Oldfashioned propagating
When you grow in spaghnum/bark mix, you have the option of sowing into the pot of the parent plant. Success ratio is low (often zero), as most seed washes away, but it can work.
I just brought my Vandas & Rhynchostylis back inside due to low night temps. One of the Rhynchos was hanging next to an Epidendrum calanthum, fma album, last winter. The Epi set a couple of pods, which eventually released their seed, as I never got around to removing them.
When I brought the Rhynchos in, I found three Epi seedlings in one of the baskets:
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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