Showing posts with label Paphiopedilum hangianum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paphiopedilum hangianum. Show all posts

Sunday, October 5, 2014

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!


Sunday, March 30, 2014

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...