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Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts
i have used tubing, packing peanuts, a band-aid, rubber bands, wire, zip tie, duct tape, rocks, wooden shims, a piece of a tire, bike spokes, and probably more to help my plants with various goals LOL
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That's awesome DC. Thanks for mentioning the items you use as well! I will keep those in mind!
For my catts, I generally just take catt flower pics as-is ...... but for experimentation and sometimes for just being able to do it (haha) ---- I have tested out some 'undivine intervention'.
I've used the 'helping hands' tool once before. And just trying it out again now. I also tell people that I use it whenever I do heheh (for catt flowers that is).
The idea is that if a petal is out of alignment, or a lip, or something ---- then the helping hand can help get in there to prop something up when the flower is still fresh and new - and then hopefully after some amount of time ----- the flower parts 'set' and stays in place. Then remove the 'helper' after that.
There might be only particular situations where the helping hands can work - so it will just require a little assessment before using it.
Just this morning, I notice that the fold - right in the middle portion of a catt flower lip ----- was a bit off-centre. So ----- undivine intervention time haha. There are other sorts of helping hands (ones with like 6 arms etc) ..... so anything is possible!
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In the above pic, the left-hand flower has the off-centre middle-portion fold of the lip. So the helping hands is just temporarily helping out - until hopefully the flower 'sets'.
And multi-arm sets can do things like spread-apart 'uneven' looking petals ----- to improve symmetry - all superficial things haha.
One example of where I didn't use it (but could have) - was for a flowering of a
Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Michelle' --- where we can see the right-hand lobe of the lip is further-in than for the left-hand lobe. A set of helping hands could definitely even-up the lobe angles.
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Originally Posted by Jeff214
... something's poking out.
Surprising how these delicate buds can push its way out of such a thick hard sheath, much unscathed. I guess that may sound obvious but it's still exciting to observe!
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That's the thing Jeff. Those buds are not so delicate for strong plants. They are like a freight train moving in slow motion. A sheath will be no match for the strong buds coming through. Exciting times to come!!!!!!
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