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Re: Cypripedium seeds

Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:57:18 +0200
    From:Knut Bjoernstad <knb@NEUMANN.SSB.NO>

> A neighbour sent away for seeds of Cypripedium calceolus var.
> pubescens (Yellow Lady Slipper), and received 2 plump seed pods. The
> instructions note that "seedlings will not emerge the first year."
> After doing some research, I wonder if that should be amended
> "...nor any subsequent year."
>
> H.L. Foster's book reports that nobody has ever succeeded in
> germinating seeds in any medium; G.S. Thomas the same; other
> sources, ditto, with much talk of necessary soil fungi.
>
> Has there been any progress in recent years? Any success outside the
> laboratory? Of course I'll encourage my neighbour to sow the seeds
> anyway.
>
> Ross Greenberg
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada z5
>

Succeeding with orchid seeds in an ordinary seedgrowing medium needs
more
luck than you would ordinarily relay on. I have read an article in a
swedish magazine obout how you could grow orchids in a nutrient medium
under sterile conditions. The article reported success with this. You
could certainly do this at home, it would need a bit of patience since
the
seedlings would use several years to be big enough to be taken out of
its sterile bottle/container.

You could certainly find information about this through orchid
litterature/
societies. Even if they are more interested in the indoor species, i
think the
procedure is about the same for hardy orchids.

Have I done this or plan to do it? NO

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