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Blooming

Posted on May 11, 2011 | 1 comment

Ah, they grow up so fast… This is a cross I did of Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) – and yes, It is an anthocyanin free clone. It was only back in 2008 that the babies first sprouted. (You can check out my post here on this cross.) Today, we got flower buds getting ready to open, and so the cycle of breeding starts all over again…

The below flowers are outdoors, so their growth rate and flower schedule a bit behind the plants in the greenhouse. This still works out for me, as I can still pollinate, if I wanted to, even “later” in the season with pollen that was stored from earlier blooms.

Just thinking about this – from when I first crossed it till now seemed to go by so quickly, however waiting for this moment almost seemed like an eternity. I’ll feel the same way about some of my other crosses, but I guess part of the fun is the anticipation, right?

[Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) — flower buds!]

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A Tale of Two Luteolas

Posted on May 5, 2011 | 3 comments

It was the radest of times, it was the freshest of times…
Of course, this is all possible because of fellow AF Sarracenia aficionado and magical Sarracenia grower, Chris Gussman – aka “Woodnative”. (Chris, THANKS! You made my day yesterday!) For those of you who don’t know, Chris has this awesome super power of growing Sarracenia seedlings into gigantor type status rather quickly. I don’t know where he gets it… but I need me some o’ that!

There was a nice surprise that showed up for me yesterday via FedEx.

[Uh, who … me?]

I don’t know what Chris is talking about on the box, I just kinda stick plants in the durt and they do their own thing. (Chris: As far as the “photographer extraordinaire” thing… I just push a button man. That’s all I do. HA!) 🙂

[Chris has the most awesome giant zip lock bags…]

So, opening it up I find this giant sized zip lock bag, and it’s filled with the goodness of Sarracenia purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii f. luteola! (An anthocyanin free clone of S. purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii, or S. rosea as some folks call it.) More information about the plant can be also found here: http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/samples/Tax271Spurpburk.htm

Chris had crossed two of his S. purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii f. luteola clones, resulting in many offspring. Two of which, are below.

[S. purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii f. luteola – C. Gussman, May 2011 – FRESH outta the box!]

2 different clones. Both are from the same seed pod, but what a difference indeed! Here’s one seedling:

[S. purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii f. luteola – C. Gussman, May 2011]

The above photo is what I would expect with this cross, a more typical form/shape of luteola. Now, just for illustrative purposes, below is a photo of one of my other luteola plants, so you get the idea of a general pitcher shape:

[S. purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii f. luteola – Rob Co’s, April 2010]

However, below is the other seedling that resulted from the cross Chris did — and DUDE, it is just something else! He called it “Odd”… I’ll just stick it with that, for now, until he thinks of a better name for it! 🙂

[S. purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii f. luteola “Odd Clone”- C. Gussman, May 2011]

At a young age, I really am impressed by this clone. What strikes me about this is the upright and triangular ruffled hood. It’s also not as “tubby” as I would expect. Again, it’s young so features can change and develop as it ages. Here’s a couple more shots of this plant…

[S. purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii f. luteola “Odd Clone”- C. Gussman, May 2011]

Chris, thank you again so so very much for your kindness and generosity!

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Variation: Flower Color

Posted on May 1, 2011 | 2 comments

Sarracenia rubra wheryii "Chatom Giant" x "Skywatcher"
[Sarracenia rubra wherryi “Chatom Giant” x “Sky Watcher”, flower variations]

Happy May everyone. May is here, where has this year gone? We’re almost half way through ’11. Nuts. Anyway, Happy May erray-body! I wanted to share and illustrate a little variation again on genetics and breeding Sarracenia. It always makes things so freekin’ interesting. You never know what parent plant or grand parent plant, (or beyond) would influence the current progeny. Fun stuff this is. Lately, I’ve been pointing out a lot of the variation on the pitchers – such as shape, color, size… so on and so forth. However, I noticed that this one particular cross had different colored flowers. The flowers photographed above, are those of a cross that was created by fellow Sarracenia addict, Brooks Garcia. It is S. rubra ssp. wherryi “Chatom Giant” x “Sky watcher”. He sent me some seeds of his cross 3 years ago that I grew out. Above are two different flowers of this same cross.

