Paphiopedilum M. Koopowitz seedlings repotting

I tried to keep them undisturbed for as long as I could and they appear to grow pretty fast, but there is just so much time before bark gets old and wet and keeps too much moisture. Especially in the humid tank with 85-90% RH.
So, I had to repot my Paph. M.Koopowitz seedlings into fresh bark:

Paph. anitum flasklings update.

Still alive  and growing but leaves are coming out too narrow. I wonder why?

Paphiopedilum anitum flask update

After two months all anitums are still alive. They did loose some bottom leaves and have some damage from the unfortunate crash of phalaenopsis onto them.







It is hard to say if there was any growth, probably no...

Paph. Wössner Wolke flask

Another flask from Hung Sheng orchids that I got through Crystal Star - HS 8481 emersonii x hangianum 'Bear-7'. This flask was so overcrowded with seedlings that I couldn't even count them all. Although they seem too small and skinny, they do have some roots, so hopefully all survive.

Most of them are grown into several seedlings clumps that I decided to leave untouched, so to not break the roots.
Out of flask - big mess of seedlings, I think there is at least 50 of them, but cannot say exact number:



Potted up:

Paph. gigantifolium deflasked.

Finally I received the last batch of flasks for this spring. Now there will be a series of posts with pictures of them deflasked with measuring tape, so I could track their growth.
First is HS 9050 - Paph. gigantifolium 'Cheng' x self from Hung Sheng Orchids nursery in Taiwan.
HS flasks always come in glass bottles that need to be cracked and I actually mastered this process by now: wrap bottle into plastic bag, take hammer hold the top of the bottle and hit exactly on the side of the bottom. Round bottom comes off almost clean and puck with orchids sits on it nicely.
Agar was soft and plants separated easy, there was 21 plntlet in the flask:



Potted up:



Next update in 6 months...

Paph. superbiens deflasked

Paph superbiens x sib is the second flask that I got from Ching Hua. I really like the leaves on barbarta types and since my callosum deflasklings are doing ok, I figured this one should too.

Bathing in a bowl:



Look at those amazing roots! 22 plantlets were in the jar, all pretty uniform in size, no runts:



Potted up:

Deflasked Paph. anitum

Plantlets in anitum flask were overgrown, so I decided to deflask right away. The actual name of cross is Paph. anitum x sib ('特優' x '#100-1') and it came from Ching Hua Orchids.

Puck swimming in a bowl:



I liked how soft agar was, no problems washing it off. Plantlets separated relatively easy, but couple pairs didn't want to untangle -I left them as is. Counted 16 plants, not 20 as advertised:



Brown leaves at the bottom didn't look healthy so I peeled them off. Leaves are long and tangled, hope they will straighten up. Potted:



I created natural shade from large phalaenopsis in the corner of small tank. Anitum lives there now:

Paphiopedilum nursery

I decided to reorganize my tanks. It started when I moved sanderianum seedlings from larger to smaller and warmer tank that always hosted phalaenopsis. The results were visible - sandies really took off. Smaller tank holds higher humidity and temps, these conditions fit small seedlings just right. So, I moved all paphio seelings there. As a result - lots of phals had to move out to larger tank. I only left large ones on the middle shelf to create shade for seelings and phal seedlings that I deflasked earlier (they are more like adolescents now).



Now seedlings don't have to be watered as often and they surely enjoy 23C temps during the day.

Paph. hangianum seedlings update

I deflasked them in March 2014. Here I found a picture of a tray with larger seedlings from May 2014:



Since then seedlings from tray were moved to pots. I know that it would be better to let them be in that tray for as long as possible, but about a month ago I discovered a scale on one of the seedlings in the tray. I freaked out and splitted them into pairs to control the infestation better. I was checking them every day and wiping the leaves with alcohol every three days for a month. Now it seems that scale might be gone, but plants probably got a major setback with transferring into pots and stressing the leaves with alcohol.
Here they are now:



Interesting, that I have four flasks of other paphiopedilum types seedlings in the same tank but none of those were affected. It's like stupid bugs knew to attack the most expensive ones!

