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Jan 13, 2019 12:47 PM CST
Name: Big Bill
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I didn't say that but I don't think that you understand why an identification is impossible.
When you are dealing with Phalaenopsis hybrids, you are looking at 5, 6 or even eight generations of breeding. Some conventional hybrids may have 8, 10 even 20 different flowers and color forms coming from a single seed pod. And when you want something identified from a few images, good or bad, it is next to impossible. Perhaps ludicrous!!
It is like you sending me your picture right now and asking me what your paternal great, great, great grandfather looked like in 1738. And all I have to go on is photographic archives with 2,500,000 million images of men. Where would I begin? How would I know which relatives are yours? How could I ever discover this person without some reasonable guidelines?
It is the proverbial needle in a haystack!
The only real chance you have in today's orchid world is if it is a mericlone. A hybrid that is grown by a large number of people. Some cross where the flowers are so consistently uniform that somebody will recognize it.
I myself, do not purchase orchids without a tag. And even with a tag there is no guarantee that the tag and the plant go together. NONE! But with my contacts, my research tools, my experience, I stand a better chance then most at figuring out what it is. That chance instead of one in a million becomes one in five hundred thousand.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.
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