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Proboscidea and Ibicella

Cindy

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I will be stuck at home for the next couple of months so I bought some seeds to germinate and grow. They arrived today. :-O

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Here's the next step:

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P. parviflora

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I. lutea
 
They both smell horrible. Be careful not to touch them when they get more mature, the glue/slime they make is hard to remove...
 
The seeds were sown on 27th June. I noticed that 3 days later, one of the Proboscidea seeds turned yellow. Its seed coat was cut with a scalpel while with the rest, I used my finger nails after realising the covering was soft enough.

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Interestingly, it is the first to germinate last night! :boogie:

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cool! :) Hopefully you'll have some roridula sprouts soon too! ;)

Maybe the yellowing was the result of chloroplast development? ???
 
:boogie:

Proboscidea: 1 seed germinated
Ibicella: 2 seeds germinated
 
Welcome to the growing log of sticky and stinky Devil's Claw plants. :banana2:

Ibicella lutea
Seedling - 2 days old
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Seedling - 4 days old
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Proboscidea parviflora
Seedling - 4 days old
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Seedling - 6 days old
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Great shots, Cindy! You sowed on top of the soil? ...Interesting.

Good luck with them!
 
Yup, Joosa. I sowed them on top of the soil. But they were in a covered box. :)
 
  • #10
I thought we were supposed to cover them in shallow media. But then again, nobody's doing that in nature, right?
 
  • #11
I took a sniff at the seedlings just now. Ibicella smells mildly like the zoo. Surprisingly, Probosidea smells less stinky although the seedling is older.


Ibicella lutea

Seedling - 13 days old

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  • #12
Cute!
 
  • #13
Very, very nice, Cindy! I like all the dewiness.

:cry: They grow up so fast....
 
  • #14
At 1.5 months old.

Ibicella lutea
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Proboscidea parviflora
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  • #15
Get the gas mask!! :puke:
Looking very good, how large is it now?
 
  • #16
F R e N c H 3 z,

The Proboscidea is 10" tall while the Ibicella is only 6".

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  • #17
That's a very colorful flower, I should give one of these a try next year outside. I'd rather not get the stench indoors :-D
 
  • #18
The plants are indoors, at my balcony. But the Proboscidea doesn't smell bad even when I took the close shots of the flower. Maybe because the humidity here is very high, above 65% all the time. Ibicella...well, I'll update again when the flowers open. LMAO
 
  • #19
Very nice. I like how sticky everything looks. the humidity probably helps a lot. :)
 
  • #20
The flower opened yesterday.
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