[Illisezek]

The biggest problem is that most of the big Paph breeders here are gone, closed up. The amount of crosses and quantities available from the newer Parvi Paphs plus others being produced in Taiwan, for one, and the length of time they have been produced have made doing them locally with the lab' costs make it an unviable effort to do them here. Private growers will make their own crosses but in very limited amounts. The demand is so great for these plants, importing them is the way to go. They are an extended flavour of the month orchid. Promotion has another big bearing on them also, as per usual, nurseries only show the good ones and if the truth be known, these nurseries also flower 1000's of crap plants. Some / most of the mixed parvi or brachy x multiflorals are a big con, there is a very large portion of plants from these crosses rarely if ever flower. Growers have large multi growth plants they can't flower. The pics of the ones they see look fabulous but the nursery has 1000's & fortunately do get a few to flower to show the pics. Growers get sucked in.