Orchids Plant Care

Orchids Propagation Overview

Orchid Plant and Flower Propagation Information Overview

There are many ways in which orchids are propagated today, commercial nurseries will use mass production methods to reproduce a choice variety of either a specie or hybrid plant, the favoured one goes by the name of meristem culture, this laboratory technique involves the mass tissue culture of the growing meristem tip from within the new growth of the plant concerned, the nucleus of cells derived from this small sample of tissue or grown on in flasks on nutrient gels. The result of this is the successful production of any number of plants, all identical to the original more or less, and that is how excellent plants become available to us all at remarkably low prices.

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Orchid Plant Pollination By Man - Part Two

The paphiopedilum is difficult because the pollinia are in an awkward place behind the staminode and the stigmatic surface; the plate at an angle to the column with three lines radiating from it at an angle of 120 degrees is even more inaccessible.

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Orchid Plant Pollination By Man - Part One

The procedure by which man pollinates an orchid is mechanically identical to that by which an insect pollinates it, except that man has advantages.

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Fertilization Of A Dendrobium Orchid Flower - Part Two

The process of germination varies considerably with different genera and species.

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Fertilization Of A Dendrobium Orchid Flower - Part One

In the case of Dendrobium, such as Dendrobium nobile, the task, for an insect, is much simpler and less hazardous.

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Fertilization Of Paphiopedilum Orchid Plant

The fertilization of paphiopedilums is slightly different from the other various methods by which the continuance of the rase is ensured.

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Orchid Pollination By Insect - Spring-Like Mechanism in Catasetum Orchid Genus

Perhaps the genus Catasetum is the most ingenious method of ensuring pollination.

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Orchid Plant Pollination By Insects

Most orchid flowers are pollinated by insects, some by various kinds of bee and fly and some at night by moths.

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Propagation of Monopodial Orchid Plants

A few types do not produce pseudobulbs. In this post I describe what a monopodial orchid plant is, and a few simple tips to help propagate these types of orchids!

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