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\n[Sarracenia rubra wherryi “Chatom Giant” x “Sky Watcher”, flower variations]<\/p>\n
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\n[Sarracenia rubra wherryi “Chatom Giant” x “Sky Watcher”, flower variations]<\/p>\n
Happy May everyone. May is here, where has this year gone? We’re almost half way through ’11. Nuts. Anyway, Happy May erray-body!\u00a0 I wanted to share and illustrate a little variation again on genetics and breeding Sarracenia.\u00a0 It always makes things so freekin’ interesting.\u00a0 You never know what parent plant or grand parent plant, (or beyond) would influence the current progeny.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 However, I noticed that this one particular cross had different colored flowers.\u00a0 The flowers photographed above, are those of a cross that was created by fellow Sarracenia addict, Brooks Garcia. It is S. rubra ssp. wherryi \u201cChatom Giant\u201d<\/a> x \u201cSky watcher\u201d<\/a>. He sent me some seeds of his cross 3 years ago that I grew out. Above are two different flowers of this same cross.<\/p>\n Genetics, always fun!<\/p>\n (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.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [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!\u00a0 I wanted to share and illustrate a … Continue reading