LC Mini-purple x Cattleya Brabantiae First bloom
The cross I made between LC Mini-purple "Blue Hawaiian" and C. Brabantiae has its first bloom. As I expected (from having made a similar cross years ago), it's pink with darker coloring on the edge of the lip.
Here are the parents:
And the first bloom:
It's nothing spectacular--very fragrant, but very little sign of any spots, although there are a few very tiny ones. I did find last time that spots became more prominent on subsequent blooms. It doesn't have a lot of substance and after a few days the sepals curled and bent back some.
Still, it's good to see a bloom after such a long time. For some reason this cross took longer at every stage than the one I made several years ago using the same mini-purple, but a more complicated cross based on brabantiae for the other parent. I don't know if the difference is fertilizer, light, or something in the cross.
It is named--by someone else--Lc Purple Haze.
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