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Post by BarryRice on Feb 19, 2008 23:15:10 GMT
Hey Folks, I thought you might enjoy a few photographs of Utricularia humboldtii. A few more are posted here: www.sarracenia.com/galleria/g113.htmlImage 1: full frontal  Image 2: portrait orientation  Image 3: landscape orientation  Cheers Barry |
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Post by Sockhom on Feb 19, 2008 23:25:39 GMT
Exceptional Barry.
Those closeups remind me of some insect eyes- praying mantises.
François.
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Post by utricseb on Feb 28, 2008 3:37:55 GMT
Hi Barry,
Great pictures, i love the colors and detail. Is this a highland varitey?
Thanks for sharing this lovely pictures.
Regards,
Sebastian
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Post by utricseb on Mar 12, 2008 3:20:34 GMT
Hi Barry... how do you get so good field of dept in your pictures?? A lot of light?
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Post by BarryRice on Mar 19, 2008 20:27:18 GMT
I regularly shoot at F22 - F32. This means my tripod is nearly permanently attached to my camera.
I was just in the field in Florida photographing stuff last week, and many of my exposures were 30 seconds long!
Barry
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Post by jjk on Mar 21, 2008 8:53:07 GMT
I agree. Excellent photos. How do you get the flowers to stay still for so long?
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Post by BarryRice on Mar 21, 2008 14:06:40 GMT
Lots of times you don't! Last night I was working through the images I took of P. primuliflora that Brian Barnes and I found growing ON the surface of a stream in Florida. The plants were shaking a lot because of ripples. I took about 15 shots of each composition; only a few are usable.
Otherwise, you try to wait for a windless opportunity. In these U. humboldtii images, something you cannot see is that I have a set of sticks propping the inflorescence (which is nearly a meter long), stabilizing it.
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Post by BarryRice on Mar 21, 2008 14:12:08 GMT
Oh my GOD!!!!!
Last night I watched the COOLEST THING!!!!!!
Our first U. humboldtii capsules matured. I opened it up, and was thrilled to see the countless seed inside. They were nearly 1 mm in size, wafer-thin, and transparent white. In the center of each you could see the coiled up seedling.
I dropped them in water, and kept them by my desk yesterday while I worked. After about 6.5 hours......they started to hatch!!!!
It was the coolest thing!!!!! They germinated right in front of my eyes! I could watch them slowly stick out of the transparent seeds, squeeze out like little octopi, then pop out entirely into the water where they remained as free-floating, little starfish shaped plants.
OH MY GOD it was SO COOL!!!!!
I took a bunch of photographs, and I'll post them when I can.
OH MY GOD!!!!!!
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Post by ICPS-bob on Mar 21, 2008 17:22:58 GMT
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Post by gardenofeden on Mar 21, 2008 20:22:33 GMT
a bit like these?  (although these are actually nelumbifolia...) |
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Post by BarryRice on Mar 24, 2008 17:35:28 GMT
Hey Folks, Here are some of the U. humboldtii germination photos that I promised. Here are some seeds floating in water; you can see the tiny seedlings still in the transparent, glassy seeds:  Then, in one of the seeds, a tiny rupture allows the seedling to emerge:  It comes out further:  And then, free of the seed coat, it is a freely floating, star-like seedling!  |
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Post by Brian Barnes on Mar 24, 2008 17:41:43 GMT
WOWZERS! They do look like tiny octopi for sure...All you need now is a small replica of The Nautilus ;D
Thanks for sharing those killer pics, B....
Bri.
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Post by rsivertsen on Mar 24, 2008 18:23:23 GMT
That's pretty amazing, Barry, unlike any seed germination I've even seen before; where's the cotyledon sets, hypocotyl, etc?  |
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Post by elgecko on Mar 25, 2008 2:39:13 GMT
Very cool.
Not to hijack your thread Barry, I have several questions for you and all the U. humboldtii growers out there.
I'm not happy with the growth from my plant and want to see what others may be doing for their plant.
My plant grows very few leaves a year. Is this normal with most other growers?
It does form adventurous growth which I stick into other pots and it establishes itself and sends up a leaf or 2.
What size pot do most use? I have mine in a 4" pot and would like it to be bigger, but do not have the room. I thought this might be the problem of so few leaves on the plant.
What soil mix? I think I have mine in my standard mix of equal parts perlite, peatmoss, and LFS.
Lighting? Mine gets some direct light during the day, and bright indirect the rest.
Temps? Average household temps.
I have thought about trying one of the new plants in an undrained pot with lava rock in it, filled with water. Since the plant naturally grows in the wells of some bromeliad I thought simulate that some. I would try an actual bromeliad, but again do not have the room.
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Post by timpa on May 1, 2008 4:54:21 GMT
You don't think of plants giving birth to live young, but that sequence of photos reminds me of watching tadpoles hatch. Though none of my tadpoles were ever green with tentacles. Oh well, maybe next time.
Leave it to the Utrics to outwierd the rest of the CP world.
Congrats Barry!
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