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- From: fred@mks.com (Fred Kratky)
- Subject: Re: lady slipper seeds
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.221830.10954@mks.com>
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- References: <ALS.92Nov10183638@bellatrix.linus.mitre.org> <1992Nov11.115914.8615@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:18:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.115914.8615@iscsvax.uni.edu> klier@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- >In article <ALS.92Nov10183638@bellatrix.linus.mitre.org>, als@linus.mitre.org (Alice Schafer) writes:
- >> I live 25 miles west of boston with piney woods with pink ladyslippers
- >> scattered here and there. For the first time, I noticed that one of
- >> them has a seed pod!
- >> Can I just scatter this seed or is there a good technique for
- >> helping them to take hold?
- >
- >flower of Minnesota? Either way, the best advice I can give you is
- >to let nature take care of things. We *really* don't know what we're
- >doing on native orchid germination techniques or transplanting techniques.
-
- Orchid germination techniques are quite well documented, but from what I
- am told it is rather difficult to do without the correct equipment. The
- seeds are exceptionally small, and must be germinated in an agar
- solution under sterile conditions (I think that the sterile part is what
- is hard to do).
-
- The seedlings are transplanted into a series of ever larger sterile
- flasks until they are ready to be potted. If you really want to have
- hundreds of seedlings, locate your local Orchid society. They will be
- able to refer you to someone who can do the flask thing for you (for a
- fee of course). I don't remember the costs, but I don't think that it
- is all that much.
-
- I am not aware of any differences between native and non-native
- germination techniques, but then I'm no expert.
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