Here is what I found today on my Monarch Journey. Seems like every flower's getting some kind of growth in it. I removed the dried petals and it looks like tiny leaves started to grow there. Anyone seen anything like this before? Any ideas?
What's going on here?!
Gosh Maria,I don't know.One picture looks like it is making a seed pod.
Lynn
Weird..Can you post it on gfiles?,the experts will tell you what it is.
Jan
Sorry Jan, what's gfiles?
gfiles is a worldwide online gesneriad group,everyone growing this plant family should join it (just my opinion).I learn so from them I also love seeing the pictures of different plants everyone.You just sign up and you will get the email.I think to post a picture it has to be on the small side.I would be interesting to see what they say.
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gesneriphiles
Thanks Jan, I'm officially a member now. What a great group, will be busy for a while! but sending my post first. Anybody else posting there?
I am.
I have known about the group for a good while but was never given a link to join. Thanks!!
Connie
Hope to see you there Sis!
I posted but haven't seen my post yet. It's either takes time or I did something wrong... Also went through some archives but could see no pictures at all. So nice to see a few members from Ohio posting though
Maria,
You are on mediation for a little while.That means one of the people that run the site needs to approve your messages first.Most of the groups do that.It should show up soon.Most of the pictures are in the emails you receive.
Lynn
Thanks Lynn. I just received an email about rejecting my post with "no reason given". I did contact admin to get the details. I'm afraid I didn't do it right.
It was probably the pictures.They have a strict size limit.
Hay! Another new member! You to Connie?
You can ask Jim or Thad about your message,they are both monitors,the picture size can only be 125 KP (whatever that means) I hope you get time to read some of the older archives.theres lots of info there.
Jan
It is unusual...
I agree that the longest formation looks like the beginning of a seedpod.
Karen
I love G-philes too...
If anyone can answer, it will be there!
You're right, Lynn, it's the picture. I do need some help to make the size right, waiting for some directions... Like the discussion, very interesting!
Maria, if you are still having trouble with the picture resizing, you can send them to me and I will make them small enough for g-philes and send them back to you. I am at work now, but if you would like me to do this, send me a d-mail and I will give you my regular email address for you to send the photos to. As soon as I get home this evening, I will resize them and send them right back to you.
Glad to help!
Karen
Thanks Karen!!!!! sending dmail
It took Karen's help and another 3 emails to get it done!!!! lol But well worth the efforts, here is the answer:
Irina N:
It is a baby plant. I do not think it is from seeds, but from cells of seed pod "skin". Sometimes you see so called "baskets" - plantlets growing out of the sleeping buds on the flowering stem, sometimes - plants growing on the back of the leaf you put down - AV or streps. But you have something different - plantlets growing on the outside of the seedpods
Hope to get even more details!
Glad you got your answer Maria!
Thanks for the guidance, ladies. Chances are it will be possible to root when bigger! probably several months from now?..... For some reason I had not much luck with strep leaves so far, would be funny to propagate a plant from a seedpod.
Please keep us updated! It's very interesting.
If that was my plant, I think I would try to lay that stem down somehow and let those babies root like a episcia stolen.Or try to put some moss under the babies.But that's just me,I like to experiment.LOL.
Theres more good reading about gesneriads from this newletter
http://www.gesneriadsociety.org/gleanings/gleanings2012.htm
Jan
I'll watch it for a while and will share the news. I was thinking about layering too but wondered what would happen to possible seed development? There are 8 flowers total and each one seems to have the same growth. So it would make sense to try 1 or 2.
Thanks for the link, Jan!