattaya Beauty. They were a reasonable price and in good shape. I brought them home and hung them in a tree until it was time to bring them into the Greenhouse. (I've seen them since then at HD in other shipments). Now both of them are in bloom with very nice peachy colored flowers. So I went to the RHS site to see who the parents were and surprise.....they haven't been registered. A search for Pattaya shows that T. Orchids seems to use this in their registrations. I believe this is a breeder in Thailand. I google search shows a couple of Ascocenda Pattaya xxxxxx that seem to be unregistered. Isn't this kind of like fraud or something? I feel this if you are going to market plants you should at least put the cross on the tag or finish the registration! Any other views out there? Gene Some Thai breeders will register an error not the correct plants in a cross. Some will just never register at all. They feel this is the way to keep their advantage. IF they don't register it you can not make the copy hybrid and undercut their price. It is a known fact. Only becoming more sophisticated about the process and the reasons for registering will change their attitude. They have been doing this for a hundred years... why should today be different. We had a really good talk on Phrags and Phrag Hybrids last night. He was showing us why he thinks it is stalled unless some one gets the new one legalized or something else is legally discovered. He also showed samples of plants that were misnamed because they had to have other parents to have the shape or color characteristics they have. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
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Unregistered orchids
Susan Erickson wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:21:13 GMT, "Gene Schurg" wrote: I google search shows a couple of Ascocenda Pattaya xxxxxx that seem to be unregistered. Isn't this kind of like fraud or something? I feel this if you are going to market plants you should at least put the cross on the tag or finish the registration! Any other views out there? Not to sound obnoxious - but Home Depot isn't the place to buy properly named orchids! Seriously - huge wholesale nurseries (and it's hardly just the Thais -Twyford is also notorious), couldn't give a hoot about the judging program, which realistically, is what names are all about. They are trying to sell thousands of plants at a time, mostly to people who either intend to throw them away when they've finished flowering or can't be bothered to learn how to grow them, and kill them in short order. Registration costs time and money and, as Susan notes, lets the competition know what went into this season's big seller. At least the Thais don't use already registered names - Twyford sells Phalaenopsis "Kaleidoscope". What they mean is "Baldan's Kaleidoscope", and ignore the fact there's a completely different (white and purple) Phal. Kaleidoscope. Now *that* I find incredibly annoying. On the rare occasion I succumb to a Thai den hybrid, I assume it's unregistered, and in fact am happy when I think the label in the pot matches the plant, and hasn't just "helpfully" been stuck into the nearest handy pot that didn't have one by some ignorant HD customer or clerk! |
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There are parts of the orchid related horticulture industry that are not
tuned into the registration and judging system because for the growers and producers of these orchids this is not where the dinner money comes from. Mass wholesalers and cut flower producers came to mind. Not going through the RHS registration system when naming a cultivar is not really crime, but just one aspect of a huge ungoverned industry that a "collector" needs to be aware of. In addition to those producers who just don't care about registration for whatever reason are those mistaken translation and spellings of registered names that occur as plants move from one hemisphere to another. There are lots of mislabeled plants out there. Personally I am skeptical that many of our labeled orchids really have the lineage that their tag name promises. There is just too much human involvement in the century's long process for this to be true. Intentional fraud is not necessary for mistakes to occur. Anyway, Den. Emma White is a mainstay of the cut flower trade and has been around for years and years. It is produced and sold, and produced and sold in huge quantities, both plants and cut flowers, but you can't find this orchid in a registration database. I believe Ascocenda Pattaya falls into this category: it is really a cut flower industry mainstay. These orchids persist in cultivation because they fit very well into the niche they were created to fill: big colorful flowers on easy to grow/quick to bloom vigorous plants. There is nothing wrong with keeping these plants in your collection but think twice before using them in a hybrid you want to register and sit in front of a judge. I don't think you can do it with personal integrity intact. :-) With cultivars like Emma White and Pattaya it is also possible that you might have plants from two different lineages labeled with the same name. In the trade, the name becomes more important than the lineage after a while. The bride walking down the isle with a big bouquet of Den. Emma White sold to her by her florist doesn't care if the 2 dozen pretty white sprays are all the same cultivar as long as it looks pretty. But the most famous example of this idea jumps out of the orchid trade and into the daffodil trade. For collectors Daffodils are bred and registered in pretty much the same way as Orchids, I think. However, in the cut flower and bulb producing trades there is a very famous big yellow daffodil called "King Alfred". The lore surrounding this name says that the original strain died out long ago but newer improved big yellow daffodils are still marketed under this name because the buying public recognizes the name and attaches it to big yellow daffodils. What was your question? "Gene Schurg" wrote in message rthlink.net... Last summer I was at Home Depot and found two out of bloom Ascocendas labeled Pattaya Beauty. They were a reasonable price and in good shape. I brought them home and hung them in a tree until it was time to bring them into the Greenhouse. (I've seen them since then at HD in other shipments). Now both of them are in bloom with very nice peachy colored flowers. So I went to the RHS site to see who the parents were and surprise.....they haven't been registered. A search for Pattaya shows that T. Orchids seems to use this in their registrations. I believe this is a breeder in Thailand. I google search shows a couple of Ascocenda Pattaya xxxxxx that seem to be unregistered. Isn't this kind of like fraud or something? I feel this if you are going to market plants you should at least put the cross on the tag or finish the registration! Any other views out there? Gene |
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:46:29 -0500, "Al"
wrote: .......................... clipped................ . The bride walking down the isle with a big bouquet of Den. Emma White sold to her by her florist doesn't care if the 2 dozen pretty white sprays are all the same cultivar as long as it looks pretty. But the most famous example of this idea jumps out of the orchid trade and into the daffodil trade. For collectors Daffodils are bred and registered in pretty much the same way as Orchids, I think. However, in the cut flower and bulb producing trades there is a very famous big yellow daffodil called "King Alfred". The lore surrounding this name says that the original strain died out long ago but newer improved big yellow daffodils are still marketed under this name because the buying public recognizes the name and attaches it to big yellow daffodils. What was your question? Thanks Al. Glad the Alien let you explain this so well for us. It is really quite this simple. The growers are focused on the "geranium trade" pot it enjoy it and toss it. While we think it is a great find that must grow for ever. Love the King Alfred story. I too have bought "King Alfred" because I "knew" what I was getting. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
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