Specific Families and Genera > Pleione and Orchidaceae
Pleione 2022
ruweiss:
Jeff, many thanks for your reply. You are right, they look quite similar like the white
P. formosana. It is a pity, that I cannot ask my friend anymore. My plant is totally
hardy with me until now.
Tim Harberd:
Hi Rudi,
I'd agree it looks like a P. formosana. It would be nice to know where it was collected. You have it in a mixed pot with some P. limprichitii? (Or hybrid of?)
I suspect my white P. formosana shown earlier is actually a hybrid, because of its vigour. Tip to tip it gets to 95mm across where as other formosanas I have grown rarely exceed 70mm.
Tim DH
Jeffnz:
I was searching for information on growing Pleione from seed, found the following link to a Plant Worlds offer of seed and their germination instructions.
https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/view_seed_item/2129
Is this actually correct as I had always assumed that orchid seed needed to be sown onto a sterile nutrient agar medium to achieve germination.
Paul Cumbleton:
Jeff,
My website on Pleione shows how I used to do it - see http://www.pleione.info/grow-from-seed---1.html. While germination on sphagnum might just about be possible if you were really lucky, success is most unlikely.
Paul
Jeffnz:
Paul I had find your site and that was what prompted the question.
Thanks
Jeff
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