small loph flowering out of outter aeriols not centre

[SirLSD]

will put pic up when i get a chance.

have a small (1- 1.5cm) grafted loph on trich that is starting to flower out of aeriols towards the edge instead of from the centre ones. i have never seen this before. also i thought it is a little too small to flower. could it be because the trich it is grafted to is starting to flower its self? hormones transfered to the graft.

[transDiMenTional]

 

 

Edited November 10, 2006 by transDiMenTional

[occidentalis]

http://lophophora.blogspot.com/2006/07/str...sii-flower.html

A similar thing noted here.

[teonanacatl]

Its pretty common when grafting to peres, because of the fast growth the flower, by the time its developed is located out of the centre of the plant. Another reason for it happening is possibly a pup flowering just under the surface or that the plant has simply decided to flower there :D

[SaBReT00tH]

Whilst on the topic of Lophs here's some flowering Loph porn pics of my Caespitosa and Astrophytum Asteria 'Nudum' flower. Enjoy

[sobriquet]

Whilst on the topic of Lophs here's some flowering Loph porn pics of my Caespitosa and Astrophytum Asteria 'Nudum' flower. Enjoy

Nice!

My new caespitose lophophora is coming up with what looks like two flower buds.

How long do they take to form seeds?

And nice Yerba Mate bush in the background

[teonanacatl]

How long do they take to form seeds?

About a year I believe, one of mine flowered for the first time about 6 months ago and still no seed pod.

[ramon]

Usually a few weeks for me.

teo that flower probably didnt get pollinated hence no fruit.

[transDiMenTional]

mine produced its first pod recently i noticed. but then a few days later when i checked on it it was gone im guessing something ate it

[teonanacatl]

Usually a few weeks for me.

teo that flower probably didnt get pollinated hence no fruit.

Interesting because I cross pollinated it, also I wouldnt say its a few weeks because one under lights has been flowering for the last few weeks 1-2 flowers per week and previously i would have been a good few months since it last flowered and I only got one after the first flower in the new flush again always cross pollinated. But Im still open to the idea of a few weeks :D I labelled a few flowers so will see when the seedpod pop up. The lophophora botany paper mentioned 1 year aswell.

mine produced its first pod recently i noticed. but then a few days later when i checked on it it was gone im guessing something ate it

Watch the ants man, they steal all my seeds unless i watch them. I normally have to pick them early so I can get any seeds, if I leave it i get none:( maybe some antrid or sticky traps would fix that.

[ramon]

I tended to go with thye one year thing as well until recently.

My largest Loph has a number of offsets which have flowered for the first time this year and harvested fruit from the a few weeks after they flowered.

[teonanacatl]

Maybe its just the pups then, grafted plants produce the pods much sooner and when trichs pup the pups grow at enormous rates for a while, perhaps this is whats happening?

[sobriquet]

The little yellow tuft on my loph now looks as if its the one flower.

How many days does it generally take for these to fully open?

I'm really excited by this I must say.

[teonanacatl]

a few days from first seen, i found younger plants take longer then older ones. DONT move the plant lol and if you recently moved it then move it back, otherwise it will be flowering thinking its in the other spot and the flowers may or may not open. I found it takes a few weeks for the plants to get use to the new rhythm.

[ramon]

When my Loph's first started flowering I was only getting one fruit for every five or six flowers.

But the following year , they where more consistent in producing fruit for every flower.

I thought then that it was the previous years fruits coming up.

But after recently seeing the pup produce fruit the first time it flowered I have just come up with a new theory.

Maybe the length of time it takes for the fruit to develop depends upon whether the flower was cross-pollinated or not.

[teonanacatl]

Yeah perhaps ay. I got a store of pollen in the fridge from all my lophs all mixed and its this i use to pollinate them so im assuming mine are cross pollinated. I started this a few months ago and as yet havent had any consecutive large amounts of seed, seems to alternate in a random pattern. Anyway I got another flower opening tonite so Ill label the flower with the date and we see when it comes up

[teonanacatl]

Yup Ramon your right it is indeed a few weeks, 4-5 I think.

[userofthename]

will put pic up when i get a chance.

have a small (1- 1.5cm) grafted loph on trich that is starting to flower out of aeriols towards the edge instead of from the centre ones. i have never seen this before. also i thought it is a little too small to flower. could it be because the trich it is grafted to is starting to flower its self? hormones transfered to the graft.

I strongly support the theory that plants grafted together exchange hormones. This case is another 'evidence' that leads me to conclude so.

Pups taken of the same plant (clones) and grafted to various stocks look evidently different, depending on the stock used.

[ramon]

On the 3/12/06 this mutant pup first started flowering.

Today 22/1/07 the first sign of fruit from this pup

so around 7 weeks if this was the first flower but anyway much less then 1 year

[Ace]

Very nice Ramon! What a freaky plant