That’s awesome congrats to you as well Mark.
This one is from the first clutch. So yes it was diapaused at room temp for one month. Took 75 days after diapause and a total of 112 days from the date it was laid.
What is your method? And/or methods? For incubating them?
Gus, This clutch for me was laid while I was on vacation. SO the eggs remained in the ground 6 days before I got home to dig them up. That started their "natural" diapause!. My girls were still outside as this clutch was laid Sept 27. I used the room temp - 1 week - 63° 4 weeks - room temp 1 week - incubate at 88° recipe. The wine cooler was a few degrees cooler than I originally set out so I got 63° instead of the planned 65°. So much longer than your eggs took! I am of the thinking that the temperature of the female the weeks before she lays has a lot to do with the need for and type of diapause, as well as the length of time incubating. I also have a hunch that effects the TSD as well.
My contact in Mayanmar tells me the eggs laid early season - late Nov and Dec - take much longer to hatch since the clutches laid in late Jan and into Feb also still hatch with all the others the beginning of May. Some late clutches really have no diapause at all and hatch in 90 days. This is out of more than 1000 babies, so a pretty good sampling!
What was the temperatures your females were kept prior and up to laying this clutch? Since mine were outside and still using the night box, they normally are most active in the evenings and out with temps well into the low 70°s, before going into the night box. Very much like winter in Mayanmar.
My later clutches when I moved the females inside for the winter I used a diapause in an incubator that was set to go up to 78° every morning and then go off every afternoon at 4PM to cool to my room temp of 69° overnight. I left them in there 6 weeks, then incubated at 88.5°. I tried to copy the temp variations a nest would go through in Mayanmar but still went much cooler than my data says nests there would experience.