Howdy! Just a few shots from around the greenhouse… enjoy!
Nepenthes jamban
Pinguicula medusina
Dionaea muscipula
Drosera binata var. multifida
Sarracenia (leucophylla x oreophila) x ‘Adrian Slack’ – select clone
Sarracenia ((rubra x oreophila) x flava var. rugelii) x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia “Pink Eye”
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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…
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!
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.
More new upright foliage in a sea of floppy.
Sarracenia leucophylla looking bright!
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.
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.
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.
Another angle of a new pitcher of Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava v. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’.
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.
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!
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.
Here’s a young plant from cross I did back in 2009 looking admirable. I know that California Carnivores did the same cross the same year – so it’s pretty interesting to see the different variations of this plant that are all out there right now. Anyway this plant looks decent enough under the current low lighting conditions, however I could only imagine what this plant would be like under strong and intense light. There’s some potential, perhaps…
Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava var. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava var. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’
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Tagged 2009 Cross by Rob Co, Adrian Slack, hybrid, oreophila, rubra, Sarracenia
Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila)
A cross I did back in 2008.
SATURDAY STRANGENESS!
First up for this Saturday Strangeness insanity: Double header!
Here’s a clone of Sarracenia rubra x oreo that I acquired from California Carnivores a while back. I know, colors SUCK. Here’s a shot of the “regular” pitcher:
Sarracenia rubra x oreophila
But recently, it’s thrown up a double header. Well, double HOODer.
Sarracenia rubra x oreophila – Double Hood Mutation
Sarracenia rubra x oreophila – Double Hood Mutation
Sarracenia rubra x oreophila – Double Hood Mutation
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Next up on our strange Saturday is a strange flytrap mutation that only happened for me this year! I received a Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ back in 2007. The clone was tissue cultured by David Connor from the original Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’. 5 years later – May 2012 the clone did something funny. It could be because of my conditions – but something triggered it to behave somewhat badly…
OK, again – I know the plant SUCKS and is lanky. (Again read here.) I divided up my plants into several pots and in one of the pots, it did some strange things. Check it out.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ group photo: you can see a couple funny looking traps from here.
First… I started to notice traps starting to get little bumps on them.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation. Little bumps!
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation. Little bumps!
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation. Little bumps!
As new traps started to emerge, those bumps started to morph into something strangely awesome. The new traps started to do this weird cup shape thing and become totally spiky/fuzzy. It has been reported that mutations like this are not stable. Dude. I’ll still enjoy it while it lasts! It’s freakin’ out!
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Justina Davis’ – leaf mutation.
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Tagged Damn, Dionaea, double, hood, Justina Davis, Leaf mutations, muscipula, mutant, mutants!, oreophila, rubra, Sarracenia, tissue culture, weird
Wassup y’all! With all of the flowers poppin’ off in the greenhouse, there’s quite a bit of flower radness going on. I wanted to share a couple of these that just bloomed recently. This is the first year these babies have flowered – and both of the flowers below are sibling plants and come from the same pod. The variation is quite interesting, as well as the pretty unique variegation in the latter flower. This is what makes breeding so interesting – you never really know what you’ll get.
The cross I did back in 2008 was Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila). The pollen parent was a plant that fellow Sarraceniaphile Brooks Garcia created. One of the siblings of these plants can be found in a previous post here.
Check out the radness!
Yellow flower – light red variegation on petals.
Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila) – Yellow Flower
Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila) – Yellow Flower
Red flower – yellow variegation
Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila) – Red verigated flower
Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila) – Red verigated flower
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The first two pitchers of 2012 have inflated and opened up! (Although, I’m still waiting for the 2012 opening day of the SF Giants… but anyway, that’s beside the point…) The below pitchers opened up sometime last week – I haven’t been to the greenhouse to be able be there as they cracked open, but these two were the first to do their thing. It’s just a couple pitchers for now, but the deluge of pitchers (and SF Giant’s pitchers…) to soon follow! Bring it on!!!
Sarracenia (leucophylla x oreophila) Oudean Clone x purpurea ssp. venosa
Sarracenia ‘Nadine’
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Tagged Leucphylla, Nadine, Opening Day, oreophila, Oudean Clone, purpurea ssp. venosa, Sarracenia
