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violacea 'Gaston Bleu'
(breeding plant example - NFS)
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violacea 'Bonnie Blue'
(breeding plant example - NFS) |
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violacea 'Blue Blood'
(breeding plant example - NFS)
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bellina
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violacea 'Blue Beard'
(breeding plant example - NFS) |
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violacea
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violacea ('Boden’s Blue' X 'Gulfstream Blue' JC/AOS)
(first blooming seedling hybrid) |
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violacea ('Bonnie Blue' X 'Blue Beard')
(first blooming seedling hybrid)
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violacea 'Pine Ridge'
(plant used in my breeding - NFS)
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Over the past several years, the advancement in bellina and violacea breeding has been extraordinary in great part thanks to the efforts of H. P. and Katherine Norton in South Carolina. H. P. has taken on the difficult task of breeding for intensely blue and red colored violaceas and fuller formed bellinas despite the fact that very little seed is produced.
Pine Ridge Orchids has beeh growing flasks of these crosses for several years now, and we finally have some unbloomed hybrid seedling available for sale - seedling hybrids grow slowly. The photos above are all from H. P. and are shown to depict the trends that H. P. has been striving for.
The plants we have for sale are $150 for the blue violacea breeding and $35 for the red, (red X blue) violacea, and the bellina breeding - unbloomed seedlings with a minimum 10 cm leaf span.
I will post photos of some of the seedlings as they bloom out.
The bellina / violacea flowers are wonderfully fragrant also!
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<br> blue hybrid seedling blooming for the first time<br>$50.00 – 15 cm leaf spread','800','720'))
<br> blue hybrid seedling first blooming – deep indigo blue<br>$100.00 – 10 cm leaf spread','800','720'))
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