That is the best advice I have seen from anyone if someone wants to keep the bloom totally in tact. Like I said, I just popped the stigma up in front of the labellum and I can plainly see what I need to do and nothing is in the way. As it stands now, I could pollinate the flower just fine the way I positioned the stigma and the labellum and the plant still looks fine. I also have pictures I took of it with the stigma up in front of the sides of the labellum. I did read that paphiopedilum will stay in bloom for a little while after pollination, but they do wilt in a normal fashion after a week or two from the day it was pollinated. I was hoping to keep the bloom in tact and pollinate it in a week so the bloom still stays for at least 2 weeks for me and my friends to enjoy. I know that my mind may be crazy and I may be so far off, but the way I think about things in my mind as far as removing anything from a plant or flower before pollination is that there are hormones going through all tissues of the plant and each cell talks to other cells in the plant. I would be nervous to damage or mutilate a flower as there are cytokinins and auxins all through the plant as well as other hormones, sugars and chlorophyl along with micro and macro nutrients interacting with every cell. When some piece gets taken away, the plant has to send a message to every cell that there is damage and it must be repaired or callused. When there is tissue repair, hormone levels as well as plant cells differentiate and I just wonder if that may or may not interfere with the genetic code in the ovary since it is still part of the plant. I just wonder but like i said, I may be crazy for stating that and I do not want to argue, but that is another reason I do not pollinate damaged flowers or plants. Just my opinion though so take it with a grain of salt.
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