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2015: Signs of Life

Things are moving along here in The Asylum! There’s still a lot of trimming and clean up to do – but there are signs of life.

The rains in months past have washed all of the whitewash from the greenhouse roof. Plus it has been relatively sunny and warm. And it is even warmer under glass. Interesting note: I notice that the plants that I haven’t trimmed back have not really begun to wake up yet. I suspect because the pitchers shade out the rhizomes from the sun keeping them cooler and dormant for just a little longer. Growth is inevitable though. The cycle is starting again and soon The Asylum will be engulfed in growth and vibrant color.

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Sarracenia oreophilaSarracenia oreophila

Sarracenia oreophilaSarracenia oreophila

Sarracenia alata - TexasSarracenia alata

Sarracenia alataSarracenia alata

Sarracenia 'Adrian Slack'
Sarracenia ‘Adrian Slack’

Sarracenia 'Adrian Slack'
Sarracenia ‘Adrian Slack’
This was a back end rhizome cutting. Notice the little nubs of new growth.

Sarracenia legacy
Sarracenia “Legacy”

New Growth

Oh the festivities of this last move… again, it was FUN! It really is amazing how much difference lighting can make. Plants look happier! (Oh, I can almost hear them signing the Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! song…) Even in that last holding area, the plants have been reacting well. YES, there’s a ton of unsightly pitchers flopping all over the place as you may of noticed in the last post – but there’s a few new leaves springing up that signify something better is on the way! Late fall and winter is going to be fun trying to clean all this stuff up. That is a wonderful time of the year. That’s when my hand forged Katana blade comes out.  Like this. And like this. The blade is great for trimming as well as security. Hell, might as well make this fun, right? Here’s some photos that Dahlia and I took below of some plants throwing up some new growth…

Greenhouse Move 2012 - Stage II

A forest of poopie colorless floppy pitchers. Bleh! This is a result of the horrid low light conditions at the old spot. On the plus side, I am hoping that this increased leaf area will promote additional photosynthesis to make up for lost time. I hope that the plants are taking in additional light and storing that in energy in their rhizomes for some phat pitchers next year! At this time next year, watch how different these plants will be looking!

Garden Move Stage II

 Even in the fray of poopie floppy foliage, there’s some new growth! Freshly opened pitchers look promising! Seeing a sight like this is encouraging.

Garden Move Stage II

More new upright foliage in a sea of floppy.

Garden Move Stage II

Sarracenia leucophylla looking bright!

Garden Move Stage II

A new pitcher opens up on this antho free mystery hybrid with another on the way. This came from a cross of S. mitchelliana x ‘Leah Wilkerson’ done by Wes Buckner. If it really is an antho free mutation of this cross, that would be very “amazeeeeeballlllllzzzzzz!!!”.  Read about this cross here. I am in love with the elegant shape of this violent vase of a plant.

Garden Move Stage II

Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ by Brooks Garcia looking hawt with the new pitcher opening up! Lovely flush of pink, but that will go to white hawt once it gets going in the strong light.

Garden Move Stage II

New pitcher getting nice and juicy colored – Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava v. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’ – a cross I did in 2009, same year that California Carnivores did their cross. I am guessing the same parent plants were used.

Garden Move Stage II

Another angle of a new pitcher of Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava v. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’.

Garden Move Stage II

Sarracenia moorei “Orange Glow” x ‘Adrian Slack’ looking almost translucent. A cross I did back in 2009. I’m hoping that white on that hood really picks up in this light! Who knows. Let it grow, let it glow.

Garden Move Stage II

The top of this S. oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’ clone getting frosty! Another cross I did back in 2009. Yeah, you can see I went a little nutzo with S. ‘Adrian Slack’ that year. Ironically, the next 2 years, the plant never flowered for me. Let’s hope for blooms next year!

Garden Move Stage II

In focus left, Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’ (from Mike Wang. Unfortunately, I didn’t note which clone this was before taking the photo…) and to the right, Sarracenia mitchelliana, anthocyanin free. Some new pitchers that sprang up in the temporary holding location.  Radness.

Adjustment

Happy Friday!

At the beginning of this month I moved a couple trays of plants over to the temporary greenhouse. After a couple of weeks, I began to see some adjustments that the plants were already making. (These trays were in the temporary venue prior to the recent grand move I wrote about in the last post.)

Sarracenia seedlings

Yeah, it’s a hot jumbled mess in that photo above! If you notice, there’s that one plant with a whitish lid — it’s pretty nice to see that color now. It was completely solid green at the old spot. If you look closely, there’s also hints of new stronger growth rising up out of that fray and it’s only been a couple of weeks. NICE. I’m going to have a fun time sorting out this mess in the late fall/winter.

New Growth

The plants in the photo above have also been in that holding location for a couple of weeks. The old growth is stretched and lanky – flopping over. But wait… there’s new growth coming out of those growpoints that are actually looking — somewhat decent! (Now, If only I could borrow Uncle Rico’s time machine to see how these babies will look like in the future…) GOSH! That’s FLIPPIN’ SWEET!

Got Buds?

It’s that time of year again! I’m really encouraged to see some buds growing here in the greenhouse.  There’s been a lot of challenges here with lighting (… well it’s winter,  so what can I expect, right?), ventilation, and water — but the good news is I’m seeing some new growth.. and buds!  That’s  good sign, right?

Sarracenia “H1” – Bob Ziemer Hybrid

Sarracenia rosea

Sarracenia courtii x “Adrian Slack”, Select Clone