Sunset Valley Orchids
Fred Clarke
1255 Navel Place
Vista, CA 92081

fred.clarke@att.net

SVO 2033      
Fdk. After Dark (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO'HCC/AOS x Ctsm. Donna Wise Susan' AM/AOS)
This is the hybrid that started it all and is now world famous, with 44 AOS quality and cultural awards, including 9 FCC/AOS!  The plants offered here came from the original mother flask found in the back of the lab - miracles do happen!  This is the last chance to own an unbloomed seedling from this groundbreaking grex. Here are some pictures of After Dark: Pic 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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SVO 5610      
Cyc. warscewiczii (Cyc. warscewiczii 'Giant Swan' x Cyc. warscewiczii Wide Petals')
This 2017 listing contains four new Cyc. warscewiczii offerings.  I believe that these crosses have the highest potential ever seen and will set a new standard in flower quality for this extremely desirable species.  Cyc. warscewiczii is the most spectacular in the genus, and these new combinations are not to be missed!  'Wide Petals' is superior to all others in flower size, count, shape and flowering habit.  Check out the picture: I truly believe there is no better warscewiczii out there.  'Giant Swan' is one of my best cultivars, with very large flowers, can produce 3-4 inflorescences per pseudobulb simultaneously.
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SVO 5614
Fdk. New Hybrid (Mo. Leopard Drops 'SVO' AM/AOS x Ctsm. expansum 'Linda' AM/AOS)
A new Fredclarkeara hybrid!  Based on the success of similar crosses, these will have long-lasting flowers, full shape, heavy substance, fragrance and all the other great qualities this kind of breeding exhibits.  Flowers will be in colors from ranging from green to orange to red, most with dark burgundy spots.  Expect 2-3 pendulous inflorescences with 20 or more flowers each.
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SVO 5628
Cyc. Pineapple Popcorn (Cyc. warscewiczii 'Wide Petals' x Cyc. Kevin Clarke 'SVO' FCC/AOS)
Here we are aiming for improved flower shape in an advanced Cycnoches hybrid.  Cyc. Warscewiczii 'Wide Petals' is superior in flower size, count, shape and flowering habit.  I don't believe there are many better warscewiczii out there.  Kevin Clarke (Cyc. herrenhusanum x Cyc. warscewiczii) is truly special.  It is named for my younger son and is the first Cycnoches hybrid from SVO to receive a coveted First Class Certificate (FCC) from the American Orchid Society.  The swan-shaped flowers of Kevin Clarke are bright yellow with faint gold spots -- an amazing color!  When it was awarded, this plant had two inflorescences carrying 28 perfectly-arranged blooms.  Cyc. Kevin Clarke already has improved lip size and form, and the addition of warscewiczii genes from 'Wide Petals' will result in a significant contribution to the overall size, shape, form and lip qualities of this grex.  It is hard to improve on an FCC, but this cross has the potential to do just that!  Check these first to bloom Pic 1 , 2
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SVO 5971
Ctsm. tenebrosum (Ctsm.  tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2' AM/AOS x Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise')
This cross combines two of the best Ctsm. tenebrosum I've seen.  This is the showiest of the early-blooming species, and a great way to start the Catasetinae blooming season!  Both parents bloom reliably, with great form and color.  Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Ed #2' is the parent of Ctsm. Donna Wise, which is the parent of Fdk. After Dark.  I've often thought that the influence of 'Ed #2'is what made Fdk. After Dark so terrific.  This is superior breeding of a very desirable species, and a must-have for all Catasetum growers.
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SVO 5975
Ctsm. denticulatum (Ctsm. denticulatum 'SVO II' AM/AOS x Ctsm. denticulatum  'SVO' AM/AOS)
This is a pairing between the two best cultivars of this delightful compact-growing species.  I've been trying to produce these again for several years, and it's taken longer than I expected.  As you know, it takes male and female flowers to make a capsule, and I finally got female flowers.  Both parents are excellent growers and flower 3-4 times a year as mature plants.  Ctsm. denticulatum likes to stay warm in winter, with minimum temperatures of 60-65 oF and humidity at 50% or higher.  Better get these now - who knows when one will flower female again?!
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SVO 5981
Ctsm. Dark Odyssey (Ctsm. Karen Armstrong 'Dark Darling' x Ctsm. Darkness 'SVO Magnificent Burgundy')
This is a new mini-Catasetum crossed with a standard.  Both parents have deep, dark burgundy flowers.  'SVO Magnificent Beauty' has a large flower with amazing color that will complement the qualities of 'Dark Darling.'  I expect great things from this cross: big, dark burgundy flowers, full shape and 2-3 bloomings a year.  A very promising hybrid!  I saw one flower in the propagation cell tray with an amazing dark burgundy color and large flat lip.  Don't miss out on this grex!  Here are pictures of the first to flower.  Pic 1 , 2 ,3 ,4 , 5
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SVO 5985      
Ctsm. pileatum v. imperiale (Ctsm. pileatum v. imperiale 'Pierre Couret' HCC/AOS x Ctsm. pileatum v. imperiale 'SVO Blood Red')
Superior dark red Ctsm. pileatum are very hard to come by.  These will bloom in a range of colors from solid red to two-tone red/white and possibly red/green.  If you've been looking for Ctsm. pileatum with terrific potential, here they are!
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SVO 5992
Ctsm. Brent's Black Hawk (Ctsm. Donna Wise 'Lee' HCC/AOS x Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2' AM/AOS)
These will produce lots of dark chocolate/maroon flowers with bright green lips on long arching stems.  Some flowers may be almost black and will be very striking, with their contrasting green lips.  This is a very vigorous hybrid that will flower in early spring, summer and fall.
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SVO 6008
Cyc. New Hybrid (Cyc. Richard Brandon 'SVO II' x Cyc. Martha Clarke 'SVO' AM/AOS)
One of my favorite modern Cycnoches crosses is Richard Brandon (warscewiczii x Jean E. Monnier) they have had excellent flower quality, easy of growth, fast to flower and above all excellent bloom color, but my most favorite is my wife's namesake, Martha Clarke (herrenhusanum x barthiorum) she is just beautiful with oranghe-yellow flowers and red spots. I have a good feeling about his cross, and I expect new flower colors: some will have an almost orangey base color, and almost all will be boldly spotted burgundy.  These will have excellent flower size and a beautiful cascading arrangement of 15 or more blooms.
