34 replies to this topic

[Daniel O.]

Hi Carlos,

for sure hybrids with D. chrysolepis as a parent would be wonderful.
Hopefully i will be able to pollinate them with D. spiralis and D. camporupestris when i´m back in Germany.

A few days before i left Germany the first flowers of D. camporupestris x spiralis opened but till now i have not had enough time to show them.

BTW, since a few days we have some earthquakes here in Bulgaria (Sofia), it´s really strange. The last one was a few minutes ago while i was writing.

Best regards,
Dani

Edited by Daniel O., 23 May 2012 - 22:12 PM.

[Daniel O.]

Hi all ,

as i mentioned last time i have not been at home for a longer time but before i left Germany the first 3 flowers opened and because these pictures have been on my computer at home i could not show them earlier.
As promised, here are the flower pictures. Nethertheless the plants look more like D. spiralis on the first sight the flowers look more like D. camporupestris but they are a little bit bigger. Both adult plants have had 8 flowers on a nearly 30cm long and hairy flower scape.

This is the emerging flower scape of the second adult plant.

They catch a lot of prey.

more prey




















I hope you like them.

Best regards,
Dani

Edited by Daniel O., 04 June 2012 - 04:00 AM.

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Beautiful, thank you!! :)

[-Xeno-]

Very impressive hybrid, thanks a lot for sharing!

[Daniel O.]

Many thanks.

Best regards,
Dani

[dudo klasovity]

Such a beauty!
Very interesting plant indeed, thanx Dani!

[Daniel G]

How do you manage to do this Dan? Your mind must have a jumble of hybrids just waiting to happen!
Well done!

[Daniel O.]

Many thanks again.

Yes, i will try them all.

Hopefully it will produce some seed, Fernando.

Best regards,
Dani

[amphirion]

this is definitely all sorts of ridiculousness. amazing hybrid Daniel! i like it a lot!

[Daniel O.]

Thanks again.

As i mentioned before i was only able to self pollinate the first three flowers, the last five and the flowers from the second plant i missed because i have not been in Germany.
After some of my latest hybrids have not produced any seed this time i was really surprised, the first three flowers produced some seed.
Three-fourths of the seed is much smaller (probably not viable), but about 12 grains look really promising.
Here are some pictures (200-times magnified):

different lighting


50-times magnified (not my best picture)


And here you can see the parents (at right D. camporupestris, at left D. spiralis) and the hybrid in the middle (some of the promising seed).


Best regards,
Dani

[Carlos Rohrbacher]

Great news, I'm really anxious to see your plants personally  

[Daniel O.]

Because of the small number of good looking seed, the aspect that the flowers have not selfed without any help and because a few of my crossings (D. schwackei x tomentosa var. tomentosa and D. spiralis x tomentosa var. tomentosa) do not produce any seed i have been uncertain if the seed would germinate.

About 7 weeks ago i have sown it out and now the first seedlings are visible but somehow i don´t know if this is good news or not.

Best regards,
Dani

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Cool, please keep us posted!!!

[Peatmoss]

Dang, these are some sexy plants... Really incredible looking! Amazingly incredible job growing them!

[Rodrigo]

Hello Daniel,

beautiful hybrid, thank you very much for sharing with us this wonder.

Best regards,

Rodrigo

Edited by Rodrigo, 27 August 2012 - 03:37 AM.