{"id":1306,"date":"2011-05-11T21:47:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T04:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2011-05-11T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T04:47:54","slug":"blooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/05\/blooming\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, they grow up so fast&#8230; This is a cross I did of  Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis)\u00a0 &#8211; and yes, It is an anthocyanin free clone.\u00a0 It was only back in 2008 that the babies first sprouted. (You can check out my post <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/a-couple-of-years\/\" target=\"blank\">here on this cross<\/a>.) Today, we got flower buds getting ready to open, and so the cycle of breeding starts all over again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The below flowers are outdoors, so their growth rate and flower  schedule\u00a0 a bit behind the plants in the greenhouse. This still works  out for me, as I can still pollinate, if I wanted to, even &#8220;later&#8221; in  the season with pollen that was stored from earlier blooms.<\/p>\n<p>Just thinking about this &#8211; from when I first crossed it till now seemed to go by so quickly, however waiting for this moment almost seemed like an eternity.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll feel the same way about some of my other crosses, but I guess part of the fun is the anticipation, right?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2166\/5711771715_0c50876f8f.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) - Anthocyanin Free Clone\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\n[Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis)\u00a0 &#8212; flower buds!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, they grow up so fast&#8230; This is a cross I did of Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis)\u00a0 &#8211; and yes, It is an anthocyanin free clone.\u00a0 It was only back &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/05\/blooming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,319,73,320,82,114,277,307,130],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anthocyanin-free","tag-bloom","tag-hybrid","tag-jonesii","tag-leucophylla","tag-pitcher-plant","tag-purpurea","tag-rubra","tag-sarracenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}