Hello! Your tutorial delivers clear and superior instructions and reasoning for each step in the propagation process. Thank you very much. Date: March 11, 2017
So, I did this. Except I didn't sterilize anything. Or remove the covering. And I just stuck it in water until it showed signs of life, then washed off the mold and stuck it in peat moss. I was quite surprised it grew, really. I just looked this video up because I was curious about whether this was a thing people did. I guess I just rediscovered the wheel.
you should see some growth in around 6 weeks. If anything went wrong and mold/fungus grows then it's usually a sterilization problem and that usually occurs within the first 3 days. Put the tubes in a well lit area but not in direct sun or it will cook! Should be around 24C
Love your video! I'm going to try half this method and half with the keiki method. I'm in Texas, going to have to see if I can find some of that multiplication medium here in the states!
Tissue culture requires the bud to be removed from the stem and used, you are just doing cuttings that will take normally with water or growth medium, they dont need the sterilizing.
This was great! I'm a indoor orchid grower and over the past few days I've been playing with the idea of dipping my toes into doing this and maybe even trying to de flask some orchids this summer just to see what can come of it...just an experiment on some varieties I can't easily purchase in my area as well as some that haven't been named as yet-how exciting! I figure when they mature I can share some of the extras with my friends and family that are always eyeing my orchids. I know they would love to get some that they can't easily buy in store and what better way to start playing around with this than with my current collection right? I have 2 phals in bloom right now and as soon as there blooms drop... the stems are getting the scalpel. Thanks for the inspiration.
sherylintheraw IF this doesn't work for you (and I say that as you need to be incredibly sterile for this one) try the Keiki paste. What you could do its apply some keiki to a lower node and leave that one on there - I call that belt and braces!
good point. i have about 10 possible nodes on 1 of the plants i'm considering to use so I might do 50/50 keiki paste and this method. like I said I'm up for a bit of experimenting. it cant hurt to try.
Hi! I just got some of the paste and am wondering if I should remove the nodes like this video - or if I can peel back the covering and still leave it on the plant? Some of the stems have 2 or 3 nodes - could I try to trigger them all? Thank you! David
@@davidshipman9479 I got keiki paste a few weeks ago. 1. You need to leave the node \ stem on the parent (the parent plant will provide the nutrient and fluids it needs while it develops) 2. My instructions say you can do UP to 2 node per flower spike and no more than 2 flower spikes per plant (so 4 in total) 3. If a keiki develops wait until the roots are two to three inches long and the plant has about 2 leaves before cutting off My personal preference is to cut the steam just below the last flower so the plant stop wasting energy trying to sustain the flowers but personal preference.
Dam I wish there was a follow up video on this! Would love to know if it worked & if so what anti-fungals & antibacterials were in that medium! I've tried this a few times now, but only bleached for 10-15 minutes, but I've had major contamination coming from the stem everytime :( I'm going to try again for the 30 minutes next time I have a stem available. Also, there was no washing off the bleach in the video, I've read you should (and personally do) wash 3 times, 5 minutes each in sterile water after bleach/before flasking, so I'm really interested in if that was done here & just left out of the video, or not done & that helped in contamination control. Honestly without a follow up video, I'm actually a bit skeptical of this being successful. Seems to me like a very high chance of either contamination, death of tissue or both
So,,, the keiki past will cause them to grow from the side of the stem and then you can cut and transplant them? My wife had one grow from the side of hers and she cut it and planted it and hot waxed the stem she cut it from to seal it. And it worked reall well. That one just got done blooming a 7-8 bloom string. Thanks for the info. I want to try flasking the seeds just to see if I can and now would like to tryt this as well! Wish me luck!! lol
Very informative video! I'd really like to do this on flowers I got for Valentines day. They are just stems and are really beautiful so I've been searching for a way to save them. Do you think someone with no green thumb can do this?
Sadly I think you're no chance. It's all got to be done under sterile conditions. Usually the florist would know the specific variety they order. Have you asked them?
I realize you are closed...hope you see this though. Do you have any recommendations for where we can buy these kits or supplies in the USA. Anywhere really though I’m in Virginia. I have contacted a couple of labs to ask but no one even answers. Very disappointing since obviously if they are doing orchid tissue or seed culture they would have or know where to get the materials. Thanks Les
Hello I have an orchid , phalaenopsis whose bud on two of the stems has produced leaves instead of flower buds ; as if these leaves were two little individual plants How could I transplant these The whole orchid is very healthy and producing two or three tiny blooms presently Thank you for your help
Spent days trying to research the validity of a similar claim made in a shorts. Only now did RU-vid recommend this video. Anyway, better late than never.
Hi Lindsey, You should see some growth in around 6 weeks. If anything went wrong and mold/fungus grows then it's usually a sterilization problem and that usually occurs within the first 3 days. Put the tubes in a well lit area but not in direct sun or it will cook! Should be around 24C (ish)
Hi.. I bought a box of orchid stems in Thailand and wondering if I can get a root on these stems or if I should just enjoy them as long that the last in Water..
Just enjoy them. Sometimes with Dendrobium (more Epidendrum though) you could plant the stems after they finish and keep your fingers crossed - they do unexpected things sometimes :)
@Giovanni Fazi. I was thinking the exact same thing. I would have expected a sterile hood if you're going to go to all the trouble. Idk? It was an interesting video nonetheless.
Ivana Tesarovičová No problem. Once the plant has a few leaves and roots (preferably more than one) of around 1.5 - 2 inches you can remove it, wash off the jelly and remove any dead roots (sometimes they grow and die and grow and die and so on) then just pot up as per the keiki video. Keep the newly potted plants in a shady position for the first 10 days or so to allow them to acclimatise then grow as normal.
hello sir now a days me and my husband thinking of opening a small Orchid farm in our country , it ll be so helpful for us if you tell us that from where we can buy or import young phalaenopsis plant??? and what we should do to utilize our dream. I am waiting for your kind information.
Thanks for the interesting video. I am wanting to start growing and cloning Orchids. Can anyone here please let me know if it is possible to purchase orchid cuttings/clones (or whatever the proper terminology is for the small stem cutting) here in the UK? Are there any reputable suppliers who sell these stems prepared or unprepared? If so, is it fair to say they would be a fraction of the price of a flowering plant? Thanks a lot in advance.
There is no point of extra care for sterilizing when you put down your forcep and holding the material with your hand. You have hold a lot of things with your hands and you use it to hold the explant instead of a sterilized forcep. The forcep shoukd not be put down instead it should be put on top of a sterilize half cover petri dish to avoid contamination. Wrong practice.
Keikis! Let it grow on the plant for months till it has nice strong roots then you can plant it, look up keikis. GL, Congrats on the spontaneous plant baby.
In my limited experience, bleach is the gentlest on the plant tissues when comparing all used at high enough conserntrations or for long enough to kill the bad stuff
Thank you for your videos. In this videomuz, how should small tits be stored after planting? In the same way, how should the seeds be kept in an environment after being planted? Thank you.