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- Grow orchids yourself - tips for vegetative and generative reproduction
- Suitable for Beginners and Promising - Vegetative Breeding Techniques
- Kindel
- cuttings
- division
- Grow new orchids yourself from seed - a short overview
- Tips
Orchids are best made from pups
Grow orchids yourself - tips for vegetative and generative reproduction
Orchids awaken in us the great collecting passion. At the latest when the expert care no longer contains hurdles, the desire for own orchid breeding grows. You have the choice of the simpler vegetative method and the highly complicated generative propagation technique. Below is an overview of how to breed orchids yourself.
Suitable for Beginners and Promising - Vegetative Breeding Techniques
So that your orchid breeding quickly takes shape in the initial stage, the focus is on vegetative (asexual) propagation. The following 3 methods can be put into action on the windowsill. New orchids thrive with the same wonderful attributes of the mother plant, without you having to accept countless, demotivating setbacks. All three techniques are described in more detail below:
Kindel
cuttings
division
Grow new orchids yourself from seed - a short overview
In order to start an orchid breeding on the basis of a seed sowing, you should have a long-term experience in the vegetative propagation. Seeds of orchids do not have the natural nutrient tissue, as is the case with other plant seeds. In order for the seeds to germinate and the seedlings to be viable, they are given an artificial supply under sterile conditions that replaces the natural symbiosis fungus. The individual steps are briefly summarized below:
The sterilized seeds are applied to the nutrient medium with a loop and sealed in the test tube. It is important to note that you pay close attention to absolute cleanliness and always clean the tool with ethanol. Place the breeding containers in a bright, warm location at a constant 25 degrees Celsius. If germination sets in after a few weeks, this is the beginning of a 5 to 15 year wait until the first flowering.
Tips
You avoid the high cost of sowing seeds when you spread the seeds on the root disk of a mother plant. With a little luck, the symbiosis fungus is present in the substrate and brings the seed to germination.