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zuri, just reread my post and guess I wasn't very clear - sorry have a head cold right now.

BTW reason I'm betting the odds with Clowesia morphology is:

Many Catasetums have erect spikes and female or male or hermaphroditic flowers. Spike usually starts at the base of the new bulb. Although there are exceptions. Donna Wise - a parent of After Dark is erect.

Clowesias are perfect (containing both male and female parts) flowers, and typically the spike is descending. Spike usually starts at the base of the bulb.

Mormodes are perfect flowers as well, but spike usually starts above the base of the bulb and the spike is typically erect. Mormodes also has a twisted column, but this does not typically come through on the intergeneric hybrids.

From everything I've seen when you cross a Clowesia and a Catasetum, you do typically get the perfect flowers, and the spike tends to be descending - indicating the spike habit of the Clowesia is dominant. What would happen if you cross it back to Catasetum enough times? Not sure. The hybridizing of these types is just not that old for me to have seen many.

With these types of crosses, Mormodes usually adds the color and/or intensity of color.

As for your spike, it looks to be descending, and just the way the buds are arranged on the spike as it is developing looks like my Clowesia x Catasetum crosses - so that is why I suspect you will have the perfect flowers.

Now have to add the disclaimers lol What I've mentioned above are the trends, there will always be exceptions - which btw is what I think make these so exciting!