{"id":21968,"date":"2015-05-05T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=21968"},"modified":"2015-08-15T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:10:51","slug":"orchid-hybrid-vigor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/orchid-hybrid-vigor\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Hybrid Vigor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Laeliocattleya_hybrid_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21972 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Laeliocattleya_hybrid_800px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Laeliocattleya hybrid, purple white and yellow flowers, Pacific Orchid Expo 2015, San Francisco, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Laeliocattleya_hybrid_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Laeliocattleya_hybrid_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Laeliocattleya_hybrid_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cymbidium_hybrid_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21970 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cymbidium_hybrid_800px-128x85.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium hybrid, red white and yellow flowers, Pacific Orchid Expo 2015, San Francisco, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cymbidium_hybrid_800px-128x85.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cymbidium_hybrid_800px-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cymbidium_hybrid_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dendrobium_hybrid_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21971 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dendrobium_hybrid_800px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Dendrobium hybrid, white yellow and hot pink flowers, Pacific Orchid Expo 2015, San Francisco, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dendrobium_hybrid_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dendrobium_hybrid_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dendrobium_hybrid_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shopping for the perfect Mother&#8217;s Day gift? An orchid hybrid is your best bet. Hybrids are crosses between closely related plants. Breeders cross-pollinate different orchid varieties, and then choose the best offspring. Hybrid vigor emerges when the best traits from both parents create tougher descendants. They are often easy to grow and flower, and hardy enough to survive some neglect. Hybrids usually have larger and longer-lasting blooms. With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/index.html\">basic orchid care info<\/a>, they\u2019re as easy as other common houseplants.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, most orchids sold today are hybrids. If you buy from a supermarket or home improvement store, you\u2019re almost certainly buying a hybrid. If you buy from a florist or garden center, it\u2019s likely to be a hybrid, but you should always ask if you\u2019re not sure. Orchid species can have finicky care needs, and you wouldn&#8217;t want your gift to cause your mother any stress. Tell her not to worry, and that&#8217;s it&#8217;s easy to care for an orchid with hybrid vigor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping for the perfect Mother&#8217;s Day gift? An orchid hybrid is your best bet. Hybrids are crosses between closely related plants. Breeders cross-pollinate different orchid varieties, and then choose the best offspring. Hybrid vigor emerges when the best traits from both parents create tougher descendants. They are often easy to grow and flower, and hardy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying-tips","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21968"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21993,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968\/revisions\/21993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}