Today my sons and I went on one of our adventure tours in the Fröttmaninger Heide (north of Munich, actually 10 minutes from our place). We were surprised to come across a few puddles that were full of smooth newts; around 6 or 8 per puddle. We’ve seen newts before in the Fröttmaninger Heide, but we only expected tadpoles in puddles (there were plenty of them as well).
Nature
All my posts that are related to biology, nature, growing and breeding stuff.
Home-grown Arabidopsis thaliana
Started to grow my own Arabidopsis thaliana (Columbia-0) plants, just for fun. Or maybe a bit out of curiousity as I’m working with its genome sequence datasets… The following fotos were taken about 2 months after sowing…
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- Arabidopsis thaliana Bloom
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- Arabidopsis thaliana Bloom
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- Arabidopsis thaliana Bloom
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- Arabidopsis thaliana Bloom
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- Arabidopsis thaliana (Col-0)
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- Arabidopsis thaliana (Col-0)
I did not apply any special treatment, just used simple flower soil with about 20% perlite content and watered them every now and then. For the macro pictures of the blooms I used an adapter (retroadapter) to reversely attach a lens to my camera.
Christmas Jalapeños
Today I harvested some of my Jalapeños – their color was so beautiful… but I will not hang them on the Christmas tree. 😉
By the way: They were waaaaay too mild… 🙁