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You have a TON of tampensis pods. I would say enough for a class! Highly likely they are selfings or even mixes as you mentioned having others from different parks. I would even be happy to propagate a pod on such a popular (with pollenators and collectors) orchid. Its a vigorous plant and loves your environment as much as pollenators love it! Your plant is a big plant and it is a species in its natural zone. I would say leave it all. The stress will have it bloom and grow bigger. It has its own balance system as a species. Now with your care and curation is living the best it can. I would say continue just enjoying the nature of it you have something to document and enjoy there! Awesome video as always!

So much as I love doing in vitro seed propagation, and getting my hands on and myself busy with my orchids reproductive choices, I just find it to be even more exciting when it happens naturally, with native plants by native pollinators! It seems like at least this tiny piece of the ecosystem is still functioning well. I wonder about the mycorrhizal fungi ecology, but taking from an earlier video where you show a decent E. tampensis population around, I believe it is fine too! And also, I have to agree that the vigor of primary hybrids is unmatched! Thanks for sharing!

lots of great capsules starting! here's hoping for good seed for you....

Busy as a bee!

Wow you have a lot of seed pods. That’s awesome

I’m right there with you! I don’t want to remake crosses, I want to make new hybrids. Waiting for reblooms though is a difficult task.. for me. Holy smokes! It’s like a capsule-palooza. I was going to ask you how many capsules are too many ha ha! This could be a good observation experiment since you have many tampensis.

I really like that Clear Skies plant. I've been trying my hand with some B. nodosa pollen on some big flowered hybrid Catts for a couple years now. So far it seems they might not be capable of germinating ex-vitro. I might have to get some Cattleya species plants to try with. My feeling is a lot of these complex hybrids have broken genetics in terms of pollen viability and the ability to germinate with the help of a fungus. It seems really crazy to some of my friends that I'll cut the blooming period of most of my flowers short in order to concentrate on seed production. But these days I'm more excited about the prospect of getting interesting hybrids to germinate in my yard than about the flowers. About a month ago the first of a seedling from a cross I made between Caularthron and Myrmecophilia bloomed and it made my week because it turned out (at least in my opinion) so nice. On subject of the E. tampensis, it seems to be very closely related to the E. ceratistes that is local here in Costa Rica which is blooming right now too. I will generally pollinate about 5 flowers per inflorescence and they develop nicely if insects don't get into them. Though I have seen plants in the wild with maybe 50% of the flowers pollinated that seemed to be developing just fine as well. If it's one of the Encyclias that doesn't pop till a year later, it will also have plenty of time to develop the pods so it shouldn't be as big of a strain on the plant like for example E. chlorolueca which will bloom at the start of the dry season and dump the seed after only 4 months, before the end of the dry season. Question is do you have any use for that much seed? If not, no point in letting that many develop.

Great video!! Question: Do you sell your seedlings? You have so many gorgeous, giant plants, I was just curious if you'd be interested in trading or just selling divisions or plants?

Recently i tried selfing Den falciparum but with no success. Is there any info on sigma receptivity period. A friend of mine mentioned to me that sigma would be receptive for first four days of flower opening. Is this true and hold good for all the genus/ species?. Tried searching literature did not find much info.

Where can I buy orchid seeds?

If you goals are about researching flasking medium, and teaching others how to flask the seed, then why not let all the seed pods grow to the point where you can harvest them? You'll have enough pods for an entire class or two. Even if that is a drain on the plant so next year's growth is retarded, the plant looks to be so well suited in the environment that it can simply come back the following year.