Preparing Culture No 32 (M32)

Went to the lab tonight and assisted Hj Naza to fill up the bottles with M32. M32 was prepared using new Peptone and Bulbos like it! How's the progress from the sowed seeds? Quite slow... Zzzz

Purchased ACA from Hourai

So many plans this weekend but somehow managed to go to Hourai to pick up the ACA. This chemical, 500ml, costs me RM700! Duuhhh...

Went to the lab tonight and just fill up the record book. Only sowed 3 species... perghh so slow!

Not very productive...

Visitors from Sabah

Cikgu Abas and his wife, Kak Siti came to KL since last week. He attended OUM Convocation on the weekend and dropped by at Seremban since yesterday, visiting his friend Richard Ng at Mantin and also planning to visit few nurseries around here. I fetched him at the hotel and we had breakfast with Hj Naza at Ampangan. Cikgu Abas is an orchid collector who has explored many jungles in Sabah and Sarawak. I've ordered orchids from him few times and planning to go into jungle with him in the near future.

Lab Update

Nothing much! Hj Naza is still sowing orchid seeds. There are so many of them and this may take weeks to complete. From these mother flasks we will cultivate hundreds if not thousands more flasks. So far we are using 3 types of media, M39, M16 and M26k. Seeds sown using M39 were mostly burst seed pods and ACA used has already expired. Thus, there is not much progress. But most 'green seed pods' (not burst yet) show good progress. They are sown without using ACA. So can it be that expired ACA is not effective anymore?