{"id":1736,"date":"2011-09-14T22:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2011-09-14T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:23:56","slug":"project-tarnok-verdict-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/09\/project-tarnok-verdict-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Tarnok: Verdict (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, I tried to pollinate Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Tarnok’. Be sure to read about it in the prior post…<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Remember, it’s a plant that many people say is sterile and will not produce any seed.\u00a0\u00a0 Soooooo what happaned?! Let’s tear into the pod and find out!<\/p>\n

DRUMROLLLLLLLL PLEEEASASSEEEEEEE…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Tarnok\"<\/p>\n

VERDICT 2011: NO SEEDS THIS YEAR!!!<\/span>
\n NO FLIPPIN’ SEEDS!!!\u00a0 GOSH!!!<\/span>
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Oh Crapola!<\/strong>\u00a0 This setback will mos’ def NOT stop me from trying year after year. I have read of others that have had successful crosses with S. leucophylla ‘Tarnok’, so I will continue to try.\u00a0 And try. And try again.<\/p>\n

And you know what else? It’s the story of my plants this year.\u00a0 I did roughly 100+ crosses this year\u00a0 – and MANY have failed me.\u00a0 There were maybe only 30 or less flowers that set seed.\u00a0 Last year I had quite a bit (120 or so) successful crosses… and this year was my WORST. EVER.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So what happened? There could of been several things that contributed to such a large amount of seed pods failing.\u00a0 The thing I *suspect* is stress.\u00a0 Early in January we had some warm weather for a couple of weeks that woke many of the plants up. Many began to flower…\u00a0 and by my standards, this was a very short dormancy period.\u00a0 Then in February we had all that freak hail action going on. Remember this freak hail storm?
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\nSo, that’s one of the big things that I think could of contributed to the failing of MANY pods.\u00a0 As I go through inspecting all the plants and many failed pods, the mantra is this:\u00a0 “There’s always next year…”<\/p>\n

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This year, I tried to pollinate Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Tarnok’. Be sure to read about it in the prior post…\u00a0\u00a0 Remember, it’s a plant that many people say is sterile and will not produce any seed.\u00a0\u00a0 Soooooo what happaned?! Let’s tear … Continue reading →<\/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":[410,409,82,130,336,257,411],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-epic-fail","tag-hybridize","tag-leucophylla","tag-sarracenia","tag-seed","tag-tarnok","tag-theres-always-next-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}