You are reading the "Phalaenopsis Hybrids" category of my online catalog. Click on an underlined link to see a larger picture, additional pictures, or to read more information if it is available. Please remember that offspring from hybrid matings will be unique and sometimes very different from each other and the individual pictures used to represent the cross. Species grown from seed will show more uniformity (they are species after all) but each plant will still be unique.

A hybrid I made and registered of (Su-An Cricket ‘#1′ x Veitchiana ‘Leesburg’) Most of these have flowers about the size of a quarter and are a rosy purple color. These are grown from seed. Some are more rosy than others and some more purple. Produces short spikes with tight flower heads close above leaves.
4″ Pot………….$19.00

Phal. (Brother Red Hotshot ‘Red Cup’ x Brother Precious Stones ‘Heart’). A hybrid I made almost 8 years ago. I have not yet registered a name. Most of these turn out to be nearly solid dark heavy substance reds. Some are more or less very dark purple.
5″ pot………….$25.00

The parent of Phal. (Summer Venus ‘Most Red’ x Jezebel ‘Pebbles’ HCC/AOS) are linked. I don’t have any pictures of these yet and I don’t recall seeing any bloom but I am loosing my mind…if it is even possible to claim I ever had one…. There are several plants in the greenhouse with old flower spikes, so go figure. I do have pictures of both parents of this cross and expect they will be star shaped yellow to red flowers. Some will have red spots. Jezebel ‘Pebbles’ HCC/AOS was my first awarded plant.
5″ pot………….$22.00

The parents of this hybrid are (Misty Baby ‘Leesburg’ x Su-An Cricket ‘#1′). I was attempting to make a large flat solid greenish flower. This pictures shows 9 of the offspring and demonstrates the variation one can get making orchid hybrids. It also demonstrates some of the surprises. I was expecting many flowers free of markings and I didn’t get them. At the time I made the cross I didn’t understand why this was an unlikely outcome but now I do. The spots and other markings are prominent in all the grandparents of the plants used to make this hybrid and most of the siblings of the parents. Both parents are individuals selected from populations of spotted siblings because they suppressed the anthocyanin pigments quite nicely. I was planning the nicest of these would be crossed back to a great grandparent species, Phal micholitzii, but I now have better clear greens to work with. These are very pretty and some are fragrant. All have short spikes.
5″ pot………….$19.00

The parents in this cross can be viewed by clicking on the links in the cross name Phal. Golden Peoker x doweryensis). I don’t know what these are going to look like because none have yet bloomed. It is an unusual hybrid using the original “Harlequin” and a difficult to acquire species. These will be large plants for those of you who like big leaves, doweryensis is among the largest of the Phal species. The spotting pattern on the flowers may be irregular on some that inherit the right genes from ‘Ever-spring’.
5″ pot………….$25.00

The parents are (Coral Masterpiece ‘Georgia’ x Brother Precious Stones ‘Valentine’). I think this example picture is a very pretty blending of the parent’s traits. I think most will have more spotting but the flower colors and shapes have been pretty thus far.
5″ pot………….$25.00

You can see pictures of the parents by clicking on the links in the name: Dtps. (Sogo Pride ‘Lemondrop’ x Phal. Misty Baby ‘Leesburg’). I should register this hybrid. I think it is very pretty. When they grow up I expect many will have branching spikes. The picture shows two examples of the offspring from this cross. Most are clear flat pale yellows which is just what I wanted to see.
5″ pot………….$25.00

Phal. (javanica x doweryensis). The plant pictured is the first one I have seen flower. The leafspan on this plant (in the picture) is 10 to 12 inches and the flower is 3.5 cm. You probably won’t find this primary hybrid anywhere else. I flasked these in August of 2002 from a capsule pollentated in March of that year. It is an odd one. Both species produce shortish flower spikes that tend to hide under the leaves and are displayed best when mounted and hung up high so that the inflorescences can be seen. Phal javanica matures on relatively small plants with leaf spans around 10 to 12 inches but it begins blooming with leaf spans of about 5 inches. P. doweryensis, on the other hand, is among the largest plants in the genus and gets quite large before flowering.

2.5″ pot………$30.00 (large plants)
4″ pot………..$40.00
5″ pot………..$50.00 (sold out)

The parents are Phal. (Misty Baby ‘Leesburg’ x Fortune Saltzman ‘Maple Bridge’, AM/TOS). I made this cross to produce clear green flowers free of spots using the best candidates I had available in 2002. Don’t have a picture yet, sorry.
5″ pot………….$25.00

DPE1112 Phal. Millie’s Ruby (Ken Peterson ‘Halo’ x Bette’s Madge ‘Leesburg’) This cross produced rather uniform siblings. I had heard that one avenue to a red phal hybrid was to use a purple pollen parent on a yellow capsule parent. “Red” as a pigment does not exist in Phals. Anthocyanins as they are expressed in Phal flower tissue are mostly purple but can tend toward red if conditions are right. The idea was to overlay a layer of purple pigment on flower tissue that had yellow pigment deeper down to create the illusion of red. My capsule parent ‘Halo’ was already working in that direction, plus it had the nifty yellow picotee halo around the rim of the petals. My pollen parent also had a halo of lighter pigmented tissue, so I thought I would give it try, secretly hoping to make a red flower with a yellow halo and so become famous and rich beyond words. Well, the “red” part of the plan kind of worked. Most of these have tended more toward red than purple. None have bloomed with a picotee edge like their parents.
5″ pot………….$25.00