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SVO 6127      
Fdk. Gemstones (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' AM AOS x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'JTM'
Painted Desert 'SVO' is well proven as a parent and imparts many fine qualities to its progeny, which have received more than 47 awards worldwide!!!  'JTM' is short for 'Jamie's Tortured Midnight.'  This remarkable clone has exceptionally large and very dark burgundy flowers.  This grex will produce offspring that range in color from dark red to almost black, with broad, flattened lips.  Inflorescences will be produced 1-3 per pseudobulb and carry 15-25 well arranged flowers.  This is a really great Fredclarkeara, with exceptional flower color, size and longevity. 
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SVO 6139      
Fdk. New Hybrid (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' HCC/AOS x Ctsm. spitzii 'SVO Gold' FCC/AOS)
Painted Desert (Cl. Rebecca Northen x Morm. sinuata) is well proven as a parent, tramsmitting many fine traits to its progeny.  Ctsm. spitzii 'SVO Gold' has solid bright yellow flowers of the highest quality, with strong inflorescences carrying 25-30 blooms apiece.  The lip of spitzii is thick and solid, almost like it's formed from yellow wax, and should help to flatten the lip in this grex.  The expectation is for long-lasting, mostly red flowers with contrasting flat lips.  Flower shape should be beautiful, and flower count will be high, as both parents can carry 25 or more blossoms.  This is a highly anticipated cross with lots of potential to produce some exceptional Fredclarkeara offspring.
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SVO 6147      
Cyc. loddigesii (Cyc. loddigesii 'Darkness' x self)
There have been many requests for this species, and the reply has always been ‘sorry - I don’t have any.’   One of the challenges in breeding plants with sexually dimorphic flowers is having both male and female flowers simultaneously. Finally, after years of waiting, we were able to make a selfing.  This dark color from is rare in cultivation and very collectable.  None available
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SVO 6159      
Cyc. Maren Gleason (Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO' AM/AOS x Cyc. Martha Clarke 'SVO' AM/AOS)
This warscewiczii has superb flower size, count, shape and flowering habit.  The Martha Clarke (herrenhusanum x barthiorum) is truly special, which is why I named it for my wife!  The swan-shaped flowers of Martha Clarke are orange/yellow with dark burgundy spots - amazing colors!  The addition of warscewiczii genes will result in a significant improvement to the overall size, shape, and form.  Large yellow/green flowers with many having red spots - oh my!  Pictures of first to bloom . Pic 1  , 2
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SVO 6171
Ctsm. Double Down (Ctsm. Chuck Taylor 'Wow' x Ctsm. kleberianum 'SVO' )
Ctsm. Chuck Taylor is an excellent mini-Catasetum, with rich burgundy petals and sepals, and a contrasting yellow lip.  It's just beautiful!  Ctsm. kleberianum is a great mini-Catasetum species, producing strikingly-colored flowers that combine dark barring on the petals and sepals with a bright yellow lip.s  As a bonus, it also carries 15 or more flowers per stem.  These will be mini-Catasetums with bright yellow lips, and the petals and sepals will have dark bars, some of which will be solid burgundy!   This is one of those 'not to be missed' mini-Catasetums.  Check out these first-to-bloom pictures. Pic 1 , 2 , 3
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SVO 6173
Fdk. L'Amour de vie de Sue (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' HCC/AOS  x Ctsm. Louise Clarke 'Simply Fantastic')
Painted Desert (Cl. Rebecca Northen x Morm. sinuata) is the parent of the world-famous Fdk. After Dark.  The influence of Mormodia (Mo.) is well known: it adds flower color, multiple pendulous inflorescences and flower longevity to its offspring.  Ctsm. Louise Clarke is named for my mother and is a spectacular hybrid.  The cultivar 'Simply Fantastic' flowers 3-4 times a year and has superb flower quality, high flower count and huge, hard flat lips.  The Ctsm. Louise Clarke adds additional doses of pileatum and expansum, which will provide improved flower size and lip width.  What about color?  I believe that the deep red from Mo. Painted Desert combined with the dark brown of Ctsm. Louise Clarke will lead to red blooms with darker spots, but this cross has the potential to produce black-colored flowers.  All will have excellent form, arrangement and flower count.    Similar to SVO 6481.  Picture of first to bloom. Pic 1 
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SVO 6175      
Ctsm. Fong Cing (Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Jack of Diamonds' AM/AOS x Ctsm. José Abalo 'SVO')
This Orchidglade (pileatum x expansum) has dark red flowers and an exceptionally large lip.  The José Abalo (sanguineum x Orchidglade) has a 2 foot long inflorescence carrying 20 dark burgundy flowers with black lips.  This grex was very successful when made with the heavily spotted Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' AM/AOS, and many plants flowered with strong stems of heavy blooms, deeply spotted with burgundy.  Here are some pictures from that first group.  Pic 1 , 2 .  This remake using 'Jack of Diamonds' is designed to reinforce the dark burgundy flower.  I am expecting most to be surprisingly large, dark burgundy flowers on strong stems.  These will be fantastic!
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SVO 6192      
Ctsm. pileatum (Ctsm. pileatum 'Dinner Plate' x Ctsm. pileatum 'Jumbo Green Gold' HCC/AOS)
Ctsm.  pileatum is the 'king and queen' of the Catasetums.  These will bloom 2 or 3 times a year with large 4-5” flowers, impressive broad green lips, and 10-13 flowers per inflorescence.  Several flowered last year and were stunning.  All I can say is, "Wow!"
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SVO 6365      
Ctsm. tigrinum (Ctsm. tigrinum 'SVO II' x self)
This is a great species: a small-growing plant producing white flowers with pink spots.  Mature plants carry 15-25 flowers per inflorescence and can flower 2 to 3 times a season.  This species is very rare in the USA and in its homeland of Brazil.  Ctsm. tigrinum likes to stay warm in winter, with minimum temperatures of 60-65 oF and humidity at 50% or higher. This is the first significant offering of this species that I've seen.  If you collect species, this is a must-have!
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SVO 6469      
Ctsm. New Hybrid (Ctsm. Chuck Taylor 'Wow' x Ctsm. denticulatum 'SVO II' AM/AOS)
Chuck Taylor (Portagee Star x denticulatum) is a very nice mini-Catasetum.  The cultivar 'Wow' has dark burgundy petals and sepals, and a contrasting yellow lip - just beautiful!  Ctsm. denticulatum is a small-growing species with excellent breeding qualities.  Here, Chuck Taylor is backcrossed to its denticulatum parent, assuring a mini-Castasetum plant stature and lots of spotted flowers in a range of colors. Plants will flower 2-3 times a year.
