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Originally Posted by Guido
In a scientific forum what you just stated would be considered at most a HYPOTHESIS. What I can not understand is how did you get 9 growth from the base of a cattleya pseudobulb when it usually has 1 or 2 dormant buds. I am curious because we could became rich with your discovery.
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Based on my own experience and later logical conclusion I can assert to you that coconut water will only bring you a fungal outbreak. Coconut water is used in flasking which is a sterile environment no bacteria or fungus around. Your media has bacteria and fungus and adding coconut water which has sugars will be like feeding gasoline to a smoldering fire. I did not ask for advise like you and applied the coconut water to 5 orchids, now they are history. A college professor used to say either you pay for a college education or with life experience.
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I'm not calling my act of pouring coconut water on an ailing Cattleya in an attempt to revive it any kind of scientific experiment and therefor no hypothesis. And I have no scientific explanation for the 9 growths. But it did in fact do that. I likened it to there being some meristem tissue or similar that would cause it to happen and the presence of cytokinins in the coconut water. And I had no fungal outbreak or anything else dire happen at the time. I do always let my media dry out fairly well before watering which may have helped. I would never do this to a normal healthy plant and had nothing to lose with my ailing one, so it is what I did. Everyone needs to evaluate info found on the internet and acts at their own risk. It's the chance I took. I have also read that back in the day when kelp and other rooting hormones weren't easily accessible, people brought their bare root purchases home and soaked them in sugar water. they survived and grew roots.
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