Monday, June 10, 2013

Bl. Morning Glory

In my previous post about Bl.Morning Glory in March I mentioned that it is probably very close to become a blooming sized plant. Well, I was totally right, because one of the two newest pseudobulbs produced this:



From my very small experience with catts in general, I know it is a bud growing:



It looks very similar to the claw looking bud of B. Little Stars (long gone by now) and I am very curious about the flower. Whatever I saw on the web, looked pretty awsome...

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel II with more blooms:

The buds continue to open on Lyndon Equator Jewel II and here it is now:



It seems to be much more colorful and bright comparing to the number one plant of this cross that I have. I hope it is just an influence of hot and humid orchid tank conditions and when the "number one" will be ready to bloom - its flowers will be just as colorful.



I really like the color combination on this hybrid.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Charts update and new spike discovered

First about the spike:
It is growing on Phal Samera which was sitting doing nothing for over a year, so I am quite excited about this spike and hope it successfully grows up to the blooming time:



Now charts. I have fixed the calculation problem for the phals that have missing parent somewhere in the family tree. In such cases chart will not be generated at all, which is better than showing wrong data. It is reloading now, about half-way through(takes a while because of recursive nature of the calculations)...
Whatever is done already looks fine.

I have added text that includes full list of the species breakdown, even those that got into "Other" bucket on the chart. For example:
http://phalaenopsis.orchideya.ca/Plants/G/Gan-Lin-Fairy-id%3def2bc2de-6ff2-40cf-8c60-4533f5c01949
or
http://phalaenopsis.orchideya.ca/Plants/P/Pingtung-Gold-id%3d0e646803-8b22-4777-bc8f-848f3bc351a1

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Phalaenopsis parentage info

I am trying to figure out the exact information on both seed and pollen parents of the following phalaenopsis hybrids:
Dawn Flower
La Catillon
Laura Galto
Twin Vision
Ann Thorne
Anthura Manchester
Bo-Liu Rod Art
Shou Shan
Tinny Moonlight
Tonjy Gold
Camanek
El Prado
Fire Music
Golden Valley
Hybrid Ignota
Ivory Pearl
Lady Valentine
Lavender
Lee Huei Rose
Luchia Smile
Malang Jaya
P. A. Benson
Redland Spots
If anybody has any info on them, please let me know in the comments.
Yes, I tried the orchid register website, no success.

My phalaenopsis reference project

I have added a new feature to my "project" - the chart with ancestry which shows the species breakdown. It was exciting to work on it because I got to use Microsoft .NET chart control which I like but don't get to use very often.
Now this chart sort of makes the plants pages without pictures to look more alive.
I spent quite a time to create a custom palette for the chart because all default ones were too colorful and I wanted it to blend in with overall design of the site.
At the beginning I had all the species to come up but when there were too many with small value - the labels became too squishy and overlapping, so I had to add "Other" slice to collect all of the species with smallish values.
Now I am thinking that I should probably add some table that will have full list of the species and their values, even the smallest ones.
So, still work-in-progress, but already kind of useable:
http://phalaenopsis.orchideya.ca/Plants/B/Brother-Passion-id%3d3c4080b8-1fc8-47e0-9bd8-e9e840370f6b
or
http://phalaenopsis.orchideya.ca/Plants/B/Brother-Sara-Gold-id%3dbc56913e-9153-4b4e-bf4a-ce7671be8c29
or
http://phalaenopsis.orchideya.ca/Plants/S/Sogo-Gold-id%3df019b899-dc39-4346-af26-005eac33645d
or
http://phalaenopsis.orchideya.ca/Plants/T/Tristar-Snow-Princess-id%3db5866a70-cc03-4229-ba62-fee646df2463
Or any other hybrid for that matter.
Looks ok? Any suggestions?