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Post by gj on Dec 18, 2019 17:06:18 GMT -5
DVG, it was looking at your ping pics that I first noticed that the leaf pullings all seemed to be striking from the base, so it's nice having that confirmed! I look forward to experimenting with the propagation of many more CP's in the future. I hope half of them are as cooperative as my first attempts with drosera.
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Post by bonfield on Dec 18, 2019 23:36:39 GMT -5
Nice work Gary!
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Post by gj on Jan 21, 2020 0:24:42 GMT -5
... The flowers are sterile so they will probably be nipped in the bud, to keep the energy with the plant's rosette... This is probably a silly question (my knowledge of plant breeding is limited to the odd piece of information I picked up during a few years of being a field worker for a corn breeding/research company), but when you mentioned the flowers were sterile, is that universally sterile? Or is it just self and clone incompatible? I just stumbled across the pages on the ICPS website about Drosera Hybrids, and flower self-incompatibility, and noticed there wasn't a whole lot mentioned about the "three sisters." |
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Post by dvg on Jan 21, 2020 12:57:02 GMT -5
Hi GJ, I probably misspoke when I said the flowers were sterile, and should instead have said that the flowers were "probably sterile". Most sundew hybrids are sterile, but not all of them are sterile, as mentioned in this terraforums thread: www.terraforums.com/forums/sundews-drosera-byblis-drosophyllum/143130-prolifera-schizandra-adelae.htmlIt might just be a matter of trying to pollinate the flowers and seeing what results occur. In the ICPS link to sundew flower self-incompatibility, near the end of the article, the three sisters are all listed as self-compatible, though they are all also considered to be dichogamous(flowers having pistils and stamens that mature at different times), which means the flowers can be self-pollinated, if pollen from a previous flower is saved to pollinate a flower opening in the future. So it might be worth a try, if you're interested in taking on a new project.  dvg |
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Post by gj on Jan 22, 2020 16:56:09 GMT -5
Thanks for getting back to me DVG, I did see the note on the sisters being dicogamous on the page, but nothing beyond that. Interesting that the first poster in the link you provided was asking about a hybrid of all three sisters, as the post I came across that made me think I should actually look further into this topic was on the same forum about the same three sister hybrid, apparently from a few years earlier: link here.
I guess I'll have to do some looking into pollen preservation and pollination techniques, and have some fun experimenting if I get the chance. Although maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. Perhaps I should make sure I can keep them alive and happy long enough to give them a chance to flower before I get too keen on figuring out what to do when they get to that point haha. |
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Post by dvg on Jan 22, 2020 18:49:31 GMT -5
If you decide to give it a go GJ, you'll have at least a couple of D. adelae clones to choose from. One is a white flowered clone, the other is red flowering. One has broader leaves, while the other sports narrower leaves Good luck, with which ever decision you choose.  dvg |
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Post by gj on Jan 22, 2020 21:30:06 GMT -5
Thanks!
I guess I'll have to do some D. adelae shopping once we're back to warmer temperatures.
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Post by gj on Jan 23, 2020 10:17:19 GMT -5
Just a little update on those leaf cuttings. They're growing faster than I had expected, and it was really interesting watching the dark line, which I was initially worried was some sort of dying tissue on the original leaf that might cause issues to the babies, turn out to be the beginning of a root that travelled across the old leaf and then start extending down into the moss. (You can see this just to the left of the base of the plant in the foreground)  |
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Post by dvg on Jan 23, 2020 14:50:24 GMT -5
Looking good there GJ.
It seems this clone is very eager to propagate itself vegetavily - half of my plants now have plantlets poking up from under the crowns.
dvg
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Post by dvg on Feb 27, 2020 14:05:39 GMT -5
They did survive that brief cold spell from my last update on these, and are still going strong.  It's almost hard to believe that they grew out to this, from the small clump that they were back in June. dvg |
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Post by gj on Jul 26, 2020 19:02:24 GMT -5
Looking like those little guys I started from leaves seven months ago are just about running out of elbow room.  |
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Post by dvg on Jul 27, 2020 13:22:35 GMT -5
Looking good there GJ!
The prolifera really shows itself when these prolific dews are still getting up to size.
dvg
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Post by gj on Apr 23, 2021 8:45:44 GMT -5
First flower I've had on an D. "Andromeda"! Does is get the fuzzy flower stalk from D. schizandra?  |
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Post by dvg on Apr 23, 2021 11:05:12 GMT -5
Nice flower there GJ!
If you leave that flower stalk to its own devices, it will eventually produce plantlets...
...and it probably gets that propagation friendly trait from its D. prolifera pollen parent.
dvg
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Post by bonfield on Apr 23, 2021 14:51:32 GMT -5
Beautiful! It does get the glandular flower stalk from schizandra, prolifera stalks are pretty much bare of them.
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