Monday, March 19, 2007

Germinating gemmae - @ the request of Doc SB

Got some gemmae last week and potted them in individual kaya gong:

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The jars are soooo small that I had a hard time focusing - shaky hands not helping. So I apologise if you start getting blurred vision after looking too long @ my shaky pics

Drosera stelliflora in "you took what F@#$ing 3 weeks to process 100g" granulated China sphagnum moss. - Need to hand chop (you get too many fines with machine processing and the gears may get clogged when long fibres get into it), wash 3 times to remove black sand trapped between the "leaves" of the moss, dry, sieve out fines thru 0.51mm aperture sieve then wash, dry to correct consistency then granulated through 3mm sieve, then dry. To rehydrate need to do slowly if not fibres may collapse. I do it for you better hor ? Some times give recipe also can freak people out

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Same thing in Buibui's pH attenuated peat moss:

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Drosera scorpioides var gigantea in granulated China sphag:

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Same thing in Daiso coco peat:

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Drosera scorpioides var typus in Buibui's pH attenuated peat moss:

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Some of them can see a single red red root and some spindly hirstute leaves coming out.

Here's an old plant courtesy of Buibui, Drosera spathulata:

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Pak jiu now jin tia YYY Industrial Pharm so cheem one.... need to do soooo much statistics with regards to sampling. *Headache headache*

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Uncle, it is gemmae not gymnae. And me thinks that it is not D. spathulata but D. tokaiensis.

OJ - Da UNlicensed Pharmacist said...

Solly solly. The D. spathulata from Buibui one. I innocent.

You know I orchid person right?

Orhhhhh specialist of wildlife preservation neber italicize....