Anyone tried deflasking straight onto mounting media?
I have some leafless orchids to deflask(a few ghosts and a large bottle of chiloschista viridiflava) and I'm contemplating the option of deflasking them straight onto sterilise mounts inside the humidity box. I have a big stack of small treefern mounts on their way and also some other bits of stem from some native casuarina and bottle brush trees, plus some that i make out of gutter mesh and sphag. I thought maybe I could bake or boil them to sterilise them and then lay them all flat on top of the grid in the humidity box and lay the orchids with a little bit of sphag straight onto them. The idea being that they could begin attaching themselves to the mounts straight away and by the time I was thinking about transfering them out into the terrarium they should be settled and less likely to be shocked...
Any thoughts...
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