A couple people on here claim to have managed it, but given that a keiki attached to the mother plant can take a year to even grow roots I’m skeptical (and if it did work it would probably depend on the same fungal symbiotes being present that keep wild orchid seedlings alive through germination, which you obviously cannot count on outside places they naturally grow)
Bombadilloo
This looks like it’s fake, never heard of a nursery getting plants from a cut piece of stem … if true, nobody would waste time and money on cloning and seed growing … 🏋🏻♂️🪂🤸♀️
What’s the point of this? They don’t grow roots from flower stems?! Imagine all the flower shops in the world making the cut flowers grow … 😂
Alriandi
Those that tend to upload videos like this are really after the clicks on their website and the resulting ad revenue as the click bait sites are full of ads. You never see actual results and many times the after is really the before plant or an entirely different orchid. If it’s not super photoshopped or made with AI slop
AyyggsForMyLayyggs
If this happens it’s a one-in-a-million thing. Under no circumstances is this a norm or something that happens frequently. You can’t take all your spikes and expect them to do this.
As someone else said: Keikis take a few years to grow while attached to the motherplant, getting water and nutrients from the motherplant. A tiny piece of stem is so weak and without substance, it will not be able to survive, let alone produce a new orchid.
Astalon18
Does not work to the level they describe.
I have tried this. Out of ten stems ( three plants flowers were fading at the same time ), only one took. This was with keiki paste as well might I add.
And it took 4 months.
So not as successful as described.
Also the baby plant died when I tried to transplant it.
Stick to standard keiki method, using keiki paste.
cactusnettle
Yes, tho much simpler than this. My dad cut the stems into pieces like shown in the vid and put the them on a cotton makeup pad that he kept moist. He made a makeshift mini ‘greenhouse’ out cut up plastic bottles and kept them in there until they had some roots, which is when we put them into orchid mix and started caring for them like regular orchids. Its been 3 years between cutting up the stems and them blooming for the first time in january this year
This is the only pic of them together i could find, and im not home to take a better one. This pic is from mid august.
MentalPlectrum
If the person in the video actually did that, then why are their orchids all/nearly all visibly different hybrids, no dupes?
In short, the spike after having been cut has no reserves of nutrients, sugars, or water – how can it support growth?
I’m not saying it’ll never work, but the success rate must be so low as to not really be worth the effort, especially when better methods exist to achieve the same result (namely keiki paste).
DJUNGELSKOG3
These videos fool people into cutting perfectly fine, flowering stalks.
I would only recommend trying this if you have to cut the stalks (like to save a frail orchid) and don’t get easily attached. I have a jar going with a little stalk cutting, got a keiki but no roots, and it’s just a waiting game to see how long it’ll take for it to die. It was nice watching it grow, but I also went into this with no expectations.
z0rinpl
“Magic trick that no one knows about” 😂😂😂
“Nurseries will hate you when you do THIS” 🤣🤣🤣
It’s a scam.
xanadu_x
It’s called stem propagation and it’s actually a thing. Commercial growers sometimes use this method for cloning orchids, although it’s more successful when you introduce various hormones, sterile conditions, and nutrient media.
minkamagic
You’d have more luck leaving the flower spike on the plant so it can form a keiki.
kathya77
I’ve seen these videos before. Worth rewinding and seeing how often they have their “after” success story plants visible in the “before” frames too. It is possible to get spike keikis, common even, when still attached to the plant, but getting them from tiny segments of unattached stem is very unlikely, never mind a whole box of them. Small sections of stem do not have the energy supply of a spike still attached to the mother plant. Staged AF.
minorshrimp
Had 2 random nodes grow leaves. They never took root though and it was long enough I forgot I put them in my propbox. No paste though. Maybe if I kept waiting a root would have grown. But I think I waited about a year or something.
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A couple people on here claim to have managed it, but given that a keiki attached to the mother plant can take a year to even grow roots I’m skeptical (and if it did work it would probably depend on the same fungal symbiotes being present that keep wild orchid seedlings alive through germination, which you obviously cannot count on outside places they naturally grow)
This looks like it’s fake, never heard of a nursery getting plants from a cut piece of stem … if true, nobody would waste time and money on cloning and seed growing … 🏋🏻♂️🪂🤸♀️
What’s the point of this? They don’t grow roots from flower stems?! Imagine all the flower shops in the world making the cut flowers grow … 😂
Those that tend to upload videos like this are really after the clicks on their website and the resulting ad revenue as the click bait sites are full of ads. You never see actual results and many times the after is really the before plant or an entirely different orchid. If it’s not super photoshopped or made with AI slop
If this happens it’s a one-in-a-million thing. Under no circumstances is this a norm or something that happens frequently. You can’t take all your spikes and expect them to do this.
As someone else said: Keikis take a few years to grow while attached to the motherplant, getting water and nutrients from the motherplant. A tiny piece of stem is so weak and without substance, it will not be able to survive, let alone produce a new orchid.
Does not work to the level they describe.
I have tried this. Out of ten stems ( three plants flowers were fading at the same time ), only one took. This was with keiki paste as well might I add.
And it took 4 months.
So not as successful as described.
Also the baby plant died when I tried to transplant it.
Stick to standard keiki method, using keiki paste.
Yes, tho much simpler than this. My dad cut the stems into pieces like shown in the vid and put the them on a cotton makeup pad that he kept moist. He made a makeshift mini ‘greenhouse’ out cut up plastic bottles and kept them in there until they had some roots, which is when we put them into orchid mix and started caring for them like regular orchids. Its been 3 years between cutting up the stems and them blooming for the first time in january this year
https://preview.redd.it/28z1tl2t9bnf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff4e7a14b2f2d6922b493d9150001df735018981
This is the only pic of them together i could find, and im not home to take a better one. This pic is from mid august.
If the person in the video actually did that, then why are their orchids all/nearly all visibly different hybrids, no dupes?
In short, the spike after having been cut has no reserves of nutrients, sugars, or water – how can it support growth?
I’m not saying it’ll never work, but the success rate must be so low as to not really be worth the effort, especially when better methods exist to achieve the same result (namely keiki paste).
These videos fool people into cutting perfectly fine, flowering stalks.
I would only recommend trying this if you have to cut the stalks (like to save a frail orchid) and don’t get easily attached. I have a jar going with a little stalk cutting, got a keiki but no roots, and it’s just a waiting game to see how long it’ll take for it to die. It was nice watching it grow, but I also went into this with no expectations.
“Magic trick that no one knows about” 😂😂😂
“Nurseries will hate you when you do THIS” 🤣🤣🤣
It’s a scam.
It’s called stem propagation and it’s actually a thing. Commercial growers sometimes use this method for cloning orchids, although it’s more successful when you introduce various hormones, sterile conditions, and nutrient media.
You’d have more luck leaving the flower spike on the plant so it can form a keiki.
I’ve seen these videos before. Worth rewinding and seeing how often they have their “after” success story plants visible in the “before” frames too. It is possible to get spike keikis, common even, when still attached to the plant, but getting them from tiny segments of unattached stem is very unlikely, never mind a whole box of them. Small sections of stem do not have the energy supply of a spike still attached to the mother plant. Staged AF.
Had 2 random nodes grow leaves. They never took root though and it was long enough I forgot I put them in my propbox. No paste though. Maybe if I kept waiting a root would have grown. But I think I waited about a year or something.