agar gel

[tina jacobs]

hi there

i love this site you guys are so helpfull to each other and there is so much knowladge here i find this site more informative and helpfull than the books i have bought. i am twenty five and i am very "stupid" in regards to orchids i have bought my first four mautre plants and i love them. but i would like to know about agar gell i am so fasinated by the way they grow them is it possible for me to polinate my flowers and germinate their seeds in this way, or am i looking at an impossible task i have bought phals... and i live in south africa if this is possible do i need this gel or is there another way of doing this i have fallen inlove with these flowers and i am completely gob smacked by everything that needs to be done for them they are almost more demanding than my daughter

[digitalgate]

you definitely can do that. But why wait for seed pod to give you flower, in 2 years time where
you can go to the nearest shop and choose the colour and type you like. Presto you got
yourself a new orchids.

[exasperatus2002]

you can do it yourself if your resourceful. Theres some articles/threads on this site that explain how to do it. Heres a link to the list

Orchid Flasking and Seed Germination - Orchid Forum Orchid Care

[Andrew]

Tina,
Try contacting one of the societies listed on the South African Orchid Council website. They should be able to help you with local orchid and flasking resources.

[tina jacobs]

thank you so much everybody i will definatly try it i have read that it takes painfully long for you to get to flowering size but since i have swopped my boyfriend for orchids i have all the time in the world

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by tina jacobs

thank you so much everybody i will definatly try it i have read that it takes painfully long for you to get to flowering size but since i have swopped my boyfriend for orchids i have all the time in the world

LOL. Good trade

[digitalgate]

nah, a boy friend cook for you, clean after you. pamper you, shower you with gift....
it is much better than orchid.
I pay for everything.
I pay for the electricity,
i pay for the media,
I pay for fertilizer,
I pay myself to water the plant
I pay myself to apply insecticide when there is bugs
Plus i pay myself to do weeding....
boyfriend... definitely much better. Unless He/She ask you to pay for everthing. Which
you can dump them for good.