just got given 3 sick phalaenopsis :)

[KultureShock]

The owner of the local flower shop in nelson just gave me 3 sick orchids for free and told me she is going to give me all of her sick orchids from now on, Because i showed her the orchid i got from her with only 2 roots today and she was astonished by how well it was doing XD i'm sooo freaking stoked right now lol. i will be sharing these ladies once i have tissue cultured and multiplied them so check back here now and then for your chance to get some free baby orchids.

Just couldnt contain myself and had to share :P thanks for listening

P.s. i am also going to take this opportunity to explore the effectiveness of pacloutrazol to induce root growth when used on it's own because i think there is serious potential there and i always give my sick plants a dip in paclobutrazol anyways because it stops the spread of fungal and bacterial disease and gives treated plants a better chance at fighting off the infection and resuming normal growth so i know i wont run into any problems already which is good because i can focus on the root growth effects instead of figuring out all aspects of what it is doing to the plant. The only thing i will be doing differently this time is leaving auxins out of the equation.
so for those of you interested in this you might want to check back here from time to time as well because i am going to post the results here as i get them.

[Paul Mc]

Congrats!!!!

[Wrebbitrocks]

its too bad youre in canada lol. i should make nice with my local florists as well lol

[KultureShock]

yea i think its definitely a good idea to make friends with local florist's because lots of time's they simply have too many plants to take care of all of them by themselves and if your lucky they could give them to you instead XD i have no idea what the flowers on these plants are going to look like but thats kind of exciting in itself. I treated these three plants with 50ppm paclobutrazol for 10 minutes using the basal dip method. I am going to hold off on the kelp spray with these plants and going to see how much truth there is to the claims of paclobutrazol being able to stimulate root growth where auxins have failed. If successful i think there could be major potential in paclobutrazol as i already have a plant that only had 3 aerial roots and had lost all but one leaf coming back to life and growing new roots, but i am not sure if it was the paclobutrazol or the kelp spray that did the trick in this instance for all i know it was the combination :S I know for certain that paclobutrazol halts the spread of infection in orchids at this dose so i am positive that paclobutrazol definitely helped by stopping the roots from getting any worse then they already were and allowing the plant to focus on new growth instead of fighting infection.
Sorry for getting off topic just figured i would post my method for saving them here instead of making a new thread.

Best regards,
Kevin Disher