Sarracenia minors are quite splendid, indeed! Employing deceiving light patches (areoles) as a means of hopeless escape to lure their prey deeper into the hood. It’s a very cool windows system. Obviously this S. minor’s windows system works much better than my Windows 7 system at work… (Ugh!) I received the below plant from my good friend Jerry Addington earlier this year. Thanks Jerry!
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Sarracenia minor – Waycross, GA
Sarracenia minor – Waycross, GA
Dude, I’m so F****N’ excited! Back on 13 May 2012 Dahlia and I planted the 2011 Sarracenia crosses. Instead of the usual 4-6 weeks in cold stratification, the crosses were left in cold and damp stratification for over 3 months. It’s been very rough so I haven’t been able to get to them as soon as I would of liked to. Anyway, a week later, on 20 May 2012, I began to notice that the seeds sprouted!
Seeing this gives me a renewed sense of hope, especially given the very rough growing season I’ve been having so far. Many promising crosses have sprouted and there are so many awesome things to look forward to. Anyway, a few folks have asked me about how to germinate Sarracenia seeds. A post on my set up and Sarracenia seed germination to follow soon! In the meantime, here’s a couple photos of the next generation.
Sarracenia moorei, select clone.
Sarracenia purpurea heterophylla x “Green Monster”
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Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila)
A cross I did back in 2008.
Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava v. rubricorpora x leucophylla) – May 2012
Cross done by Dr. Travis H. Wyman. I started to germinate seed back in 2008 and have had a few interesting variations on the jagged lipped theme as imparted by the S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ parentage. S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ most definitely is one of my favorite Sarracenia out there – created by the legend, Phil Faulisi. I decided to shoot this in black and white because I really wanted to focus more on the structure of that jagged nectar roll. So far this year it’s been rather colorless anyway because of the lighting situation. Below, back in June 2011, this is what this plant looked like — a deep and intense red flavor. Even without the color, I’m truly in love with that jagged lip.
Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava v. rubricorpora x leucophylla) – June 2011
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Sarracenia “Savanna Fire” x “Cinnamon Tube”
A cross by Wes Buckner
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Weekend Cuteness! Baby Cobra plants making their way out of the pot… aren’t they cute?! Baby plants received last year from fellow carnie-homie, Mike Wang. Thanks Mike!
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Baby Darlingtonia californica
Finally. A little bit of color! (I know it’s not much color, it’s barely any at all.) Now mind you, the colors would be so much more intense under direct sun, but it’s finally nice to see at least … a little bit of color. It *should* be a bloody deep crimson red by now. Being that it’s a tall plant, it’s closer to the roof so it’s getting more light than the rest of collection. Oh, my lighting woes. (Can’t wait to get that fixed — soon! Oh well, that’s life.)
Sarracenia “Prince of Darnkness” is a select clone of S. ‘Alucard’, which was born of a crossing between a heavy deep red select S. flava var. rubricorpora and S. ‘Royal Ruby’. Now keep in mind that the grex is registered. (grex: -noun, a group of plants that has arisen from the same hybrid parent group – via dictionary.com) This particular clone is one of Phil Faulisi’s select plants out of that cross.
Out of my current dark situation, the “Prince of Darkness” rises…
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Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”
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