Online Resource for Orchid Growers

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Find information about growing orchids and ordering cell trays for your orchid farm.  

Grower's Tips

Screening

Screening orchids for production seems to be a necessary and ongoing process. There are a number of factors that determine whether an orchid variety is going to be viable as a pot plant or cut flower for your nursery. The first consideration is whether you can grow it in your location.

Media

Orchids grow in a wide range of media. Almost anything imaginable can be used. Orchids benefit from the moisture and nutrient reservoir that many media mixes provide. In addition, orchids depend on the media to physically support itself.

Choosing the type of media you want to work with is subjective based on what is available, economical, and adaptive to your growing conditions. There are probably pluses and minuses for each choice.

Hybrids and Clones

Mericlones

Mericlones are plants that are produced via vegetative reproduction.

If one were to cut a part of an orchid plant and grow that division it would eventually grow and blossom exactly like the original plant. Cloning is a process where large quantities of orchids or other plants can be made from a single plant. Thus clones ideally would result in plants that are identical to the original.

 

 

Pest Control

Pest control will be grouped together with disease control. This is to give you a broader understanding of our techniques, in this complex and difficult area. I consider the common notion "healthy plants resist diseases" to be relatively true, but not quite as simple.

There are many factors that contribute to the health of orchid plants that allow them to grow healthy and disease-free. So rather than beginning with pest control I will start with plant health and then move on to pest control.

58 Cell Trays

C. bowringiana var. coerulea x C. deckerii (C2039)
C. Haleahi Serenity 'Aagat' x C. Heathii 'Coerulea' (S4222)
Blc. Haleahi Pueo 'Soar' x C. guttata var. Leopoldii 'Dante' (S4495)
Blc. Wanda's Fire - Hawaiian Snow Candy 'Golden' x Blc. Goldenzelle - Erin Kobayashi 'Nuevo Ano' (S4591)
(S3104) Blc. Haleahi Sunbow 'Tangerine' X00136' x Ctna. Why Not 'Love Beads'

98 Cell Trays

Den. Jaquelyn Thomas 'Uniwai Supreme' (H0493)