There are lots of instructions to be found on the net if you wish to do some orchid breeding. You need those instructions on how to pollinate the flowers, how long before you harvest the pod, preparation of medium, how to sow the seed, replating and so on.
Is it worth the trouble? Maybe, all the great orchid breeders started somewhere.

What about your Gene Pool? Not much point in crossing Alsoran x Alsoran. You will just get Alsorans, you need some very good orchids to start with and some sort of targets in how you hope the babies will look.

Where are you going to grow all the babies?

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It would be for my own personal satisfaction. Extras would be given away, traded or sold. I'm not interested in getting into breeding orchids and creating new varieties. I have two greenhouses and time on my hands. I was just wondering if any other hobbiest here had tried it. :)

But you would be breeding orchids and creating new hybrids or line breeding species and yes i have flasks that i am about to deflask where one of my orchids is a parent. BUT, i have hundreds of that particular type of orchid and the guy who has the other parent has over a thousand orchids of that type. That is a big gene pool.

We send the pods to an expert to do the flasking. One pod = eight flasks and hundreds of orchids. Someone here may be able to tell you USA prices for a similar service.

If you are interested, have a go, but do some research first. I repeat what i said above, "all the great hybridists must have started somewhere"

Hi , Give it a try ! I have flasks , so far so good , I bought a flask a few years ago equestris traded quite a few of them and gave some to friends . I will try to send you a site with a lot of Information as to what to what makes a good cross . 4N 2 N ect. some it is not wise to cross . Gin

I can't send one to you , but mine seems to work . Gin

When hybridizing, have a goal in mind. What are you looking for? What new thing do you want to create? Understand the background of the parents. Are they compatible? Diploids or Tetraploids. (you can breed diploids x diploids and tetraploids x tetraploids, A tetraploid x diploid will create a triploid, which is fine but will be ususally sterile). Use the best parents you can find to create a new hybrid. Look for traits other than the flower like for cattleyas, multiple leads, short rhizomes, robust growth. Pollinating an orchid is very easy. Remove the pollen capsule from the mother plant. Remove the pollen capsule from the father plant, with a toothpick, pry out the pollina from capsule, and with the tip of the toothpick, place the pollen into the concave stigma (just behind the pollen tip), it is a sticky depression. Depending on type of species, the gestation for seeds vary. When the pod matures, I usually have the greenpod (unopened) flasked for me professionally. To flask the seeds yourself, requires sterile conditions and a flasking hood. There is a high rate of fungal contamination if you don't do it right.