Seedling worth watching

Tolumnia with large flower

Seedling worth watching

 

          This Tolumnia flower is bigger than others, so far.  It’s from the hybrid seedlings group imported in September 2024.  There is the chance that it is bigger due to culture as opposed to genetic.

 

          It also happens to be the ‘Double-spike’ plant.

 

          Is this how award-winning Orchids are discovered?  I don’t have any reference as to how this compares to other Tolumnia in the Orchid world.

 

          The plan is to grow for several years and see if it is truly exceptional.

 

          Hide and watch!

 

Imagine if it were true

Tolumnia one fan, two spikes

     Imagine if it were true.

           

If Tolumnia Orchids produced two flowering spikes per fan growth, it would revolutionize small Orchids.

 

            The last story showed that it happened once.

 

            I’ve found another one in the picture… one fan, two spikes.

 

If the ‘Double-spike’ trait is real and can be crossed into the highest awarded hybrids, the plant world will be a better place.

This never happens!

 

Tolumnia with two spikes on one fan

              I’m learning how Tolumnia Orchids flower.

 

Flowering is the only thing that counts in flowering houseplants.

 

A single fan only flowers once, then a side fan must grow to give the next flower.

 

              What if we could get each fan to have two flower spikes?  These pictures show that it can happen --- Two spikes per growth.

 

                  This is a hybrid seedling; therefore, a unique combination of characteristics can occur.  Could it be that this plant has a gene that causes it to have two flower spikes per fan growth?

 

              It will take years of observation to see if this rare flowering ever repeats as a stable characteristic.