Originally Posted by Loneroc

As a related aside, orchid growers put a big premium on getting original divisions of a particular cultivar. The feeling is that plant quality can decrease due to mutations produced during micropropagation. The best way to avoid *difficulties* is to go back to the original plant each time you begin another round of propagation rather than getting the meristem tissue from a plant that's a microprop of a microprop of a microprop.....