Hello all you beautiful people! Yeahhh, I know — It seems like it has forever since I’ve posted anything here. Yeah, things have been pretty busy outside of the garden the past couple of months but rest assured I still make time to go down and recharge my soul in The Asylum. The plants are all still doing good, but it’s that weird in-between time for me now. Spring pitchers already are burning out (thanks to my early season start) and pitchers of the autumn-indulging plants are just starting to form. Anyway – here’s a quick and dirty photo-update-reel from the past few weeks.
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Sarracenia oreophila – for the most part the spring pitchers are gone. Still a pitcher here and there looking ok.
Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’ – clone F x ‘Adrian Slack’ I had this one seriously cramped pot of of these seedlings and repotted those seedlings into these four trays. You can see the old foliage all floppy n’ crud but they’re all throwing up new pitchers. Should be a pretty interesting cross.
Sarracenia leucophylla “Purple Lips” x leucophylla “Mesa Exotics”
Cross by Phil Faulisi
Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’ – Clone F
Sarracenia leucophylla “Helmut’s Delight”
Sarracenia lecuophylla ‘Bris’
Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis – Ware Co., GA
Sarracenia flava var. autropurprea
Sarracenia flava var. rubricorpora – lidless
Sarracenia flava var. ornata – lidless
Sarracenia flava
Sarracenia flava “Extreme Red Throat”
FREAKIN’… THANK YOU ERIC!! So not that long ago a really awesome surprise came in the mail from Eric Morrow. After a somewhat really bad week for me, this surprise was a huge pick-me-up. By the way – check out Eric’s Instagram feed for some Sarracenia-heavy updates: @sarraceniacrazy!
Sarracenia (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila) x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman
In my clean up of plants this year, I was glad to have found this baby barely surviving. I salvaged what I could and glad it’s recovering nicely!
Sarracenia ‘Royal Ruby’
Sarracenia “Blood Moon” – new pitcher unfolding.
Cross by Brooks Garcia
Sarracenia ‘Black Widow’ coloring up.
Sarracenia lecuophylla “burgundy” x flava var. maxima
Cross by James Soe Nyun
DOUBLE HEADER! Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var.rubricorpora x leucophylla)
(Ehh… forgot to note which clone this was…)
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman
Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var.rubricorpora x leucophylla) – Clone 4
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman
Sarracenia alata – AF
Sarracenia minor – AF
Sarracenia flava AF – Shalotte – Brunswick Co., NC
Sarracenia flava AF – Telogia – Liberty Co., FL
Kinky lip on that pitcher for some reason, heh!
Sarracenia flava ‘Suspicion’
Sarracenia “Green Monster”
Sarracenia “Green Monster” – F2
This one is reflecting a lot of S. leucophylla color influence
Sarracenia moorei AF – parentage: Sarracenia leucophylla AF x flava ‘Suspcion’
Cross by Aidan Selwyn.
Sarracenia “Monster Cat” (“Cat” short for “catesbaei”)
Cross by Jerry Addington.
Sarracenia purpurea “Smurf”
Sarracenia willisii x alata “red/black”
from Eric Morrow, Cross by Michael Sprouse.
Sarracenia willisii x alata “red/black” *(correction caught by Eric, tag mislabel!)
Sarracenia alata red/black x ‘Kilimanjaro’
from Eric Morrow, Cross by Michael Sprouse.
Sibling to the plant above.
Another angle of the above Sarracenia willisii x alata “red/black”
*(correction caught by Eric, tag mislabel!)
Sarracenia alata red/black x ‘Kilimanjaro’ from Eric Morrow, Cross by Michael Sprouse.
Sarracenia leucophylla “Purple Lips” x (rosea “Big Mama” x leucophylla “Purple Lips”)
Cross by Phil Faulisi
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ “Prince of Darkness” x alata ‘Night’
A cross I did a few years ago. Had a few of these growing in one pot, and the pot self culled itself. I recently repotted the survivors (strongest of that bunch…) and they’re putting up some promising young pitchers.
Sarracenia (minor x willisii) x purpurea ssp. purpurea) x leucophylla
Another neat little seedling of a cross I did that is reacting well to the repotting from earlier this year.
Sarracenia flava “widemouth” x (leucophylla “red” x minor var. okefenokeensis)
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’
I repotted most of these plants into individual pots only this year. They seem to have liked that.
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sibling to the one above it. The whole litter has everything in between both of these forms and color schemes. Gotta love the diversity.
Sarracenia oreophila “veined” x ‘Adrian Slack.
S. ‘Legacy’ like!
Sarracenia (leucophylla “Purple Lips” x flava var. ornata) x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia (oreophila x ‘Royal Ruby’) x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’
Sarracenia ‘Legacy’
Here’s one of the more recent crosses I did – Sarracenia leucophylla “Hanrahan” x alata AF. I’m excited about this one because… well… it’s an AF recessive S. areolata and can’t wait to use it in future AF projects. And… it’s fuzzy!
Not a pitcher plant but… sheeyat, I’m loving how this Drosophyllum is doing.
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF
Sarracenia alata
The seeds (from 2013!!) have been sown! Yes, you read that right. These have been sitting in cold stratification for a year. A couple of weeks ago, my wife and the kiddos helped pot up all 202+ crosses. It was an extremely busy year for me last year and by the time I was ready to put them down, the year was half way over. I didn’t want to use supplemental lighting as with this many seeds, as that electric bill would just be nuts. Now that I finally have a little more space, I was able to finally put these down.
And guess what? Many pots have seeds that have are sprouting! Exciting! The one in the photo is S. purpurea heterophylla x leucophylla “Red” – these came from Jerry Addington and should produce a brilliant crop of anthocyanin free recessive plants to work with in the future.
The Asylum. Check out the Sarracenia alata flowers already opening up! And check out that other half of the greenhouse that needs trimming! Heh!
A few more Sarracenia alata buds about to pop!
One of my crosses from a maybe 3 or so years ago. This is S. ‘Alucard’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ glowing with the sun hitting it from behind. Notice one of last year’s autumn pitchers compared to this year’s larger spring pitcher. What a jump! You can see tell-tale signs of what the plant would be like from last year’s pitcher. However, with this year’s pitcher, you can see much more character shine through! The unknown of what comes out of the cross and how that plant matures is part of the excitement that comes with growing from seed. Anyway, I’ll post another photo later on so you can get a better view of this year’s most recent pitcher from this cross.
Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla) – Clone 14. New pitcher coloring up against last year’s wreckage. Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman.
Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla) – Clone 9
Another one of my crosses – Sarracenia leucophylla “Purple Lips” x flava var. rubricorpora x ‘Adrian Slack’ – new pitcher opening up! 
Sarracenia oreophila, awake and ready to devour insects!
Sarracenia oreophila
Sarracenia alata – Anthocyanin Free!
Young pitchers stretch towards the sky. Sarracenia flava var. rubricorpora x flava ‘Suspicion’ – an anthocyanin free recessive cross. This cross was done by Aidan Selwyn. I hope to use these AF recessive S. flava plants in future (anthocyanin free) crosses.
Ok, ok, ok… I’m totally geeking out here. This is a flower bud of an anthocyanin free form of S. flava – Colquitt Co., GA. YEAH. You know what this means… 🙂
Sarracenia oreophila
Sarracenia oreophila
Sarracenia alata
Sarracenia alata
Dormancy: Sarracenia oreophila
Sarracenia alata – maroon throat