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SVO 6470      
(Fdk. Frank Smith 'SVO' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS)
Frank Smith 'SVO' (Mo. Painted Desert x Ctsm. John C. Burchett) is just fantastic, with superior shape, high flower count, perfectly arranged blooms, long lasting flowers, and a flower color that is very dark, appearing nearly black.  John C. Burchett (João Stivalli x Susan Fuchs) is the pinnacle of pileatum-based Catasetum breeding today.  Its dark burgundy flowers are fantastic in every way: size, color, shape, etc.  This cross represents line breeding at its finest!  The Frank Smith is already fantastic, but adding back the huge pileatum-based lip of John C. Burchett will further flatten and increase the size of the flower and lip, while maintaining the amazing color.  I'm not sure how it can get any better than this!
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SVO 6472      
Cyc. New Hybrid (Cyc. Jumbo Cooper 'SVO' AM/AOS x Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO' AM/AOS)
This cross is all about green flowers on long cascading inflorescences. The cross of Jumbo Cooper used the very green Cyc. cooperi 'Green Emerald' HCC/AOS and the exceptional  Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO' AM/AOS as parents.  The offspring were high quality, with 3 receiving AOS awards.  Backcrossing Jumbo Cooper to warscewiczii will increase flower size, improve overall shape and reinforce the green flower color. The plants are showing excellent vigor.
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SVO 6473      
Cyc. New Hybrid (Cyc. Jumbo Cooper 'SVO' AM/AOS x Cyc. Alexis Jesus Pardo 'Sleeper Keeper')
The cross of Jumbo Cooper used the very green Cyc. cooperi 'Green Emerald' HCC/AOS and the exceptional  Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO' AM/AOS as parents.  The flower quality, size and count of the progeny have been excellent.  Cyc. Alexis Jesus Pardo (Cyc. Chloroge x Cyc. barthiorum) has a different look to the flowers, with a more upswept petal stance, influenced by the Cyc. loddigesii in its breeding.  These new Cycnoches hybrids are getting very interesting!  The expectation here is for large, light tan to green flowers with spotting, and lots of flowers on each inflorescence.
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SVO 6477
Fdk. Kelly Longley (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' HCC/AOS x Ctsm. José Abalo 'SVO')
The influence of Painted Desert (Cl. Rebecca Northen x Morm. sinuata) in breeding is well documented; this grex confers excellent form, color and flower longevity.  The addition of José Abalo (sanguineum x Orchidglade) and its 2 foot long stem carrying 20 dark burgundy flowers with black lips, gives us a truly outstanding hybrid.  These will produce long-lasting flowers of excellent shape in shades of black.   All you have to do is check out this picture Alan Longley took of his daughter's namesake. Pic 1  Wow, Wow, WOW! 
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SVO 6480      
Fdk. Fdk. Beverly Danielson (Fdk. After Midnight 'SVO' AM/AOS x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' AM/AOS)
At SVO we are all about developing flowers with new looks and colors.  With this cross, the dark red flowers with very dark burgundy spots of Fdk. After Midnight'SVO' are paired with the huge lip and colorful spotted flower of Ctsm. Orchidglade.  Past experience has taught us this type of hybrid makes for improved flower form while allowing for new color combinations.  The flower color of the progeny will range from red and densely spotted to light yellow with bold red spots, and a few will be the darkest burgundy.  There is lots of potential to get unique flowers from this cross.
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SVO 6481      
Fdk. L'Amour de vie de Sue (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' HCC/AOS x Ctsm. Louise Clarke 'Very Dark')
Painted Desert (Cl. Rebecca Northen x Morm. sinuata) is the parent of the world-famous Fdk. After Dark.  The influence of Mormodia (Mo.) is well known: it adds flower color, multiple pendulous inflorescences and flower longevity to its offspring.  Ctsm. Louise Clarke is named for my mother and is a spectacular hybrid.  The cultivar 'Very Dark' blooms 3-4 times a year and produces flowers with very large, flat lips in very dark colors.  The Ctsm. Louise Clarke adds additional doses of pileatum and expansum, which will provide improved flower size and lip width.  What about color?  I believe that the deep red from Mo. Painted Desert combined with the dark brown of Ctsm. Louise Clarke will lead to red blooms with darker spots, but this cross has the potential to produce black-colored flowers.  All will have excellent form, arrangement and flower count.  Similar to SVO 6173.
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SVO 6483      
Clo. New Hybrid (Clo. JEM'S Dragon Tears 'SVO' AM/AOS x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' AM/AOS) 
Clowesetum (Catasetum x Clowesia) have excellent flower longevity with blooms often lasting more than 4 weeks!  JEM's Dragon Tears (Cl. warczewitzii x Ctsm. cirrhaeoides) is a small plant, standing about 6” tall at maturity.  A prolific bloomer, each pendulous inflorescence carries up to 35 flowers.  Orchidglade (pileatum x expansum) has large yellow flowers with red spots and a huge lip.  This is a good cross, made to deliver high-quality progeny, with high flower count, reduced plant size and great flower longevity.  Flowers will show a range of colors, mostly yellows with bold burgundy spotting.
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SVO 6486      
Clo. New Hybrid (Clo. Pierre Couret 'Flamingo Spots' x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' AM/AOS)
One of the great things about Clowesetum (Catasetum x Clowesia) is the 4-5 week flower longevity in this hybrid genus.  The long-lived, light pink flowers with dark pink spotting of the Pierre Couret (Cl. Rebecca Northen x Ctsm. pileatum v. imperiale) are really attractive. Orchidglade (pileatum x expansum) has yellow flowers with red spots and a huge lip.  This hybrid will deliver a significantly improvement in flower size, great color and many flowers per inflorescence.  Flowers will range across pink shades, with darker red-pink spotting.  This advanced Clowesetum cross will raise the bar for flower quality and produce long-lived blooms lasting 4-5 weeks.
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SVO 6487
Fdk. Fdk. Beverly Danielson  (Fdk. After Midnight 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS' x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davies Ranches' AM/AOS)
With this cross we are taking the nearly perfect darkest burgundy flowers of Fdk. After Midnight 'SVO Dark Beauty' and pairing them with the huge lip and colorful spotted flower of Ctsm. Orchidglade.  Our experience has taught us that this type of hybrid makes for improved flower form.  The flower color of the progeny will range from solid deep burgundy to densely spotted burgundy, and a few might even be light yellow with bold red spots.  There is lots of potential to get unique and beautiful flowers from this cross.
