The beauty and the beast
or ways to save wilderness
If I have a chance to pick one I would certainly take the first..I am quite sure you would too.
Not all Dyckias are pretty looking. Some are authentic monsters of more than two meters wide rosettes. Some are small to very small and even so you would be in trouble trying to tell apart plain legitimate grass from them. Some otherwisely are magnific no matter the size.
Dyckias are all easy goers. They love sex making, love making and so on. One can not see another in bloom without the most indecent mind takes their control. Two flowering Dyckias hundred meters apart will find a way to have real sex! No matter if these two plants are different Dyckias species. No, they do not mind a bit...better yet!
This explains why Dyckia fosteriana elsewhere out of Brazil do not resemble one. Dyckia fosteriana does not pups so we must rely on seeds to reproduce them.
For you to have pure strain seeds you must isolate the plant and you must do the pollination by yourself in order to know what will come from the seeds.
If the plant does not do self fertilization you must have two or three diferent plants of the same species at blooming and isolated.
Everything that flies, buzzes, crawls, slides, walks is capable of pollinating the Dyckias flowers..guess even a fish can do it, let us do some researches....( reofitic ones...)
In nature it may take years for a new seedling appear and prosperate.
Nature is slow but steady and only the most apt ones survive the struggling for living.
In your home you may have thousands of seedlings in one single plastic box!
All Dyckias are instable creature. They are out of their time. Their time seems to be passed by long ago. They are doing all they can to survive all the challenges. Some species perished, some were extint by mankind.
Dyckias in general are leftovers from very ancient times.
In that plastic box you may fin one seedling with some differences. One out of thousands may have wider leaves, redder ones, a bit more stunt appearance and so on. This is the way species cope with nature challenges!
In that plastic box you accelerate this nature mood and way to survive. You pick those of your choice and cultivate them and even so you have the plain solid pure strain same species!
This is bettering without hybrids. This is selection.
Hybrids? Yes they have their places. They have a role to fulfill . They protect the nature and the species in nature. No one in his or her own good will and mind would climb a mountain in the middle of nowhere risking the neck to pick up a plant that takes ages to adapt itself in culture and also being less beautiful than that hybrid. So hybrids protect the savage, wild living creatures, animals and specially plants.
We are not capable of putting back in nature any Dyckia for as much careful we are in order to produce plain pure species plants. When one native species is removed from wilderness there may be a danger and when you get a plant back to nature you may have a disaster. You may introduce strange lethal enemies and also strange genes! The risk is not worthwhile!
Those who may have the responsibility for the pure strains out of nature are The Public Botanic Gardens around the world. We my help. Yes, we common human beings may help but never determine.
Science for as much bullshit it has done, is the one more capable for that.
But here I mus t emphasise: Science is Light! Light is to be put on the table a and not under it!
I do not trust in a science that hides knowledge!
That is witchcraft, not Science.
I do love the pure species! I preserve them, guard them and some are outrageously beautiful.
But, but, but...I adore the breathtaking hybrids!
Yes , I know many Dyckia species I show here are seen by the first time ever.
Here Science is conducted by hidding. Here knowledge is inside drawers and in stands and not inside minds.
When knowledge is within one´s mind God watches attemptively and in many
cases stands up and flaps hands till they get red.
He did it when Sabin came to my country speaking a very good Portuguese to convince the authorities to vaccinate the population, the intire population.
He was doing a miracle curing the cripple before even being formed.
God´s hands are reddish up to now. I will never forget, never, no matter how long I shall live the words of the old Sabin as soon as he arrived again after being expulse out the country by our old totalitarian regimen: "AGORA EU FALO PORTUGUÊS. AGORA VOCÊS ENTENDERÃO!"
NOW I SPEAK PORTUGUESE NOW YOU WILL UNDERSTAND .....yes we understood...yes we did! We do not have children paralysis (child hangs)...Oh Mighty Lord ...This is Science!!!!!
Science and Good Will are the magic we all need.
or ways to save wilderness
If I have a chance to pick one I would certainly take the first..I am quite sure you would too.
