Planting Orchids Reproduction

Planting Orchids Reproduction


Orchids do the reproduce by the pollinator transfers. The pollens of one orchid transfer to another and share a special kind of the pollinator relationship with the help of a bird or an insect. The flowers of orchids have evolved to lure the pollinators to visit and pick sticky pollinia from it. As soon as this pollinator visits other flowers, the pollinia are transferred to the flower and it gets fertilized. After the fertilization, a seed of the flowers begins to form. It can take the time from certain weeks to months for the development of seeds inside seed pod. When the seed of the plant is ready, the pod bursts and miniscule seeds start floating in the air.

Planting Orchids Reproduction


There are thousand of these seeds in the pod but only some are lucky enough to find the suitable conditions to grow and out of them also only some get the chance to be matured into a plant. Mycorrhizal fungus is needed for the germination of the seed of the orchid plant. These seeds are so tiny that they cannot carry any nutrients with them but they form symbiotic relation with the fungus for getting the food.

Planting Orchids Reproduction


A lot of these orchid plants like Dendrobium, Epidendrum and Arundina reproduce asexually. The small offshoots in these plants can be very well be separated by the mother plant when the roots of the offspring are strong enough to be sown in the soil to have a mature plant of its own. A sexual reproduction can be used to have multiple division of one plant. The healthy adult plants can be divided and re spotting for the division to grow separately.

Planting Orchids Reproduction

Reproducing Orchid Flowers

Reproducing Orchid Flowers


Orchid’s lifecycle is more like the ordinary conventional flower. Like other flowers, orchid lifecycle involves germination, seedlings, seed production, flowering, maturation of the seedlings in plants, reproduction and seed production.

The initial part of orchid reproducing cycle is pollination, which sets into action a chemical reaction. The outcome of this sort of chemical reaction is the signal for orchid to begin an orchid reproduction cycle. When it comes to the visible signs, the very first sign is the limping of orchid flower, the petals and sepals begin to die and shrivel. The period of flowering after pollination differs significantly and several orchids might even take from nine to fourteen months for competing a complete life cycle. In Cattleya orchids and Cymbidium Orchids, the time taken for the maturation of the seeds is about 12 months.

Reproducing Orchid Flowers


Majority of the species of orchid are epiphytic, which mean that specific adaptations for their habitat should be adhered to it for ensuring survival of species in nature. On the other hand, the Terrestrial orchid has definite soil needs and their adaptation will be to disband a large amount of seed, since it will raise the chances of survival of the species in terms of propagation. This is almost like a waste, but from the large amount of produced and disbanded seeds only a little percentage in fact land in the suitable environment to grow.

Reproducing Orchid Flowers


The orchid plants differ significantly from the conventional reproducing plants, as the seed of orchid lacks endosperm. The orchid seeds require fungus for the purpose of germination. The fungus acts as endosperm for giving the needed energy. The specific fungus, which orchid species need for complete orchid reproduction cycle is known as the mycorrhuza fungus.

Reproducing Orchid Flowers