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Unique approaches to processing orchid materials,"flasking" KCL style Initial seed processing includes general assessment of seed condition, seed viability, estimate of seed number, and set-up for seed germination KCL clients are contacted with above information within a week after receipt of seeds for processing, and therefore have an opportunity to anticipate yields of 10s, 100s, or 1000s of plants for return KCL uses plastic petri dishes and its plastic boxes for all orchid operations, eliminating heavy and awkward glassware and makes transferring individual plants to pots much easier No deposits on glassware nor cleanup and return of heavy glassware to laboratories Periodic notification of clients on progress of orchid material 
Seed viability test using tetrazolium reaction (red stain positive), C. montanum 
Germinating C. montanum seeds and reminants of placenta in liquid medium
Experience with many Orchids Species and Hybrids
Kelsey Creek Laboratories has successfully germinated seeds from a wide range of orchid genera, species & hybrids -- Bletilla, Brassia, Cattleya, Cymbidium, Cypripedium, Dactylorhiza, Dendrobium, Dracula, Encyclia, Epidendrum, Habenaria, Laelia, Laelia/Cattleya, Lycaste, Masdevallia, Maxillaria, Miltonia, Mormodes, Odontaglossum, Oncidium, Paphiopedilum, Phalaenopsis, Phragmipedium, Pleurothallis, Restrepia, Spiranthes, Stanhopea, Vanda, and Zygopetalum. Of course, KCL also works with orchid hybrids and will process seeds of additional species/genera as they come along.
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