I relented. At the bottom was a bit 'admit defeat. The seeds of bletilla, that all give the orchid as easier to sow, I do not have sprouted. It may be a problem seeds are too old, or sterile. But I want to think that it is actually a problama of bad karma. In my relations with bletilla there have only been disasters. Seeds scattered everywhere, molds, flasks falls. And of course the lack of germination. There are still flasks here and there in the box that acts as my greenhouse. In Phytamax in Germination Media, Murashige & Skoog, Repleting in Media, a full concentration, concentration halved. Nothing. On the web there are people that makes it easy to germinate in soil, on bark, on moss. And I am nothing. Let me be clear, the jars I keep them there, do not throw them, but suspected of having failed everything, getting stronger.
So the other day I gave in and I are awarded a batch of bulbs bletilla on the famous auction site online. The bletilla striata apparently is a valuable asset. Maybe it will not come to the point of use its bulbs as a bargaining chip as it was in Holland in past centuries, but the prices of these plants reach considerable figures in a tight auctions. At the end of my very common bletilla violet I took her away for a little over 10 €, but there are a variety of bletilla blue, white, cream, which they shoot 40 and go for some € bulbetto.
The dealer was in England, and within a week I received the package. It 'always exciting to open a rare package.
Inside were five or six bulbs of various sizes already with their beautiful sprout wrapped in moist sphagnum. I planted them in a large pot with soil, bark, sand and a bit 'of akadamatsuchi I got an outrageous price to transplant my ume brought from Japan. Let's see what happens. With
sphagnum that enveloped the roots I tried a new experiment. I put it in a jar and I've been sowing 'seeds I still advancing. Maybe sphagnum is impregnated with mycorrhiza-specific bletilla. We'll see, try not harmful. Both now.
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