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Gabe15
06-29-2007, 10:03 PM
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.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/Gabe152/th_arf.jpg (http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/Gabe152/?action=view¤t=arf.flv)
PS- you can also see the new leaf on the pup growing with it as well.
Enjoy!
STEELVIPER
06-29-2007, 10:13 PM
Awesome!!!:bananas_b
NANAMAN
06-29-2007, 11:14 PM
Gabe, Thats way cool!!! Thanks for putting that together and sharing it with us all. What are you pollinating with?
D'Andra
06-30-2007, 01:50 AM
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?
MediaHound
06-30-2007, 02:15 AM
That's really awesome, Gabe!
What kind of setup did you use for that series of photos?
Gabe15
06-30-2007, 09:09 AM
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.
the flying dutchman
06-30-2007, 09:33 AM
Thanks for that Gabe, I have never seen this before.
Ron
island cassie
06-30-2007, 11:01 AM
Gabe - that is extremely interesting. Looking forward to the male flowers next.
Cassie
Sailfish
06-30-2007, 11:42 AM
very slick
I like it
MediaHound
06-30-2007, 06:33 PM
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!
Gabe15
06-30-2007, 07:38 PM
This is somewhat off topic...but highly useful and fun for plant geeks with MacBooks.
step 1: open iMovie
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/Gabe152/Picture7.png
step 2: toggle mode from edit to capture and click on "time lapse"
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/Gabe152/Picture8.png
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.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/Gabe152/Picture9.png
step 4: click "record with iSight" and wait as long as you want.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/Gabe152/Picture10.png
when you're done, click "record with iSight" again and there ya go, you have an awesome time lapse movie.
MediaHound
06-30-2007, 09:14 PM
perfect!
:2747:
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
:flouenaner:
Greenie
07-02-2007, 03:58 PM
Awesome!!!!
Mark Hall
09-29-2007, 02:59 PM
Gabe did any of the seeds from the plant ever germinate ?
Gabe15
09-29-2007, 03:14 PM
I have not harvested the fruit yet, I will see if it even set any seed when I return home this December.
natedogg1026
09-29-2007, 07:57 PM
That's AWESOME Gabe. Very impressive. You sound like you know your stuff when it comes to Nana's!!!:0496:
Raules
11-28-2007, 08:52 PM
Very beautifully!!! It is well removed!:2704: :2742: :2559: :03:
AnnaJW
11-28-2007, 09:12 PM
Very Cool!!!!!!
bencelest
11-28-2007, 11:52 PM
Very entertaining!
Whatever
11-29-2007, 02:04 AM
Wow very cool!
mskitty38583
11-29-2007, 02:12 AM
i was amazed.thanks for showing this to us.
wamstick
11-29-2007, 06:02 PM
Good show Gabe
51st state
12-03-2007, 04:28 PM
excel, loving that vid
magicgreen
12-03-2007, 04:39 PM
Thank you Gabe. That was great. This site is great!!!!!:2736:
dablo93
12-04-2007, 01:36 AM
Nice video annd Musa:2124: !
mushtaq86
11-13-2011, 04:53 PM
I have not harvested the fruit yet, I will see if it even set any seed when I return home this December.
Just looking back at some old posts did the seed ever set Gabe.
Gabe15
11-13-2011, 06:21 PM
No seed was produced from that cross, but I got lots of seeds from other crosses I did back then.
trebor
11-14-2011, 05:57 AM
WOW Interesting stuff … Now I’m on a quest for time lapse software for my computer
Thanks for the interesting and informative post . Every time I see something like this I feel as if this is what the internet was originally developed for . Best of luck to you and you with your project . Im sure you will post updates . I can’t imagine seeing a cross I had pollinated breaking ground :) But I do know that it must be nothing short of a huge thrill .
It reminds me of when my Dad and I were in a orange grove. I was a kid . He and my Grand Dad instructed me to cut down a medium sized orange tree. Then they both stood over me wile I carved a lime twig to place in-between the bark left on the stump. We 3 walked away and I returned nightly to see if it was going to grow. Yes it sure seemed to take forever .. But once I realized it was growing all I could think of was , my lime had this huge root system and it was going to become a colossal plant ! ha ha it grew and we had some limes…… That was back in the 50’s
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