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SVO 6488
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Desert Tenor 'SVO Burgundy Beauty' AM/AOS x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'JTM')
Desert Tenor (Mo. Painted Desert x Ctsm. tenebrosum) has almost perfect flower shape with very rounded segments, lots of flowers, and a rich reddish color, covered with dark spots. The flower of Orchidglade 'JTM' (pileatum x expansum) is an amazing very dark burgundy, with a huge lip in the same color. 'JTM' is short for 'Jamie's Tortured Midnight.'  All of the benefits of this breeding will be evident in the progeny: excellent shape, flower color, high flower count and bloom longevity.
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SVO 6491      
Fdk. New Hybrid (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' HCC/AOS x Ctsm. Karen Armstrong 'SVO')
This is a new direction in Fredclarkeara breeding!  Because of the Karen Armstrong influence, these plants will stay under 8” tall, making this a mini-Fredclarkeara!!!  Can you tell how excited I am??  We know that Painted Desert is influential in breeding, producing excellent form, color and flower longevity.  It is also a small-growing plant that matures at only 6” tall.  Here we've paired it with the mini-Catasetum Karen Armstrong (Susan Fuchs x denticulatum), with its bright yellow flowers covered in coalescing burgundy spots.  The combination will make this grex a real star!  Flower colors will range from deep red to spotted red/burgundy, and we expect excellent form, high flower count, and pleasing arrangement.  The plants will stay small and produce 2-3 inflorescences per bulb.  I am very anxious to see these bloom!
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SVO 6492      
Fdk. New Hybrid (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' HCC/AOS  x Ctsm. Alexa 'Good One')
Here is another mini-Fredclarkeara!  The influence of Painted Desert (Cl. Rebecca Northen x Morm. sinuata) is well-documented; this important parent transmits excellent form, color and flower longevity to its progeny.  The mini-Catasetum Alexa (Bela Vista's Sangria x denticulatum) 'Good One' is the largest, fullest and darkest I have seen from the cross; it really is a standout!  These flowers will range in colors from the darkest burgundy to deep red.  They also will have a high flower count, excellent form and be well arranged.  Mature plants will be 6-8” tall and produce 2-3 inflorescences per bulb.  I can hardly wait!
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SVO 6503      
Morm. New Hybrid (Morm. Wild Rainbow 'BB' x Morm. Nitty-Gritty 'Darkness')
The late season flowering of Mormodes signals that winter is nearly here, and the bizarre colors, twisted flowers and spicy fragrance typify these last Catasetinae flowers of the season.  Wild Rainbow (andicola x rolfeana) was made by Brent Baker.  It has large flowers in burgundy, spotted with dark burnt orange, and a spotted burgundy red lip - a very eye-catching color combination!  The large Nitty-Gritty (Exotic Treat x rolfeana) flowers are an extra dark burnt orange covered with burgundy spots, and a dark red lip.  This is a highly advanced Mormodes hybrid.  These plants are growing really well and will produce 3-4 inflorescences per bulb when mature.  Expect some amazing and unusually dark flower colors from this one!
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SVO 6521      
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Dark There After 'SVO Crazy Good' AM/AOS' x Ctsm. José Abalo 'SVO')
Dark There After (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. Donna Wise) has produced a number of significant plants, with five receiving AOS awards to date.  'SVO Crazy Good' is fantastic, with outstanding form, size, color and an amazing, very broad, almost-flat lip.  The addition of José Abalo (sanguineum x Orchidglade), with its 2 foot long stem carrying 20 dark burgundy flowers with black lips, will give us an excellent opportunity for very dark flowers, some showing the elusive black color.  All the benefits of Fredclarkeara breeding will be evident with this cross.  If I were a betting man, this is one I would place my money on.  In fact, I was so excited about the potential for this cross, that I made it twice.  Not to be overlooked!  See SVO 6527.
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SVO 6522      
Cyc. warscewiczii (Cyc. warscewiczii 'Giant Swan' x Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO Swan')
This 2017 listing contains four new Cyc. warscewiczii offerings.  I believe that these crosses have the highest potential ever seen and will set a new standard in flower quality for this extremely desirable species.  Both of these cultivars came from my earlier cross of ('SVO' AM/AOS x 'SVO II' AM/AOS).  'Giant Swan' is one of my best, with very large flowers, and has produced 3-4 inflorescences per pseudobulb at one time. 'SVO Swan' has the widest petals and fullest flowers I have seen and can carry 5-7 flowers per inflorescence.  I cannot imagine a better pairing and believe this cross will set a new standard of quality.  These are for the discriminating collector, who wants the very best potential in this amazing species.
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SVO 6523      
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Midnight Sky 'Dark Perfection' x Ctsm. John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS)
Midnight Sky (Mo. Painted Desert x Ctsm. Mark Dimmitt) has beautiful, waxy, dark, dark, dark burgundy/black flowers with broad lips.  It has not been exhibited but appears in every regard to be FCC quality.  John C. Burchett (João Stivalli x Susan Fuchs) is the pinnacle of pileatum-based Catasetum breeding today.  Its dark burgundy flowers have fantastic size, color and shape.  I am expecting very dark flowers, some nearly black.  These will have excellent flower count, form, arrangement, size, fragrance and longevity. What a great first bloom! This first bloom plant has 11 flowers,  check out this picture  Pic1
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SVO 6525      
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Dark There After 'SVO Crazy Good' AM/AOS x Ctsm. John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS )
Dark There After (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. Donna Wise) 'SVO Crazy Good' has a fantastic flower with amazing form, size, color and an unusually broad lip that is almost flat.   John C. Burchett (Ctsm. João Stivalli x Ctsm Susan Fuchs) is as good as it gets with Catasetum breeding today.  The dark burgundy flowers are of superior size, color, and shape.  This is Fdk. breeding at its finest!  The Dark There After is fantastic, and adding the huge, dark pileatum-based lip of John C. Burchett again will further increase the size and flatten the shape of the flower and lip.  All of the benefits of Fredclarkeara breeding will be evident in this cross.  This grex has huge potential - don't miss out!
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SVO 6526      
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Dark There After 'SVO Crazy Good' AM/AOS x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' AM/AOS)
Dark There After (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. Donna Wise) 'SVO Crazy Good' has a fantastic flower with amazing form, size, color and a very broad almost-flat lip.  Orchidglade (pileatum x expansum) has large yellow flowers with red spotting and a huge lip.  It is also a prolific bloomer, with flowers produced 3-4 times a season.  With this cross we expect some color influence from the Orchidglade.  Flowers will come in a range of hues, from dark red to light red-yellow, and a few might even be yellow-green.  Most will have varying degrees of red spotting.  Flower size and arrangement will be excellent!
