Paphiopedilum Prime Child

[eggshells]

My Paph Prime Child and first multi-floral paph.

[Kmac]

Twisty and great colors! Thanks for posting, it is lovely!

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Wonderful!! Just love big slipper orchid blooms like this.

Cheers,
BD

[Germinatorman]

Nice deep colors. Love the pale green around the lip of the pouch.

[eggshells]

Nice deep colors. Love the pale green around the lip of the pouch.

Hi Germinatorman, that one had just opened. I think it will turn to a pale yellow in a couple of days.

[gardenguysorchids]

Love it! Really love these and am getting drawn to paphs and phrags more and more. Could easily get hooked on focusing on them. Yours is lovely. Thanks for sharing.

[eggshells]

Thanks . I was mainly Cattleya before for a long time. Now, I'm really digging the Paphs. I started switching to paphs because of the space and light requirement.

[Dorsetman]

I have two different examples of this , both have petals which are much straighter - less droopy - and less twisted too ; also more yellow, with a pink flushed pouch , and finally the pouch is much more compact and close up to the rostellum , so my first reaction was to wonder if this was a true example. But after loooking at the illustrations in the invaluable Orchidwiz, I see that there is more variation than I had thought and all of these "differences" are shown in one or other of the Orchidwiz illustrations.
So a more variable hybrid than I had realised.
Where I live, these big multi-florals take more than a year, sometimes several years for a new growth to reach flowering size.. My oldest plant eventually filled a 12 inch pot and at its best had two flowering spikes one year, and enough growths at different stages that I saw flowers every year. But I broke it up ( mistake ! ) and I have maybe four pots of it , and no flowers for a couple of years now. One day !

[Halloamey]

Very beautiful example of prime child, good that it got most of its looks from the good parent LOL!

[catttan]

Beautiful. Love the twisty petals on this one.