A cross between to stunning plants – here’s a black and white of Wilkerson’s Red x Leah Wilkerson. This is the plants first pitcher of the season. The cross was done by Brooks Garcia. Happy Friday!
Sarracenia ‘Wilkeron’s Red’ x ‘Leah Wilkerson’
Sarracenia ‘Wilkeron’s Red’ x ‘Leah Wilkerson’
Now that spring is here, many of the plants are jumping out off dormancy, throwing up so many flower buds, as well as opening up new pitchers. Gotta love the season! Here’s a quick shot of a pitcher opening (S. ‘Love Bug’ x flava var. rubricorpora) up to start off your week. Hope everyone’s having a good start to the week!
Sarracenia ‘Love Bug’ x flava var. rubricorpora, new pitcher opening
Sarracenia hybrid – unknown parentage; new growth jumpin’!
A few weeks ago I trimmed a lot of the plants back – that was stage 1 of my clean up project after the move. Stage two is repotting and divisions. (Which, seemingly is taking F O R E V E R.) You can see how the new growth of this year is shooting up and the plant is deforming the pot! This is a multi crown 3 or 4 year old young plant that’s flowering this year. I grew this plant from seed that I obtained a while back from Karen Oudean – the exact parentage is unknown, but I am assuming that it has a flava/alata/rubra-ish influence. Grow on, lil’ dude — grow on!
Sarracenia ‘Abandoned Hope’ – With a hopeful flower bud.
Busy day today in the greenhouse. I’m still doing a lot of repotting. HELLA repotting. Couldn’t help but take a quick snapshot of S. ‘Abandoned Hope’ as I was getting ready to repot it. Just pulled it out of the pot and started to take some of the old media off… I fear that my repotting is starting to run a little behind as a lot of the plants are throwin’ up buds already. I am tryin’ to get to them all before they really start to explode into growth.
I have some high hopes for that bud and the hybrids that could possibly come from it! I’m quite hopeful for some interesting stuff, that’s for sure.
By the way — yes, I am wearing some disposable nitrile gloves. It is very true that I do like to get duh-duh-duh-DIRTY – but it is also very important to have good hygiene while working with potting media. It’s no fun to get stuff like this. OK, so I don’t always wear gloves but am always sure to wash hands after working. I’m also careful to address any cuts/wounds that happen while working with plants/media.
Found this one plant on my recent trimming project…. Back in September 2010 I wrote about a cross I did with Sarracenia “Starry Night” and Sarracenia ‘Hummers Hammerhead’ here. (Check that link out to see some of the sibling crosses…) One of the plants turned out with a clear S. Hummers Hammerhead influence… Just an example of the variation that comes when growing from seed.
Sarracenia “Starry Night”x ‘ Hummers Hammerhead’
Oh, more interesting things are being found here and there! Here’s a couple young plants from a cross of Sarracenia “Savanna Fire” and Sarracenia flava “Cinnamon Tube”; this particular cross was done by my friend Wes Buckner a few years ago. He sent me some seeds from this cross and they’re turning out pretty nice. By the way, S. flava “Cinnamon Tube” is a cross between flava var. rubricorpora x flava var. cuprea. Bear in mind the photos of the young plants below are last year’s pitchers that I left from the trimdown; they’re tell-tale signs of what is to come in the future. Last year I had the seedlings growing somewhat under the deck, so they didn’t get as long of a photoperiod as I would of liked to give them. They would of had colors that were more intense if under sun all day. Anyway, the plants are dormant and will wake up in the coming month or two and I’m really looking forward to that.
Again, note the variation between the different siblings. There’s more siblings that I’ve trimmed back and I’m looking forward to what they’ll show off in the coming season!
Meet the parents:
left: Sarracenia “Savannah Fire”
right: Sarracenia flava “Cinnamon Tube”
Sarracenia “Savannah Fire” x flava “Cinnamon Tube”
Sarracenia “Savannah Fire” x flava “Cinnamon Tube”
Sarracenia “Savannah Fire” x flava “Cinnamon Tube”
Part of the fun of diving into the fray of trimming and cleaning is finding things that I haven’t seen in a while, or at times — didn’t even know about. There’s so many plants hiding between this and that, and with the seedling babies – heck, I don’t even know what’s going on sometimes. Here’s a couple sibling young plants that my friend Wes Buckner did between Sarracenia “Bud Wilkerson” (a moorei, or a leucophylla / flava Sarracenia hybrid) and a Sarracenia chelsonii (a Sarracenia purpurea/rubra hybrid). He sent me these seeds about 3 years ago, I think. You can see the variation between the two and that’s what makes Sarracenia breeding for me so fascinating. You never quite know what you’ll get. One is producing nice upright veined and ruffled pitchers drawing influence from S. chelsonii. The other plant (that should produce some larger pitchers this coming year, and not as quite as large as it’s sibling yet) has a little bit more of the moorei influence and what I hope to be a consistent vertical throat splotch. The latter reminds me a little bit of some cat’s eyes…
Sarracenia “Bud Wilkerson” x chelsonii
Sarracenia “Bud Wilkerson” x chelsonii
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