Biggest Dionaea Trap of 2015

[lloyd]

I wouldn't advise playing with poisons. Colchicine is a deadly chemical without any antidote. The standard pills are 0.6 mg. If you dissolved one in 1 cc water you would have 1 cc of 600 PPM colchicine. 1 cc would be enough to soak a lot of little CP seeds. 0.6 mg would not be toxic even if you were unwise enough to ingest it. Now if you wanted 1 cc of 5100 PPM, you would need ~ 9 X 0.6 mg. pills. That would be enough to kill someone if you took them all at once and make you pretty sick if you took them over a few days.

Playing with 9 pills would be unwise outside a proper lab without standard containment and disposal especially if anyone drank the solution or inhaled the powder.

[partisangardener]

As far I know it is always carcinogen, there is no safe minimum dosis. But cancer will take a long time to appear.

[lloyd]

It's a commonly prescribed medication.

[Devon]

Feb 8, 2016 21:08:58 GMT -5 H2O said:

As far as I am aware it's totally legal but the chemical is extremely dangerous and should never be handled outside a fully equipped lab with proper flow hoods and of course training. Might be able to pay someone to do it for you. I wish someone would do this with some of the temperate Drosera so we could get some nice cold hardy hybrids.

I'm trying to expand my temperate 'dew collection this year, and next year hopefully I can try a few hybrids I have in mind. I work at the experimental farm now so there is a good possibility I could find someone to do it for me once I have the hybrids I want to acquire. :-)

I know that it has worked with D. x watari in the past and I think D. x hybrida and D. x beleziana.

[Devon]

The D. x hybrida is a natural tetraploid! No colchicine used: icps.proboards.com/thread/5727/drosera-hybrida-tetraploid-bloom

*Also I had the D. x watari wrong, it was actually D. x nagamotoi: www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/samples/v29n1p4_10.html