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^^^^  awesome mate... dionaea is one of the first plants as a city man I cultivated along with couple brugmansia cuttings. back to 2005 or something.... some crazy chick gifted it to me, what an awesome gift!  I remember reading suggestions on how you shouldnt let it flower because it takes much energy f the plant - I let it flower anywayz and much later it died because of neglect (didnt keep the plate with water). I kept it alive for some 18+ months.. 

 

I regularly remind my self I should try this a couple more times :)   , but they only sell it around march here

 

awesome plant, I could say it got me into it, as it was one of my first plants

 

peace and love

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Sorry about the shit shots

 

Whiora..

 couple of weeks ago.

 

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tonight( 5 of the flowers were successfully pollinated with pollen from mb scop and j2 that was one year old(freezer stored), 99% sure it is all scop though as i lost a few flowers to the j2 pollen last year???  

This last one was pollinated with red grandi.

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My first ever tricho flower! Words can't describe! :)

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Very Nice Bro!!!!!^^^^^^

Fingers crossed for a pod for you.

E. or L. Shaferi.... lovely yellow flower. pollinated with whiora.

 

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^^ that's gorgeous. absolute stunner of a plant.

 

what species? how'd you come to it?

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^ Wow, thats such a beautiful flower. 

Thanks for sharing :)

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Thanks Micromegas and Change, it is a pilosocereus leucocephalus. Was lucky enough to find it at a local nursery about 4 years ago. It was unlabelled and unloved and has been thriving ever since. 

Interesting flower too Change:lol:

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@Change dude! that's awesome. I thought they didn't flower.... what are you going to cross it with? I'd love some seeds of that cross......

 

@nrivers killa flowers bro! another cactus goes onto the wish list...

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Has that TBM had any hormones or any other treatments like aspirin etc ?

 

I hope you've got another bridge to cross it with.

 

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Nice work Change, it's surely a first. I'vcertainly never heard of it happening before.

 

What kind of donkey hormones have you been fertilising/injecting it with???

 

 

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WOW Change!!

when I saw the flower bud I had thought you placed it there as a joke, like slid it on a spine to hold it there.

 

 

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Hahaha, that actually looks legit Change. I would have saved it for the first of April though. :)

 

Trypsis macro about to pop!..

 

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:lol: yer i couldnt help myself :bootyshake::bootyshake::bootyshake:

 

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& here is some pollen @ 100x magnification

 

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My Scop has just opened its first ever flower for me. Will try to find my camera to get a pic.

Is anyone in Sydney lower north shore  area interested in pollen? Is that something people do?

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I met a lady who had two very large tbms. 4-5ft tall and across. she said they flowered every year but the large cuttings she gave me have never flowered or shown signs of flowering, as one would expect with mature cuttings.

 

That was a good trick Change. For me, however, I expect a flowering tbm to exist, out there, in the ether.

 

My excuse for being gullible: first hand anecdotal evidence of tbms flowering in potential.

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If the tbm wont naturally flower thats fine, im going to force it to, it just might take a few more years. And its not going to be trigger by hormones or chemicals, the key is going to be grafting it to a trichocereus that has previously flowered. Experimental data has shown these Florigenic proteins have the ability to transfer between grafting unions. And genetic knockouts have been created which show, when Florigenic proteins are unable to be expressed flowering is inhibited or at least severely reduced depending upon which transcription factors was targeted. Therefore im starting to conclude that the TBM is either missing these genes, or their transcription factors have been mutated rendering them non functional. Grafting one to another plant which expresses the required genes should in theory fix the problem. 

 

http://www.plantcell.org/content/19/5/1488.abstract  (evidence of Florigenic proteins tranfering between grafted plants)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03251.x/full (evidence of genetically knocking out the transcription factors for FT locus reducing and preventing flower formation)

 

Seeing as i've flooded the flowering hormone thread, ill move the conversation over here, just to make sure all you guys & girls that have flowers blooming get to see my idea. It would be great if there were a few more cactus nerds who wanted to try this experiment too, the more experiments performed, the more data collected :) and the closer we get to a complete understanding. 

 

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At the shoot apical meristem, the FT protein interacts with a transcription factor (FD protein) to activate floral identity genes, thus inducing flowering.[8][9] Specifically, arrival of FT at the shoot apical meristem and formation of the FT/FD heterodimer is followed by the increased expression of at least one direct target gene, APETALA 1 (AP1),[8] along with other targets, such as SOC1 and several SPL genes, which are targeted by a microRNA.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florigen 

 

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Super pedro bloomed this morning  

Crossed her with some Rosei1 pollen, many thanks to the pollen donor 

 

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Super pedro pollen @ 100x & 400x

Im planning to hit this pollen with a few different stains to see if i can get some extra detail of the internal structures.

 

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