The Bletilla Striata, compared to orchids that are commercially available, mostly epiphytic and tropical, and with whom I have so far had to do with regard to reproduction, it is quite different. E 'terrestrial orchid, deciduous, the seeds, unique among all orchids have a minimum of endosperm, which can also allow germination in the absence of symbiont. is flourishing these days, after which last year had gone blank. Today I tried with pollination and I noticed another peculiarity. The pollen is not contained in only two pollen sacs as in the orchids that I've had to do so far, but in four. Moreover, these four pockets are not hard and compact as the cymbidium or phalaenopsis, but soft and greasy, as if the pollen was free and not enclosed in an envelope.
The flower is very delicate and pollination for this was a bit 'difficult because it is easy to ruin. In addition, the fact that pollen is soft and tends to fall apart I'm not sure it's entered correctly in the pistil. And then I got a strange Bletilla with bad karma. We see in the coming days.
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