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SVO 6527
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Dark There After 'SVO Crazy Good' AM/AOS' x Ctsm. José Abalo 'SVO')
Dark There After (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. Donna Wise) has produced a number of significant plants, with five receiving AOS awards to date.  'SVO Crazy Good' is fantastic, with outstanding form, size, color and an amazing, very broad, almost-flat lip.  The addition of José Abalo (sanguineum x Orchidglade), with its 2 foot long stem carrying 20 dark burgundy flowers with black lips, will give us an excellent opportunity for very dark flowers, some showing the elusive black color.  All the benefits of Fredclarkeara breeding will be evident with this cross.  If I were a betting man, this is one I would place my money on.  In fact, I was so excited about the potential for this cross, that I made it twice.  Not to be overlooked!  See SVO 6521.
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SVO 6528
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. After Hours 'SVO Way Good' AM/AOS x Ctsm. John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS)
The grex After Hours (Fdk. After Dark 'SVO' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS) has two FCC/AOS parents, and the backcross to John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS makes it three.  This type of line breeding, in which a hybrid is crossed back to one of its parents, will continue to increase flower size and improve lip flatness while maintaining the dark, nearly black-burgundy color.  These will have the excellent qualities of Fredclarkeara hybrids, including flower quantity, form, arrangement, size, fragrance and bloom longevity.  Very limited supply.
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SVO 6529
Cycd. Spotted Hornet (Morm. Exotic Treat 'SVO' AM/AOS x Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO Swan')
Cycnodes (Cycd.) hybrids come from the combination of Cycnoches and Mormodes.  This type of primary hybrid gets the best qualities from both parents: the Mormodes is dominant for color, and the Cycnoches is dominant for shape.  Cycnodes hybrids have a proven track record, producing excellent quality flowers that garner lots of  AOS awards.  Spotted Hornet already has received an AM/AOS and a FCC/AOS!  Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO Swan' has the highest flower quality, and the Exotic Treat (sinuata x tuxtlensis) has amazing color.  These are going to have bright yellow flowers with bold burgundy spotting, and the blooms will have excellent shape and size.  This grex has very high award potential!  Last year, I also offered the reciprocal cross, SVO 6489, allowing the rare opportunity to compare the influence of pod vs. pollen parent on the progeny.  Here are pictures of the awarded plants Pic 1 ,2
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SVO 6536      
Cyc. warscewiczii (Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO Swan' x Cyc. warscewiczii 'OMG' )
This 2017 listing contains four new Cyc. warscewiczii offerings.  I believe that these crosses have the highest potential ever seen and will set a new standard in flower quality for this extremely desirable species.  Both of these cultivars came from my earlier cross of ('SVO' AM/AOS x 'SVO II' AM/AOS).  'SVO Swan' has the widest petals and fullest flowers I have seen.  'OMG' has unusually large, wide and flat petals.  This will set a new standard in quality for warscewiczii.  This is one for the discriminating collector and will set a new standard of quality.
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SVO 6542
Ctsm.New Hybrid (Ctsm. Frilly Doris 'SVO II' AM/AOS x Ctsm. José Abalo 'SVO')
Frilly Doris (Doris's Choice x Dona Marie) gives predictable results in its progeny by imparting good flower form, a fimbriate lip, and well arranged flowers.  It is also a vigorous grower, blooming 3-4 times a season.  José Abalo (sanguineum x Orchidglade) has a 2 foot long stem carrying 20 dark burgundy flowers with black lips - really an outstanding plant.  This cross is all about color and frilly lips!  We will see 15-20 large, dark burgundy, spotted flowers on strong sturdy stems from this cross.  The lips will be a very dark color and have fimbriate edges.  These are larger growing plants that will really impress!
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SVO 6543
Morm. New Hybrid (Morm. Exotic Treat 'Orange Leopard' x Morm. Nitty-Gritty 'SCVO Ripper' JC/AOS)
This Exotic Treat (sinuata x tuxtlensis) has amazing color, with bright orange-yellow flowers and bold burgundy spotting. The large flowers of Nitty-Gritty (Exotic Treat x rolfeana) are an extra dark burnt orange covered with burgundy spots, and a dark red lip.  This is a highly advanced Mormodes hybrid, which displays good growth vigor.  The flowering of Mormodes signals that winter is nearly here, with amazing colors, twisted flowers and a spicy fragrance that typify these last Catasetinae flowers of the season. These are floriferous when mature, with 3-4 inflorescences per bulb.  Expect some amazing and unusual flower colors from this one!
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SVO 6718      
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. No Doubt 'Summer Wine' x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' AM/AOS)
At SVO we are all about developing flowers with new looks and colors, and there was no doubt about how good No Doubt (Mo. Painted Desert x Ctsm. Susan Fuchs) was going to be.  The flowers are rose-pink with a yellow lip, all covered in fine red spotting.  Take a look at the picture.  Orchidglade (pileatum x expansum) has large yellow flowers with red spots and a huge lip.  As a bonus, it is also a prolific bloomer, producing flowers 3-4 times a season.  With this cross, there will be new flower colors for a Fdk. hybrid.  We are expecting colors from rose to yellow with red spotting, and the lips will be broad and flattened.  These will also have large, long-lived flowers with great form and excellent arrangement. Here is a new look, check out this color!   Just Amazing  Pic1 

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SVO  6720     
Cyc. New Hybrid (Cyc. Anne-Kathrin Berger 'SVO' x Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO' AM/AOS)
I've been breeding for Cycnoches with yellow flowers and red spots, a combination that I really like.  The Anne-Kathrin Berger (pentadactylon x herrenhusanum) has this color combination as well as great flower form, high flower count and ease of plant growth.  This warscewiczii has great flower quality and is a reliable, vigorous plant that has been an important part of my breeding program. The hope is for a percentage of yellow flowers with fine red spots.  Flower shape will be excellent, and the pendent inflorescences will have 13-15 well-arranged flowers.  I am very optimistic about the results here.
