Saturday, February 11, 2012

What is the best way to start hybridizing Orchid as a amatuer?

This is not really something done by amateurs, but here's some words on it just the same.



Select the two orchids to hybridize and try to get them in bloom at the same times unless you are adept at harvesting and preserving pollin.



Harvest the pollin from each plant and transfer it to the female part of the other plant's flower. This cross-breeds the two plants and doubles your chance of getting something. Then wait for seeds. Mostly you won't get any.



Seeds are fine as dust. They need to germinate on moist, fungi-infected wood bark. This is the tricky part. Mostly it doesn't work.



If all that works for you, you will have a hybrid orchid if it survives the hardening-off mortality which it probably won't.



Soon you will understand why most orchids are propagated commercially by tissue culture. Read books. Good luck.


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