A little practice

[exasperatus2002]

Patticake was gracious enough to send me Several newly deflasked noid Cattleyas to practice on while I wait on my flasks to develope. I did one compot in Sphag. with 7 and one in s/h with 3 in that. The s/h compot lost two leaves. In the sphag I lost 3 seedlings. So far I've had them for 17 days.

[lmartiny]

That was nice of Patti. Sounds like a fun project. Don't you typically lose a few because they are so small and delicate?

[digitalgate]

fungicides, fungicides ....
never stress enough of this.

[solay]

Good luck with them. Practice makes perfect. Where's the pics.?

[trinigirl]

Like Solay said, practice makes perfect. Yes, pics please!

[fred]

its great to see the generosity of geeks on this site
we are all about helping each other
good on you Patti
it really warms my heart to hear about geeks helping each other out with chids
a sharing and careing bunch of geeks

[kid a]

Wow you are so brave lol! I am scared to try that still lol!

[lmartiny]

I'd try that before I'd try the seed thing in sterile agar, etc. like doodlekitty and others. I'm not attentive enough. I always experiment with seeds and cuttings but I can just pop them in dirt. (non-orchids)

[doodlekitty]

Actually.........Doodlekitty is finding seedling care a heck of a lot harder than the whole flasking process! Man these babies require a LOT of attention.

[exasperatus2002]

Here are the pics. the ones that were in sphag I cleaned up & have potted up in s/h like the others that are doing great in it.

1st 3 noid Catts in a s/h com pot-- lost 2 leaves at first then no negative developments.



The remaining compot in sphag. Not sure if its the seedling pot or its all this rain & high humidity we've had here but the sphag is staying wet along time. I lost 4 of 7 that were in the sphag. I cleaned these up & moved them to s/h which is working well for me with the others.

[doodlekitty]

Originally Posted by lmartiny

I'd try that before I'd try the seed thing in sterile agar, etc. like doodlekitty and others. I'm not attentive enough. I always experiment with seeds and cuttings but I can just pop them in dirt. (non-orchids)

Yeah well Doodlekitty is beginning to think that the wholeFlasking processes is Waaaaaay easier than raising babies....I feel like I have a few thousand newborns.

[dragonfriend]

Ru kidding! no way could I do the flasking! I had trouble with the moss staying wet too, really badly in the plastic pots. My babies I put in terracotta pots dried out a lot better so I transferred them all into those. The other thing that helped heaps was I bought a flexible rubber coated heated wire for hydroponics an sat the pots on that. It was heaps cheaper than the thermo controlled heat pads an u can adjust the heat by puttin more or less wire under them.

[doodlekitty]

HEAT???? I have mind inside to keep them OUT of the heat!!!!

[exasperatus2002]

Hmmm....theres something I didnt think of. Being Im in PA and dont have a g/h. Will I need to use supplemental heat?