Cleaning up Front Porch for Future Shelves Area

It's Sunday! Not doing any lab work but assisting Hj Naza to clean up the porch. We plan to build shelves to put all flasks outside once the seeds germinate and can be exposed to higher sunlight. Errk... got so many termites around the area.

Spraying anti-termites around the area

Record of Lab Works

We didn't do flasking work tonight. Just fixing some holes here and there in the lab. I browse thru Hj Naza's book / record and was laughing at him. It's so ancient!

I think it started in 1984

List of orchid names mostly from South America

Back cover - full of dates

Number of days taken for seed pods to mature/burst

Purchased of Refrigerator

RM850 for refrigerator! That's how much we have to pay for this 'Samseng' brand, hehe. However, Hj Naza managed to negotiate the price from RM999. He purchased the fridge from Nam Hong this morning.

Samsung brand - RM850

Flasking Works Started!

Tonight we started our flasking work in the lab. Not much but just sowing the orchid seed on the media prepared last Sunday. We sow the spore of D. echinolabium and managed to get few flasks. From these flask, the spore will germinate into protocorm and then become plantlets. Later the plantlets will be reflasked and grow into seedlings before being taken out to grow as  mature plant! Just imagine how much time taken to do all these works... definitely we need full-time workers and bigger workspace later!

p/s - Mikail came in the morning to set the autoclave and taught Hj Naza how to use it. He would come back tonight to send Ethanol - that's it? Where are the other orders?

Some of the orchid spore saved for germination process

The spore can produce thousands of plantlets

Preparation of flasking work

Sowing spore on the media

The spore will form protocorm

Another bottle

We'll see how it grows in a couple of days

Once completed, the flask will be sealed again

Proper labeling is important to avoid confusion

Hj Naza at work

That's me! an apprentice