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SVO  6721
Cycd. New Hybrid (Cycd. Freckled Sweetheart 'SVO Best' x Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO Jumbo Super')
These next generation Cycnodes hybrids have been challenging to make.  It often takes 3-4 attempts before viable seed is produced, and such is the case with this cross.  Freckled Sweetheart was acquired from JEM Orchids and has been a part of my collection for many years.  Its parents are (Morm. tuxtlensis x Cyc. chlorochilon), and the flowers are a brilliant yellow with bold burgundy spots, influenced by the color of the Mormodes parent.  A few things are going to happen when Freckled Sweetheart is crossed to warscewiczii: improved flower size and shape, and most importantly the excellent color will come through.  This is the first offspring from seed produced by Freckled Sweetheart, and I am really looking forward to seeing these!
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SVO 6722
Fdk. Majestic Orchids Shopper (Fdk. After Midnight 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS)
This cross is named for a large Facebook orchid club in Puerto Rico.  The capsule parent is the best After Midnight (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. Mark Dimmitt), as the FCC/AOS award indicates, but I'll add that it was awarded with 32 perfectly-arranged, flat, dark black-cherry red flowers on two gracefully arching inflorescences.  This John C. Burchett (João Stivalli x Susan Fuchs) is as good as it gets with Catasetum breeding today.  The dark burgundy flowers are of superior size, color and shape, and the lip is huge and flat.  This grex is top-of-the-line Fredclarkeara breeding, and the addition of the huge dark pileatum-type lip from the John C. Burchett will further increase flower size and flatten the flower and lip shape.  How can it get better than this?  If I were a betting man, this is another cross where I'd put my money!  Same as SVO 6871 Check out this picture it's a huge 3" flowers with excellent color and form from the first plant to bloom this season
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SVO 6723
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS)
There are few crosses that excite me as much as this one!  I am confident that this grex will produce some of the most amazing results.  'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS is the best of the best! Tts shape, color, form, ease to bloom, fragrance and flower life are all superior.  'Ursa Major' has a huge, flat, nearly black lip - a truly spectacular feature.  I don't think there is a better cross with comparable potential.  I'll go out on a limb and predict that there will be at least one FCC/AOS from this cross!
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SVO 6724
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Midnight Lace 'SVO' x Ctsm. Frilly Doris 'SVO II' AM/AOS)
Here is a new style in Fredclarkeara breeding.  The Midnight Lace (Mo. Painted Desert x Ctsm. fimbriatum v. morrenianum) produces more than 25 dark purple-burgundy flowers with frilly lips that almost look like black lace.  Frilly Doris (Doris's Choice x Dona Marie) imparts good flower form and arrangement, and a fimbriate lip, plus the habit of blooming 3-4 times a season.  Just imagine 15-20 large, long-lasting, dark purple-burgundy flowers with dark frilly lips, produced 2-3 times a season.  Sounds pretty good to me!
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SVO 6725
Ctmds. Dragons Glade (Ctmds. Dragons Tail 'Dark Tale' x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' AM/AOS)

EVERYBODY MUST CHECK OUT THIS PICTURE!!!  Ctmds. Dragon Glade 'Black Dragon'  this is the 6th plant to flower from this cross (that I know of) and yes it is the blackest orchid I have seen.  It is the most significant improvement in Catasetinae breeding since the first Fredclarkeara's came out. The first 3 looked like the pictures below and now 3 have bloomed like the pictured 'Black Dragon'. It appears the offspring are split 50/50 with about half coming yellow-spotted and the other black or nearly so.  I predicted the yellow-spots but the black colors are a welcomed surprise! The flower form and arrangement of the 6 bloomed plants has also been exceptional. Here is an opportunity to be one of the first to acquire the truly amazing genetics of this landmark hybrid.  

This is a Catamodes (Catasetum x Mormodes).  Dragons Tail (Ctsm. denticulatum x Morm. ignea) has amazing-looking flowers, almost scale-like, with deep colors and flat lips.  Just take a look at the picture.  Orchidglade (pileatum x expansum) has large yellow flowers with red spotting and a huge lip.  It grows particularly well and is a reliable bloomer.  This is the first [(Mormodes x Catasetum) x Catasetum] cross I am aware of, making this a first in breeding.  The Mormodes, with its special ability to add color to hybrids, will assure that this is an extraordinary grex.  Flowers will have a yellow base color overlaid with dense coalescing dark burgundy-brown spots, and the lips will be flat and similar in coloration.  Flowers will have good substance and last 3 weeks or more.  This is a very exciting hybrid with very interesting floral characteristics.  Check out this first to bloom picture - Wow!!!  The description written a year ago is spot on, with one exception: the flower is twice the size of Dragons Tail!  We have now flowered these additional plants: Picture  1,  2.
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SVO 6726
Cycd. Troublemaker (Cycd. Spotted Hornet 'SVO' FCC/AOS x Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO' AM/AOS)
An FCC/AOS is the highest accolade that AOS judges can confer.  Spotted Hornet (Morm. Exotic Treat x Cyc. warscewiczii) 'SVO' has superior color, with the sepals and petals a bright yellow-green with mahogany spots, and an orange lip, spotted with mahogany.  This grex exhibits the best qualities that result when a Mormodes and a Cycnoches are combined: the Mormodes is dominant for color, and the Cycnoches is dominant for shape.  By breeding back to Cyc. warscewiczii, I predict improvement in flower form, with wider and flatter blooms.  I am also expecting the vibrant flower color to prevail, due to dominance by the Mormodes.  These have lots of potential for the 'best yet' in Cycnodes breeding. Check out the one of the first to bloom.... Pic 1, Super shape and color!
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SVO 6727
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Frank Smith 'SVO' FCC/AOS x Fdk. Dark Matter 'SVO')
This is a first for the history books - the first time a Fredclarkeara has been crossed to another Fredclarkeara!  With an FCC to its credit, Fdk. Frank Smith 'SVO' (Mo. Painted Desert x Ctsm. John C. Burchett) is just fantastic: superior shape, high flower count, perfectly arranged blooms, long lasting flowers, and a flower color that is so dark as to appear black.  The parents of Fdk. Dark Matter are (Fdk.After Dark 'Black Pearl' x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'JTM'), and the 'SVO' cultivar is, in my perhaps-not-so-humble opinion, one of the nicest flowers to come from modern Fredclarkeara breeding.  Very dark flowers, excellent shape, size, arrangement, fragrance…I could go on and on!
