So, I got my first quality award in several years a few days ago. Phrag
(St. Ouen x schlimii) "Littlefrog Princess" HCC/AOS. Squeaked by. Cute
little thing, fuzzy, pink and quite round. As far as I know it hasn't
been registered yet.

The funny part is, I brought 5 plants. Four were Maudiae type paphs
that I thought were easily HCC quality or better. I would not have been
surprized to come home with one award out of the four, at least. I
don't bring many plants to judging, I'm more critical of my own plants
than anybody and I've been judging too long to be easily swayed. I
haven't brought a plant in a year, probably. The phrag was an
afterthought, I brought it mainly to show the group an example of some
of the new phrag hybrids. All four paphs went to one team, who
evidently weren't as impressed as I (although they did write 'keep' on
one of the tags). The phrag (which I thought was not awardable) went to
a team that wanted to give awards.

And the worst thing is, the plant I really wanted to take to judging I
left on the bench by mistake. One of the judges on the team that passed
on all the paphs shared a ride home with me, and when she saw the plant
I left at home she nearly swooned. Grrr....

Anyway, even orchid judges can't figure out the system some days. Have fun!

Rob
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Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a) See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to obtain more
orchids, obtain more credit

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