wk 7
So I can tell a clear difference between the two females now. They are as different as the male were. One is shorter, thicker, and is covered in frost already...
AND SHE"S VIOLET!!!
so that means that i have a purple male, and a purple female, for the first round of seeds.... she's the one we are keeping the genetics from, and breeding together. I wish it would have shown up in the photos, but it's still too light in the flower to show I have every confidence that it will show through soon. This is 'Viola'
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I still have a small amount of pollen from that purple male, too. I have no idea how to save it properly, ill have to research. I'm nervous though because I've DONE research,. and yet the three methods i have tried have not worked. All three ended up with unpollinated females.
SO- if any of y'all have any ideas? I've got it dry, but i don't want to freeze it yet. message in the discussion panel if you have any ideas. last time I had it wrapped in bubble wrap and stuffed in a sealed jar, and stuck it in the back of the freezer. it was only frozen for about 2-3 months. no dice.
ON TO THE GIRLS AGAIN!
One of them is tall, and skinny. she doesn't have much frost, and her branches are so close together some of them are starting to fuse together at the base. She's slower, too. I don't like her as well. I think she may not be kept. at least not all of the seeds. I didn't fully pollinate. I did a couple of branches of each one. one pair of the green male, one pair of the purple. they are coming along strong, very vigorous, and no deformities, no hermaphrodites. and the violet one is just beautiful. I couldn't get it to come out in my photo, it's still pretty light, and my camera isn't really working. It took me 20 minutes to get it to focus. I'm getting a new camera at the end of the month. Here's 'Skinny Minnie'. The bamboo pole is 4 feet long, to give an idea of how big she is.
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What do y'all think of a contest? I have been thinking, and waiting to see if these girls would get big enough for me to do something, and i also wanted to make sure the pollination worked, before i said anything
(I know i accidentally copy/pasted my paragraph for it.. so those of you that saw it before i deleted it had some idea this was coming...)
What do You think? comment below if you want to have a contest
It would be something along the lines of 'guess the weight' or 'guess the seed count' I'm not sure yet. I'm open to suggestions. The winner would get some of the seeds from this first round, and I would ask that you do a journal, so i can see how it does under another growers thumb. If no one responds, I probably won't do it. Just trying to think of something fun, and a way for me to see if they express differently with different conditions.
AND SHE"S VIOLET!!!
so that means that i have a purple male, and a purple female, for the first round of seeds.... she's the one we are keeping the genetics from, and breeding together. I wish it would have shown up in the photos, but it's still too light in the flower to show I have every confidence that it will show through soon. This is 'Viola'
I still have a small amount of pollen from that purple male, too. I have no idea how to save it properly, ill have to research. I'm nervous though because I've DONE research,. and yet the three methods i have tried have not worked. All three ended up with unpollinated females.
SO- if any of y'all have any ideas? I've got it dry, but i don't want to freeze it yet. message in the discussion panel if you have any ideas. last time I had it wrapped in bubble wrap and stuffed in a sealed jar, and stuck it in the back of the freezer. it was only frozen for about 2-3 months. no dice.
ON TO THE GIRLS AGAIN!
One of them is tall, and skinny. she doesn't have much frost, and her branches are so close together some of them are starting to fuse together at the base. She's slower, too. I don't like her as well. I think she may not be kept. at least not all of the seeds. I didn't fully pollinate. I did a couple of branches of each one. one pair of the green male, one pair of the purple. they are coming along strong, very vigorous, and no deformities, no hermaphrodites. and the violet one is just beautiful. I couldn't get it to come out in my photo, it's still pretty light, and my camera isn't really working. It took me 20 minutes to get it to focus. I'm getting a new camera at the end of the month. Here's 'Skinny Minnie'. The bamboo pole is 4 feet long, to give an idea of how big she is.
What do y'all think of a contest? I have been thinking, and waiting to see if these girls would get big enough for me to do something, and i also wanted to make sure the pollination worked, before i said anything
(I know i accidentally copy/pasted my paragraph for it.. so those of you that saw it before i deleted it had some idea this was coming...)
What do You think? comment below if you want to have a contest
It would be something along the lines of 'guess the weight' or 'guess the seed count' I'm not sure yet. I'm open to suggestions. The winner would get some of the seeds from this first round, and I would ask that you do a journal, so i can see how it does under another growers thumb. If no one responds, I probably won't do it. Just trying to think of something fun, and a way for me to see if they express differently with different conditions.