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Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava var. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’

Posted on June 1, 2012 | 2 comments

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’

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Tagged 2009 Cross by Rob Co, Adrian Slack, hybrid, oreophila, rubra, Sarracenia

Saturday Strangeness: Mutants!

Posted on May 12, 2012 | 9 comments

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
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' mutation 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' mutation 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' 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

Flower Power

Posted on April 27, 2012 | 4 comments

I can’t help but post and share more Sarracenia flower goodness to kick this weekend off – enjoy!

Sarracenia courtii x ‘Adrian Slack’ – Select Clone

Sarracenia leucophylla – Anthocyanin Free

Sarracenia rubra wherryi “Chatom Giant”

Sarracenia ‘Abandoned Hope’

Sarracenia ‘Snorkle’

Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ “Prince of Darkness”

Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Tarnok’

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Tagged Abandoned Hope, Adrian Slack, Alucard, anthocyanin free, Chatom Giant, Courtii, flower, Flower Power!, leucophylla, Prince of Darkness, rad, rubra, Sarracenia, Snorkle, Tarnok

Seeing Green

Posted on August 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Sarracenia (purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii)
x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis)

Just a quick update on one of the plants from this cross, I’m loving all the variations from this ’08 batch. Hope y’all are having a good weekend so far!

Yellow Petals, Green Petals

Posted on May 25, 2011 | 2 comments

Ah, here be a quick update on this cross. Now that a few plants are maturing, I’m able to notice some variation, not just in the pitchers, but the flowers too. Check it out!

Flower variation: in the anthocyanin free flavor of S. (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis).

Sarracena (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis), AF clone - Yellow Petals
[S. (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) – anthocyanin free clone, yellow petals]

Sarracena (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis), AF clone - Green Petals
[S. (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) – anthocyanin free clone, green petals]

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Tagged anthocyanin free, jonesii, leucophylla, Pitcher Plant, purpurea, rubra, Sarracenia

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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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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Tagged Chatom Giant, flower, hybrid, rubra, Sarracenia, Sky Watcher, Variation, Wherryi

Tag Archives: rubra

Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava var. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’

Saturday Strangeness: Mutants!

Flower Power

Seeing Green

Yellow Petals, Green Petals

Blooming

Variation: Flower Color

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