| For all the subscribers to this thread. The following text is from Chula Orchids newsletter and may be of some interest.
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Now, let me explain something here tho to all the beginners out there. This is NOT the way to make a whole bunch of plants. Professional growers may use it to make a couple of duplicates of some fantastic plant they do not want to go to the expense now of merstemming or perhaps are in danger of losing. It's rarely fun, for a hobbyisst this process may well take over two years to get a keiki with roots that can be safely taken off the plant.
So if you an your friend are both going to use it on plants you purchased at Home Depot so you can "share", i suggest you forget it. You will be way better off to just go purchase another small plant or purchase phal seedling from some catalog. Don't waste you time on this Keiki process. It will be much more costly in time and effort than purchasing another fine seedling will ever be. You will have a two year head start on anything you may get using keiki paste. If anything you have receives an FCC from the American Orchid Society, by all means, use the keiki paste to reproduce that for your buddies, otherwise leave this keiki paste to the professionals.
Bill  |