I just got back from Puerto Rico Last Week. While there, I visited Lixian Orchids in Rio Grande. For more detail, search this site for 'Orchid Hunt - Rio Grande'. Below is an excerpt from that post
I picked out a small d. Rainbow Fantasy, partially because it was small, and partially because it had a whole bunch of keikis, but something was odd. They were extremely small, and were not coming out of the plant. Nor did they look like the parent. I asked, and she informed me that they had sprouted from seeds. She seemed rather annoyed about it, as if it were a nuisance. She said it happens all the time, then showed me how she had placed several Shomborkia (she is not aware of it’s new name) seed pods, on the rotted bark of another orchid. I told her that I already have four separate failed attempts at germinating Angraecum seeds, in a sterile micro-propagation lab. She just sprinkles them on rotted medium, or they sprinkle themselves.
Now that I have returned, and spent a few days observing them I have a few clarifications 1) it was a potinara, and not a dendrobium that had the sprouts. 2) It seems like the sprouts are two different types of dendrobiums. One of them is a crumenatum. 3) What may be key to the germination is that the rotted bark that the potinara was in, was also covered in moss, and the sprouts were in the moss.
I have since repotted the potinara, and plucked out the dendrobiums, with moss and placed them in spaghnum moss for now.
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