New Earth Orchids

The pictures are of my cross RM-1006 Blc. Digby Lane. This was a cross of Lc. Atalanta Lane 'Green Ice' HCC/AOS X B. digbyana 'Mrs. Chase' AM/AOS. The pod parent is a proven homozygous alba form. B. digbyana 'Mrs. Chase' AM/AOS was proported to be an alba form. However, this cross shows it is heterozygous for the alba allele. This is evident by the fact half of the progeny are alba forms. Consistent with a back cross of a plant heterozygous for the alba allele with another homozygous for the alba allele. This cross also shows B. digbyana fma. alba is in the same alba group as C. warscewiczii, tigrina, leopoldi, bicolor and aclandiae. Finally, to reiterate, B. digbyana 'Mrs. Chase' AM/AOS is heterozygous for the alba allele.

Here are two first bloom seedlings from my cross RM-1904 Pot. Orange Sands (Apricot Sands 'Outstanding' AM/AOS X Blc. Orange Butter 'Melinda'). Pictures are labeled with the names.

It has been awhile since I last posted. Seems life got in the way of my sharing my results of using Pot. Shaw Yuan Gold 'O-2' AM/AOS. The cross shown here is RM-1110 Pot. Ellibirdieve (Haw Yuan Gold 'O-2' FCC/AOS X Shinfong Little Love 'Little Goldfish')
Parents are not pictured here.

This the largest unifoliate Cattleya I have bred. This is Pot. Shining Gold ‘Super Moon’. The plant is 69 cm tall from the top of the medium with a leaf width of 12 cm. It is largest plant from my remake of this cross.