Pollinating orchids is a delicate process but it is very important because when you are pollinating the orchid flower you will receive unique flower that different from mericloning orchids especially when you cross-pollination of two orchids, you will create a new unique individuals flowers that never occur before.

Pollinating orchids is a delicate process but it is very important because when you are pollinating the orchid flower you will receive unique flower that different from mericloning orchids especially when you cross-pollination of two orchids, you will create a new unique individuals flowers that never occur before.
To make it easy to understand I will write it in 2 parts
1. Removing and keeping pollinia
2. Pollinating orchids

1.Removing and keeping orchids pollinia

If we want beautiful orchids, we have to choose strong, healthy and high quality to be our pollinating parent and pod parent. Many times we realize that our good pollinating parent and pod parent that we choose did not have flowers in the same time. So keeping orchid pollinia is the important process especially if you want to make an Hybrid Orchids because orchid in each kind always have flowers in a different time.

The appropriate time to keep the pollinia is 2-4 days after the flowers are bloom because if we keep they too early they will too young and if we keep they too late, they will too old.

1. Use the toothpick take off the pollen cap. In this process you should take off the pollen cap on to a sheet of clean paper or tissue to prevent it falling on the ground because it is easy to infection from fungi and bacteria.

2. put the pollen cap on to a paper. Then make it up side down and you can see the pollinia.

3. Use the toothpick to expose the pollinia on to a tissue. Choose only the strong pollinia. It shouldn’t have any black spot or brown spot because the pollinia that have black spot is damage by fungi and you can’t use it to pollinate.

4. Fold a tissue to make a neat and appropriate size then put it in a small envelope and write orchid’s name and the date of keeping on the envelope.

5. The most important things about keeping orchid pollinia is keep it far away from humidity because fungi can grown well in the place that have high humidity. The silica gel pack is useful in this process because it can help you reduce the humidity to prevent the damage cause by fungi.

6. Put the envelope and the silica gel pack in the box. Then close the box and keep it in the refrigerator. In this way you can keep the pollinia more than 1 year. However it depend on other factors.

The most important thing that I suggest is you should use the pollinia as fresh as you can.

Please follow the 2nd part. I will write it soon.