Lol!! I was trying to, but the site wouldn't take my pictures.
I'll try to take some other pictures and post. I de-flasked on 10-23-08. They were in agar. I added 1 1/2 teaspoon of Physan-20 and a drop of superthrive to a gallon of distilled water. I added some of that to the flask to try to break up some of the agar.(it didn't work). After removing the babies in one chunk-to a pan of the solution, I could break apart the babies very carefully. When I got the clump into the water solution, I gently teased them apart. It wasn't hard. I was just being really careful not to tear any roots. There were a few small roots lost, but the majority stayed intact. I removed as much agar as poss without damaging the roots. All that I've read, said to remove all agar. Well, Paph roots are hairy and that's just not possible. I would have damaged the roots too much if I had tried to "scrape" all the agar off. We'll see....I then held each one over a cup and spooned in dry mix. (wear gloves, as the Physan-20 shouldn't touch bare skin).I put the larger plants in little translucent bathroom sized drink cups with holes cut in the bottoms. I broke up ghost-poop (Styrofoam peanuts) and charcoal to put in the bottoms of each cup. I sifted Schultz mix to remove the largest chunks. I added a
little chopped sphag, also. The very tiniest, I put in a compot. I had 24 in the cups, and 11 in the compot. (Those were really tiny) The 24 are doing well, and there's about 6 or 7 out of the 11 tiny ones still left.
I tried to put pictures up here, but can't. I hope my son can come over soon, to help me get the pictures to the correct bites. ( He's in the process of getting his doctorate in computer science!)
I water with a sprayer turned on stream. I can direct the stream (gently)to the medium and not on the plantlets themselves. I have a small fan going in the room, also.
