parvi_17
Well-Known Member
Thanks to every one concerned about wild orchids. Take it easy,almost no people here collect Cypripedium. Who would like to waste hundreds of money more a month to pay the electricity bill?
I have six years of orchid planting experience though it's my first year to grow Cypripedium. I don't believe it's a such difficult one if it's planted in a environment with low temperature, suitable humidity.
I also think it is time to protect wild orchid now. Now I have been able to propagate dendrobium, paphiopedilum,
Holcoglossum by flasking. I am able to make quite a lot of seedling of those genus in two years if needed. It's said that Cypripedium is much difficult in flasking. But something should be done to make it clear,isn't that? And my friend in Kunming china has been succeeded in flasking Cypripedium flavum.
The most important thing to protect wild orchids is protecting its habitat.
Orchids propagated by flasking usually are good shape because of parents selecting. That will make wild orchids lost most of its market.
I appreciate your response and like I said, I wasn't knocking anyone.
I will say this: don't expect not to get some negative reception when you come right out and say that your plant was wild-collected. Unless it was rescued from a site that was about to be bull-dozed (which you did not specify), there is no reason to take a plant out of its habitat.
The impact that collection of any plant has on its conservation status should never be overlooked. With the amount of information I have read on this issue, I will not take someone's word for it that it's not a big deal.