Sulco. langeri

First of many flowers...

Hi not sure if article is online, if you'd like a photocopy send me a PM. I find they require, rather than tolerate, lots of water especially when very young. The original instructions that came with the CSSA seed said water as soon as the top of the soil felt dry, and I have kept to this. (if you'd...

2 leaves, 2 dried cotyledons.

Here's a 2 yr old grown from CSSA seed:

Hi re Welwitschia seeds you will find other threads about sowing them on this forum. Best sown one seed to a pot, using something like disposable coffee cups with a small hole made in the bottom to stop the root getting out of the bottom of the pot. Also a good article by Chris Hynes in the BCSS Jou...

yes but you will need to keep it dry with something like silica gel in a jar, and refrigerate it to keep the pollen alive. Let the jar get to room temperature before you open it to get the pollen out or condensation will form on the pollen grains and the whole lot will be ruined.

Nice trip, plenty of spiky things . I think your orchid on day2/3 is Bletia not Bletilla, the latter is Asian. Interesing also to see Laelia anceps in synchronous flower in habitat with the one on my bathroom windowsill!

If they are seedlings you wont have a problem with incompatibility with pollination. This would only be a problem if you had plants which were rooted cuttings of the same plant, (i.e. they would all be clones of the original plant).

They probably build up in numbers during the warmer summer weather...If you want to see how many mites are living in your soil or on your plants try getting a binocular microscope, say 15 or 20x power on a pot of seedlings. Its amazing how many little critters of different sorts are living happily a...