There are many techniques for propagating orchids and the cutting orchid technique is one technique that most orchid grower usually used. Normally, we cut a piece (new growth) from a main orchid plant to plant in a new pot or other composts. This old technique, some orchid plant will not survive because the orchid plant is not healthy enough for cutting and some orchid plant is growing slowly after you plant it in a new pot or other composts.



I try to find a new technique and I found it! It is an easy technique and is better than old technique. This technique will make your new orchid is healthy and growing very well.

This orchid is Bulbophyllum planibulbe. It has lovely pseudobulbs, leaves and flowers. This bulbophyllum orchid is quite rarely orchid and difficult to flower. It is too hard to make an orchid flask from it flowers. So, the cutting technique is the best way to propagate this orchid.
You can see new growths of orchid in the picture. It has many new growths that growing over the side away from the wood and they are ready to cut.
The problem is the pseudobulbs are quite small and easy to lost moisture if I cut them off. So, I decide to use the new technique to plant new growths onto the main orchid plant. Choose the new growth that has no fewer than 3 pseudobulbs because in my experiences the plant that has more than 3 pseudobulbs are growing faster and making new roots very well. I choose a plastic net to plant the orchid plant because I think it is quite clean and safety from fungus and diseases.

Use the plastic net that is slightly longer than the plant to give it enough space to grow for several years. Place a pad of sphagnum moss onto the plastic net and hold the plant onto the plastic net that has a pad of sphagnum moss. Careful tie the plant by a plastic-coated wire. Then, watering the orchid plant normally.

Let the new plant making new roots and establish itself on the sphagnum moss and plastic net. Cut the new orchid plant from the main orchid plant when you think it is healthy enough or can growing by itself onto the new compost depending on your decision.

You can use this technique with other orchids. I show the picture that I use this technique with my Dendrobium parishii.