- seedling and grow it to blooming if you know the parents (selected). By this way, you have a chance to have good shape and colours flowers. Seedling can also allow you to select more vigorous young orchids with a fast growing. But, if you do not know the parents, you can be lucky in lottery game but often disappointed. Seedling, you must be patient and be armed against diseases because young plants are more sensible to fungus, ..
- generally I like division of known plants. By this way, no surprise on flowers and less time to wait
- For example, cat. dowiana aurea, as a young plant, is very difficult to grow for beginners, because of fungus attacks. It’s better to take it nearly a blooming size to avoid lost it !