Koen C. Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 (edited) Edit: This Sphagnum is Sphagnum fimbriatum, it's growing almost choked by surrounding S. palustre. For the first time, i see sporophytes on some of my Sphagnum. The spore capsules are so small I barely noticed them. They grow on a thin species that ocassionaly manages to keep itself alive in a pot of a more robust species of Sphagnum. I think there are only 3 strands alive in that pot. I'm not sure but I assume the species is self fertile, i would be surprised if I had both a male and a female clone of that plant. I'll try and germinate the spores, just as experiment. Would be nice to see the moss develop, but I'm pretty sure it's not easy to make germaninate. Any tips are welcome! Edited September 6, 2017 by Koen C. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deg Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 Don't know anything about moss but that is a great pic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen C. Posted June 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2017 (edited) Seems like a sporophyte isn't long-lived. Only two days after I noticed, some of them have already exploded and dispersed their spores. Edited August 4, 2017 by Koen C. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picol Posted June 10, 2017 Report Share Posted June 10, 2017 Really interesting, could you keep updated the development? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisscool_38 Posted June 10, 2017 Report Share Posted June 10, 2017 Really interesting to see such pictures, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted June 10, 2017 Report Share Posted June 10, 2017 Fantastic, never seen anything like that before. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Great pics, thanks for sharing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen C. Posted August 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Update: I sowed the spores in two different conditions on peat. I cooked the peat for 10 minutes. I have germination in one of the pots, but I'm not sure if it's from the Sphagnum spores I sowed, or from spores that didn't die. This pictures shows protonemata from what I hope to be a Sphagnum. Google images isn't really helpful on how they should look like. If anyone knows for sure what it is, let me know 17th of July (This is a macro pictures, the plants are really tiny) 14th of August 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanP Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 WoW Some seriously good photography skills you have! Very interesting to see the development so far 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen C. Posted September 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2017 Thank you all for the kind words. Update: A lot of the protonemata are dying or becoming white instead of green. I'm not sure what's wrong, maybe I should try to put them in higher light, they are quite shady at the moment. But quite a bit of them have formed gametophores (Adult moss plants). They are still really young and I don't see any resemblence with Sphagnum yet, but I'm almost 99 pcnt sure it should be Sphagnum. I'm really curious to see how it keeps developing. 6th of september 2017: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsty Posted September 6, 2017 Report Share Posted September 6, 2017 This is a really short, but amazing video showing the spore ejection from sphagnum. It was apparently a mystery how they got the spores so high, until they filmed it at very high speed and saw that the capsule actually developed a vortex ring, and with that could send the spores much higher than just a straightforward squirt. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen C. Posted September 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 Crazy, I wonder how complex the inner structure of that capsule has to be in order to reach this effect. The explosion of the capsule on itself is already impressive. Funny what big efforts this tiny plant has to do to ensure its existence and reproduction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsty Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 (edited) Here's a couple more... https://phys.org/news/2010-07-mosses-mushroom-clouds-spores-video.html Edited September 7, 2017 by Karsty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsty Posted April 9, 2018 Report Share Posted April 9, 2018 (edited) Hey Folks, I found this this morning...... Informative about the power of a vortex ring!...... Edited April 9, 2018 by Karsty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carambola Posted April 9, 2018 Report Share Posted April 9, 2018 Now, to gather billions of sporophytes and blast them away with one of those cannons... I'm sure they'd appreciate the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsty Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Had to post this up Folks - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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