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Originally Posted by jerrymeola  If you know the actual grower than an ID from HIS photos is usually accurate. |
Perhaps one photo would do it if one is dealing with a clone, but with seed-grown offspring of a complex hybrid, one plant, and therefore one picture, can't possibly accurately represent the entire range of possibilities in a reliable way. I probably should have qualified my comments, indicating I was talking about seed-raised hybrids, not clones. There have been a couple of instances here on the forum where clones have been identified with what i think is a pretty good degree of certainty.
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Originally Posted by jerrymeola Most growers, myself included, do not put a name tag in every pot when they are small. Usually they are labeled when sold. |
I've never known a grower to do this. I've seen lots of nurseries where there was one tag in a whole compot, but every nursery I have visited gives every plant its own tag when individually potted up.
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Originally Posted by jerrymeola We can ID the plants from the flowers because we do not grow 10 plants that look alike. There is no commercial reason. So when I see the flower I know what I planted and have a positive ID. |
I wasn't meaning to imply that you don't know your own plants Jerry, no doubt you do. That's really a very different issue form the one I was addressing which was someone sitting at home with an noid, browsing the internet and upon finding a picture of something that looks like their orchid, thinking they have made a reliable ID.
To add to something JLu said, not only does the expression of colour in a picture of an orchid depend on proper calibration of a monitor, it is also influenced byt the ambient light in the room where the photo was originally taken, the camera used, and the ambient light in the room of the person viweing th epicture on their computer. That's a lot of different factors that can skew the colour of an image one is viewing.