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And look at how many FCCs Paph rothschildianum has. I think someone
mentioned that some judges think a plant has 'too many' awards and therefore no longer consider a plant judging. Well, obviously not. Same could be said for Paph armeniacum. K Barrett "Gene Schurg" wrote in message . net... Yeah...Look at Paph rothchildianum. An FCC awarded plant is outrageously expensive. Gene "TRAINMAN9" wrote in message ... and I have found that an award does not really change a plants value. Not for clonable plants but for Paphs and Phrags the value definately goes up. Depending on what the plant is newly awarded plants command a big premium. Some whites seem to demand an tremendous premium some well over 2k, while others are usually in the $250-500 range per growth. In time the cost does come down somewhat unless the plant is a good breeder. Prior to cloning most other awarded orchids also commanded premiums but with the advent of the cloning process and production of thousands of identical plants the prices came down to less than $25 for a mature plant and in some cases under $10. |
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And look at how many FCCs Paph rothschildianum has. I think someone
mentioned that some judges think a plant has 'too many' awards and therefore no longer consider a plant judging. Well, obviously not. Same could be said for Paph armeniacum. K Barrett "Gene Schurg" wrote in message . net... Yeah...Look at Paph rothchildianum. An FCC awarded plant is outrageously expensive. Gene "TRAINMAN9" wrote in message ... and I have found that an award does not really change a plants value. Not for clonable plants but for Paphs and Phrags the value definately goes up. Depending on what the plant is newly awarded plants command a big premium. Some whites seem to demand an tremendous premium some well over 2k, while others are usually in the $250-500 range per growth. In time the cost does come down somewhat unless the plant is a good breeder. Prior to cloning most other awarded orchids also commanded premiums but with the advent of the cloning process and production of thousands of identical plants the prices came down to less than $25 for a mature plant and in some cases under $10. |
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On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:08:23 GMT, "K Barrett"
wrote: And look at how many FCCs Paph rothschildianum has. I think someone mentioned that some judges think a plant has 'too many' awards and therefore no longer consider a plant judging. Well, obviously not. Same could be said for Paph armeniacum. K Barrett Not saying it is true with either of these plants... Sometimes the original awards and what is awarded today is so different the originals would now be considered not worth looking at. So as judges we need to compare and not count. There is the argument that awards raise the price in a Paph... is it fair to not raise the price for one competitor after you did it for another? But if every other plant has an award has the award lost its power? Still best to pick your own perfect bloom. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
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On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:08:23 GMT, "K Barrett"
wrote: And look at how many FCCs Paph rothschildianum has. I think someone mentioned that some judges think a plant has 'too many' awards and therefore no longer consider a plant judging. Well, obviously not. Same could be said for Paph armeniacum. K Barrett Not saying it is true with either of these plants... Sometimes the original awards and what is awarded today is so different the originals would now be considered not worth looking at. So as judges we need to compare and not count. There is the argument that awards raise the price in a Paph... is it fair to not raise the price for one competitor after you did it for another? But if every other plant has an award has the award lost its power? Still best to pick your own perfect bloom. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
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I was just thinking about that today. Since I don't get AQ or wildcatt I
don't know how old an award is. I do remember that Charles E. is an older award....So I guess from your response that a new FCC on roth is worth more than a 10 year old FCC. Makes sense to me. "TRAINMAN9" wrote in message ... Yeah...Look at Paph rothchildianum. An FCC awarded plant is outrageously expensive. Gene Some of the older clones like Charles E. are more reasonable but the newer ones are still pretty high. I wonder how much "Janet" or "Mt. Milas" go for? |
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I've heard from several sources that when armeniacum was first shown to
judges the bright yellow color was like a strong drug that made them do crazy things. They gave a bunch of FCCs to the early generations in culture and now there are much better specimens that have several generations of selection behind them. This is a good example of a buyer beware......if its an early FCC and you pay a big price you are getting taken. So if someone shows a really deserving specimen of armeniacum are they at a disadvantage? I know it's all about measurements...yes, size counts! Does the judging team score something thats 10% bigger than an FCC awarded 10 years ago as an AM (or lower)? Gene "K Barrett" wrote in message news:Whlsd.509102$D%.320222@attbi_s51... And look at how many FCCs Paph rothschildianum has. I think someone mentioned that some judges think a plant has 'too many' awards and therefore no longer consider a plant judging. Well, obviously not. Same could be said for Paph armeniacum. K Barrett "Gene Schurg" wrote in message . net... Yeah...Look at Paph rothchildianum. An FCC awarded plant is outrageously expensive. Gene "TRAINMAN9" wrote in message ... and I have found that an award does not really change a plants value. Not for clonable plants but for Paphs and Phrags the value definately goes up. Depending on what the plant is newly awarded plants command a big premium. Some whites seem to demand an tremendous premium some well over 2k, while others are usually in the $250-500 range per growth. In time the cost does come down somewhat unless the plant is a good breeder. Prior to cloning most other awarded orchids also commanded premiums but with the advent of the cloning process and production of thousands of identical plants the prices came down to less than $25 for a mature plant and in some cases under $10. |
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OK.
