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To avoid this problem, greenhouse growers sow orchid seeds on moist, sugar-rich, sterile agar, or they cut out growing clumps of orchid cells and place them on the agar. These techniques allow many hundreds of orchid plants to survive to maturity. New and improved hybrids can be mass produced rapidly. This is important as orchids are very slow growing. Many orchids take five to seven years to mature to flowering. You can see why breeding three or four orchid generations could span a person's lifetime just to get one new hybrid propagated sufficiently for sale.
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Did you know that orchid plants do not like to sit in water. Many people think that orchids like as much water/moisture as possible. The truth is that orchids do like moisture on their leaves but they only require a little water about once a week. The important thing is to throughly water the orchid, letting the water throughly drain out...and never let the orchid sit in water...good luck!
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An orchid sale is planned from 4-9 p.m. Monday at the Chatham College Gate House. The sale, sponsored by the students in the college's Landscape Architecture program, will feature orchids ranging in price from $20 to $30, depending on the number of buds -- plants with five buds cost $20; six buds, $25; seven buds, $30.
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By providing these plants with proper orchid care, you can make them last for years and years to come and offer you new delicate blossoms each year. Some orchids can even be coaxed into blossoming more than once a year, while others will retain their flowers for several months if provided with the right kind of orchid care.
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One of the best ways to kill an epiphytic orchid is to plant it in soil. They require a growing media with extremely good aeration and drainage. Commercially prepared orchid potting mixes are available or a mixture can be prepared containing chopped tree fern fiber, volcanic stone, charcoal, a little peat, fir bark or combinations of these.
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While insects have certainly contributed to the growth of the 25,000 known species, it's the combination of man's experimentation and the orchid's breeding capabilities that have led to the 100,000 man-made hybrids. Most plants aren't able to hybridize among the same genera, but evidently the orchid is far luckier when it comes to getting its lovin' on. Read more on Orchids.
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