Meristem culture is done under laboratory conditions as extreme cleanliness and sterility are required otherwise all attempts will fail. This is a highly skilful and scientific method of propagation where the very growing centre of a new growth bud is taken and grown on by agitating constantly in a special nutrient rich liquid until the [...]

Again this is a technique better suited to laboratory conditions as absolute sterility is needed for success. Orchid seed is almost like dust and unlike ordinary seed which has a starchy food within it to sustain the growing seedling, orchid seed has none and so special techniques are required to sustain it during the formative [...]

Some species, as some Phalaenopsis , Dendrobium and Vanda , produce offshoots or plantlets formed from one of the nodes along the stem , through the accumulation of growth hormones at that point. These shoots are known as keiki, a keiki is a small plant that grows on a node along the flower spike where [...]

Division simply means splitting the plant in to two or more parts each with at least one new shoot and each will produce a fully grown mostly flowering size plant that is capable of flowering the following season This is one of the simplest methods of producing more plants of the same variety or species. [...]

Back bulb propagation is a method of producing a new plant from old previously flowered or unflowered back pseudobulbs which are usually leafless, plants grown this way may take 2 to 3 years or more to reach flowering size. Another simple method of propagation but this one may take many years to obtain a flowering [...]

Aerial cuttings are very common on many of the cane Dendrobiums such as Nobile. If placed under stressful growing conditions then some Dendrobiums will instead of developing flower buds will produce small plants in their place – fine for increasing your stock but not if you want flowers! Aerial cuttings are very easy to take [...]