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Re: Off the wall question from a newbie. preserving the blooms

Aloha to you too.
The epoxy is basically a casting resin.
I have a couple of days before I will run the trial.
I was hoping to have a specimen fully coated with the resin so it would stand alone, like a silk flower.
I am just unsure how to get the resin to cure fast enough and get it to adhere to the moist surfaces.
I will probably dilute the resin down enough so I can use a spray gun the coat the bloom.
 
I thought about the fumed silica technique but thought it would not work on the stalk and would require a lot of material. It still might be worth a try sometime, maybe on one of the summer blooming arums.
If my Titan's ever bloom, first job will be to get viable seeds, then work on preserving the bloom.
Heck 6-8 years for them to bloom, by then maybe I'll have a viable preservation process ;-))))
 
Thanks to everyone for the responses. I'll post a note on how the trials went.
Best Regards,
Chris
 


--- On Wed, 1/14/09, brian lee <lbmkjm@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: brian lee <lbmkjm@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Off the wall question from a newbie. preserving the blooms
To: "Discussion of aroids" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 12:08 PM

Dear Chris,

Aloha.

I have not done this myself, but wonderful preservations have been done in
casting resin.  Nasty stuff, and difficult to do right, but if you get good at
it and can do an Amorphophallus titanum, you'll probably be famous.

The other thing...and even more difficult is to make a reproduction in flame
worked glass.  The Blaschka glass flowers at Harvard are the best of these. 
Google them.  Again, if you can do this form of art, you'll be famous.

Perhaps 5 minute epoxy is a new technique that will yield wonderful
results...this is totally new grounds for experimentation.

Aloha,

Leland 


--- On Tue, 1/13/09, chris palmer <palmerchrispuppy@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: chris palmer <palmerchrispuppy@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Aroid-l] Off the wall question from a newbie. preserving the
blooms
> To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 1:56 AM
> Good morning,
> This may seem like an odd question, but I was wondering if
> anyone has tried to preserve the blooms of any of the
> amorphophallus??
> I would be very interested in anything that has been tried
> whether it failed or not.
> I have multiple Konjac that are ready and am going to try
> preserving the inflorescece with 5 min epoxy.
> Thanks in advance 
> Chris
> 
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