Not all Dyckias are pretty looking. Some are authentic monsters of more than two meters wide rosettes. Some are small to very small and even so you would be in trouble trying to tell apart plain legitimate grass from them. Some otherwisely are magnific no matter the size.
Dyckias are all easy goers. They love sex making, love making and so on. One can not see another in bloom without the most indecent mind takes their control. Two flowering Dyckias hundred meters apart will find a way to have real sex! No matter if these two plants are different Dyckias species. No, they do not mind a bit...better yet!
This explains why Dyckia fosteriana elsewhere out of Brazil do not resemble one. Dyckia fosteriana does not pups so we must rely on seeds to reproduce them.
For you to have pure strain seeds you must isolate the plant and you must do the pollination by yourself in order to know what will come from the seeds.
If the plant does not do self fertilization you must have two or three diferent plants of the same species at blooming and isolated.
Everything that flies, buzzes, crawls, slides, walks is capable of pollinating the Dyckias flowers..guess even a fish can do it, let us do some researches....( reofitic ones...)
In nature it may take years for a new seedling appear and prosperate.
Nature is slow but steady and only the most apt ones survive the struggling for living.
In your home you may have thousands of seedlings in one single plastic box!
All Dyckias are instable creature. They are out of their time. Their time seems to be passed by long ago. They are doing all they can to survive all the challenges. Some species perished, some were extint by mankind.
Dyckias in general are leftovers from very ancient times.
In that plastic box you may fin one seedling with some differences. One out of thousands may have wider leaves, redder ones, a bit more stunt appearance and so on. This is the way species cope with nature challenges!
In that plastic box you accelerate this nature mood and way to survive. You pick those of your choice and cultivate them and even so you have the plain solid pure strain same species!
This is bettering without hybrids. This is selection.
Hybrids? Yes they have their places. They have a role to fulfill . They protect the nature and the species in nature. No one in his or her own good will and mind would climb a mountain in the middle of nowhere risking the neck to pick up a plant that takes ages to adapt itself in culture and also being less beautiful than that hybrid. So hybrids protect the savage, wild living creatures, animals and specially plants.
We are not capable of putting back in nature any Dyckia for as much careful we are in order to produce plain pure species plants. When one native species is removed from wilderness there may be a danger and when you get a plant back to nature you may have a disaster. You may introduce strange lethal enemies and also strange genes! The risk is not worthwhile!
Those who may have the responsibility for the pure strains out of nature are The Public Botanic Gardens around the world. We my help. Yes, we common human beings may help but never determine.
Science for as much bullshit it has done, is the one more capable for that.
But here I mus t emphasise: Science is Light! Light is to be put on the table a and not under it!
I do not trust in a science that hides knowledge!
That is witchcraft, not Science.
I do love the pure species! I preserve them, guard them and some are outrageously beautiful.
But, but, but...I adore the breathtaking hybrids!
Yes , I know many Dyckia species I show here are seen by the first time ever.
Here Science is conducted by hidding. Here knowledge is inside drawers and in stands and not inside minds.
When knowledge is within one´s mind God watches attemptively and in many
cases stands up and flaps hands till they get red.
He did it when Sabin came to my country speaking a very good Portuguese to convince the authorities to vaccinate the population, the intire population.
He was doing a miracle curing the cripple before even being formed.
God´s hands are reddish up to now. I will never forget, never, no matter how long I shall live the words of the old Sabin as soon as he arrived again after being expulse out the country by our old totalitarian regimen: "AGORA EU FALO PORTUGUÊS. AGORA VOCÊS ENTENDERÃO!"
NOW I SPEAK PORTUGUESE NOW YOU WILL UNDERSTAND .....yes we understood...yes we did! We do not have children paralysis (child hangs)...Oh Mighty Lord ...This is Science!!!!!
Science and Good Will are the magic we all need.
So easy to forget how the world is getting better and better, when the news is all gloom, fear and loss. Thank you for reminding me.
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