The unknown orchid...

The unknown orchid has a yellow-ish pseudo bulb.

Found it, i guess the unknown orchid is patented, rendering it useless to orchid collectors :( I still love it though. It is Bllra tahoma glacier. Was hoping i had something highly desirable for orchid trading.....

How do you know it is patented? Is there a list? Does it say so on the tag?
A similar clone Beallara Tahoma Glacier 'Green' was exhibited here at a local orchid Society meeting last month so that is why i had a guess at the name.
Change the tag on the other one. The correct name is Onc. Sharry Baby. Does the tag also have a little bit in quotes, such as 'Sweet Fragrance' or something else.
As for the repot advice, i suppose it depends on whether
the potting material is very different to that used on the rest of your collection, time of year, pot has no room left to grow. you do not like the style of the pot. etc.etc

Thank you,
It was difficult to discern what was on the tag, a lot of the wording rubbed off and i only noticed the words Bllra and patent. I assumed it was tahoma glacier from similar google images and i heard it is popular to put patents on orchids to prevent them from being sold by other nurseries.The other tag is 'heavens scent', but it is so identical to sherry baby and even has the chocolate scent. I assumed they are one and the same. The sherry baby seems to be pot bound, roots hanging out the bottom. I use a medium that consists of mostly bark for my other orchids. The medium here seems to be sphagnum moss and gravel.

There is no orchid registered by the Royal Horticultural Society as Sherry Baby. The correct name of your orchid is
Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Heaven Scent' .
Huge numbers of Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance'
around the world must make the originator of the orchid wish he/she had a patent.
Costs Ten English pounds to register an orchid grex name but it is nothing like a patent.
Yes, if it was my orchid i would repot, but only because i having nothing growing in spag.

Just a bit more. Here is the Entry from the RHS Database.

Genus
Oncidium
Epithet
Sharry Baby
Synonym Flag
This is not a synonym
Registrant Name
D.O'Flaherty
Originator Name
Beall
Date of registration
01/01/1983
Seed parent Pollen parent
Genus Oncidium Oncidium
Epithet Jamie Sutton Honolulu

Notice the originator name Beall This is the same Beall
who registered Tahoma Glacier.
I think the Beall Orchid company was somewhere in the Northwest USA. Do not know if they are still trading.

The litlle bit in the quotes is the cultivar. Many seeds in a typical orchid seed pod and if sown and grown to flowering they will all be different. 'Sweet Fragrance' and 'Heaven Scent' are copies produced by the mericloning process or divisions.
Sometimes the copying process goes wrong and you might buy an orchid with a label like this...
Onc. Sharry Baby (yellow mutation)

This post was edited by arthurm on Sun, Mar 24, 13 at 18:50

Thank you so much for the info arthurm! I didn't realize there were possible mutations with cloning.

A plant patent is so the originator of the cross will get a $mall piece of the pie every time it is $old. You are not supposed to breed the plant or divide and share the plant without paying the patent fee. Thankfully there are no plant patent enforcement police, yet.

RHS is part not of any patenting process.

Brooke

Your orchids are beautiful! I actually have Oncidiums on my wish list. I haven't seen a sharry baby for years in a store. They're both gorgeous!

Phew, glad the fuzz won't be able to tell when i decide to share these babies :)
Tamela star - Thank you :), I plan on dividing and trading these....eventually. I'm having a good experience with my oncidium dancing ladies. Under my mothers care, all the roots rotted early winter. After emergency repot, somehow it has survived and is making a comback. New pups and roots. It seems pretty forgiving.