I have been priviledged to know 3 of the judges that were on that team and they are hard ass opinionated sons of bitches. One never scored above 74 in his life. So, no. They weren't seduced by color. Go pull the slide. You'll see a flower that's drop dead gorgeous. Someone showing a "really deserving" armeniacum is not at a disadvantage because - as far as I've been trained - the idea that "there are too many" awards is NOT true. If a flower deserves a quality award based on its color, shape and comparison to an arrray of the previous recent awards that set the current standard then it gets scored according to its quality on that day. I can't recall where in this thread someone mentioned that there were too many awards on a flower and I pointed out that both rothschilianum (which has many, many FCCs) and armeniacum (which has many, many award in general) all keep getting awards. Why? Because they are nice flowers. K Barrett "Gene Schurg" wrote in message nk.net... I've heard from several sources that when armeniacum was first shown to judges the bright yellow color was like a strong drug that made them do crazy things. They gave a bunch of FCCs to the early generations in culture and now there are much better specimens that have several generations of selection behind them. This is a good example of a buyer beware......if its an early FCC and you pay a big price you are getting taken. So if someone shows a really deserving specimen of armeniacum are they at a disadvantage? I know it's all about measurements...yes, size counts! Does the judging team score something thats 10% bigger than an FCC awarded 10 years ago as an AM (or lower)? Gene "K Barrett" wrote in message news:Whlsd.509102$D%.320222@attbi_s51... And look at how many FCCs Paph rothschildianum has. I think someone mentioned that some judges think a plant has 'too many' awards and therefore no longer consider a plant judging. Well, obviously not. Same could be said for Paph armeniacum. K Barrett "Gene Schurg" wrote in message . net... Yeah...Look at Paph rothchildianum. An FCC awarded plant is outrageously expensive. Gene "TRAINMAN9" wrote in message ... and I have found that an award does not really change a plants value. Not for clonable plants but for Paphs and Phrags the value definately goes up. Depending on what the plant is newly awarded plants command a big premium. Some whites seem to demand an tremendous premium some well over 2k, while others are usually in the $250-500 range per growth. In time the cost does come down somewhat unless the plant is a good breeder. Prior to cloning most other awarded orchids also commanded premiums but with the advent of the cloning process and production of thousands of identical plants the prices came down to less than $25 for a mature plant and in some cases under $10. |
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OK.
I have been priviledged to know 3 of the judges that were on that team and they are hard ass opinionated sons of bitches. One never scored above 74 in his life. So, no. They weren't seduced by color. Go pull the slide. You'll see a flower that's drop dead gorgeous. Someone showing a "really deserving" armeniacum is not at a disadvantage because - as far as I've been trained - the idea that "there are too many" awards is NOT true. If a flower deserves a quality award based on its color, shape and comparison to an arrray of the previous recent awards that set the current standard then it gets scored according to its quality on that day. I can't recall where in this thread someone mentioned that there were too many awards on a flower and I pointed out that both rothschilianum (which has many, many FCCs) and armeniacum (which has many, many award in general) all keep getting awards. Why? Because they are nice flowers. K Barrett "Gene Schurg" wrote in message nk.net... I've heard from several sources that when armeniacum was first shown to judges the bright yellow color was like a strong drug that made them do crazy things. They gave a bunch of FCCs to the early generations in culture and now there are much better specimens that have several generations of selection behind them. This is a good example of a buyer beware......if its an early FCC and you pay a big price you are getting taken. So if someone shows a really deserving specimen of armeniacum are they at a disadvantage? I know it's all about measurements...yes, size counts! Does the judging team score something thats 10% bigger than an FCC awarded 10 years ago as an AM (or lower)? Gene "K Barrett" wrote in message news:Whlsd.509102$D%.320222@attbi_s51... And look at how many FCCs Paph rothschildianum has. I think someone mentioned that some judges think a plant has 'too many' awards and therefore no longer consider a plant judging. Well, obviously not. Same could be said for Paph armeniacum. K Barrett "Gene Schurg" wrote in message . net... Yeah...Look at Paph rothchildianum. An FCC awarded plant is outrageously expensive. Gene "TRAINMAN9" wrote in message ... and I have found that an award does not really change a plants value. Not for clonable plants but for Paphs and Phrags the value definately goes up. Depending on what the plant is newly awarded plants command a big premium. Some whites seem to demand an tremendous premium some well over 2k, while others are usually in the $250-500 range per growth. In time the cost does come down somewhat unless the plant is a good breeder. Prior to cloning most other awarded orchids also commanded premiums but with the advent of the cloning process and production of thousands of identical plants the prices came down to less than $25 for a mature plant and in some cases under $10. |
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I do remember that Charles E. is an older award....So I guess from your
response that a new FCC on roth is worth more than a 10 year old FCC. Makes sense to me. Not necessarily. I would guess that part of it might be that there is just more of it around or that better examples or breeders are available and command a higher price. I remember when Winston Churchill clones were over $500 a growth or Hellas in the $250-300 range. Now both can be had for $150 for the former and $50-60 for the latter even though both are still regarded as good breeders. Some plants never seem to lose their appeal or value such as Skip Bartlett clones and Dusty Miller. They are still highly regarded and very expensive. |
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