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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gore42" data-source="post: 22767">Lance,I didn't mean to suggest that you really were worked up; the reply to your post was intended to be in good humor... and in fact, I agree with you completely. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I would hate to see tons of clones of any Paph, and I would never mass produce Paph clones the way that it has been done with Phals and Oncidinae and Catts, etc...  At least not without a very very good reason. Mass production of clones does a terrible disservice to the gene pool of a species.My interest in the technique goes as far as producing enough seedlings of a species that is difficult to propagate to ease the demand for wild collected plants. Done in the way suggested by the article, dozens of different clones would be produced, though... not just hundreds of the same clone.And, let me stress again, I am only researching the topic, I'm a long way from implementing such a thing. I don't know yet whether I can or would want to actually do it.- Matthew Gore</blockquote>

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