Rick - lovely cernua. I have one however it is a baby compared to yours. As for you request it may help to be a little more specific. What kind of a cross are you trying to make? Are you wanting to trade for another sophronitis species or another cernua? More information may assist others with what to look for in a trade.

I thought the post was pretty clear. I'm often trying to produce species seed, so an unrelated plant of the same species is what I'm looking for.

Thanks

If you cannot find another plant you can always self your orchid. The babies will still show some variation.

I had always thought that this species wasn't self-fertile. I may have tried it once a long time ago--no harm in trying again! Thanks.

--Rr

Sorry, I have no in-depth knowledge on this subject. Thought you may have been avoiding selfing because it is not considered good practice.

I could always go buy another, but swapping is preferred, if practical.

--Rr

Nice plant! I recently pollinated mine with pollen from Epidendrum secundum. Epi secundum grows easily from seed... no flasking required. So I'm trying to see if any intergeneric crosses with it will also easily grow from seed.

I had difficulties pollinating the cernua but pods started to develop. But then they got eaten. Probably a squirrel.

Epi radicans has been pollinated with pollen from coccinea (Epicattleya Veitchii). I'm not 100% certain that radicans grows from seed as easily as secundum does. Also, coccinea wouldn't have been my first choice. Sophronitis brevipedunculata would have been my first choice followed by cernua. One of my brevipedunculatas is about to bloom but I don't have a radicans.

A while back I preferred species. But then I decided that I prefer progress in terms of temperature and drought tolerance.