The size issue: hard to judge from a pic. I took a Michael Koopowitz x adductum up to the last show; though it garnered a blue, it was on its first bloom so didn't have the flower size it needed to compete for an AOS quality award. (I was proud of that thing--two growths, both spiked and blooming for the first time, eight flowers, long petals, but small still...)

Sigh....

Orchids.....