Paph thaianum flasks

[Denverpaphman]

I have a fever for paph thaianum! I am looking for flasks of the species and crosses, but I'm not finding any in the US. Does anyone on here have some ideas as to where I can get them?

 

[Chicago Chad]

Ono Achima/Paph Mania in Thailand, maybe Katai also

 

[Cheyenne]

Sam Tsui from Orchid inn has them. If he doesn't have flasks I know he had plants on his listing.

 

[Chicago Chad]

I have not seen many flasks of thaianum. I would also ask Holger Perner since he will be here for the SF show.

 

[NYEric]

You can order from Asia. HS

 

[Denverpaphman]

I have a few seedlings from Sam, and they're doing great. I'm looking to get a flask for the quantity of plants. The thing that would keep me from ordering from abroad is that I hear most of the plants die getting to the states.

 

[Chicago Chad]

the thing is the SF show in FEB brings in most, if not all the large vendors, so they can do the dirty work for you

 

[NYEric]

I have a few seedlings from Sam, and they're doing great. I'm looking to get a flask for the quantity of plants. The thing that would keep me from ordering from abroad is that I hear most of the plants die getting to the states.

You can ask eggshells about that.

 

[Alex]

I ordered some flasks from Taiwan to the UK earlier this year, so a similar journey. Despite careful packing, they arrived in a shocking state, all jumbled agar and broken leaves. I am going to be surprised if any of them make it.

If I were to try this again, I would look into some sort of expedited (and extra careful) courier service and pay extra for that. Being shaken vigorously in the dark (and at what temperature I don't know) for nearly 2 weeks doesn't seem to agree with Paphs, oddly.

 

[eggshells]

You can ask eggshells about that.

Shipping in flask is tricky. If your parcel is packaged carefully and "handled carefully.Then you might receive an intact flask. The former is easily controllable but the latter is nearly impossible as you will go through 3 different entities (customs and at least two shipping companies) combined with different people handling it. Might be better to ask the vendor to deflask it and packaged it well.

Just make sure that you have all the right paper work taped outside the box so you don't get any delays but sometimes its unavoidable. It really depends on the person so you and your plants are at someone's mercy.

As for thaianum, they are kinda slow and really small flowers. You can get a small niveum and it will be way faster than thaianum with same leaf span and bigger flowers and better shape. The name of the niveum cross is JOJ8.

 

[Paphman910]

I have grown many paphs from flask. My source is usually from Orchid Inn. Sam's healthy flask has hard agar and the plants generally survives the deflasking process.

I would stay away from tigrinum flask as they have low survival rate not due to Sam's fault but due to the outsource flasker not having the right media for tigrinum to grow thick roots in the flask.

I find that jumbled orchid seedling in flask reduces the survival rate esp the ones from Taiwan.

 

[Denverpaphman]

Thank you all for the responses! I'll check out that cross eggshells, but I am pretty much sold on thaianum. The one I have is beautiful, and the leaves are barely larger then quarter and the plant has a new growth.