Home Orchid flasking experiment... protocorn party!

[GreenDragon]

hello everyone!

this is a flasking experiment done with my own cross I made last year. It's Phal tetraspis X Phal bellina
I sow on P668 medium and I have used a new sterilisation technique for the seeds ( bleach fume ). On 6 flasks, I got 4 contamination and 2 are growing. As you can see, I have thousand of protocorns....
Sorry for the quality of the pictures...

[Halloamey]

Claude that is amazing, info and pictures both !! Congratulations you are an Orchid Mommy now !! Keep us posted with the developments.

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Awesome work. That could be the start of a lot of orchids.

Cheers,
BD

[jerrify]

that's a great success. i would like to try it, too!

[Susie11]

This is my dream. I would love to do this, create a new hybrid and then grow the seeds at home instead of in a lab! One thing I am not too sure about is how you go about naming the hybrid for example, if you take the pollen from plant A and place it in plant B is it plant A or plant B that gets the first name? ie, (AxB) or ( BxA)? Good luck anyway. I can't wait to see the end results.

[theLab]

green Dragon,
well done and congrat., you see it´s not difficult.
You took too much medium, you see 10% would have been enough.
And you have to hurry up, start replating as when the first rhizoids appear you won´t be able separating and replating the proto´s without hurting them. Any sort of injury the proto´s will be answered by a protocorm-proliferation with low or even lacking differentation. You certainly expect seedlings and no proto-clusters.
Ntl, well done, I am proud of you, go ahead with that.

[TwoStems]

Congrats on your success!!! That's awesome

[Robert]

very interesting, congrats on your success.

[JARM]

Hi dear , what do you mean about Bleach Fume?

[Ron-NY]

Congrats Claude!!

This is my dream. I would love to do this, create a new hybrid and then grow the seeds at home instead of in a lab! One thing I am not too sure about is how you go about naming the hybrid for example, if you take the pollen from plant A and place it in plant B is it plant A or plant B that gets the first name? ie, (AxB) or ( BxA)? Good luck anyway. I can't wait to see the end results.

when a cross is written out with the parents names, it is conventional to list the pod parent followed by the pollen parent.