{"id":4942,"date":"2013-04-21T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T17:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2013-04-21T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T17:04:05","slug":"af-collab-project-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2013\/04\/af-collab-project-update\/","title":{"rendered":"AF Collab Project Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s an update on <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/hybrid-collaboration-update-s-minor-giant-x-green-monster\/\" target=\"_blank\">this collaboration project<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the brainchild of Jerry Addington, made possible with help from Mike Wang. The original cross was done in 2009. These plants have that hidden anthocyanin free gene that I am hoping to unlock and use in future projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, I was able to self one of the clones (alas, I didn&#8217;t designate a clone number) and those seeds were sown a week ago. I hope to see some anthocyanin free seedlings from that batch.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #444444;\">This year 2 out of the 3 clones I have sent up a bloom. For a little more diversity this year, I crossed clone 1 with pollen from clone 3 in hopes to unlock the hidden gene and come up with anthocyanin free \u00a0tall minor-esque looking plants. The plants do look very minorish, but the lids have a little bit of undulation that is more noticeable later in the season. Special thanks to S. &#8220;Green Monster&#8221; for that influence. Clone 3 was crossed with <a href=\"http:\/\/cpphotofinder.com\/sarracenia-purpurea-subsp-venosa-var-burkii-f-luteola-2622.html\" target=\"_blank\">S. purpurea subsp. venosa var. burkii f. luteola<\/a>\u00a0in hopes of creating\u00a0an anthocyanin free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpphotofinder.com\/sarracenia-x-swaniana-3282.html\" target=\"_blank\">S. swaniana<\/a>-ish looking plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x &quot;Green Monster&quot; - Clone 1\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8104\/8653427375_ae50a85e51_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x &#8220;Green Monster&#8221; &#8211; Clone 1<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x &quot;Green Monster&quot; - Clone 3\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8258\/8653426035_ccc5427441_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x &#8220;Green Monster&#8221; &#8211; Clone 3<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update on this collaboration project\u00a0&#8211; the brainchild of Jerry Addington, made possible with help from Mike Wang. The original cross was done in 2009. These plants have that hidden anthocyanin free gene that I am hoping to unlock &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2013\/04\/af-collab-project-update\/\">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":[12,1050,59,1049,455,218,130],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anthocyanin-free","tag-collaboration","tag-green-monster","tag-hidden","tag-minor-var-okefenokeensis","tag-project","tag-sarracenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","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=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}