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Old 10-21-2009, 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted by zuri View Post
Is there anyway to tell at this point if these are going to be male or female, or whether this a black flower or red spotted one?

Thanks again for the congrats, and I'll be sure to post periodic updates! Any advice on how to be sure not to lose these flowers?
zuri - These are a mixture of Catasetum, Clowesia and Mormodes. But from what I've seen, Clowesias are dominant in that you get perfect flowers (containing male and female) with the intergeneric crosses containing Clowesia a good bit of the time. Also your spike definitely looks Clowesia dominated.

As for color, looks too soon to tell.

BTW, is your plant still carrying it's leaves?
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