Hi,
I'm Andrea Mangoni, an italian biologist. Sorry for my english!
I'm working on a project for the preservation of some colonies of orchids in the Venice area. One of the highlights of the project will be the breeding of plants under controlled conditions. we must work with O. purpurea, O. coriophora, O. morio, D. incarnata, N. tridentata, and Ophris sp.
I've seen in an old post that some of you try to propagate orchids with summer division, and also sowing in pot or in vitro.
for summer division, how I should kept the recided bulb? In a refrigerator, with moist sand? directely in a pot? The future plant will bloom at the first-second year?
for sowing in pot, there is some special tips to observe? For sowing in vitro, could be ok utilize nutrient medium Phytamax P-6668?
sorry for the many questions, and thanks to anyone could help me!
Andrea
ps some of plants that I'll need to moltiplicate!
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYbAP8KvhBc/Ta3iLsMSUhI/AAAAAAAABzA/glBcJQ_QU8s/s1600/orchis-purpurea-1.jpg)
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eo204ePPf-8/Ta3iM4NSLeI/AAAAAAAABzI/nrCBG9-TH-0/s1600/orchis-tridentata-3.jpg)
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JHi_8UgouUQ/Ta3iMOL9r1I/AAAAAAAABzE/5_kHrODaYVo/s1600/orchis-purpurea-2.jpg)
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l7Dm0Q9UWI8/TQd9qq7gM1I/AAAAAAAABqY/kJXmDpJ1_KA/s1600/neotinea-tridentata-2.jpg)
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l7Dm0Q9UWI8/TQd9ofw19KI/AAAAAAAABqU/LSG59q8U12Q/s1600/neotinea-tridentata-1.jpg)