In my experience, the time to harvest for "green pod" culture is when one
end ***just*** starts to turn the slightest bit yellow.

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"nigel savage" wrote in message
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I wrote several months ago about fertilizing some orchids because I
wanted to attempt some tissue culture techniques etc. I now have two
seed pods, one from a phal NOID (but looks great) and a dend NOID which
also looks great (hence propagation). My question is, it has no been
close to 6 months since the pods are fertilized, they both grew very
fast and have been in what can only be described a dormant stage, with
nothing happening. They are both still green on their respective
spikes and I was expecting them to start turning brown or something
soon.
Can anyone tell me please what I should be expecting as far as when is
the right time to visually asses the 'ripeness' of the pods?

Absolutely any help would be wonderful as I would hate to open up a pod
with immature seedlings.

Thanks!

Nigel