keith wrote:

I purchased a paphiopedilum from a supermarket I now but I couldn't
resist,you no once you start you cant stop & at a reduced price of £5.00
bargain!I noticed it had a seedling in the pot,does this type of orchid self
seed or have I a seedling of something else.it looks like a orchid seedling
as it has put down fine roots but as you can see in the photo it has started
to grow more of a aerial root?
thanks keith



Weed. It is a dicot. Not an orchid. Sorry. To the other question,
orchids do self seed sometimes. It isn't a common occurance. Before
science caught up to orchids, growers would attempt to germinate orchid
seeds at the base of established plants. And they must have been at
least somewhat successful, or we wouldn't have had any hybrids before
the advent of orchid flasking. Now we grow 99.999999999% of orchid seed
in flasks.

Rob

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2) There is always room for two more orchids
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