Roy -
Is it possible (it seems likely) that they have flasked more than one pod? I tend to flask everything that I don't cut off.
Very unlikely. They have massive quantities of seedlings of any given cross, if you ask. At the time of the release of paph stonei album, one famous seller in Taiwan had "10.000 seedlings available". Sometimes by luck you can make many seedlings from a seed caps, but it is more of an exception than the rule.
There are 2 reasons, both of them are quite bad actually. First they use a lot of sister plants to make a lot of seeds, or buy seedlings of the species and put a clonal tag. That's why I bought ( and I am not alone!) the same roth seedlings grex at 3 different times, and ended up with 2 different types of plants (narrow short leaves, and the next time mix of narrow short leaves and huge broad leaves, third time huge broad leaves only...). Many do like that.
The second reason, it is extremely easy to proliferate seedlings in flasks, using hormons. Paphs are very receptive to an hormon/organic combination, I tried it, but then there are a lot of mutations problems if they carry the process too far ( and like for the phals and catts, most labs will carry it as much as possible, because the order mentions "all" for the quantity, and the more the better :evil
