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Now, almost exactly 1 month from when I placed the seed in vitro, they are germinating!! Tiny green dots, too little to take them a photo, but they are a real lot!

Very simple procedure, 10% NaClO (5.25%ia) for 10min and water wash. Placed in MS 100% no PGRs.

The thing is, it was the first media made at home, I was timing the microwave to see how much did I need, and it did not gel correctly after autoclaving, even in those kind of liquid jars seed are growing!
No contamination at all with them!

Congratulations!! Post pics when they are out of the jars so we can see. What kind of orchid was it from?

Well, the orchids were tropical tree growing orchids, as I tell in my orchid collection post, this country has a terrible identification problem, so the name I do not know it, I think there is a trichopilia in there, but not sure, as all the pods came from friends plants that already had ended flowering when I saw them.

Ohh great coline!.Congrats! Nevermind if the picture won't turn out good. Why not just postal a few. Love to see something

If you need to identify orchids, just post photos of the flower and ask this FB group. They are every good at id orchids




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Congrats on the germination!

Thanks guys! I will post photos, but sunday, when I come back to this house because now I'm going, and well, they could be bigger!

Well, as you see, you may see them, but with not any detail, the photo that best gets their shape is the one where they are sticked to the jar wall.

Wow Coline, they look so small and interesting. I didn't know orchids look like this. How small were the seeds? Can't see any seeds

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Well, seeds look just like normal dust. D. capensis or any other sundew seeds are huge in comparison.

Look at those capensis seeds I wasted there compared to the orchid seed sea!
I thought I had a lot of capensis seed (15000+) but from orchids.. lets not count them..

Nice!

So much time has passed! look how they are growing!




This one was from a green inmature pod

These are also growing a real lot, this week was the time for the first pass, to grow some more before I wanted to either make some rooting medium or flasking, I'll see, I flasked some right now to see if they do not need roots or if they do.
The others were separated into other jars, like this:





And some seeds I saved in this jar lol, look at that mess!





Also I have some in vitro pineapple, look at the little guys! They grow so quickly, just a couple of months!