|
Post by sockhom on Dec 21, 2008 16:28:24 GMT -5
Hello , This is the second time my older D. graomogolensis flower.I had two flower scapes the first time; this time, there are 6 of them! I hope I will manage, at last, to get some seeds. The plants with some Drosera ascendens: François.
|
|
|
Post by daniel on Dec 21, 2008 21:57:17 GMT -5
Hi François, really looking good, the D. ascendens are also very beautiful and the D. villosa at the left side as well. My plants have also started to flower, in the moment about 15 are going to flower, the first one opened it´s first flower yesterday but i was too late with taking good pictures because the flower was already beginning to close. But about the seed, last year about 25 plants have been in flower and i was able to collect only about 40 seed, i don´t know what´s the problem but the years before it has been the same. Fernando mentioned that in nature they are also producing only a very small number of seed. You can propagate them from the thick rootes that are looking out of the pots (they have really very thick and long roots ) or from leaf cuttings. I thought that the distance between the stamens and the stigmas is the reason for this, the stamens are very short and the stigmas are very long, but also pollinating them has not changed nothing, so this seems not to be the reason. Here is a picture of my "D. graomogolensis ´Goliath´", of course with "stripes". ;D ;D And here an older picture where it´s visible that the distance between stamens and stigmas is much bigger than in other species. Bye the way, Fernando is not remembering that these "stripes" occur in nature too. Best regards, Dani
|
|
|
Post by Brian Barnes on Dec 22, 2008 5:50:14 GMT -5
Hello Friends, Lovely plants with perfect color, Francois! Thanks for that info on striped variants, Dani....that's very interesting, especially coming from "the man" himself. ;D I'm beginning to think that this phenomena occurs due to sudden temperature drops... I'm happy that there will be plenty of seed of this wonderful species!("hint, hint") ;D Happy Growing, Brian.
|
|
|
Post by andreas on Dec 23, 2008 20:18:22 GMT -5
I have the strange feeling that Brian has secretly contaminated a lot of private plant collections around the whole globe with his strange "Goliath" genes!!!! Böser Junge!!! ;D *Cough* Yesterday I thought to notice the first white stripes on flowers of my plants!!!!! I tell ya all this will become a severe plague..... LOOOOOLLLLLL Happy X-Mas! Randy Andy
|
|
|
Post by Brian Barnes on Dec 24, 2008 6:14:59 GMT -5
Hi Andreas, Well I guess I've been "sowing my seed" too much around the world... ;D As long as all of the children don't start calling me Daddy! ;D
Brian.
|
|
|
Post by daniel on Dec 30, 2008 22:00:22 GMT -5
Hi hi, these stripes are in some plants more intensive than in others, but they are always visible also there. But i don´t know if the temperature drops are really the reason for this, all other south american Drosera species that are flowering during the same time do not have similar "stripes", or better said no other species has such stripes. I´m also wondering why Fernando is not remembering these "stripes" when he found the plants in nature, or do they come from iv-propagation. Sometimes iv-propagation is not the best method for propagation , the plants offered as D. spec. Duida (probably D. yutajensis) for example are not producing viable seed as a result of this method. Best regards, Dani
|
|