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Old 01-03-2007, 12:31 AM
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First Orchid "Seeds"?

Back in the middle of August I had a paph flower fall off the stalk a little prematurely and was somewhat intrigued by the whole incident. I wondered if the resulting "pod" might have been self fertilized since all previous paphs have just slowly "died on the vine" so-to-speak over several days, instead of dropping like a green leaf onto the shelf? It stayed nice and green for over three months and then mid december slowly started turning slightly browner. Finally today I noticed it was starting to split open. I took the pod off the plant and looked at it under a magnifying glass and it appeared to be shooting out tiny (dare I say "seeds?") fragments. I cut it open all the way and thousands of teeny tiny specs poured out - almost too small to see individually if not spread onto white paper. Might these be indeed viable seeds? If so, would anyone who flasks seeds be interested in these? It would be a self (Paph Supersuk “Eureka” AM/AOS X paph Raisin Pie “Hsinying”) X SIB

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