Propagation step by step

[Fairorchids]

In terms of difficulty, cloning goes a step beyond flasking. You need a spinning wheel (a shaking platform?), for the first step of the process, where you make cells multiply rather than differentiate.

While some nurseries do their own cloning, many limit their activities to a few genera. I understand that Vandas are especially difficult to clone.

There are laboratories, who offer to do meristem propagation (cloning). However, some of them will not do it unless they produce at least 1,000 plantlets.