Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila)
A cross I did back in 2008.
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Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila)
Sarracenia Flower Radness: Variegation Variation
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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Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila)
It was back in 2008 when I just started to dabble and play around with hybridizing Sarracenia. ’07 I didn’t really know what I was doing, but in ’08 I started to get the hang of things. This plant below is from that ’08 batch. I harvested the seed pod back on August 9, 2008. Hybridizing and breeding takes time and patience – no doubt. It takes a few years, I know – but the anticipation is always fun! Here’s that one baby showing a little character now!
[Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila)]
[Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila)]
Stickin' out…
When breeding, I’ve found that one will encounter a lot of genetic variations. Variants in all Shapes. Size. Colors. Shape. Smell. Feel. Maybe taste.
While doing some sorting in the yard, one of the seedlings really stuck out apart from its siblings. S. catesbaei “Flying Nun” x “Red Blush” (cross by Brooks Garcia) is the cross pictured below, 2 years old from seed. You can see that in the sea of red, one plant is coming up yellowish. The one in the center and the yellowish one on the upper right hand third of the photo are pitchers of the same seedling. The rest of the group is red. Ah genetics… interesting stuff indeed.
[Sarracenia catesbaei “Flying Nun” x “Red Blush”]
