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Despite the sort of boring / hostile name, the photographs turned out well, I thought.
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Monday, December 8, 2014
Schlumbergera seedling no. 026
Going with "Brick Wall" for this one, mostly because it was one of the first seedlings to bloom. There are a surprisingly huge number of photos of brick walls on the TinEye search (Brick walls are apparently highly compelling photographic subjects. I didn't know.), and they've come up in lots of the color searches; no. 26 just happened to claim the name first.
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Despite the sort of boring / hostile name, the photographs turned out well, I thought.
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Despite the sort of boring / hostile name, the photographs turned out well, I thought.
Beautiful. I would have called it a 'Thanksgiving Cactus' and named it Pumpkin Pie. It looks good enough to eat.
ReplyDeleteI was about to try to adjust the colors on my monitor when I read Jean Campbell's comment. Apparently she and I see the color as orange rather than brick. Here in Northern Virginia there is brick everywhere, but none that looks like your flower.
ReplyDeleteI guess it could be the color of adobe bricks.
Jean Campbell:
ReplyDeleteThere's a pumpkin-related one later.
Ginny Burton:
It's not you; some of the problem is Instagram-style filters. (Some of the problem is also that there's a wider range of brick colors than you might think, but even if they were absolutely uniform the world over, filters would give us a range of colors anyway.)
Some of it's also that color perception is more context-dependent than we expect. Mom didn't think that 'Bryce Canyon' looked remotely close to baby-colored until I cropped out a small bit of the picture and zoomed in on it, and then she was like, oh, now I see it.
-You've probably seen this, but just in case, re. colour context dependence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion
ReplyDelete-Love the Brick Wall. I also love your endless supply of punny variety names.
-Do you have any tips/tricks for germinating Schlumbergera seeds? I have two fruits that just set. If I understand your previous posts, cleaning the seeds then drying them for a day, then planting in vermiculite and keeping them enclosed and warm worked best for you. Is that more-or-less right?
-Your blog is great.
Dan:
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's the basic process. No real tricks to it beyond that; the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that once they've germinated, they don't do a whole lot in the vermiculite. The last batch I sowed on February 23, and transplanted on November 25, but they were probably ready to transplant in July or August.
Unlike some plants, they don't have much of a staggered germination. Spathiphyllums will drag germination out over a year if you let them, with a few sprouting every few weeks, for example, but it seems like Schlumbergera pretty much all come up at once, maybe within about 8 weeks.
Also don't be afraid of throwing some of them out. Even if the germination rate isn't great (I think I get about 60-70%), there will be so many seedlings.