How do orchids grow?

Answer 1

You can wait until your orchid grows more stalks, which will sooner or later form its own roots. Separate these stalks gently from the main plant, and pot it separately in its own container. You can also try to grow orchids from seeds. Wait till your plant forms seed pods. let the seed pods dry out and turn brown, then take the seeds and plant them in a sterile potting mix.

Answer 2

Orchids are commonly planted in a coarse airy mix which allows the roots to breathe. This usually composes of fir bark, coconut husks and tree fern. To retain moisture sphagnum moss is usually addes. Keep in mind though that more than 30, 000 different species of orchids exist and that the difference between their needs are HUGE.

Answer 3

It depends what orchid.

Most orchids can be grow in pots with a bark or coconut fibre media, but some orchids are epiphytes and need to be mounted on a piece of cork or tree branches.

There are also Terrestrial orchids which grow in the ground, most of these have tubers/bulbs and some are deciduous, there are some terrestrial orchids that depend on particular fungus in the ground to grow aswell.

Answer 4

Most produce spores. Fertile spores are produced either by self-polination or after an insect transfers pollen to the female part of the flower in a structure called a pollinia, not as separate pollen grains.

Most species of orchid have chemical and visual stimuli that fool a small number, often just one, species of insect into copulating with the flower in the belief that the flower is a female insect. By doing so, the insect picks-up a pollinia.

Spores carry no significant food stores for a plant to deveop, so they rely on fungi to produce food for the new plant. No fungus - no new orchid.

In cultivation, spores are sown on nutrient agar in incubators and grown to a size where they can root as any normal plant.

They also reproduce vegetatively - they produce offsets.

Answer 5

yes, but the seeds do not contain a energy source to germinate...so they have to be grown using a type of fungus in a symbiotic relationship...Usually if someone finds a flower has been pollinated they will send off the pod to a lab for a fee and the lab will germinate them and send you what they call " flasks" . Basically these are little baby orchids ( very fragile) with tiny rots that are grown in test tubes in a sterile medium (agar-agar) that has been inoculated with the needed fungus...

Answer 6

You can remove pollen from the plant. Then, you can put the pollen right underneath the polunia point of origin because the form of an orchid has both male and female parts within its structure. Understanding a little bit about the structure of a plant will make this process extremely simple.
The only thing that is really important to remember is that you must obtain the pollen from the plant or flower that you want to use and then cross pollinate with the other flower you are looking to create the hybrid with.

Answer 7

you can keep on watering it again and get some plant food

Answer 8

Orchids reproduce by dividing themselves.