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Thank you for sending me pictures of the legal
Phragmipedium kovachii seedlings you purchased
from Peruflora.
If you ordered some, be prepared to replate and
compot, before the flask arrive from Peru.
The pictures show the flask contents as
seedlings of many different sizes, protocorms
and medium all
mixed into a messy clump. These need to be replated
immediately, in
order for some of
them
to grow and survive.
If the purchased flasks are also
contaminated, as some of you have reported, the fresh replating
medium more often than not will make the
contaminants grow so rapidly that they will choke
and
eventually kill the seedlings and protocorms. You must then
immediately compot them from these
contaminated freshly replated flasks. The larger
seedlings should survive and grow into mature plants,
but the smaller ones
and the protocorms will most likely die.
Peter
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