Hi All.
A question on Phallie growing from a new club member of our club. Of whom I
am helping set up his Orchid house for Phallies.
These were deflasked about 3 months ago into 60 mm tubes, into live Tassie
sphagnum.
They were then placed into his lounge room for about 2 months on heat beds,
n
They mention seaweed as a physical part of the medium? Or as an adjunct to
a fertilizing regimen?
I've heard of seaweed extract as an adjunct to feeding. Supposedly there
are plant hormones from the mashed up seaweed that aid growth. If you were
to google Ascophyllum nodosum you'll find pag
Tee Sehn who literally 'wrote the book' on seaweed extracts and humic acid
lives just a few miles from me in South Carolina & has spoken to the local
societies & garden clubs I belong to.
There is a fair amount of information on seaweed extracts and humic acid on his
product's web site under
Although tissue-culturing has produced them in large
quantities,
growers still need "new blood" as repeated subdivision
of the species often gives rise to
abnormalities.
Who has a
Paph barbatum in their collection from a tissue cultured
source??
Or
has the story just gone on to encompa
"Wild and protected Malaysian orchids are in danger of extinction as they
are traded on the Internet."
see news item :
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/National/20051204073116/Article/indexb_html
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regards,
vb
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