Unflasking Stanhopea platyceras

Did this some time back, now to close to exams to do gardening. Plants will wail for me once exams end - asking me to REPOT REPOT. Then I tell them to flower first =p

The stuff needed to perform the operation to unflask Stanhopea platyceras.



Start from the bottom clockwise:
- Straw string for tying
- Stiff coated wire for breaking up the agar and to form the wire hook for your mounts
- Pliers to break flask (if needed) and to bend your stiff wires
- Sphag for moistening
- The flask of course
- Disinfectant for flask with some form of contamination
- Ferntree slabs as mounts (2"x 2" x 12")
- Cutters

First, make your mount









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Here's the flask



Uncork



Can see a bit of bacterial growth - waited too long to unflask liaoz =p



So spray so disinfectant (can use bleach or Dettol)



Wash out the agar from the flask and pick through the seedlings



Mount the seedlings as usual













All done and all hung up:



Hopefully the fragile babies survive. I'm not too good with stuff with plicate leaves. I prefer stuff with thick leaves of heavy substance