{"id":647,"date":"2010-11-11T21:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T05:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.wordpress.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2010-11-11T21:12:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T05:12:40","slug":"off-season-bloomin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2010\/11\/off-season-bloomin\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Season Bloomin'"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not all that uncommon for Sarracenia to bloom during the fall.\u00a0 It happens. Why exactly they do this now, I am not too sure.\u00a0 Some speculate it’s the similar lighting\/environmental conditions as spring. The buds are shorter now in the fall, and I also believe that the flowers are not fertile (?) but, I have yet to try and pollinate in the fall. Who knows. I typically just cut off the flower during this time to allow the plant to conserve it’s energy for dormancy.\u00a0 At times I just let it do its thing. Whatever.<\/p>\n

\"\"[Out of season flower bud. Photo taken October 31, 2010]<\/p>\n

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What I did<\/strong><\/em> find very awesome and very recently — one of my older 2 year old hybrids DID bloom recently<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 This is significant because it’s the first flower of a hybrid that I created. Blooming within 2 growing seasons!\u00a0 A bit weird that it did bloom for me now.\u00a0 And not a short bloom, but rather, a tall spring like bloom. Woah dude. I did a cross of\u00a0 Sarracenia ‘White Sparkler’ <\/a>x (‘Ladies in Waiting’<\/a> x ‘Judith Hindle’<\/a>) in 2008.\u00a0 The latter pollen parent is a very rich colored plant, and I hope that the coloration carries over to the progeny.\u00a0 The photo below is of a young pitcher later in the season. I’m getting a lot of color variation in this batch of seedlings. Some are deeper red, some like the below resemble the pod parent moreso.\u00a0 I want to see what this seedling batch does next season in terms of color and vigor.<\/p>\n

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\"\"[A hybrid I crossed in spring of 2008: Sarracenia ‘White Sparkler’ x (‘Ladies in Waiting’ x ‘Judith Hindle’).\u00a0 Photo taken November 6, 2010.]<\/p>\n

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\"\"[The flower.\u00a0 Sarracenia ‘White Sparkler’ x (‘Ladies in Waiting’ x ‘Judith Hindle’). Photo taken November 6, 2010]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not all that uncommon for Sarracenia to bloom during the fall.\u00a0 It happens. Why exactly they do this now, I am not too sure.\u00a0 Some speculate it’s the similar lighting\/environmental conditions as spring. The buds are shorter now … 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":[6,23,48,61,74,79,80,102,130,139,174,183],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-addiction","tag-carnivorous-plant","tag-fireworks","tag-growing-from-seed","tag-hybridization","tag-judith-hindle","tag-ladies-in-waiting","tag-north-american-pitcher-plant","tag-sarracenia","tag-sarracenia-hybrid","tag-the-pitcher-plant-project","tag-white-sparkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}