No, no, no - my thoughts were only for inspiring filming of night-blooming plants, not these diurnal things! :grin: Yes yes yes .... I know, but conversely, with such poor weather, it seemed reasonable to assume, based on your argument, that "these diurnal things" would benefit from incre...

neo-1_2.mp4 I'm indebted to Pattock, for his thoughts on illumination whilst plants are flowering. I noticed that this Neoportia was about to flower; I had to be away from home; I needed to start the video as the flower started to open and not rely on guesswork and a delay timer for technical reaso...

Impressive

Ralph

...but then trying to make sense of the video production, subsequently, would be a different matter. I am pretty sure there will be a button that just sets it to black & white. :mrgreen: That Strophocactus wittii at Cambridge got confused by the lighting for the cameras and opened during the da...

Yes a single colour LED would no doubt work, and my lighting kit would provide whatever colour I specified, but then trying to make sense of the video production, subsequently, would be a different matter.
Training hawkmoths sounds a fascinating project.

Tina wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 2:02 pm Ah you have heard about my cooking

Chuckle!
I subscribe to my nan's method .... always successful .... when it's brown it's done ... when it's black it's b€££@#ed.

Tina wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 1:03 pm well cooked & dessicated, I can grow them like this too

Cactus or coconut cakes?

What I mean is could you see the stigma without tearing open the flower? In the first flower .... yes, but isn't it so tiny? In the second flower this morning .... it would require harsh manipulation ..... so I didn't bother. I'm not optimistic. Last cross pollination failed, as the one before, and...

Did you find pollination straightforward? This photo from a few years ago shows the stigma sunk very low into the flower. This was taken early morning, though, so maybe the style contracts during the night. P6030092.jpg I expect to be able to answer your question in a day or so. Only tried in the e...