Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Fern Carnage !!!

These ferns (cyathea rebeccae) were growing very well in the plastic storage crate , then   I decided that it was time for them to 'man -up' , so I placed them in the shade and took off the lid . I came back a few hours later and  ... wow , they didn't look happy .
I put the lid back on , but it was too late , the damage was done and they all withered away . Next time I'm going to leave the lid on. Am I sad ? no just a bit frustrated , like %$3fe/?? heck ! but I still have quite a few left  that have taken longer to grow and have not had any nurturing from me, they will replace what I lost . I have just started a new batch of ferns , cyathea robertsiana  . 

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Cyathea Rebeccae 9 months old

I bought these fern spores on ebay , around April . Up until October there hadn't been much change , just a lot of wet brown dusty granules . And then the specks began to turn green , I really was convinced that nothing was going to happen . I think they were stimulated a bit by extra exposure to the light .



Friday, May 17, 2013

Dicksonia Antarctica 2 and a bit years old



I noticed one of the ferns has a darker green colour than the others , it is caused by an increased amount of red chlorophyll in the leaves . 

Saturday, December 17, 2011

evolving drawing



I started doing this one around September, most of or practically all my stuff is abstract , in other words I'm scared of committing myself to something and yet I yearn to create pictures of things that are subjective . I also hope that if I keep making marks just through intuition  {rather than trying to depict anything in particular) , something will eventually pop out of the chaos , I hope .

well nothing really pops out on its own, you have to commit to something otherwise you end up with something fuzzy

then again , I suppose you cant rush these things , its best to put it aside for a while , so as to look at it with fresh eyes .

Or maybe its a matter of not giving up .

dicksonia antarctica 10 months old



When I started to grow these ferns from spores back in February 2011 i was pretty confident , like yep I'm going to have lots of baby ferns pretty soon , well nothing much happened for a while. Over the coarse of weeks leading into months I pretty much gave up any hope, it looked like I was growing moss . I didnt even bother watering them but I left them covered. Come springtime in September I thought I might as well water the moss , it could be rare Queensland moss carried down with the weather. Now the moss is really beginning to look more ferny every day, if every one of these spornlings grows up I'm literally going to have thousands ferns. You really have to be patient and persist , nature runs at its own pace .