Paph stonei 'The Best' x 'New Dimension' Flask Oct 27, 2011

[Paphman910]

Sam mailed it out on Oct 24, 2011 (Monday) - Took XpressPost 4 days to ship!

October 27, 2011 Paph stonei 'The Best' x 'New Dimension' Flask:

Top view of flask seedlings:

Seedlings and Agar:

Deflasked seedling in tub of water and water sprayer:

Root mass in agar:

Babies separated after 3 hours!

6 inch compot with styrofoam as drainage:

Added mix to cover styrofoam peanuts:

Process of potting up seedling from edge of pot to other edge:

The whole shebang:

Individual compot top view:

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[Brian Monk]

Yay!!!

 

[Shiva]

Looking good!

 

[Marc]

Good luck with growing these. I hope you get some nice plants out of them.

 

[Rick]

A couple of yuck leaves but overall pretty nice.

I expect you to have these blooming in 4 years.oke:oke:

 

[Justin]

excellent. i have a handful of stonei that were from flask about 5 years ago, and they were very slow and touchy but finally are up to 4" pots now.

I have some in the lab now too so i am looking forward to growing more of them.

good luck with these!

 

[SlipperFan]

They look really healthy.

 

[W. Beetus]

Excellent seedlings! I'll be looking forward to seeing them when they bloom.

 

[SlipperKing]

Good stuff! I always had good luck not disturbing the agar and plopping the whole thing down into the pot. Add seedling mix to the top and water/ watch.

 

[paphioboy]

Nice. We'll be counting down the years to blooming...

 

[Paph_LdyMacBeth]

Looks promising. Thanks for posting the de-flasking progression!

 

[Ozpaph]

Did you have trouble separating the seedlings? I tend to compot them as they come from the flask - agar and all. Seems to work for me.

 

[Paphman910]

Did you have trouble separating the seedlings? I tend to compot them as they come from the flask - agar and all. Seems to work for me.

Yes I did! I have done that with my previous stonei flask! They grew well despite alot of damage roots! Beside most of the flask root will die anyways and put out new roots quick quickly!

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[goldenrose]

Did you have trouble separating the seedlings? I tend to compot them as they come from the flask - agar and all. Seems to work for me.

That's what I would have done, just slighty spreading them.

Yes I did! I have done that with my previous stonei flask! They grew well despite alot of damage roots! Beside most of the flask root will die anyways and put out new roots quick quickly!Paphman910

There you go, whatever one is comfortable with, as long as it works out in the end!

 

[NYEric]

Interesting, good luck.

 

[SlipperKing]

Yes I did! I have done that with my previous stonei flask! They grew well despite alot of damage roots! Beside most of the flask root will die anyways and put out new roots quick quickly!

Paphman910

The agar roots won't die as quickly if left in the agar while new ones are formed.

 

[Justin]

i'm a recent convert to the agar-on method too. i just did a flask of haynaldianum that way and there was zero stress on the plants.

but anyway, i don't want to hijack this thread further...great stonei!!!

 

[GuRu]

Good luck to your babies !!

 

[biothanasis]

They look happy!!! Good luck!!!!

 

[Paphman910]

Update March 21, 2012

In case you didn't see it:

Compot 1:

Compot 2:

Slow growers! BTW runts didn't make it!

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