orchid seed on cardboard

[mark smyth]

Lovely looking Platanthera bifolias. the ones I bought this year had rotten 'tails' and the replacements were also the same. What might have caused this?

[winwen]

Erwin,  it sounds like you have a lovely family - your plants must be a nice quiet hobby for you! I am grateful for the time you take to share your experiences with us here   

Thanks for your warm words, Maggie!
Gardening -which also includes your forum in a broad sense- is my way of recreation.

@mark: maybe this is due to bad aereation of the substrate, which is often the case if organic content is too high or the mineralic content is not coarse enough. Especially when grown in pots/containers in which the substrate always tends to be compressed at the bottom. In such a case the substrate also becomes wet at the bottom while it can be bone-dry on the surface, which is especially bad since the (mycotrophic) roots are sitting ABOVE the bulb.

[sottych]

Hello !
Here is my test seedling Pleione on cardboard , with several essays on different mixture , it is this one that germinates the first base of banana juice.
I apologize for the poor quality of the pictures !
Cordialy
Christian

[Graham Catlow]

Are these seedlings?
I am very excited and hope they are. My excitement will no doubt turn to disappointment either because they aren't seedlings or I will now kill them.

Seeded into the cardboard soaked in the water that rotten beech tree pulp had been soaked in and an unknown Dactylorhiza root had been crushed into.

Sown July 27 2011

1. two seedlings
2. the cardboard in its container.

[deplantspecialist]

B1 culture is one of the methods to germinate orchid seeds. I live in Holland and can't discover the adres af the laboratory where you can get the B1.
Is there  somebody that knows the internet adres?

thanks, Peter