anyone want a C. crispa seed pod?
 

Hello,

Does anyone want a C. crispa seed pod? I don't know what to do with it. The people who asked for it aren't responding. I emailed Troy Meyers but never got a response either. One's already ruptured so I'm just going to trim the other one and toss it. I don't know if these are viable seeds either.

I thought about sneaking into my lab and plating it myself but I don't want to be fired ;)

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Mother plant x self

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Dorchid might want it? He's doing some flasking out here in CO.

Thanks, David!

Jeff- if you still have it I’ll take it and get it plated for you. I’ll pm you my address.

You're welcome! Love this - hope the seeds end up doing something.

Got the capsule and the seed looks great! The capsule was slightly dehisced in a couple places so disinfected the seed in 5% bleach for 5 min and then gave 5 rinses. A tremendous amount of seed! I did plate one with seed straight from the capsule just to see how it does. 9 mother plates each sown with roughly 1 ml of seed solution. Trying not to sow so thickly. They still have a ton of seed each. Many thanks, Jeff; if all goes well I’ll get you some flasks in a year or so!

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Thanks so much for taking and plating the seeds! I'm glad there were lots of seeds and that it didn't go to waste :) Looking forward to them germinating!!

You are welcome! I couldn’t get a good pic but looked at the plated seed under the loop and they’re all packed with fat embryos. Should have a high rate of germination.

Additionally, I only used about 1/20th of the seed so will save the rest to play with different media recipes. As there are 9 mothers, I’m also happy to send germ plates out to anyone looking to work on replating. Of course this is based on germination rate and how they’re looking.

Exciting!

The dry/unsanitized seed molded immediately.
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I guess the seed pod was already compromised? Great that you sterilized with bleach!


Btw, im really enjoying the photos and updates. Thank you :)