Paphiopedilum Paul Parks repotted

Paphiopedilum Paul Parks seedlings became a bit crowded in their tray:



I decided to graduate them to pots. As a result I got seven pots with three seedlings in each and two pots with four seedlings in each. I didn't expect such a good survival rate up to now:



I will probably leave myself 4 pots and make others available for trade or sale...

Paphiopedilum callosum deflasked

Maudae type species that is supposed to be easy to grow and bloom. Paphiopedilum callosum x sib.



I counted 35 plantlets. Some of them have yellowing leaves at the bottom. Since they are bottom leaves - I will not worry about it for now.

Paphiopedilum Paul Parks deflasked

Sanderianum primary hybrid - Paphiopedilum Paul Parks. Hopefully more vigorous than my sanderianum seedlings.
Cross is sanderianum 'Lady in Red' x adductum var. anitum 'Ace' AM/AOS.



There are about 26 seedlings, all pretty uniform in size. I didn't bother with small protocorm-sized plantlets, just threw them away.

Paphiopedilum Harold Koopowitz deflasked

Another parvi hybrid that came yesterday in flask.
Paphiopedilum Harold Koopowitz - rothschildianum 'Gigantic Dorsal' x malipoense 'Sam's Choice' FCC/AOS.



About 30 seedlings. One was large enough to go to the individual pot, I think. Hope it will be ok...

Paphiopedilum Carolyn Butcher deflasked

Sometime in winter I pre-ordered bunch of paphiopedilum flasks from Orchid Inn USA. Received them yesterday.
Here is the first one I deflasked- Paphiopedilum Carolyn Butcher:



The cross is Fanaticum 'SVO Chunky Monkey' AM/AOS x delenatii 'SVO VII' AM/AOS. There are 27 seedlings in total, couple were clearly bullies with large roots, so I potted them separately. Bottom right pot has two plantlets that are actually connected by long runner.

Paphiopedilum hangianum deflasking

I got this flask of Paphiopedilum hangianum from Hung Sheng Nursery in Taiwan. Plantlets looked nice and healthy. They came in a glass bottle, I had to deal with it for the first time because all my other previous flasks were just plastic containers that didn't require breaking.
After reading few suggestions on the web I wrapped bottle into plastic bag in hit with a hammer on the side near the botom. It worked, bottle crashed but bottom was left with plantlets in agar like a puck.

Here they are taking a bath in warm water:



And here they are all potted up:



There were more than 20 babies in the bottle, roots were all tangled and pretty long. Left top pot has 4 plants stuck together, I couldn't separate them and left them as is. Hope it is ok. Let's see how many will survive...

Phal. LDBQ seedlings update

Here is my Phalaenopsis LD's Bear Queen deflasking from last summer:



I didn't loose any yet, but one of the larger seedlings got wet rot on the tip of one leaf, so I had to cut it off. I had this type of rot on couple of other phals and from my experience - once it started, it will come back on the next leaf even if you cut it off, so there is a strong possibility that the plant will die.

Why does it have to be one of the larger ones?!

Paphiopedilum seedlings update

Seedlings are still alive. I have moved them from clay pots with sphagnum to plastic pots with small bark mix.

I haven't lost any sanderianum yet, even runts in the small pot are fresh and perky:



Stonei is not as lucky. I lost few more to the same rot through the bent stem. Here is what's left:



It seems that they didn't do much since the last update but when I was re-compotting them, I noticed lots of root growth, so there was some activity under the surface :).

Paphiopedilum seedlings: three weeks after deflasking

Seedlings are sill alive but I have noticed that moss stays wet too long. I think because there is not that many roots, moss doesn't have chance to dry out as fast as it did with my phalaenopsis deflasklings.
I decided to do something about it which of course involved pulling seedlings out of the medium.
Instead of having moss all the way to the bottom of the pots I filled pots for about half way with large bark pieces. Then put layer of moss above it.
I also made community pots a bit more crowded, so there are now four compots of sandie and only two of stonei.

Paph. sanderianum:



Paph. stonei:



Sanderianum seedlings look happier at the top but stonei grew a bit more of new roots while sandies use old flask roots still. Maybe different species have different priorities while growing, I don't know.
I threw away two more seedlings of stonei because of rotting damage on the leaves. And then there were 14....
Sanderianums count is still over 30, I didn't throw any yet...