Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
Their culture from flask to flowering, with considerable detail; refer to OD68-6+
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SEEDLINGS: Unbloomed
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
Purchasers sometimes gamble that their chance of getting an award-winning plant from a batch of unbloomed seedlings is better on the theory that if it had already bloomed and was not sold it must h...
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SEEDS: Germination
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
Their metabolism and need for fungal symbionts; suitablity of sugars and other carbohydrates; other data; refer to W10-263
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SEEDS: Germination and Culture
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
For techniques, procedures, culture media, sources of supplies, symbiotic and asymbiotic methods; North American terrestrials; European terrestrials; Japanese orchids; Disa, Paphiopedilum, Spathogl...
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SEEDS: Peroxide Treatment
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
For the peroxide-catalase method of growing with discussion of details, recommendations on treatment of green capsules, seed germination, transplanting protocorms and seedlings; details on supplies...
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SEEDS: Storage
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
A small amount of anhydrous calcium chloride is placed in the bottom of a screw-cap test tube, covered with cotton and the seeds placed on the cotton, the cap replaced and the tube placed in the ve...
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SELFING: Improving Species
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
Superior hybrid strains have been developed recently by selfing and sibling-crossing and to compare these with the original jungle plants is incorrect. AA86-29
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SELFING: Of Meristem Plants
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
Should the offspring be deformed it will depend entirely on genetics; meristem propagation is not different from the normal kind. A70-725
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SELFING: Pros and Cons
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
If the characteristics of a plant are constant, as with species and it is self-fertile selfing is logical and rewarding as to results; if a hybrid comes from a distinctly different make-up selfing ...
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SELFING: Use Pollen From the Same Flower or From Another Flower on the Same Plant
Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago
They are equally effective, but pollinate only on mature fresh flowers. A66-134
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