Anthurium no. 0457 "JizzaBella"

It will be fun to see if I can get through this post without having to refer to seedling 0457 by name.¹

I usually try to start the posts with the best / prettiest / most representative bloom photo I have, so here it is, of the second bloom the plant produced:

Not terrible, right? Pink but not too pink, spathe that's unusually long and narrow, non-matching spadix. It's okay. Maybe it's even a little interesting, with the shape.

However, the first attempt looked like this, and never opened any further, which was aggravating:

And the second bloom, the one that looked not-terrible, turned into this after a month.

Which is still not bad, but it's a lot more ordinary. I'm not happy about the thrips damage, either; I'm having one of those moments where I'm convinced that I'll never actually get rid of the thrips.²

The foliage isn't anything to get very excited about either,

though it's good enough that I could forgive it, if the plant had interesting enough blooms.

I think I'm going to have to wait and see what the third and fourth blooms look like before I can make a decision on this one.

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¹ It's not one of my names (link goes to JizzaBella lip-syncing Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time"), which should be obvious but I feel like I have to say it anyway.
² The despair might be over by the time you read this; I'm writing on 10 September.

I am also increasingly certain that the bacterial infection I mentioned in the 0372 Tina Angst post is in fact happening, and maybe has always been happening? I know I've been asked about margin burns on Anthurium leaves, and I knew what the question was talking about, and guessed drought stress. But maybe it's always been Xanthomonas campestris.