Gabe15

Over the last few days I made a time lapse video of my Musa 'Rose' setting its female flowers. Also in the video you will see hand pollination for my breeding project. Next I will do a few hands of male flowers as well.



PS- you can also see the new leaf on the pup growing with it as well.

Enjoy!

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STEELVIPER

Awesome!!!

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NANAMAN

Gabe, Thats way cool!!! Thanks for putting that together and sharing it with us all. What are you pollinating with?

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D'Andra

That has got to be one of the neatest things I've ever seen on this site.
Are you crossing it with something you might hope to keep the offspring outside in the winter?

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MediaHound

That's really awesome, Gabe!

What kind of setup did you use for that series of photos?

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Gabe15

Thanks everyone! I'm glad to hear you enjoy it.

The pollen is from Musa laterita (I volunteer at the Denver Botanic Gardens where this plant is always flowering profusely), this being one of many crosses to be done in my quest to create intermediate forms of Rhodochlamys bananas and edible bananas. This is the 3rd cross performed for my project the first two being M. laterita x M. 'Rose' (119 seeds harvested) and M. 'Lavender Beauty' x M. 'Rose' (1 seed harvested), this one is M. 'Rose' x M. laterita (when looking at hybrid names, ladies are first).

I have a MacBook with the built in camera, and if you have one too, you can use iMovie to record movies using the built in camera. They put in a very easy to use tool to create time lapse movies as well. I'm too lazy to work out the normal frame rate for a movie in iMovie, but I set mine to save 1 picture for every 2000 frames seen, and that came out to about 1 picture every 2.5min or so. The reason there is weird breaks and camera angle changes is because I actually wanted to use my computer sometimes and didn't always set it up right again, but other then that its pretty much one continuous shot.

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the flying dutchman

Thanks for that Gabe, I have never seen this before.

Ron

island cassie

Gabe - that is extremely interesting. Looking forward to the male flowers next.

Cassie

Sailfish

very slick

I like it

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MediaHound

I've a MacBook too but didn't realize it did that. Sweet!
I need to read manuals more often and find out what I'm missing out on

And congrats with your success so far on the breeding project.
That sounds quite interesting!

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Gabe15

This is somewhat off topic...but highly useful and fun for plant geeks with MacBooks.

step 1: open iMovie


step 2: toggle mode from edit to capture and click on "time lapse"


step 3: click on "capture 1 frame for every..." and enter whatever you want, as mentioned earlier I used 2000, that took one picture every few minutes but you can set it to whatever you want. click ok.


step 4: click "record with iSight" and wait as long as you want.


when you're done, click "record with iSight" again and there ya go, you have an awesome time lapse movie.

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MediaHound

perfect!

Thanks for that tutorial Gabe, I'm gonna have some fun with that.
Now I need a waterproof case for the MacBook because most of the fun I could have with that is outside.
Well, there's always my reef aquarium that I could do some neat time lapsing with
Thanks again for taking the time to show us how it's done

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Greenie

Awesome!!!!

Mark Hall

Gabe did any of the seeds from the plant ever germinate ?

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Gabe15

I have not harvested the fruit yet, I will see if it even set any seed when I return home this December.

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natedogg1026

That's AWESOME Gabe. Very impressive. You sound like you know your stuff when it comes to Nana's!!!

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Raules

Very beautifully!!! It is well removed!

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AnnaJW

Very Cool!!!!!!

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bencelest

Very entertaining!

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Wow very cool!

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