can i use water as a flasking medium?

[dendro king]

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i have a new pod on a dendrobium and i want to know if i can use water for a medium, or something cheap that i should have at home. but if anyone can tell me a site with good medium at a cheap price that would also be very helpful!

[Wrebbitrocks]

us aj's at the orchid seedbank project. cheap and very professional stuff. i think he sells it on ebay too. no mixing crap in. you just boil and stir and then sterilize for flasking. idk about the water flasking though. never seen it

[dendro king]

thanks.

[Andrew]

Dendro King,
Kevin Western's media is cheap enough that there's no real savings wasting your time with DIY media.

[Ray]

There was an AOS article about using pretty much standard fertilizer solutions with minimal additives, soaked in perlite.

You don't want to use a liquid, as the seeds could ultimately sink and drown; the agar in traditional media and the perlite in that article serve to give the seed and prototcorms mechanical support.

[dendro king]

thanks.
RAy do you know what the site was called exactly or should i just go on their site and do a search for it?? anyway thanks again!