Is this a seed pod?

[luckygrower]

The following pictures are of my Masdevallia Infracta, is this a seed pod?, if so ,I don't know how it was pollinated other than by air movement as I didn't do it,is it possible for a person who has never done seed propigation to be successful?
Thanks Mike.

[Ross]

Looks like it. Most 'chids don't pollinate from air movement alone. Probably a house fly or some insect did "the deed" so to speak

[chulaorchids]

Definitely!

[Ely]

It looks like one, but not all pods have viable seed mind you. You may get all excited and wait tenmonths for it to get ripe, flask the seeds, wait three or four more months and see no progress. that's what happened to me. It was sad...

[luckygrower]

The pod is still green and I won't know if the seed are viable unless I try, nothing ventured nothing gained. I am researching how to do flasking and will try it once I have enough info or I believe the pod to be ripe. I believe that if none of us take a chance on trying something new none of us will learn anything, we learn from our mistakes and when we share our success and failure with others we all learn.

[luckygrower]

On another note, Ely did you learn anything from your flasking effort, if you did it was not a total mistake, share your experiance with all of us and we all will learn something and you will be rewarded with the fact that you have helped others through your experience

[Undergrounder]

I have a 4 month old Dendrobium seedpod so we can try it together.

Here's a homemade guide: Flasking Orchids

Here's another one: http://www.orchidboard.com/A-step-by...rchid-Flasking

annnd another one: ORCHID TISSUE CULTURE

annnnnnndddd another: A Flower to Flower Story of a Paph Cross

[Gin]

Give it a try , I just did ,nothing to lose except some time and smelling like a bleach bottle Read and read more then sort out what will work for you .One thing I did was do the flasks before sowing the seed and let them sit better to grow mold with out seeds if the flasks are contaminated .
If I grow mold it will be from something I did in the flasking .I used the pressure cooker for the flasks ordered the medium from Gallup & Stribling . Gin

[newflasker]

Congratulation. You do the right way Gin. Prepare flasks, wait for a week and then sow seeds. Give it a try; nothing to lose, only fun, goooood luckkkkkkk Gin.

[Ely]

Yes, I did learn a few things... Don't harvest too early. That was my primary error. The pods were too green even though they were ten months in and looked like they changed color. I took a filing box and lined the whole thing with aluminum foil and secured that with tape. Over that I put heavy duty plastic wrap and stretched plastic wrap over the opening in the top for a window. I proceeded to cut two holes in one side and placed my working materials inside (the cleaned pods, scalpels, and alcohol sprayer along with the agar medium I created seven days prior) and covered the two holes with plenty of clear packing tape. Taking my trusty pocket knife I sliced an 'X' into each opening, about the size of a silver dollar. Then, wearing surgical gloves, I forced my hands into the openings and sprayed everything down with the isopropyl alcohol again, including my hands. I opened only one jar at a time and placed a pile of "seed" into each jar (about the size of a grain of corn). After that I sealed up the jars (mom's jam jars meant for canning, no less!!) and got out of the glove box. It looked very strange to mom and she thought I was doing another crazy chemistry experiment (got in trouble melting potassium nitrate and sugar earlier this year, but I digress). AHHH. Good times.