Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?

Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#357781

By uxleumas -  Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:35 pm
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- Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:35 pm #357781

erm, this weird thing happened and my plant is producing a flower stalk that is split in the middle, it looks like two flower stalks merged. maybe Fasciation? here's a picture if you can see it. it also seems to me that there are just a bunch of flower bulbs bunched up at the tip, will they spread out? my other sundew is also sending up a flower stalk but that one only has one head. any ideas?

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Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#357782

By sanguinearocks101 -  Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:08 pm
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- Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:08 pm #357782

That happens to Drosera flowers sometime soon but I haven’t seen it like that before. In my very very limited experience it usually happens higher up among the flowers. Has it done that before when you’ve had it under your care?

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Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#357784

By uxleumas -  Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:52 pm
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- Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:52 pm #357784

no, this is the first flower it ever got. does this happen often? thanks!

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Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#357785

By sanguinearocks101 -  Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:01 am
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- Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:01 am #357785

Hopefully if this isn’t a one-time thing then you can name it as a cultivar. Splits higher up on the flower, either a bit under the first flower or somewhere among the flowers are pretty common.

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Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#357791

By Artchic528 -  Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:48 am
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- Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:48 am #357791

Fasciation?

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Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#357799

By uxleumas -  Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:46 pm
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- Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:46 pm #357799

idk, it's a thing when flowers produce a strip flower instead of a round flower, search it up on wiki if you want to learn more. another weird thing. the plant with two flower heads has stopped making new leaves, while the one with only 1 head is still throwing out leaves. any thoughts?

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Re: Split/double/triple Drosera Capensis flower stalk?#358797

By uxleumas -  Mon Jul 13, 2020 4:42 pm
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- Mon Jul 13, 2020 4:42 pm #358797

Update: turns out it didn't just split once, it split twice!!!

on one of the split ends it split again! i guess i'll get a lot of seeds then

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Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#358804

By hungry carnivores - Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:41 pm

- Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:41 pm #358804

Artchic528 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:48 am Fasciation?

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Correct!

Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#358807

By uxleumas -  Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:50 pm
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- Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:50 pm #358807

hmmm.... "Some plants, notably cockscomb, transmit the fasciation characteristic by seed. " i hope it get's passed down and isn't just a one time thing

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Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#358818

By hungry carnivores - Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:20 pm

- Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:20 pm #358818

You're into chem, right?

Etbr may be handy. Soak some seeds in EtBr for about 1 minute, and rinse and plant. This will cause intercalation of DNA, and often, wrong nucleotide base pairing (dreaded purine-purine ). This should lead to some interesting characteristics.

Re: Split/double Drosera Capensis flower?#358828

By uxleumas -  Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:27 pm
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- Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:27 pm #358828

hmmmmm... that could work, i also took a small bio course, might try to find out the dna or something, i'll try that, thanks!
also, what does etbr mean? is it Ethidium bromide or bromoethane, they both use the same abriviations. both are quite expensive, don't think i'll do it

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