Visit to Hourai

We went for jungle trekking at Cheras, KL. People call it Bukit Apek - no wonder they call that name 'coz many 'ah moi' and 'ah pek' climb this hill on weekend. The trip was easy but damn it took 5 hours to and fro. Norli said only 1-2 hours! What a lie...

In the afternoon we went to visit Hourai and looking around his nursery. Nothing special but to ask list of his current protocorm for future exchange. Reen will email the list later. Some flowering orchids at their nursery-

M39 Status... Unsuccessful?!

Hmmm... it has been more than 10 days and the spore has not yet germinated. What's the reason? What went wrong? I know that there are few things that we did not really follow closely i.e. testing using filtered water instead of distilled water. Using expired ACA. Are there any other factors that we have overlooked? Perhaps low lighting or not enough lighting hour? We have rectified that issues for M09 and we'll see the difference later.

Talking about contamination, Mikail said usually there will be 10%-15% chances of contamination. How about ours? For M39, so far there are 32 contaminated flasks. That is about 16% and can be considered very high. We must be careful with the next batch.

We talked to Reen (from Hourai) about ordering new ACA. 500ml of ACA costs about RM700! Wow.. that's expensive but what can we do.. we need it!

Will it germinate?

Contaminated flasks from M39