Candace
Well-Known Member
This question popped in my head after seeing some requests for pollen lately. Yeah, I know the chances paphs have virus are lower than other orchids, but my question is this...If you've got a valuable plant that you want to breed, do you need to get the donor pollen plant virus tested? Or rather, should you? I think I've read that pollen can carry virus, is this true? I've done some breeding, but only with my own plants and haven't gotten any uncontaminated flasks, so I'm still new at the breeding & flasking thing..