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[exasperatus2002]

I was surfing the net looking for keiki paste and I stumbled across this. It has the option for orchid seeds or orchid tissue culture in replace of african violets. Anyone here of it? Is it worth a try or just better off using a lab?

Kitchen Culture Kits - Kit

[exasperatus2002]

Heres an article regarding doing it their way

Affordable Plant Tissue Culture - Orchids

[epiphyte]

I've heard of it and have almost been tempted to try it. What's held me back is how sterile everything has to be. Super sterile. Like, you have to hold your breath during the entire procedure. Even looking at the solution wrong will create contamination that turns the whole thing into an angry slime mold that eats your family pet. Hmmm... my girl friend does have two too very annoying cats...

The other day I was eating some jello and I was tempted to put some in a jar with some orchid seeds. The week before that I was propagating some succulents from cuttings and I was tempted to cut open a large succulent leaf and pour some orchid seeds into the succulent leaf and seal the leaf back up.

Life would be so much easier if orchid seeds stored their nutrients internally like the other 99.99% of flowering plant seeds do. And had delicious fruit that tasted something like a combination of dragon fruit, white sapote and guava.

If you do decide to try it I'll paypal you $15 towards the cost of the kit if you write up a detailed report on the process and outcome.

[BlakeeBoo]

Flasking can be as easy or as hard as you make it. If you look at my thread called flasking tutorial it has a great inexpensive way to flask orchids.