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Thread: Flasking Slipper Orchid seeds

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    Default Flasking Slipper Orchid seeds

    Was wondering if any of you have any experience with flasking Paphiopedilums. I have seed pods forming and have heard you have to go to extreme measures to get them to germinate. Any and all help would be appreciated.

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    I don't know of any labs myself as I have no intention of trying to flask a seed pod, but I do know there are professional labs that flask seed pods for a living. Doing it yourself is quite a task and requires ultimately a sterile environment in the flask.

    I just read that you have taken a class on it. Good luck. Like Chris, I am too old to hope to see flowers if it was successful.
    Last edited by 78Terp; July 13th, 2017 at 07:58 AM. Reason: read in another thread she took classes in flasking.

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    Thanks 78Terp. But to hire a lab would take all of the fun out of it. I'm not a spring chicken myself, but if I don't get to see them bloom, then someone somewhere will. Keeping busy keeps us young. And you are never too old to learn something new.

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    Its a tough job to germinate any orchid and flowering them is anywhere 6-8 years. Professional flasking is a good suggestion

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