Orchid Seeds Germinated On My Tree!

[orchidsarefun]

your experience and a couple of others I have read about has inspired me to try a similar thing on an indoor mounted orchid. I have a c cernua seedpod that should be mature in about a month and I am going to spread seed around

1) the roots of a mounted bc yellow bird that I have.
2) the roots of the c cernua

I don't expect much, but who knows...

[epiphyte78]

Originally Posted by orchidsarefun

your experience and a couple of others I have read about has inspired me to try a similar thing on an indoor mounted orchid. I have a c cernua seedpod that should be mature in about a month and I am going to spread seed around

1) the roots of a mounted bc yellow bird that I have.
2) the roots of the c cernua

I don't expect much, but who knows...

That's great that you're going to give it a try! Hopefully one of those orchids has the appropriate fungus in its roots.

Here are a couple of my favorite photos of cernua growing on trees... C cernua in cultivation and C cernua in situ.

One thing you might consider trying is to attach a division of your cernua to a bonsai. Here's my Jade plant "bonsai" that I attached a couple dozen miniature orchids to...


Crassula Bonsai With Orchids 3a by epiphyte78, on Flickr

The "bark" is totally smooth though so I don't think I'd be able to sow orchid seeds on it.