We do not grow paphs from the bottle, so I hope someone who does can weigh
in on your question. But for most catt-tribe plants and dens, we have found
the "crash-and-bang" method to be the best:

Prep your community pots with your desired seedling mix. Use a hammer to
break the bottle [taking precautions to avoid injury from flying glass].
Depending on the size of the flask & # of plants in it, slide all or half
into a compot, agar and all, trying not to separate or disturb the "glob"
of seedlings [other than if necessary to divide the mass in half to fit your
compot]. Fill in around the sides with more seedling mix and use tweezers
to pick out any glass fragments if necessary.

We do not treat with any pesticides or fungicides at this point because it
doesn't seem to us that the topicals would do any good and we fear the
systemics would be too much for such young plants. Catt & den compots go
straight out onto the bench, getting watered whenever the sprinklers are
next turned on. For paphs, I suspect you might want to water them right
after potting.

Using this method does make it harder to transplant from compot to 2" when
the plants are ready, but for us this inconvenience is thoroughly outweighed
by the greater survival rate within the compots.

Good growing,

--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids

http://www.jborchids.com
"Sekanek" wrote in message
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Greeting to all ,
I have purchased some Paph sanderianum seedlings, and I have never bought
Paphs in this form before, my main question is how to transplant them
from
the flask , with out damaging them, or destroying them intirely .
I have always been a good Paph grower , and all of mine are doing great
I have close to 250 paphs now, and I would like to add these lil beauties
to
my collection .
I would appreciate any information that anyone could pass along to me
about
deflasking and the potting of Paphs, as these sanderianum seedlings did
not
come very cheap at all , and the thought of losing them would be very
dissapointing.
Thank you , for any info avalible
Good growing to all !!!
yours .....
Todd Wharton