So I got a wild streak today and decided to take 2 perfectly blooming micro sinningias and make them have sex with each other. Well I didn't *make them*. That would be wrong. I just assisted. They never said "no", so nobody needs to call a hotline or anything.
I took pics and a video for all you sick plant porn fetishists out there. Also for those folks out there who are legitimately wondering how it all works with micro sinnies.
Please forgive the complete CRAP quality of the vid, it was the first time I tried doing a plant-related video on my phone. I prolly won't do that again. It shoots HD, but not that close-up apparently. Bew on that. Oh well, ya get what ya get. I took some pics too, to make up for it.
So first we have our "father" plant, Lil' Georgie.
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| Who's ya daddy!? |
How do we know he's the father? Nope, don't bother calling Maury. First, Lil Georgie sounds like a boy's name. Second, he's donating the pollen. Third, he also selfed himself--as most guys are want to do, amIright? Heh heh... But really, Lil' Georgie is going to be both a father and a mother because I crossed him with not only himself, but with Star Eyes also. He's a multi-tasker!
Next we have our "mother" plant, Star Eyes.
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| Woah, mama! |
She's pretty, look at those cool little notches on her petals!
All joking aside, my real goal here is that I want to get Lil' Georgie's floriferous trait, combined with Star Eyes' cool little notched petal trait, on one hopefully very awesome plant.
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| I mean seriously, look at all those flowers on daddy! And that's after months of neglect. |
OK I'll shut up now and you can just watch the dirty movie. (And it is kinda dirty, I have really grimy nails from repotting, and brown leather dye on my wrist from working on rehabbing a vintage leather Coach bag earlier! Oh, such an exciting life I live..)
Since that video SUCKS, I also took some pics:
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| Slitting the flower up the center... |
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| Slit and spread open! |
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| Petals folded up, and pollen sacs out! |
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| Ovary BEFORE swelling |
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| THE GOAL: Swollen ovary (ouch?) AKA seed pod! |
SO ANYHOOZLEZ, that's all for today. Hope you enjoyed and that you still respect me (and the plants).
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