That layer of yellow blobs are all clusters of tiny, growing Dendrobium embryos. Sexy goop, eh?
I received the deflasked seedlings today and there were at least two dozen individual plants there.
After a week or so, there was a fine orange dust at the bottom of the paper cone. In that teaspoon of dust were hundreds of thousands of seeds.
I am not crazy enough to grow orchids from seed, but I am crazy enough to try and grow them from a bottle.
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