Jim,
Did you do an internet search for seedling care? I have found lots of
information out there on caring for seedlings. The best I know of is
at, http://ladyslipper.com/compot2.html, Bob & Lynn Wellenstein put
together a great reference on caring for seedlings. I handle all of my
flasks this way and I have lost very few plants. In terms of
fertilization, you will find lots of opinions, I start my plants out
with two weeks of very high humidity in a humidity tent and no direct
watering, then I start watering with a very dilute fertilizer and
water continuously after that with it. In my conditions I usually use
a fungicide solution on the plants when I first deflask them and then
I only use it if I see a problem. I leave my seedlings in flats or
community pots for over a year to let them get well established, then
I move them on to pots. The small seedlings seem to grow better under
my conditions if they are in a community pot, I used to follow some
advice I got years ago potting the seedlings into community pots for a
few months and then moving them into pots. I lost a lot more seedlings
then than I do now keeping them into community pots until they are
ready move on into a two inch or larger pot.
Tom
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On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:14 AM, JIM MATEOSKY wrote:
Hi all,
I have several different Oncidiums Hybrids, miltasias, ontoglosom
hybrids from Tiawan. They have been out of the flask in trays for 30
or so days now, the roots are growing nicely, they are 4 inches
tall, but real skinney not much else.
When do you move them up? into small pots? start fertilizing?
fungicide.. so many questions..... Is it by the roots and how they
are doing or by the size or ....
Once I get them in pots and out of the trays I breathe easier. For
me it is real difficult in the trays wehn the just come out of the
flasks. it is difficult controlling the water humidity....
Any advice at all would be helpful.
Jim Mateosky
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