Genetics, always fun!

(By the way,there’s a third adolescent seedling that has a flower bud that hasn’t opened up yet, but I’ll share that when it does. I can’t really tell the color of that third unopened just yet.)

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That’s WASSSUP!

Posted on April 24, 2011 | 2 comments

Yo, wasssss*up*! This moorei’s wasssss*up*, that’s foh sho, homies.
Here’s some moorei radness to kick this week off!

Sarracenia moorei - Milton, FL
[Sarracenia moorei – Milton, FL]

Dude, this is straight up — straight up! A couple of years ago, fellow carnie Dean Cook sent me a small division of an interesting moorei. (Dean runs Cook’s Carnivorous Plants – be sure to check his site out, good selection, price, and quality!) When it started to pitcher for me a couple years ago, I noticed the pitchers having this pretty fresh trait – the hood on this moorei points up. Pretty nifty, methinks! This year, now that the division is more mature, it is putting out some nicely colored pitchers full of that upwardly straight up goodness. That’s WASSSUP! 🙂

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Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’

Posted on April 15, 2011 | 3 comments

Sarracenia 'Leah Wilkerson' x 'Adrian Slack'
[Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ – Spring 2011]

Happy Friday All! It’s been a long week, for sure. So thankful for the weekend… I’m kickin’ this weekend off with a photo of this baby – S. ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’.

This particular clone came from a cross created by Brooks Garcia, and seed grown by me. These are the spring pitchers, and as each day passes, the nectar roll and upper pitcher portion of the pitcher seems to get lighter and lighter. Looking forward to the way it will look in the summer and autumn. I hope that the fall pitchers will display that really strong contrast of upper white pitcher and the red band in the throat as it did last year. Autumn is the time when the Sarracenia leucophylla influence is most prominent, so I hope for those same characteristics to be prominent then.

Here’s a couple photos of this seedling growing up…

Sarracenia 'Leah Wilkerson' x 'Adrian Slack'
[Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ – Spring 2010]

Sarracenia 'Leah Wilkerson' x 'Adrian Slack'
[Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ – Summer 2010]

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Reptile Cheer

Posted on April 13, 2011 | 3 comments

Hiya folks, recently it’s been one thing after another for me – just a slight little rough patch… The plants always cheer me up a bit , they’re like my sanctuary where I can rest, and refocus away from the craziness of life. Today, the Reptile brought me some much needed cheer as now the pitchers are finally opening up. The flowers reminded me of a little sunshine that brightened up my day.

A little Reptile Cheer is always welcome… 🙂

Sarracenia 'Reptilian Rose'
[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’]

Special thanks to my Sarracenia bro dude, Phil Faulisi. More information on S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ can be found here: http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Species/v38n1p12_22.html

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Reptile Crossing Revisited

Posted on April 9, 2011 | 10 comments

Hello fellow grower folks! With spring here, many pitchers are just exploding into growth. From the seedlings, I’m being constantly surprised with what’s coming forth. Here’s an update on how these babies are doing from The Reptile. For those of you who don’t know about Phil Faulisi’s S.’Reptilian Rose’ (a freekin’ rad hybrid), you can read up on it here. I’ve first mentioned about the reptile crossings done by Dr. Travis Wyman in this post about 8 months ago in August, 2010. The seedlings have gone dormant since then, had their pitchers trimmed back, and now that it’s growing season — the pitchers are coming back with a vengeance. There are still quite a few seedling plants sending out pitchers that I will update you on later once those have developed, but for now, this is the insanity that is going on. Again, special thanks to Travis and Phil for their inspirational Sarracenia madness.

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x (flava v. rubricorpora x leucophylla)
S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava v. rubricorpora x leucophylla)