{"id":1685,"date":"2011-08-27T11:10:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T18:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2011-08-27T11:10:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T18:10:42","slug":"windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/08\/windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work we will soon be doing a system upgrade to Windows 7&#8230;\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite too sure what to think of it as I&#8217;ve never been on 7.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh well, like I really have a choice, right? From what I hear it&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there are some plants that utilize the windows system (for trapping) as well &#8211; fascinating stuff!\u00a0 The areoles (or windows, light patches) provide a false sense of escape for the prey.\u00a0 After entering the pitcher, the victim thinks it can escape\u00a0 it&#8217;s doom by flying or climbing towards the light.\u00a0 Frantic &#8211; it tries to break free&#8230; only to be exausted by it&#8217;s futile efforts and eventually succumbs to the plant&#8217;s power.\u00a0 Ah shizznit bro, alt+control+delete won&#8217;t save it from this windows system.\u00a0 So after work yesterday, I was just hangin&#8217; out in the garden and decided to take a few photos of some of the plants that employ the windows system.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6197\/6084532437_aaa1772a8d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6204\/6084531853_7fc11d5bc1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia psittacina &quot;golfballensis&quot; x 'Judith Hindle'\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sarracenia psittacina &#8220;Golfballensis&#8221; x &#8216;Judith Hindle&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"> A cross by Brooks Garcia that I grew out from seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6193\/6085078924_d09ce2775d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia psittacina x minor\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sarracenia psittacina x minor<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6088\/6085078124_3d03671aa2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Cross by Brooks Garcia I grew out from seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6081\/6085076920_3826eb412c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Cross by Brooks Garcia I grew out from seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6207\/6085076232_559b67088f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Cross by Brooks Garcia I grew out from seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6086\/6084526881_fde7b01c68_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x 'Golden-Red Jubilee'\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x &#8216;Golden-Red Jubilee&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Cross by Brooks Garcia I grew out from seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6082\/6085073824_46b0b45c58_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x &quot;Green Monster&quot;\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x &#8220;Green Monster&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">A collaboration hybrid I did with Miggity-Money Mizzike Wang. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">My S. &#8220;Green Monster&#8221; was flowering that year and Mike was rad enough to lend me a flowering S. minor var. okefenokeensis. The seedlings from this cross are AF recessive and I am looking to use them as a base for further AF hybrids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6201\/6084524741_fa1fbdbf87_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia psittacina AF clone\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sarracenia psittacina, AF (Anthocyanin Free) clone<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6064\/6085071998_30263e75d8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Darlingtonia californica\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Darlingtonia californica<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">OK, this isn&#8217;t a Sarracenia, however it&#8217;s a damn fine California native carnivore that uses the windows system.\u00a0 Dotted all throughout it&#8217;s Epcot center like hood, you can find the windows that provide that false sense of escape.<br \/>\nFreekin&#8217; awesome, yo.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work we will soon be doing a system upgrade to Windows 7&#8230;\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite too sure what to think of it as I&#8217;ve never been on 7.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh well, like I really have a choice, right? From what &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/08\/windows\/\">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":[398,34,270,105,114,121,130,397],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-areoles","tag-darlingtonia","tag-minor","tag-okefenokeensis","tag-pitcher-plant","tag-psittacina","tag-sarracenia","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}