Congratulations on bringing the plants into bloom, a great feeling!

Oooo, nice story. Because of this unwanted plant, you had 2 nice connections w/ orchid folks, plus the lovely scent.

Congratulations! Lucky noses in your house. :) Whitecat8

:)) That's a good way to see it, WhiteCat. And lucky noses, indeed.

Thank you, Sheila; it's fun to share with others who know the feeling.

Thank you both. ~ Sweetcicely

And it wasn't even hard to do, was it? A few tips, some common sense and you have some wonderful blooms and fragrance to enjoy. Congrats and job well done.

Brooke

Congrats - there's just something about bringing back a declining plant. And nice fragrance too!

I recently discovered that one of my favorite orchids has a fragrance. Unfortunately, it smells rather like the septic tank! Much rather have coconut and chocolate.

{{gwi:178794}}I am happy to have such great timing. If your flowers look like this, it is Oncidium Sharry Baby.

I have got started with many new orchids in a random way, for me, raffle tables. Species that I wouldn't have bought turn out to like my conditions and are interesting to watch through their growth cycle.

Thank you, Calvin; that's funny about one of your favorites :) At the spring OS show, this year, I made the mistake of sniffing a big single flowered (5") Bulbo. The scent was of putrifying fish. Whewie!

Richard--beautiful picture! I'd post one if I could--and may be able to do so later in the week. How much variation occurs with these plants? If it is a species, perhaps very little; but if Sharry Baby is a hybrid ~?

The shape and structure of my flowers are identical to yours, except that the lip is more wavy-edged and broad enough to overlap the lower sepals slightly. Your color on my computer appears dark red with pale yellow-gold petal/sepal tips. This tipping on mine looks white, is very narrow, and is only on half of the flowers.

Where your flower is red, mine are maroon (red-purple mixed with a little brown); otherwise, the columns are identical, as are the prickly looking areas at the top of the lip. The "ears" that flank this area on yours are mostly white, edged with greenish-pink; on mine, the ears are solid red-purple.

On your flower, the flared part of the lip has red at the top edge with the rest white and a center flash of pink. Oddly, on mine the pattern is almost reversed: the flared portion of the lip ranges from all red-purple, to red-purple with an occasional flash of white, to red-purple with a U of white in the center. The scent is of chocolate melting on the stove.

When all is said and done, what I have is a Noid Oncidium, because the tag was lost, but I'm quite content--actually, delighted (!) that it bloomed. It is a pretty thing, and I love the smell.

Thank you for posting that nice picture!

Sc

Sc. there is a lot of variation in the hybrid Onc. Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance' because it has been mericloned so many times.

The flowers on the two plants I owned were slightly different from each other and both were more like your description than the plant in the picture above.

Usually, once the tag has been lost on a hybrid, you have a noid forever. Not so with Sharry Baby. Just post a picture and you will get an id. Yes or no.

Haven't got a decent picture, but this pic. shows the form of the floral display of several plants in the foreground.
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Thanks, Arthur, for the help; I hope to post a picture this week.

Yes! I noticed your pictures from that mall, earlier this week, and thought there was a Sharry Baby in the display. That's a Big one! The first spike on mine is only about 15" long.

Sweetcicely