Detailed Explanation of Key Techniques for Ping'an He Hybrid Breeding

A large orchid seedling company purchased some seedlings. The manager introduced that there were Song Mei x Lui Yun hybrid seedlings, over 30,000 in total, all seedlings from different seeds, cultivated for 4-5 years. Most had bloomed, but they were far from the breeding objectives. With such a large population not producing a single decent one, the company considered them of little value, and moreover the market rejected tissue-cultured hybrids, so they had given up. The dragon roots were basically destroyed. Among them there were still a small number that had never bloomed. The manager helped me select a group of 3 seedlings with good leaf shape. This group of seedlings was divided into two groups in the flask; the other group was sold to an orchid master in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After the seedlings came back, I treated them all as treasures and cared for them meticulously. Heaven rewards the diligent. This spring, this pot of Song Mei x Lui Yun hybrid seedlings produced a spike of flowers, with standard lotus-petal form. The flower stem rises above the foliage. The flower holds well. Delicate fragrance. The plant form combines the advantages of both parents: the leaf posture of Song Mei and the rounded spear-head tips of Lui Yun. The leaf posture is very beautiful. This is also the plant-form characteristic of this pot of flowers.