Here is the R.clinophylla embryo, after 8 days of extended water embryo culture (E-WEC):
Even with this poor quality pic, I can see some of the difference/transformation that has taken place during this “extended water embryo culture”…maybe I could call this type of WEC procedure, E-WEC??!
LOL!!
Under bright fluro lights, it is actually a pale lime green color, the waxiness is now really hard to pick out.
My hypothesis is that waxiness in embryos equates to strong dormancy, and non-waxiness (pearly white, and or green tones) means a relative lack of dormancy. This is a working hypothesis I have, it is not proven.
Anyways, based on these changes, I felt it was a good time to sow it.
So, I sowed it in perlite in the same glass+perlite cup with its other waxy/dormant sibling. The cling wrap was sprayed with water on its inside, and was secured with a tight elastic band. I will periodically open the system and re-spray the cling wrap and surface of the perlite if need be (eg. once daily, or whenever), to keep the upper zones/surface of the perlite constantly as humid as possible.
Its other sibling had undergone E-WEC for 7 days, and was sown yesterday. It had one half-broken cotyledon at the time of its extraction, so I felt it was best not to focus on it too much, as it was already compromised from that injury, on top of its high dormancy/waxy condition (but it is still alive last time I checked it in the perlite glass cup).