Wonderful pics! I especially like the P. agnata "ekuma" x emarginata flower stalk. This pic is outstanding & would be calendar material with a different background.
What media do you use for your P. gypsicola?
Bahhhhhhh, your dews make me so jealous EVERY TIME. I can definitely see the difference in your pictures these days. That extra half bit of color depth actually shows. "Your camera takes good pictures."
But really, that stalk shot and the ones of the pygmy flowers are so very awesome. What lens did you use for the pygmy shots? That last one, the closeup, is incredibly sharp. Well done. My pygmies are blooming too. And with around 400 pygmies, there should be a WHOLE lot of flowers on the way. XD
MOAR.
Gorgeous pings. If/when you put that agnata 'Red Leaf' into propagation let me know. By far my favorite species.
zfirst shot is amazing, and so is the plant. You should make prints.
Nice Pinguicula, loving the P. gypsicola
What an amaising P;Cyclosecta you have there! Whao the most beautyfull pinguicula I have never seen.
Thanks!
oooook, and with this I will place my cyclosecta back under the lights. Too nice.
Insane P. cyclosecta! What's the diameter on that beauty? Nice P. rotundifolia, too. Not very common to see those.
Incredible. Do you mind telling my yours conditions for the petiolaris plants? I can't get mine to look good at all... Mine are growing in a hot terrarium.
It is my understanding that anthocyanin (which I'm only assuming is what gives sundews their red color, could be something else entirely in which case none of this is relevant...) is produced as a means of protection from heavy UV exposure. Mach did an experiment with D. capensis "Red", I believe it was (in fact, all of this is if memory serves correctly, so yeah...), wherein he put a bunch in the greenhouse, where much of the UV rays are blocked, and a bunch outside. The greenhouse bunch grew significantly more vigorously, but less red. The outdoor ones appeared to have been stunted, but were deep red. I believe his hypothesis was that the red pigmentation (again assuming anthocyanin) left less room for chloroplasts, hence slowing photosynthesis and therefore growth. Indeed, this appears to be the case with your seedlings as well. The green ones are quite a bit bigger, at least from the two examples I can spot in your pictures. As to why some would go one way while others went the other, I don't know. Anthocyanin-free form, perhaps? Total speculation.My horde of D. intermedia "roraima" seedlings. 30 cells, 1-3 per cell. Interesting how some are green but much larger, while others are red but much smaller.
It has also been my experience that the red forms of species are not as healthy as others (not saying that as a general rule, I mean under my conditions). For example, I have a few D. muscipula that did extremely well in my minibog (which is indoors under lights), while D. 'Red Dragon' crapped out after a year and a half or so. I attributed it to the idea that the 'Red Dragon' needed more intense light to be capable of a level of photosynthesis that would have kept it healthy, while the typical plants, being mostly green and therefore packed with chloroplasts, accomplished a satisfactory level of photosynthesis. Had it been because they simply needed less surface area for photosynthesis, I would expect them to simply grow a little bigger, like some sort of etiolation, in an attempt to compensate - not just die off. Again, this is just speculation, though. I suspect someone could do a more scientific experiment involving microscopy and such, but I don't have the necessary tools. >.<; I could probably borrow a microscope from the campus lab... might look into that. Would be fun to check it out on a microscopic level, maybe compare chloroplast density and whatnot.An interesting hypothesis, Kyle. So it would follow that red plants are less vigorous? Hmmm. I might be willing to pay that price. It has been my experience that they are usually smaller but I have taken that to mean that they needed less surface area to accomplish the same amount of photosynthesis. Maybe I was all wrong in that.