Description

IMPORTANT NOTE: these plants are NOT IN BUD/BLOOM when shipped. PLEASE look at all the pictures in this listing so you know the condition/size of plant you’ll be getting.

Cymbidium Pink Surprise

A lot of people don’t know this, but there’s a difference between plants grown from seed and clones. Most commercially available orchids are clones made from an outstanding plant using laboratory techniques and each resulting plant is genetically identical to the original. It’s how superior plants can be made available to more orchid lovers, and has been going on since the 1960s. Then there’s the natural way of growing orchids: from seed. In nature, orchids get pollinated by some bird or bug, and they produce seeds. These seed eventually grow up to individual plants, and some will be fantastic, and some more run of the mill. Now when orchid breeders do the pollinating, they are looking to breed two outstanding individuals together, with the hope that the resulting progeny plants are even better than the parents, or that they have certain traits the breeder is looking for. Each seed-grown plant is genetically distinct from all of its siblings derived from crossing the same parents. What is attractive about seed-grown plants is that you may win the genetic lottery and get something fantastic, and no one else has it. Many orchid hobbyists eventually get to a place where they’ve had clones, but now want something unique, and the only way to get this is through seed-grown plants. With Cymbidium Pink Surprise, two excellent pink-blooming Cymbidiums were bred together, and the resulting plants have been blooming out with quite a variety of pink flowers. All are very nice, and some are definitely worth cloning. If you’re looking for something distinctive that no one else can get from Trader Joe’s or Home Depot, then get a seed-grown plant (from superior parents!), like Cym Pink Surprise.