Re: Selaginella spores

Hey Ross:  (List Dad)  :^)
Good to hear from you.
Hope all is well with you and your family.
I managed to keep most of the ferns from  my cubicle when I left San Jose.
None of them are happier at the higher altitude at our Reno Log Cabin
(5170ASL), lower humidity (20-40%RH), and less light, but we're getting by.

..some photos of us in Nevada, USDA 7b - 8" of snow this weekend.
But, on a brighter note, the geese and chickens are laying.
We have 15 new chicks 3 days old as of today.
"Emuly", our Emu, is too old to lay.

-Nevada Bob

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Ross Koning <koning@easternct.edu> wrote:

> Hi Lizzy,
>
> I have NOT done this with S. apoda...however with S. kraussiana...
>
> Line a 10 cm Petri dish with a 9 cm disc of filter paper.
> Moisten with 5 or 6 mL of distilled water.
> Sow megaspores sparingly on the moistened paper.
> Sow microspores generously over the megaspores.
> Incubate under fluorescent light (NOT IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT!!).
> Keep moist at the same level of "free water" on the filter paper
> (tilt the dish to one side to see how big the pool is...maintain never-dry
> and never-drowned).
>
> It takes a few weeks with S. kraussiana to have sporelings.
>
> ross
>
> On 3/10/09 12:42 PM, "Lizzy Ruszala" <Lizzy.Ruszala@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone have experience cultivating Selaginella apoda (or related
> > species) from spores?  Just wondered how I'd go about doing this?
> > Thanks very much!
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Lizzy Ruszala.
> > ----------------------
> > Lizzy Ruszala
> > School of Biological Sciences
> > University of Bristol
> >
> > Lizzy.Ruszala@bris.ac.uk
> >
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