"Gramma" wrote in message ...
Can someone please explain just what is meant by 'flask' Is this the same as
buying other plants in tubes??

I'm slowly being sucked in by all this growing things and life will never be
the same

Gramma

no! no! run away while you still can!! ;-)

one of the flaskers on here will no doubt give a better answer, but
orchid seedlings are grown in flasks (think regular laboratory flask)
of growth medium until they're a certain size. (of course some orchid
seedlings grow out of other orchids' pots and greenhouse walkways, etc
etc, depending on where the seed pod bursts. ;-)

see

http://www.psfdev.com/los/flasking/

for instance.

--j_a