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To all Paph sanderianum growers
Adel (Ed) Nazzal wrote:
My experience when it comes to rare paphs (expensive) is that the growers don not do any selection from their flaskes. When I unflask a flask, I tend to keep the larger fast growing seedlings and dump the rest. When someone unflasks a roth. or a sanderianum, I have a feeling that no seedlings are thrown out. Some of those slow growers (RUNTS) are sold cheaply and end up taking a year or two to die. I have seen many growers (including me) buy $50 sanderianum only to watch them sit there for a year or two then slowly die! For now I think you better know who you buy from and be ready to pay good $$$ for a good "fast" growing sanderianum. Me, I think I'll wait another year or two till the stock improves and the prices go down a bit. Remember when roths used to sell for $10 an inch. A good seedling can now be had for under $50. Happy Growing. That's an interesting point. While compotting for a friend, he basically said, just let the runts go, the trash is the best place for them. My problem with this is (and no matter what anyone says, it's all about the flower) it may be that runt that has the best or largest flower, the right color, the ability to bloom on only one growth, etc. How many of us grow Paph.Delrosi knowing we may NEVER see the flower just because it's so beautiful when it DOES bloom? (mine is sill a 'large seedling' as it was 8 or 9 years ago when I bought it) Remember: there was only ONE yellow Phrag.besseae! And my holy grail, Paph.Castle Rising 'Superbum'; Dr.Wilson (Penn Valley) said it was a poor grower, never more than one or two growths; he 'thinks' Arnie Klehm got it in the sale, and if that's the case it died in the fire/freeze (though Arnie has yet to answer the question of whether he got it after several years of my asking). I keep hoping someone turns up with the division Dr.Wilson said he thinks he 'may' have made. Bad grower, but the flower..........ah!!! (anyone gat a color pic?? it was int he Pann Valley catalog in the 80's - which I of course threw away) That said, as we move on down the years line-breeding should, if past experience with other species is any guide, produce hardier, easier to grow and faster-growing and blooming plants. I have a Paph.rothschildianum which bloomed as a one growth seedling. How many of these have we heard of in the past? It's not unheard of now, but 20 years ago, impossible! I find encouragement in the fact that (I measured this time) 2 of the seedlings from this flask of sanderianum had 8" leafspans. How many years closer to maturity is THAT?? So, shall we all keep in touch and share pics in 10, no, eight, no, maybe six years (dare we hope)??? |
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