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  9. Posted · Edited by Stillman

    This thing is putting on some serious weight everyday. Not even 20 days set so long way to go. I'm just hoping it hold together now. The weather has me spooked its been hot and humid with winds and threats of storms and heavy rain in December...lol

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  11. Posted · Edited by Stillman

    She thinks its awesome, I got her to hand pollinate the flowers and so she feels quite happy with her work. Races down in the morning and then after school comes back and tells me how big its got. You can actually see it grow over a day.

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    I know a few of you guys and girls make a bit of electronic music. I am interested in learning how. I have no idea whatsoever so just asking some beginners questions like whats a good program to start with,are there any free ones that can get me started or should I buy one. I have a basic lap and am a bit computer spazzy so super high powered programs probably won't be good for me. and I don't want to spend a fortune but happy to spend a bit. I'm only interested in having a bit of fun with it so yeah like I said I got no idea and any advice would be much appreciated.

    I want to do some stuff like Kraftwerks kinda dated 80s sounding stuff.

  21. Posted

    Hybrids for this year... G guerkeanum are one of my favourite Gymnos with a interesting yellow flower. So this might be a unusual hybrid depending on genetic dominance.

    G guerkeanum isn't a prolific flower producer but anistii is so who knows what might throw?

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  22. Posted · Edited by Stillman

    Some of my ragonesii hybrids are opeing, most are typical white with little variation from the mother genotype. But one is opeing today or maybe tomorrow which appears to be a pink/ red colour. This is very weird as mother is typical ragonesii father is green closed flower, G mihanovichii.

    Bad photo but you can see the pinkish colour in the flower

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    This is another seedling from the seed batch with the expected cream coloured petals. Only produced about 50 seeds, I hand pollinated it myself, so not sure where the pinkish colour is coming from?

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    I'll keep you updated once it opens.

    here's a pic of the father plant in flower

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  24. Posted

    I think due to the intense inbreeding for specific traits variegation appears to be prevalent in a lot of the big competition plants. Varieagation can be caused through mitochondrial DNA and the genome DNA so makes sense if they are focusing in on a small pocket of genetics that certain faults appear. The variegation doesn't appear to make them any less vigorous though which is interesting.

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  25. Posted

    14 days set and its starting to pump.

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    If the weather doesn't stitch me up I reckon this one will go large. The stems on the plant are really thick and the stump is about as thick as my wrist.. I have buried the vines and am watering the whole area to increase water uptake. Now just gotta keep it up for the next 50 days or so.

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