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SVO  6728
Fdk. New Hybrid (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' HCC/AOS x Ctsm. Melana Davison 'Fox Tail')
This is a new direction in Fredclarkeara breeding!  The influence of Melana Davison will assure that plants stay under 8” tall, which makes this a mini-Fredclarkeara!!!  We know about the influence of Painted Desert as a parent, producing offspring with excellent form, color and flower longevity.  It is also a small-growing plant that matures at only 6” tall.  Here we've paired it with the superior flowers of the mini-Catasetum Melana Davision (Penang x denticulatum).  The combination will make this grex a star!  Flower colors will range from deep red to spotted red/burgundy, and we expect excellent form, high flower count, and pleasing arrangement.  The plants will stay small and produce 2-3 inflorescences per bulb.  I can't wait to see these bloom!
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SVO 6865
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. After Hours 'SVO Heaven Scent' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'JTM')
Both of the parents of Fdk. After Hours (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. John C. Burchett) have a proven history of producing many successful hybrids.  Here we are taking the recently awarded 'SVO Heaven Scent' FCC/AOS and pairing it with the prolific breeder Orchidglade 'JTM' (pileatum x expansum) and its dark burgundy flowers and huge lip.  In this grex we have all the ingredients for a superior hybrid: excellent shape, fantastic flower color, high flower count and bloom longevity.
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SVO 6866
Ctsm. New Hybrid (Ctsm. schmidtianum 'SVO' x Ctsm. Susan Fuchs 'Burgundy Chips' FCC/AOS)
These next two crosses are firsts for SVO breeding.  What motivated me were some nice photos posted on the Facebook pages of Catasetum Fever and Catasetinae Canada.  The 'SVO' cultivar is the darker color form of Ctsm. schmidtianum, with relatively long 18-20” stems of 13-15 heavy, thick flowers with saccate, fimbriate lips.  Ctsm. Susan Fuchs (Orchidglade x expansum) is a well-known and reliable breeder.  I expect strong inflorescences carrying 13+ large flowers with burgundy spots.  It will be very interesting to see how schmidtianum combines with Susan Fuchs.
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SVO 6867
Ctsm. Green Dragon (Ctsm. schmidtianum 'SVO' x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'JTM')
This is the second cross with schmidtianum 'SVO.'  Orchidglade 'JTM' has very dark, solid burgundy flowers.  I expect plants from this grex to produce strong inflorescences carrying 13+ dark burgundy blooms.  I look forward to seeing how schmidtianum combines with Orchidglade and how 'JTM' influences color.  Don't expect to see any Green Dragons here - just Dark Dragons!!!
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SVO 6868
Fdk. Beverly Danielson (Fdk. After Midnight 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'JTM')
The grex Fdk. After Midnight (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. Mark Dimmitt) is proving to be a fertile parent.> Here we are taking the nearly perfect flowers of Fdk. After Midnight 'SVO Dark Beauty' and pairing them with the amazing, very dark burgundy flowers of Orchidglade 'JTM' (pileatum x expansum).  'JTM' is short for 'Jamie's Tortured Midnight.'  All of the benefits of this breeding will be evident in the progeny: excellent shape, rich flower color, high flower count and bloom longevity.
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SVO 6869
Cyc. warscewiczii (Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO Jumbo Super' x Cyc. warscewiczii 'OMG')
This 2017 listing contains four new Cyc. warscewiczii offerings.  I believe that these crosses have the highest potential ever seen and will set a new standard in flower quality for this extremely desirable species.  The breeding history behind this pairing: 'SVO Jumbo Super' is ('SVO' AM/AOS x 'Jumbo Mutation'), and 'OMG' is ('SVO' AM/AOS x 'SVO II' AM/AOS).  Both of these have ridiculously wide petals and flat form.  This is as good as it gets!
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SVO 6871
Fdk. Majestic Orchids Shopper (Fdk. After Midnight 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. John C. Burchett 'Ursa Major' FCC/AOS) 
This cross is named for a Facebook group located in Puerto Rico.  The capsule parent is the best After Midnight (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. Mark Dimmitt), as the FCC/AOS award indicates, but I'll add that it was awarded with 32 perfectly-arranged, flat, dark, black-cherry-red flowers on two gracefully arching inflorescences.  This John C. Burchett (João Stivalli x Susan Fuchs) is as good as it gets with Catasetum breeding today.  The dark burgundy flowers are of superior size, color and shape, and the lip is huge and flat.  This grex is top Fredclarkeara breeding, and the addition of the huge dark pileatum-type lip from the John C. Burchett will further increase and flatten the flower size and lip shape.  How can a cross be better than this?  If I were a betting man, this is another grex where I'd put my money!  Same as SVO 2781 and 6722.  Yes - this cross is so good I made it in two consecutive years! Check out this picture it's a huge 3" flowers with excellent color and form from the first plant to bloom this season
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SVO 6875
Fdk. New Hybrid (Fdk. Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. Frilly Doris 'SVOII' AM/AOS)
We are always testing the boundaries in breeding, and this cross is a bit unconventional.  Fdk. Enter Light (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. pileatum) is truly one of the best Fredclarkeara's, with amazing flower color, shape, form and arrangement.  Ctsm. Frilly Doris has been in the SVO breeding program for over twenty years and has definitely proven its value as a parent.  So why did we make this cross?  I am trying to produce dark-colored flowers with flat frilly lips!
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SVO 6878
Morm. New Hybrid (Morm. Midnight Hooker 'Hot Lips' x Morm. Mark Mills 'Hot Lips')
Mormodes are getting more attention these days, as the advanced hybrids are proving to be easier to grow and flower than the species.  Morm. Midnight Hooker (Midnight x  hookeri) has large, dark red flowers with bright red lips, and Morm. Mark Mills (Jumbo Bacia x Virgen del Valle) has even darker red flowers with unusually vibrant red lips.  There are 5 Mormodes species represented in this grex: badia, unica, buccinator, sinuata (twice) and hookeri (twice), making this hybrid's genetic composition very diverse.  The flowers of the progeny will predictably be red in color with darker red lips, and the upright stems will carry 10-15 blooms in December. The flowers of the progeny will be spotted with flowers in reds, orange or even yellow on upright stems will carry 10-15 blooms in December.    Check out these first bloom plants, this was a fantastic suprise!!!  Pic1,   Pic2,  Pic3   These are vigorous and easy to grow.
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SVO 6889
Fdk. New Hybrid  (Fdk. Dark There After 'SVO Winter Night' FCC/AOS x Ctsm. Louise Clarke 'SVO')
These are another step forward in the ongoing improvement of Fredclarkeara breeding lines.  Fdk. Dark There After (Fdk. After Dark x Ctsm. Donna Wise) 'SVO Winter Night' FCC/AOS is fantastic, with amazing form, size, color and a very broad, almost-flat lip.  Ctsm. Louise Clarke (Susan Fuchs x Donna Wise) 'SVO' carries as many as 15 dark flowers with large, broad flat lips, several times a season.  We are expecting this cross to produce some of the largest Fdk. flowers yet in dark burgundy colors.
