Hello everyone!

I just bought my first flask of : Phal. Penang Girl 'Bedford' x Phal.
bellina 'Wizard'

Now the 64 thousand dollars question: what is the best and safest way to
deflask.

I have a link:
http://www.bedfordorchids.com/flasks...%20Demystified

Is that ok? What is your way?
I grow under fluorescent light!

thanks for your input

Claude


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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:45:36 -0400, "Claude"
wrote:

Hello everyone!

I just bought my first flask of : Phal. Penang Girl 'Bedford' x Phal.
bellina 'Wizard'

Now the 64 thousand dollars question: what is the best and safest way to
deflask.

I have a link:
http://www.bedfordorchids.com/flasks...%20Demystified

Is that ok? What is your way?
I grow under fluorescent light!

thanks for your input

Claude

http://www.ladyslipper.com/compot2.html shows another option. Potting
the entire clump of agar is supposed to help minimize transplanting
shock.

If you are growing indoors, you may want to boost the humidity. What
I did was to purchase a 10 gallon aquarium and glass aquarium top. I
put some damp sphagnum in the bottom of the aquarium, put in a shelf
on some upside down pots, and put the compots on that. Prop the glass
top open an inch or so. Rewet the sphagnum as required. Over the
course of the next few weeks, gradually open the top more until you
finally remove it.

deg

Claude,

I have used the Bedford instructions and would again.

Bob
"Claude" wrote in message
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Hello everyone!

I just bought my first flask of : Phal. Penang Girl 'Bedford' x Phal.
bellina 'Wizard'

Now the 64 thousand dollars question: what is the best and safest way to
deflask.

I have a link:
http://www.bedfordorchids.com/flasks...%20Demystified

Is that ok? What is your way?
I grow under fluorescent light!

thanks for your input

Claude


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Claude,

I have used the Bedford instructions and would again.

Bob
"Claude" wrote in message
...
Hello everyone!

I just bought my first flask of : Phal. Penang Girl 'Bedford' x Phal.
bellina 'Wizard'

Now the 64 thousand dollars question: what is the best and safest way to
deflask.

I have a link:
http://www.bedfordorchids.com/flasks...%20Demystified

Is that ok? What is your way?
I grow under fluorescent light!

thanks for your input

Claude


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Thanks!

I just read in Growing Orchid by Wilma and Brian Rittershausen, a technique
using mini greenhouse made with smal segregated container and New Zealand
moss.
Is this a good way too?

Thank you all!

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| "Claude" wrote in message
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| Hello everyone!
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| I just bought my first flask of : Phal. Penang Girl 'Bedford' x Phal.
| bellina 'Wizard'
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| Now the 64 thousand dollars question: what is the best and safest way to
| deflask.
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| I have a link:
| http://www.bedfordorchids.com/flasks...%20Demystified
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| Is that ok? What is your way?
| I grow under fluorescent light!
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| thanks for your input
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| Claude
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I just read in Growing Orchid by Wilma and Brian Rittershausen, a technique
using mini greenhouse made with smal segregated container and New Zealand
moss.
Is this a good way too?

We used to use clear plastic sweater boxes. They are inexpensive and hold up
well. You can punch holes in the sides of the box using a soldering iron to add
some ventilatin. Line the bottom with spagnum to hold moisture and put the
community flat on top.

The best method we found for deflasking was to use warm water to desolve the
agar and then wash off each of the seedlings. They were then potted into
community flats and placed into the sweater boxes.

Hi Trainman9,

New Zealand moss is a great product for certain orchids; however, a fine bark,
charcoal, and perlite mixture is best for other orchids.

The sweater box seems a good method. From all the seedlings we have raised from
flask within containers, it seems that air movement is not as important to the
development of seedling as it is to mature plants.

.. . . Pam
Everything Orchid Management System http://www.pe.net/~profpam/page3.html
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TRAINMAN9 wrote:

I just read in Growing Orchid by Wilma and Brian Rittershausen, a technique
using mini greenhouse made with smal segregated container and New Zealand
moss.
Is this a good way too?

We used to use clear plastic sweater boxes. They are inexpensive and hold up
well. You can punch holes in the sides of the box using a soldering iron to add
some ventilatin. Line the bottom with spagnum to hold moisture and put the
community flat on top.

The best method we found for deflasking was to use warm water to desolve the
agar and then wash off each of the seedlings. They were then potted into
community flats and placed into the sweater boxes.

Hi Trainman9,

New Zealand moss is a great product for certain orchids; however, a fine bark,
charcoal, and perlite mixture is best for other orchids.

The sweater box seems a good method. From all the seedlings we have raised from
flask within containers, it seems that air movement is not as important to the
development of seedling as it is to mature plants.

.. . . Pam
Everything Orchid Management System http://www.pe.net/~profpam/page3.html
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TRAINMAN9 wrote:

I just read in Growing Orchid by Wilma and Brian Rittershausen, a technique
using mini greenhouse made with smal segregated container and New Zealand
moss.
Is this a good way too?

We used to use clear plastic sweater boxes. They are inexpensive and hold up
well. You can punch holes in the sides of the box using a soldering iron to add
some ventilatin. Line the bottom with spagnum to hold moisture and put the
community flat on top.

The best method we found for deflasking was to use warm water to desolve the
agar and then wash off each of the seedlings. They were then potted into
community flats and placed into the sweater boxes.

New Zealand moss is a great product for certain orchids; however, a fine
bark,
charcoal, and perlite mixture is best for other orchids.


You just line the box with a layer of spagnum to elevate the humidity.
Sometimes the spagnum will sprout and can make a very good medium for
recovering larger plants that are in bad shape.

The seedings are deflasked and planted into a bark mixture.