Poll About Species

[bench72]

Well, there's been all sorts of polls and I just wanted to get a feel of how many of us like or even prefer species...

and then of course please explain

cheers
tim

oh yeah I vote that I am a wannabe species snob, I prefer to grow species because it makes me feel like I'm some kind of environmentalist helping to preserve the natural order of things... of course, I see orchids that I like and it turns out to be a hybrid and a get them anyways... so what the heart and the brain does are completely independent...

[Diane]

I see, I like, I buy.

[Gin]

I love species I think they are easier to grow and bloom than ones with mixed up genetics . Once the culture is figured out .
I also like hybrids ... some of them ...there are some I have never figured out . Gin

[Brutal_Dreamer]

I see, I like, I buy.

Me 2! I just love growing plants of all kinds!

Cheers!
BD

[WolfinKW]

I like to go for certain colors, Joe thinks I'm crazy and likes to buy other stuff LOL

[orchidaddict789]

See it, like it, buy it.
See it, like it, buy it.
See it, like it, buy it.
See it, like it, buy it.


Well, that's just me. Some hybrids look better than species, and some species look better than hybrids. Depends.

[Tanya]

Me 2! Me 2! I see it, I like it, I buy it, count me in!!

I don't see any point in growing a species that not only have untidy manner of growth, but flowers are so tiny I can hardly see them, blooms only once a year and last for only few days, worst, only few hours.

I grow things for their beauty and that I can enjoy them, not because they are rare and they are good collector items.

[Sue]

I try to stick to species, unless:

1. The hybrid is an interesting/distant/unlikely intergeneric, or
2. I know the parents of the hybrid and have a good idea of the particular look the breeder was going for (and it's an unusual and interesting direction), or
3. The hybrid is a good example of a type of plant I'd like to have one or two of (e.g. big white phal, vini paph, etc.)

Somehow, I still have more hybrids than species.

[Karen]

I would have thought I was a species snob but I counted and 6% of the plants are hybrids, mostly plants from when we first were getting into orchids (but even then we were wannabe species snobs). Though I have been getting rid of the hybrids... but iI am sentimental about some of them, and since they are old mature plants they put on a pretty impressive show.

Regards/ Karen

[Diane]

Tanya - really like the latest avatar!!