Minor var. okefenokeensis?
I grew the above plant from a seed batch that Brooks Garcia did in either 2008 or 2009. He crossed S. minor var. okefenokeensis with S. ‘Golden Red Jubilee’ and most of the plants look similar to the above photo. Only a couple from the batch look like the photo to the left (photo from 2011, a sibling plant) in where you can see just a tad bit more of the influence of S. ‘Golden Red Jubilee’, yet it’s S. minor that dominates the look. The plant above looks to be mostly minor, which leads me to assume that most of the plants could be selfed. I also have to mention that the pitchers in the photo above formed late-late-late fall. (Yes… some plants are confused from all this moving and I fear it could be another year before things settle back down to a more normal routine.) Form and color have held well since then. I’m really looking forward to seeing it flower and at that time will know better if any of the S. ‘Golden Red Jubilee’ genes made their way into this mix. S. minor flowers are yellow, while S. ‘Golden Red Jubilee’ flowers are a dark red/maroon. I am not sure if the above plant will flower this year, but if not – I hope it will next year. Just another example of the pretty awesome surprises you find when growing plants out from seed. I also like the windows that appear on the side and all the way to the front of the pitcher. It could be a useful characteristic in more breeding projects in the future. Anyway, I’ll photograph and update more of the siblings when a new flush of pitchers come up this year.
This will be my damp stratification media. It’s actually the media I use for planting. I added a little bit of water after this photo to moisten things up a bit. It’s a mix of sand and peat. I learned from fellow grower, (Hi Mama Lo!) that sand could help scrape that waxy coating of the seeds.
And here you see one tool that I find quite useful for scooping the media into the bags. I figure a spork would work equally as well.
So I take about half a spoonful of media and get that damp media in there.
Repeat the above for about a hundred times over, and get something that looks like that. Bags are now ready for the seeds!
I pulled the seeds I had in dry cold storage out of the fridge. You know, the ones I referenced to in 
The envelopes that contained the seeds are then emptied into the “Strat-Bags”
Strat-Bag, packed full of media and seed is then slid back into the envelope – and remember that the envelope has the cross indicated on it. Helps keep things organized.
And now, here is the completed project. I actually finished up right after the Superbowl. I covered it with foil, since the lid wouldn’t fit anymore then place the container back into the fridge (next to bacon, of course), and just wait for a few more weeks before I’m able to sow them onto the media. Throughout the course of this cold stratification, I may just take the packets and massage them a bit (if I feel like it) to allow the sand to gently scrape up the seeds a bit. In the meantime, I’ll clear out another grow area for these bad boys. Honestly, I think I can fill up a small nursery with all of these seeds in there! Ah, this Superbowl Superbag Packing Project, good times indeed! Just next time, I hope it’s the SF 49er’s that I’ll be packing to, hah!
