The talk here can get pretty scientific, so if you start to feel lost reading some of these posts, don't worry: you won't be alone! The intricacies of orchid breeding and cloning make for fascinating discussions, so if you're curious, all you have to do is ask....
Sue, the moderator of this forum, has a website here. Sue started a board devoted exclusively to orchid breeding, so between that site and this forum, I hope we can develop some good participation.
So let's begin.
I have these questions: How is tetraploidy expressed in an orchid's phenotype? In other words, is there some way to tell, just by looking at a plant, that it's 4N and not 2N? Do any differences make themselves apparent if a 4N and a 2N of the same grex are placed side by side? And if so, what would those differences look like, typically?