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The pink puff is nearly gone now, they're pretty burned out and turning brown. The peduncles are still growing though!

Flanges under the dead flowers. There's still some oldass pollen anthers floating around here and the dead pistil in the middle, and the flange on the ovary under the receptacle is gettin' larger, especially on the older flower stalks

We are entering the final phase of Boophonery... The size of the sphere is growing, and the flowers are dying back! I pollinated them with my finger last week so these fuckers better be doing something. The ovary is located in the flanged areas. If we get any seeds, that where they're gonna be.

I do love a nice seed-grown gigas, the shape is just so much nicer than propogated cuttings (tho honestly I love those too, haha). You should grow more! The tropical species are really underrated.

Wow, great! D. gigas is generally considered to not self/ requires a second clone to reproduce, but UC Davis reported that their gigas are rarely self-fertile. I suspect it can self but only under specific greenhouse conditions (supposedly they don't flower in Thailand; maybe requires a cold rest).

I've been dying to see this inflorescence in person for years, I'm so stoked about it. I've got a D sp. 'Tanzania' (probably benguellensis) and a star-like sp. from Kenya (also probably benguellensis) slowly developing too. Can't wait can't wait

:] his full name is Dorstenia buchananii var longipedunculata... love 2 peduncle in the longest fashion

TBH it's been very easy to use. My only problem now is that I want about 10 more of these so I can prevent crossing and stop getting foetida growing everywhere. I'm looking into setting up a tropical greenhouse in the yard so I can scale up production; it's more cost efficient at this point.

This is the first year of the three that I've owned it in which I've gotten this plant to flower... thank you for my life, humidity cabinet

A weird “flower” on a tallass stem. The flower looks like. Idk. Idk man. A small oval with two long fingers on top and on bottom. It’s just shapes.

Check out my dude here… unsurprisingly, this variety is defined by its longass peduncle (ie the “stem” of the “flower” shown here, not the horn on top, tho it’s also extremely cool)

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Boophone is even more dark pink and getting bloomed out, but lookin' good. Final stage of the inflorescence approaches and you can see the peduncles gettin' longer

We added a bunch of shit to the hill that was posted previously... now in afternoon sun, we got the cool pink puff of the Boophane. If you zoom in you can find a wooly white Senecio, hybrid medusoid Euphorbia, some draped green Monadenium, and a Cyphostemma currori. If you have not seen these plants before and are hard of seeing, it's basically a bunch of brown and green spiky stuff on tan soil. Sorry I am not wordsmith-ier for you but I did my best

This week was in the top 3 worst weeks of my life, but thankfully I invested all my mental health onto these plants that also refuse to die

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To quote your previous post, normal republican stuff

Pile of dead shit (affectionate) with pink flower puff coming out the top

A view of a dry hill with esoteric plants and some streaks from the watering

A stapeliad (Huernia x 'Hell's Bells') in flower. There's a little fly on it too.

Bonus, a bigass Euphorbia polygona in decomposed granite in the section in front of all those other guys. I just think he's neat

Still opening up.

And, pix of the hill for context. Front to back, roughly; Cyphostemma juttae, Pachypodium (incl flowering P ramosum), the Boophone, Eupborbia tubiglans hybrid and E. schoenlandii, Pachypodium saundersii, and Huernia hybrid with Monadenium spectabilis right behind it. And WEEDS >:\

A pink ball of little flowers with little white anthersacs stickin out

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Budding inflorescence of Boophane disticha, which look like a bunch of pink qtips shoved in a brownish sheath kinda thing on a single fat peduncle. Do you like that word, peduncle. I do

full view of Boophane disticha, which looks like ass this time of year (it's a winter grower). Buncha dead leaves surrounding a barely-visible caudex (more like a bulb) that looks like several layers of crumpled paper on top of more paper. Don't worry it gets better soon

Check out this thread for some hot in-ground Boophone distichia flowering action. It'll get pretty good, I promise. Starting off with the bud from last saturday.

oooooohh good consideration. I'll try to avoid nuts entirely!! thanks for mentioning that. I wish they had some GF options to round it out but the good donut places near me don't make them :\

yeah, I'm not sure if it's good to have one or two in there or just stick to the fun stuff! But maybe some folks like em...

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Older couple design pages.

To celebrate today’s @thevaultcomics.bsky.social GOOBERS trade release, here’s some design and process artwork from the series.

(obligatory /s so I don't get called out for my extreme views when i run for world president)

lol... well, they actually just get winnowed away until they are very small. once they are barely visible, the government installs them in you as tracking devices via vaccines. vaccines are harmful because they are made of the ghosts of water-fied alligators

it's true, I used to be 50 feet tall until I took all these showers :[

hell yeah wet crustaceans

NOICE. I just bought an Aristolochia philippinensis Just to try it out... so far it's been happy, but idk if the current socal summer monsoon weather is a good indicator of how this genus will feel in a few months XD

More flies, Ainsley? or do you just agree that I should grow plants that take out the leps because you hate leps???

lol yeah. My only worry is, if I grow a non-native species, that Pipevine Swallowtails will eat the wrong one? Apparently some of the SE Asian species are too toxic for the pillers and will kill them instead of conferring greatness like A. californica does