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Sarracenia Flower Radness: Variegation Variation

Posted on April 17, 2012 | 13 comments

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) - Variegated Red Flower
Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila) – Red verigated flower

Sarracenia "Red Blush" x ('Leah Wilkerson' x oreophila) - Variegated Red Flower Sarracenia “Red Blush” x (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila) – Red verigated flower

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Sarracenia “Bud Wilkerson” x chelsonii

Posted on February 3, 2012 | 2 comments

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

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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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Reptile Crossing Revisited

Posted on April 9, 2011 | 10 comments

Hello fellow grower folks! With spring here, many pitchers are just exploding into growth. From the seedlings, I’m being constantly surprised with what’s coming forth. Here’s an update on how these babies are doing from The Reptile. For those of you who don’t know about Phil Faulisi’s S.’Reptilian Rose’ (a freekin’ rad hybrid), you can read up on it here. I’ve first mentioned about the reptile crossings done by Dr. Travis Wyman in this post about 8 months ago in August, 2010. The seedlings have gone dormant since then, had their pitchers trimmed back, and now that it’s growing season — the pitchers are coming back with a vengeance. There are still quite a few seedling plants sending out pitchers that I will update you on later once those have developed, but for now, this is the insanity that is going on. Again, special thanks to Travis and Phil for their inspirational Sarracenia madness.

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x (flava v. rubricorpora x leucophylla)
S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava v. rubricorpora x leucophylla)