New Hybrid Attempt: C Hawaiian Wedding Song 'Virgin' x Clty Chantilly Lace 'Twinkle'

[pavel]

Good luck, John. Out of curiosity -- any 'method to your madness' in deciding to have Wedding be the pod parent vs being pollen donor?

[wetfeet101b]

Good luck, John. Out of curiosity -- any 'method to your madness' in deciding to have Wedding be the pod parent vs being pollen donor?

Paul, my "method" is explained in my second post after the original message. Although it is not guaranteed, one can hope that those are the traits passed on by the parents.
With thousands of possible genetic pairings, who knows what will really end up manifesting on the flowers. I wont even be surprised if I end up with dark purple flowers with white spots lol.

Another suggestion would be to put the date of pollination on the tag as well

That is a good idea Ron. I cant believe I missed that. I did note the pollination date in my notebook but not on the tag. I will do that tomorrow.

Sometimes when there is a big difference in the flower size the pollen grains are also sized accordingly. Putting big grains on a small flower might not have worked.

You may be right Ron. Besides, the single pollinia of the Wedding Song was much bigger than the entire stigma of the Chantily. I dont think it would have made it inside the stigma if I tried the opposite.

I have also been hearing rumors that the seed parent has a greater chance of passing on the flower size - although I cannot confirm this until I actually get some hybrids to bloom.

Regarding the flasking process, I have not yet decided if I will attempt to do this myself or just hire a lab to do it for me. I have seen some labs with reasonable rates.

[pavel]

Paul, my "method" is explained in my second post after the original message. Although it is not guaranteed, one can hope that those are the traits passed on by the parents.
With thousands of possible genetic pairings, who knows what will really end up manifesting on the flowers. I wont even be surprised if I end up with dark purple flowers with white spots lol.



That is a good idea Ron. I cant believe I missed that. I did note the pollination date in my notebook but not on the tag. I will do that tomorrow.



You may be right Ron. Besides, the single pollinia of the Wedding Song was much bigger than the entire stigma of the Chantily. I dont think it would have made it inside the stigma if I tried the opposite.

I have also been hearing rumors that the seed parent has a greater chance of passing on the flower size - although I cannot confirm this until I actually get some hybrids to bloom.

Regarding the flasking process, I have not yet decided if I will attempt to do this myself or just hire a lab to do it for me. I have seen some labs with reasonable rates.

I had caught the 2nd post you referred to but as far as traits go, it seems that your hoped for traits would have been the same either way. Now the "rumor" you mentioned was more along the line of speculation I was thinking about. There are such things as sex-linked traits, but I have no idea what ones might be amongst orchids, or if there are such things amongst them.