This particular hybrid is only a few months old, but is showing some of promise. It’s one of the few S. ‘Adrian Slack’ hybrids I did last year. The pitcher is still too young to really tell what the mature pitcher will look like, but a few hints and notes of what it may be like could be can be seen. Another interesting plant to look forward to in the future. 😉
[Photo: Sarracenia courtii x ‘Adrian Slack’, under 1 year old]
Yeah. Tonight I was stuffing envelopes… Literally. I get enough paper-pushing at my desk during the day and then I get home and this is what I was just doing for the past 2 hours…
[Paperwork! AHH!]
But I didn’t mind too much tonight cuz I was taking this…
[Photo – Seed Pod – Sarracenia (rubra ssp. jonseii AF x minor var. okeefenokensis) x “Green Monster”]
Stuffing envelopes like this:
[Stuffing Envelopes!]
And getting something like this:
[The Sarracenia Files]
And that’s not even all of my crosses on the year so far – still have a few to go through that aren’t quite ready. Oh well. This is the “paperwork” I’d rather be doing though! Love it!!
A few years ago, my friend Karen Oudean gave me a Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” with a seed pod with a few seeds in it. Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” is Sarracenia rubra ssp. alabamensis x psittacina, and sorry… I don’t have a photo of Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” on hand, but you can always use Bob Ziemer’s Carnivorous Plant Photo Finder to view photos of what the parent plant looks like.
Anyway, I took the pod, extracted seed, put the seed through 3 weeks of damp cold stratification in the fridge. After that, I threw em’ down on some planting media and watched em grow. About 2 years later, I came up with all sorts of different looking plants, however the one below really caught my attention ‘cuz that hood is friggin’ wide.
The thing with growing Sarracenia from seed, you never know what you’re going to get… and in this case, some flying saucer type UFO lookin’ hood came out. LOL 😉
[Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” – open pollinated seedling, 2 years old]
[Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” – open pollinated seedling, 2 years old]
[Sarracenia Seed Pods, collected 8.15.10]
Clockwise from top: S. flava “widemouth” x ‘Adrian Slack’, S. ‘Alucard’ x leucophylla anthocyanin free,
S. “Goliath” x ‘Adrian Slack’, S. oreophila – veined x ‘Adrian Slack, S. ‘Alucard’ x ‘Leah Wikerson’
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It’s that time of year again – today I was out in the grow area harvesting some pods. I left some of the labels on them so you can see how I keep track of the crosses as I do them. I learned the hard way to cover the tag in tape as snails will eat the cardboard and you loose the ID all together. That was one mistake I learned the hard way last year. I did all these crosses only to have the identity taken by snails. DOH!
Anyway, I know the pods may not look like much now but I am hopeful for some of these crosses. Over here it’s been on the cool side of things so many plants and pods seem a little behind. More pods are forthcoming which means more seeds soon! I am really looking forward to some of the ones I did this year … now just gotta figure out where I can put them all… 😉
Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ is definately one of my all time favorite plants. S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ was created by a good friend and breeding mentor, the legend: Phil Faulisi. (DUDE!) More information on the plant can be found here: http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Species/v38n1p12_22.html#Reptilian The following photo is an example of what S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ looks like. (Same plant as in my gravitar, to the right) 😉
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’]
The following photos are seed grown crosses of S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ that were created by fellow carnivorous cohort, Dr. Travis Wyman. (Thanks Travis!) These photos were taken in June/July of this year (2010) and seedlings are just a little under 2 years old. I began to germinate them indoors back during the December of 2008. You can see some variation and some similarities. Keep in mind that these plants are still young and still have a lot of growing up to do. Some are showing tell-tale signs of the angular nectar roll, but we won’t really know how pronounced that characteristic will be until these pitchers are fully mature. And I haven’t noticed any scents just yet… but I’ll keep you posted on my findings and I’ll post photos now and then as the plants mature. 😉
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)]
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)]
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)]
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)]
Howdy y’all! I was out checking some seeds that I started this year and to my delight, saw one sprouting! I did this cross early on this year, harvested seed roughly a month ago, put through about 2 weeks cold stratification in the fridge and… viola!
By the way…I did this same cross last year and only had a few seeds from that pod. A few of those germinated but none survived. (Don’t ask…) I was so torn… anyway, hope to have better success this year.
Howdy y’all! So as I was thinning out some of the S. leucophylla x flava seedlings pots a few days ago, I stumbled across this one interestin’ lil’ fella. This was from a batch of seeds that a buddy of mine sent in 2008. Most definately, this is one of the kids that I’ll be watching in this group. This is the first juvenile pitcher showing these characteristics. The new pitchers that are coming up will be opening in a few days are exhibiting the same qualities – predominately white upper pitchers with nice green veins. Dude, you never really know what you’ll get with those lil’ seeds – and that’s part of what makes this breeding thing so fun! 🙂 Hope everyone has a good weekend!
