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Part of the video series: How to Breed, Grow & Buy Orchids

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Summary: Create orchid hybrids easily in this free educational video series.

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William Hutchinson Bill has been working with orchids since 1951 but is the first to admit that he is still learning. He graduated from Stockbridge School of Agriculture in Flor... read more

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How to Create Orchid Hybrids

Forming orchid hybrids is fairly a simple process and it involves nothing more sophisticated than a tooth pick. If you go into the flower of a plant and you lift the pollen off and you put the pollen from the polunia point of origin right underneath because the form of orchid has both male and female paths on one structure. In many cases, it can be done at an agricultural level. For example, that vanilla that you have in your vanilla ice cream comes from someone walking down a row of vanilla plant and taking their thumb and forefinger and just twisting it so that the polunia goes into the plant and pollinates. It can be done very easily. Once you get the idea and remember and know what the structure of the plant is, it is a piece of cake.

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