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SVO 6891
Fdk. New Hybrid   (Mo. Painted Desert 'SVO' HCC/AOS x Ctsm. spitzii 'Red 48')
Mo. Painted Desert has produced 21 registered hybrids that have received more than 90 AOS awards, with 18 receiving FCC/AOS!  This productivity is a testament to the breeding value of Mo. Painted Desert for conveying excellentform, color and flower longevity to its progeny. Here we've paired it with Ctsm. spitzii 'Red 48.'  This red-flowered spitzii is extremely floriferous, blooming regularly with an incredible 48 flower on a single stem!!!  The lips of the spitzii flowers are thick, flat and waxy; I believe this trait will be dominant.  It's hard to predict with 100% certainty the outcome, but my instincts tell me that this cross is going to be extraordinary, with plants producing many long-lived red flowers.  
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SVO 6892
Cyc. Edith Bruce (Cyc. Anne-Kathrin Berger 'SVO' x Cyc. Jean E. Monnier 'Big and Bold')
The cross was made to develop a not-often-seen flower color - copper!  The Anne-Kathrin Berger (pentadactylon x herrenhusanum) has yellow flowers with red spots  - a very attractive color combination  - along with great flower form, high flower count and ease of plant growth. Jean E. Monnier (cooperi x barthiorum) has large flowers in a rich tan-bronze color with bold burgundy spots.  I love to see new developments in flower color, and I'm really looking forward to these!
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SVO 6893
Cyc. New Hybrid (Cyc. Anne-Kathrin Berger 'SVO' x Cyc. Kevin Clarke 'SVO' FCC/AOS)
I've been working to develop Cycnoches with yellow flowers and red spots, a combination that I really like.  The Anne-Kathrin Berger (pentadactylon x herrenhusanum) has this color combination as well as great flower form, high flower count and ease of plant growth.  Kevin Clarke (warscewiczii x herrenhusanum) has impressive flower quality, with bright yellow-green blooms and golden spots.  The hope here is for large yellows with red spots, based on the contribution of yellow flower color from both herrenhusanum grandparents, improved size from warscewiczii and spots from pentadactylon.  There will be 15 to 20 well-arranged flowers on each inflorescence.  I am very optimistic about the potential here.
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SVO 6895
Fdk. New Hybrid (Mo. Barnabas Collins 'SVO Dark Night' FCC/AOS  x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'JTM')
Barnabas Collins is a new Mormodia (Clowesia x Mormodes) hybrid registered in 2014, and already it has received several AOS awards.  When it was awarded, 'SVO Dark Night' carried 117 flowers and buds on 7 inflorescences - nearly 17 flowers per stem.  Even more amazingly, all of these flowers originated from one pseudobulb!!!  If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it!  The flower is a deep wine color with darker burgundy spotting – truly gorgeous!  The other parent of this grex is Ctsm. Orchidglade, which I use heavily in breeding.  There are good reason for this: excellent growth habit, lots of large flowers produced 2-3 times a year, excellent color, and the tendency to imparts these qualities to its offspring.  The cultivar 'JTM' is short for 'Jamie's Tortured Midnight' and has a particularly solid dark burgundy flower.  This is a new Fredclarkeara hybrid using an exceptional Mormodia and a proven breeder in 'JTM.'  I can only dream of the possibilities until these start to bloom!  If I were a betting man, I would definitely put some money on this one.
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SVO 6906
Cl. Rebecca Northen (Cl. Rebecca Northen 'Grapefruit Pink' x self)
Get them while they're available!  A very cute hybrid, with small-growing plants that produce charming frilly pink flowers that smell just like Lemon Pledge furniture polish!  These little guys flower when deciduous in January and February, are easy growers and quickly form attractive specimens. 
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SVO 6911
Clo. New Hybrid (Cl. Rebecca Northen 'Grapefruit Pink' x Ctsm. kleberianum 'SVO')
Mini-Catasetums have been a successful new direction in breeding, and this year we're trying some mini-Clowesetums.  The hybrid genus Clowesetum (Catasetum x Clowesia) is known for bloom longevity, with flowers lasting up to 4-5 weeks! Cl. Rebecca Northen (Grace Dunn x rosea) is a great parent and has been used in many successful hybrids.  Ctsm. kleberianum is a very rare Catasetum, and some suspect that it may be extinct in the wild.  It is a small-growing species with attractive flowers, sporting a flat bright yellow lip.  The plant size from this cross will be very compact, making these mini-Clowesetums - very cool!  This is a new direction in breeding, and predictions are a bit challenging.  The possibility is good for full-shaped flowers with spotting on the petals and sepals, and lips with pink to yellow color, but I would not be surprised to see light pink flowers with lots of darker pink spots.  As a bonus, these will flower 2 or 3 times a season.  I'm excited about the potential for this cross, and I'll be keeping a watchful eye on these as they begin to bloom.
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SVO 6913
Clo. New Hybrid (Cl. Grace Dunn 'Chadds Ford' AM/AOS x Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' AM/AOS)
Cl. Grace Dunn (rosea x warczewitzii) 'Chadds Ford' is a nice plant, with pendulous inflorescences that produce attractive, soft pink flowers with a touch of green.  Ctsm. Orchidglade 'Davie Ranches' is a reliable breeder, with large spotted flowers and a great blooming habit.  These will be long-lived, shapely flowers, generally pink in color, with lots of spots.  These should flower in mid-summer and again in the fall.
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SVO 6914
Clo.Melana's Daughter (Cl. Rebecca Northen 'Grapefruit Pink' x Ctsm. Melana Davison 'Bombshell' )
Here is the second of the mini-Clowesetum crosses that I'm offering this year.  Rebecca Northen is a great parent, and pairing it with Ctsm. Melana Davison (Penang x denticulatum), a mini-Catasetum with shapely flowers, will assure well-formed blossoms.  Melana Davison has bloomed in a wide range of colors, from white to solid red and everything in-between.  I think these will be mostly spotted pink flowers, but some will be red, others burgundy and some may be pure white.  Regardless of color, the form and flower count will be excellent, and the compact plant size will ensure that everyone has space for one or two of these new mini-Clowesetums!
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